nmah185.xml

nmah185.xml

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2002-08-19

I was working (as a therapist), and while in session, was interrupted at 9:15 am , with a report their was an accident at the wtc.The interuption was a phone call from another therapist I worked with,who said she wasn't coming in to work, because of what just happened at the wtc.
Since we worked inthe Grand Central area of NYC, her story made no sense to me.Then an announcement came over the p.a. system,to leave the building.Both mysel and the patient,exited the buiding.
There was mayhem inthe streets,thousands of people talking,looking for an available pay phone,waiting on long lines.walking to madisson avenue,one could see the smoke from the attacks.trains,buses were either cancelled or re-routed.there was a mass evacuation occuring with no idea of the full magnitude if what had just occured