I had just got the kids on the bus for school and was puttering around doing housework.. had the tv on in the background and saw the first plane hit... thinking what a terrible accident this was, or was it? Then the second plane hit... then the rest unfolded. By the time I got to work that afternoon, they already had a big screen tv set up in the cafeteria and they told us to do whatever we wanted... go home, stay and work , stay at work and watch the news with co-workers... I stayed for a few hours then went back home to be with my kids.
I drove past the towers two weeks earlier, my first time in NYC for a work trip... had it not been for that, my eyes would have never seen the towers. In the days after, noticing the absence of aircraft was erie...