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Dogdoc
Member
09-29-2001
| Wednesday, September 11, 2019 - 5:40 am 
Mack, I remember you sharing your story here.
Thank you for sharing it again. May we never forget.
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Grooch
Member
06-16-2006
| Wednesday, September 11, 2019 - 5:51 am
What Dogdoc said. Right now I'm watching the Remembering 9/11 Ceremony, and the reading of the names.
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Jeep
Member
10-17-2001
| Wednesday, September 11, 2019 - 6:50 am
Mack, what a chilling story. I glad both you and your wife got out ok. I will not forget the others who did not.
That morning I was in the office reading TVCH and someone from NY was posting the horrors they were seeing. Was it Ocean something? I can't remember the poster's name. I also remember the amazing jobs other pilots did in landing their planes immediately to clear the radar. It was certainly a day of horrors and heroes. I couldn't forget if I wanted to.
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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Wednesday, September 11, 2019 - 6:52 am
I just realized this morning that I said 19 years and DUH - of course it is 18!
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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Wednesday, September 11, 2019 - 6:55 am
And terrorists aimed the planes at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon...the planes didn't aim themselves! Good job New York Times. Geesh!
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Jimmer
Board Administrator
08-29-2000
| Wednesday, September 11, 2019 - 7:09 am
That’s an amazing personal perspective on the 9/11 attack. Thank you for posting that, Mack.
I was at work in an office tower in our financial district. My wife called to tell me about the first plane. Although I wasn’t formally senior management, I did all my work with them and we all stopped to watch on our computers and TV. None of us could comprehend it when the first building fell.
As a side note, one of the things that fascinated me was how almost all of the rest of the staff (aside from senior management) just kept doing their work (none of which was urgent). It made me wonder what other event could possibly get them to stop working and watch. Maybe a nuclear war? 
Anyway, the company closed early that day and we all went home.
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-30-2000
| Wednesday, September 11, 2019 - 8:49 am
Mack, thank you for sharing your story. It helps keep those memories alive for all that we lost that day, and all of those who loved them.
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Pamy
Member
01-01-2002
| Wednesday, September 11, 2019 - 10:05 am
((Mak))) We will never forget
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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Wednesday, September 11, 2019 - 1:45 pm
I was on cnn.com earlier today and found a timeline video showing the events from the first report about the Twin Towers until the second one fell, cutting to the Pentagon and the field in Pennsylvania. I literally sat here wiping tears from my eyes.
Mack, I am so sorry for the loss of your friends and coworkers, and so grateful and you and your wife were both safe.
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Heckagirl631
Member
09-08-2010
| Wednesday, September 11, 2019 - 6:24 pm
I thought for sure we would have more options for cable and internet after 26 years. The options are still Mediacom (the robbers I have now), Wow! and AT&T. After a year, they all charge about $100 a month.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Wednesday, September 11, 2019 - 7:56 pm
quote:That morning I was in the office reading TVCH and someone from NY was posting the horrors they were seeing. Was it Ocean something? I can't remember the poster's name.
Jeep, that would have been Ocean Islands. I also found out about it by reading here. I think it must have been Ocean Islands and Maris (who might have had a different username then) posting, and then I raced out to our living room (we are Pacific time, so it had just happened and was still happening) and told Bigdog to turn on the television. At that time, a lot of us also went into TVCH chat, so a bunch of us were all also chatting in real time. I got the word around the time the first plane had just hit, but not the second, nor had the towers fallen.
Here is a first person account from a former member of TVClubhouse:
http://jason-cochran.com/blog/ago-the-911-account-i-wrote-then-there/
I am sure his blog is public and he wouldn't mind me posting the link, nor would he mind if any of his old friends buy his book. I met him in person when he came out to visit San Francisco when we still lived there.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Wednesday, September 11, 2019 - 11:16 pm
I first I was something had happened when I logged on and my email inbox had dozens of e-mail from two groups I was active in, a bunch titled Twin Towers and a bunch titled World Trade Center and that was enough to start reading while I turned on CNN.
And of course TVCH, where we watched what seemed to be the last three people who didn't know... with Dr Will commenting that something was up because there were no planes in the air.
Today I dug out and wore the metal bracelets I bought at our Fire Station. The FD and PD sold them and sent the money to a fund for first responders and families.
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Jeep
Member
10-17-2001
| Thursday, September 12, 2019 - 6:20 am
Thanks Juju. That's exactly who it was. I didn't get in on the chat tho. I was a lurker long before I posted.
Thanks for posting that link. Those of us who were not right there experiencing it all will never know how it really felt. It gave me chills to read how he could feel the dead people's spirits (for lack of a better word) in the air for days. I hope our country never has to experience that again, but fear our enemies are just biding their time for another attack.
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Colordeagua
Member
10-24-2003
| Thursday, September 12, 2019 - 9:49 pm
I remember hearing in the weeks / months after 9/11 that Osama bin Laden was a very patient person. That scared me.
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Sugar
Member
08-15-2000
| Friday, September 13, 2019 - 10:35 am
Does anyone else have sensitive ears that render wearing costume and/or cheaper earrings difficult? I usually put neosporin on both my ears (pierced) and the posts or wires of the earrings and that generally makes them wearable for the day. I am wondering if anyone has tried any of products such as Jewellery Shield or plain nail polish with any success?
I just bought a fun, cheap set of bohemian earrings from Amazon and debating whether to buy some sort of coating or not.
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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Friday, September 13, 2019 - 1:40 pm
Not earrings, but I have seen people use clear nail polish on rings.
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Colordeagua
Member
10-24-2003
| Friday, September 13, 2019 - 4:35 pm
It was suggested to me that I use clear nail polish on ONE pair of pierced earrings that irritate my ears. They were $35-ish. I have others by the same designer. That one pair always badly irritates my ears. I set them aside for years and then tried them again with same results. Didn't try the polish.
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Sugar
Member
08-15-2000
| Friday, September 13, 2019 - 5:01 pm
I used neosporin on the pair I am wearing today and so far so good after about 6 hours.
It would be nice to be able to just quickly put them in without the neosporin ritual.
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Heckagirl631
Member
09-08-2010
| Sunday, September 22, 2019 - 3:24 pm
This morning I put a microwavable omelet dish in the microwave with a small pat of butter to melt. It made a noise, and there was a flash of light. I immediately stopped it and took the dish out. There were no other signs of anything wrong, so I put the eggs in, cooked them with no problem, and also the rest of the omelet with no problem. Was a little bit nervous, so kept an eye on it, but there were no more problems. A little while ago, I attempted to heat up some water in it, and it worked.
When I googled it, everyone said it was dead, but it was not. Someone else said they continued to use their microwave for years.
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-30-2000
| Sunday, September 22, 2019 - 3:55 pm
Was there anything metallic in your dish?
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Kitt
Member
09-05-2000
| Sunday, September 22, 2019 - 7:14 pm
If the dish had metal in it, the microwaves can cause the electrons in the metal to arc to the nearest conductor, which is often the microwave walls. That's what the flash is.
It can damage the microwave but if it still works after doing the flash, you're fine for now. It might (or might not) have caused a tiny bit of damage that would shorten the microwave's life, but until it eventually dies there's no problem.
Sounds like maybe there's a chip in the dish somewhere which reveals some metal or another conductor.
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Heckagirl631
Member
09-08-2010
| Sunday, September 22, 2019 - 7:38 pm
No. no metal in the dish. It is plastic.
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-30-2000
| Sunday, September 22, 2019 - 7:59 pm
No possibility of a little piece of aluminum foil or something that got in the mix?
It certainly sounds like a tiny bit of metal caused the flash. It just takes the tiniest bit.
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Kitt
Member
09-05-2000
| Sunday, September 22, 2019 - 9:01 pm
Ha, have a look at this:
http://cookingcoffeecontriving.blogspot.com/2007/10/electrifying-butter.html
Apparently it's the butter! Who knew!?
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-30-2000
| Monday, September 23, 2019 - 8:38 am
Hmmmm... I've melted butter many times and never had a spark.
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