Part II
Sept 11, 1992: Hurricane Iniki, one of the most damaging hurricanes in United States history, devastates the Hawaiian Islands of Kauai and Oahu. The Central Pacific Hurricane Center (CPHC) failed to issue tropical cyclone warnings and watches 24 hours in advance. I was there on Oahu and from what I remember, very little damage, mostly on the north shore where an undersea cable washed up on the beach. Kauaʻi was hit much harder.
9/11/2001: Vice President Cheney, his wife Lynne; aides Scooter Libby & David Addington; a military officer carrying a nuclear football and others left for an "undisclosed location" - Camp David. Text from Garrett Graff's book RAVEN ROCK.
The Presidential Emergency Operations Center - a bunker-like structure underneath the East Wing of the White House.
Launched in 1931, the FDNY fireboat John J. Harvey was decommissioned in 1994, but saved from the scrapyard by volunteers who turned the boat into a museum. On 9/11, the boat was rushed back into service to pump water in lower Manhattan due to the fire mains being damaged. She is among the most powerful fireboats ever built, capable of pumping up to 18,000 gallons of water a minute.
911 Real Time site setup like an old Mac desktop from the time period and lets you flip through various news channels in real time as though it was September 11, 2001.
Also, this metafilter thread from the day it happened. You can read their conversation as events unfolded.
Plane crashes in to the word trade center
The Lone Gunmen: Pilot
Spin-off of The X-Files featuring the trio of computer-hacking conspiracy geeks popularly known as The Lone Gunmen. In the pilot episode, which aired on March 4, 2001, 191 days before 9/11, there is a hijacked plane that is being targeted at the World Trade Center. The last episode aired May 11, 2001.
Sept 11th 2001 - Neo's passport expires.
Sept 11, 2007: Russia tests the largest conventional weapon ever, more powerful than GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast, which is often unofficially called "Mother of All Bombs" or MOAB. It was reported as the Aviation Thermobaric Bomb of Increased Power aka Father of All Bombs (FOAB), Western weapons experts questioned the evidence of its existence. It may of been a fuel-air explosive.
Sept 11, 2012 Benghazi attack
Tuesday, September 11, 2001 to Thursday, September 8, 2022; Elizabeth II death = 7667 days.
7667. sheber
Didn't realize till I seen some memes being passed around, that the Queen died on Lyndon LaRouche's birthday.
Uncle Louie has to go I’m afraid, 007.
"It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong." – Thomas Sowell