MY 911 STORY

Called 911 story since it ocurred as we were in the process of moving from FL to IN.------- It looks like I have never put my 911 story on my Blog. I know I have told it many times and probably written several emails. Since it is a story I will NEVER forget I will write it for my Blog. ---- Since I CANNOT figure out how to get paragraphs to work, I am ussing ----- to indicate a paragraph..... -------------- At our family 2000 reunion we (my brothers and I) decided to sell most or all of the farm, Our mom had passed the family farm down to us 15 or so years earlier. ------------ Starting about 2000 or soPatty and I were looking into moving up North from Florida. We had had enough of Florida, which seemed to be changing dramatically. My brother Johnny suggested, why don’t we buy the old family farm house. So we did, along with about 10 acres. Also we brothers kept about 5 acres of adjacent woods for a family memorial. -------------- In 2001 we decided to move north at the end of the year. We had started packing our STUFF early that year. On about Thursday or Friday or so September 6, 7 we were ready to take the 1st (1of 3) largest U-Haul from Florida to our new Indiana location. ------------- My brother Johnny came down from Logansport to help me drive up. We unloaded our 1st load of STUFF in a large semi truck trailer that Johnny had helped me rent. We had it PACKED after the 3rd load. -------------- I took the truck into South Bend on Monday the 10th and turned it in and flew back to Florida. ----------------- We lived on a small lake, Island Lake Ford, about 5 miles east of Tarpon Springs. On Tuesday morning I was walking from the house down to the lake to do something. I got about halfway, 50 feet or so, and Patty shouted at me “Tom get back up here and look at the TV” . I can still hear her in my head. The 1st plane had hit the 1st tower. The 2nd plane was on the way. I can still in my mind see the picture and remembering thinking it was a small plane..Once it hit I realized it was NOT a small plane. Of course then we were glued to the TV watching this terrible tragedy. And following the terrible story as it unfolded during the following weeks. . ------------------ I realized if I had planned on coming back from Indiana a day or so later my trip back to FL would have been MUCH different since public transportation had been canceled. ----------------- We took 2 more UHaul loads up to our new Indiana home, and were moved in by the end of December. Snow birds at last and because of the timing, with 911, this move will never be forgotten. -------------------------