Check In Please
 

So far, I've heard from Jdoneil, DonDar, DebKay and MamaJ.

Hope eveyone else is OK.

I'm ok, Jiff is ok...I am still trying to find out where my brother in law is.

peach

It is so wonderful to have this site. When I heard the news, my first thought was to jump on the internet to check the big news sites. I could not get in. My next thought was 3FC, I feel safe here.

In a time of global emotion, it is great to be able to connect with friends.

jenny :cry:

I agree with Jenny. On this horrible, tragic day it is good to have a place where you know you have friends and feel safe. My heart goes out to people who were injured or killed today and their families. I am also in mourning for the nation's general trust and sense of security. I have found myself being afraid and shaky today, jumping at the sound of every car that goes by. I'm sure everyone is feeling violated and scared, even if they live thousands of miles from New York. I think it's important though, that we maintain our trust and belief that most people are good and not let this event, or other terrorist acts in years past, take that belief from us. For me, if I lose that, they win.

Take care you all,
I hope everyone and their family comes through this okay.
Chickadee

AOK here
 

My husband has to drive a coworker home to VA (please pray for them) He said they will drive way around DC so they "should" be ok :eek: My daughters are on there way home from school on the bus. I will not feel good till I have them in my arms!!

VERY scarey here in the DC area....EVERYthing is closed or closing...they just told us that if we don't HAVE to go anywhere that we should stay home. :( Planes are flying over I'm guessing from Andrews Air Force Base...I get a chill up my spine and a knot in my gut every time I hear one.

I pray for the poor poor families of the people killed. My husband was suppose to fly to CA tomorrow for business...that was WAY to close for comfort for me :(

What a sad sad day :cry:

Vanessa

What a sad day for us all.

I keep watching the World Trade Center crashing to the ground and I cannot believe it. I do not think the enormity of this whole thing has set in yet, everyone is in shock.

Pray for all those who have suffered because of this.

Keep a good thought for my brother who is a Navy pilot.

I was so worried about you guys. all i could think of was to get to the puter and findout if my friends are OK. especially jiff and peach who i know live in NJ (and may have been traveling in NY!) I did not give a thought to my brother who workd in NY. I found out today that he is or was doing work on the Marriott which is inbetween the towers..... but today he had a doc appt and did not go!! OMG HOW CLOSE IS THAT!!!!!!! he is ok but i guess he will not be getting paid for the work. I know that it is no joking matter but i need to find some humor in small things today, and i guess i among many did not eat OP today. I was to shocked.

all the chicks and the rooster in the nest!
 

My husband and kids are all home safe and sound. Praise the Lord!!!

I hope and pray all my chick friends and their families are home safe and sound as well.

Vanessa

Oh, Chickies - am so glad to see most of you here!
I am munching cookies and nobody is to say a word!

Glad to see everyone is okay
 

I'm so sad and scared for everyone who doesn't have a family member coming home this evening. We watched the news all day at work and most of us were paralyzed with dread. Thank God my daughter is too young to understand. How do you explain this evil to a child? My prayers are with all of you, especially the ones we haven't heard from yet. God bless.

Sherrie

Peach did you find your brother in law???

Dottie check in please!!!!!

Ok here in Cali!
 

Just numb with shock and crying, crying, crying.

Kel

What a terrible, terrible event. Even here in western Canada we could feel the shock waves and most of us have had the news on all day, each revelation more terrifying than the last. Our airports are closed and it seems so strange not to hear the big planes flying into and out of Vancouver Int. Airport.
My heart goes out to those who still don't know whether their loved ones live or not and to the families who will be without a mother, a father, or other family member or a dear friend. This is a tragedy with far-reaching impact. I hope this is the end of it but I fear it is not.

Hallo everyone

I am feeling so sad today about what happened. I feel like crying when I read all the letters. It makes me very scared that things like that can happened today.

Here in South Africa everyone is shocked and horrified at the things that we saw on the television.

My heart goes out to people who were injured or killed and their families.
I could not agree more with what Chikadee said:
“I think it's important though, that we maintain our trust and belief that most people are good and not let this event, or other terrorist acts in years past, take that belief from us. For me, if I lose that, they win.”

Just know that all over the world there are people thinking and prying for you all, even here in South Africa.

Take care, please.

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I am OK, my family are OK, but it is horrible here.

Some of you know that I work in a NYC hospital. It is unbelievable here, many people could see the towers from the office windows, and saw the second plane hit, and saw the towers fall. It was shocking. It is still shocking.

We are just beginning to get the stories of Moms and Dads and kids that did not come home Tues nite, and are missing. We all know police and firefighters, and are so sad over the number lost.

As medical staff, we all were on Emergency Disaster Code yesterday and last night, waiting for victims. My hospital was a designated recieving hospital for victims. The saddest thing was all the doctors and nurses and the rest of us waiting and no patients. There will not be many survivors. That is clear now.

I counseled many people that got out of the buildings before they collapsed, and ran thru the streets. Many people ran over the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges over to Brooklyn. They got rides and came to their neighborhood hospitals covered with dust and smoke, some with trample injuries, but all lucky to have gotten out in time. They all had stories of seeing people jumping out of the windows.

I was at the hospital til midnight, and then came home and went back this morning. But it is pretty clear that there will not be many surviving, and the rescue and debris removal is dangerous and difficult. This will take weeks and months.

I haven't read other threads yet, but will tomorrow or Friday.
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I just wanted my friends to know that me and mine are unhurt and we are just in the same shock and numbness that the rest of the world is. It is incomprehensible how huge this is here. The part of the city that is shut down is enormous, the size of a whole city itself! Blocks and blocks have no transportation, water, electric, mail, etc. People can't go to their apartments. People can't find their friends and coworkers and family. People's whole lives are changed for ever. It is just bigger than I can grasp.

So, I will check in again in a day or so, for now it is time to get some sleep, but tomorrow, just the erie quiet at work, the emptiness and frustration of helping personnel that want to do their jobs, and can't.

love to you all, dottie

Oh Dottie!!!
 

I am sitting here crying as I type this. I am so glad that you are okay. I // We didn't know enough about your life if NY to know if you // your husband or family/friends could be okay.

I can't say much more right now as I am just overwhelmed with emotion and crying that at least someone we know is safe.

Love and Prayers~

Janice

THANK YOU! THANK YOU FOR LETTING US KNOW!

Oh, Dottie!
 

How awful for you. I am stunned and bewildered, and I live all the way down here. You are watching YOUR city, YOUR neighbors, it's just devastating. You have my prayers, as well as everyone else who is affected by this. Take care of you.

Sherrie

Dottie!
 

Sighs of relief here for you and yours. I can not even imagine a small bit of what you have witnessed. I am 15 miles out of the city in a commuter town. A whole different world. Everyone knows someone or someone who knows someone that is not home. The eyewitness accounts from friends and neghbors is beyond any comprehension. Too horrific to descibe.

Area emt's firefighters, police and other rescue workers are all in there.

Jif's hospital received two victims yesterday...no more have come.

The children from N.Y. in the little guys school could not get back into the city. Their parents could not get out. They slept over at the school, played games, watched movies ate pizza and waited.

The big kids school was closed again today because of kooks taking advantage of frayed nerves and calling in bomb threats.

Flags line the streets here...not only hanging from flag poles...they are on little sticks stuck in the ground curb side.

I am no longer a chick...I am a HAWK. I will never ever in my entire life tell the joke about selling the Brooklyn Bridge---not ever.


Life for the living will NEVER be the same

peach
ps...Dottie, Glad you checked in. Who takes care of the care giver?

I am so glad to know Dottie is safe. Please look after yourself!

Back at my sister's place in Ottawa for tonight and then will go back to do more registrations at the Blood DOnor Clinic early tomorrow. We are so remote fromt his disaster but so many people are bursting into tears when we talk about this terrible, terrible thing. I cannot imagine what it must be like to be on site!

I hope everyone gets a good night of sleep tonight - we are emotionally exhausted.

BUt the Chicks are all accounted for!

Ruth~~For you and the others who are trying, who are there for us...THANK YOU.

Luv to you. And God BLESS Us all.

Hallo all!

Dottie I am so glad to hear you and your family is okay!

I think at the end of the day it comes down to good against evil, and we all must not loose our faith because then the persons who committed this horror act won the battle.

You guys there in the middle of it all, just remember there are millions of people praying and constantly thinking of you, I don’t think I can in my wildest dreams imagine what you might be going through.

Here in South Africa some of our TV channels are permanently broadcasting the latest news, last night at about 11H00 I was still lying in bed watching in horror. My hart bleed for all of the people who have lost family and friends and acpecialy to the people who haven’t heart anything from their love-ones. I think the not knowing must be the worst thing off all. All around my country there has been church services and people lighting candles.

Peach did you hear anything about your brother in law?

GOD BLESS YOU ALL..

Buy


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I am so glad to see so many people have checked in. This place is a haven for me and you are all so dear to me!!! Is it possible to do a group hug over the internet?? I hope so because I think we all need it. Take care all of you -- I think about you a lot even when I can't post. To my east coast friends special thoughts and prayers for all of you. Even here in the rural midwest where you feel cloistered away sometimes the agony and sadness are unbelievable. My family, my friends, my 3rd graders, it seems we can't think or speak of anything else. On my way home Tues. night I saw Airforce I and its fighter jets fly over on their way back to DC. It gave me goosebumps!!!

Hensa!

My brother in law is fine! He travels so much that I never know where he is!

Hang in my feathered friends!

peach

God bless!

Will be back soon
 

Sorry folks, it's been hectic here. Dh was in the city and was able to see much of what happened. Others in my congregation were in the WTC, but fortunately everyone is accounted for.

A version of post-traumatic stress syndrome has begun to set in... and getting folks referred to counselors has been close to impossible because of the great need. I'm taking on stuff I shouldn't tackle.

Please continue to keep in your prayers the rescue workers. A good friend of mine in NYPD in the 1st precinct... and will be forever changed from what he has seen.

I'll be back in a short while (I hope). Knowing y'all are here helps.

Casey! We are so glad you are back! I figured you'd be out there doing your "day job". I'm glad your congregation is accounted for. Now the real work begins - rebuilding shattered souls.

Do your calling Hun we know that you are OK and so is DH and your congregation. we can breath now!! Take care of those folks. and give them all hugs for us please we all are feeing so much for them.

We are all acoounted for so I'll lock this thread. Let's hope we never have to do this one again!