18 years ago

[Kieran Lavin]

Kind of ironic this picture comes up today on my timehop from a college trip to the city.

I remember Ray telling me that he got a hold of my parents to let them know I was OK and I was like of course, why would I NOT be OK what was the big deal?  Although I had a 9am meeting across the street from the WTC it was moved to 1pm at last minute.  I was in shock all day and the magnitude hit me around 8 that night as I drove a coworker home toward Philly I lost the NYC radio stations and had to change over to Philly stations and all they were talking about was the WTC.  I was like wow this is bigger than just NYC.  When I got home around 10pm there were 7 messages from relatives in Ireland checking in and it finally started to sink in


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kieran

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From: se-r <se-r-bounces at se-r-list.org> on behalf of Ray Kawski <rkawski at e-rak.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2019 6:57:18 AM
To: Lawrence Weeks <lweeks at anabasis.net>
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Subject: Re: 18 years ago

Larry wrote:

On 2019-09-11 20:17, Lawrence Weeks wrote:
I was showing my son our list's conversations from Sep 11th 2001

I was in the dentists chair watching things unfold.   I asked the hygienist to stop so I could try to call Kieran Lavin who was working a job site next door to WTC.   I couldn’t reach him.    When I was finished and went to work I continued trying all his numbers and emailing him.    Calling was not working as all circuits were busy.   The PSTN wasn’t designed for 100% capacity its designed for less than 50%.

Luckily I was able to reach him via email and he was ok and I was able to contact his family and tell them he was ok.    The remainder of the day was spent watching the tragedy unfold.   I’m sure Kieran will chime in at some point.

RK
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