I was in a highschool classroom when they announced it. I live in an nyc commuter town in CT so there were a ton of kids freaking out about their parents who worked in the area. My dad's a consultant and had been in early for a meeting but was already on his way home across the whitestone bridge when he noticed that the towers were smoking. He got home and said to my mom "I saw the weirdest thing, were the financial buildings on fire?"