Sept 11 2001
My wife (now EX) and I were both booked on flights that morning. She had left the house early to catch a Phoenix to DC flight and I was getting out of the shower when I looked up at the TV and saw a building smoking heavily off in the distance.
As I shaved and watched TV the second plane hit the second tower. Within minutes my wife (now EX) called from the airport telling me her flight and all others were delaye with no ETA on when they would take off.
With in the hour I called her to tell her the news was reporting that all air traffic was likely shut down in all of the US.
My flight that morning was Phoenix to Seattle so I never really felt like I dodged a bullet by missing it, though I am sure had we taken off I would have been stuck in another state for a week of more. But her flight was to be en route to DC and she was pretty shaken up about it.
Obviously we were glues to the TV for the next few days in shock and disbelief at the images and stories that were comming out.
