I was working for an insurance company, and at 8am I'd just sat down at my desk. I took a call from an auto repair shop in Brooklyn, NY (9am there) and was talking business when a commotion arose in the background. My caller said, "Let me see what's going on".
He came back on and we got a "play by play" of what was happening.
As it happened, our daughter was Multi-media Manager of a Borders book store in Pentagon City, three blocks from the Pentegon. They didn't know anything about it until Corporate called from New York and told them to close down. When I found out what had happened, I tried calling our daughter's store and got absolutely nothing on the line. A half hour later, I got a busy signal and figured that was progress.
After another half hour or so, I finally got the switchboard at Borders. Our daughter had ridden the Metro to work, and it was shut down. The switch board operator told me that for want of something better to do, Amy had simply walked home with a co-worker of hers that lived within walking distance of the store. Then about 12:30 Amy got through to our office on her cell phone.
As it happened, I was on the phone with someone else but our Claims Manager knew the situation by then and he held Amy on his own phone until I had my other call wrapped up. After talking with Amy, I called my wife and we all breathed easier.
Then when I left work that afternoon, I needed to gas up my car to get home, and there were lines a block long at every station. Rumors had run rampant about our gasoline supply being shut off, and everyone was filling up just in case.
What a day. I'd had far more harrowing days in the Marine Corps, but back then I didn't have a family to contend with.
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