"sf" wrote in message news
> On Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:03:17 GMT, Wayne Boatwright
> > wrote:
>
>>In real time, it was much earlier in the morning here in Phoenix.
>
> It was even earlier here in San Francisco. My alarm was getting ready
> to go off, I was half awake and the phone rang. It was my next door
> neighbor (shouting and in tears) telling us to turn on the TV to ANY
> station. To this day, I don't know if I actually watched the first
> tower hit in real time... but I do know I watched the second tower in
> real time.


As soon as I realized what was going on - (I was in Jersey) I called home
and told the girls to wake up their mom & to tell her to turn on the TV &
that I was OK. By that time all the land lines were clogged & I finally
got through on my cell phone.

Dimitri