Passengers and workers packed their bags that they would never open.

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53. I was at work with my husband in Delaware

We had a conference room in our building and we were all crowded in there watching the news on a huge screen. Our two kids were at school/daycare in different towns. Our governor, Ruth Ann Minner, shut schools and daycares early. We left work to pick the kids up - one in Newark where we worked, and one in New Castle where we lived. We were told by the HR VP that since it wasn’t considered a “state of emergency”, if we left work early to pick kids up, we had to take vacation. Twenty two years later and I’m still pissed about that.

It took almost an hour to make it to our infant’s daycare - what normally was only a 10 min drive. It took over an hour to make it to our other kid’s school for pickup - normally a 20 min drive. There was concern in the state regarding Dover AF Base and New Castle Co airport. I remember attending a candlelight vigil held at Battery Park in New Castle and seeing the ladder truck with its extension ladder extended and an American flag hung from it. I remember in the days that followed, instead of seeing homeless people begging for money, food, or work or selling flowers at intersections, parking lots, and mall entrances, it was fire depts collecting donations for NY first responders and victim’s families.