Storm Pixelmaid

I was getting ready for work as was my husband. He was watching t.v. and I was in the bathroom. I heard him yell to me, an airplane hit the WTC. My reaction was disbelief. I think I said "not another one" referring to a small plane that had crashed into a building a few weeks before. I went into the bedroom to watch the t.v. with my husband, still thinking it was a small aircraft. Shortly after that after that the second plane flew into tower 2. At that moment, it suddenly struck me that this was a deliberate attack. I stood transfixed, watching the news. I couldn't wrap my mind around it. It didn't seem real. How could it be real, I thought. I finished getting ready for work, barely removing my eyes from the t.v. screen, as if in a trance. Luckily my work was close by. Five minutes. At some point I saw the first tower fall. I'm not sure if it was at work when I saw it, because when I got to work, the office manager had brought in a t.v. and everyone was gathered around watching. I know when they reported people were jumping, the magnitude of the whole thing, the sheer tradgedy of it started to filter through my shock and disbelief. The towers falling was like watching a sci-fi movie almost, except it was so tragic, so painful to watch and think about. Hours later, it finally sank in, what a tradgedy, what a terrible tradgedy, what devastation had happened that morning. For days after, I went from rage to grief and back again. It colored my mood for months afterward. I was horribly depressed and saddened. I'll never forget. To this day, I get tears in my eyes thinking of the lives lost, the families losing loved ones who did nothing wrong that day other than going to work and make a living just as every other American does every day of their lives. May we ever be spared from a repeat of such an event in our history again.

I haven't been able to log in for at least the last 15 minutes, finally a message popped up that log ins have been disabled due to some SL issues. I just hope my inventory comes back and I'm not Ruthed when I can log back in.