I was working in Los Angeles for a large major mover, handling Fortune 500 accounts only. Because of the time difference, I knew nothing about it until I got into my car to go to work and turned on the radio. I drove to work in tears, and when I got there no one was working...everyone in my dept. was huddled around 1 small TV.
In the afternoon, I called a customer who was scheduled to move the next day from the Bay area to AZ. When she answered, she was obviously upset - she told me they would have to put their move on hold because their next-door neighbor had died that day, and their whole neighborhood was in shock and her neighbor needed her. The neighbor who died was Tom Burnett, one of the heroes of Flight 93.
One of our major accounts was Intel. They donated dozens of computers, and my company sent two vans to NYC and set them up as mobile internet centers so rescue workers / volunteers could stay in touch with their loved ones.
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