Where was Gaga on 9/11?

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5 hours ago, steven said:

Here's what Gemini said: 

Lady Gaga was actually only 15 and at school on the Upper East Side when 9/11 happened. She’s talked before about how her teachers initially put the news on, but she and her classmates ended up going to the roof and actually watched the second tower collapse. She said she still vividly remembers the smell and the ash covering the city.

It was also a massive scare for her family because her mom worked right across the street from the World Trade Center. Her dad walked her home from school, and they had to wait ten agonizing hours with zero contact before they finally found out her mom was safe. She’s said the whole experience completely changed her and forever bonded New Yorkers together like a giant family.

 

Woah why have I never heard this before??? That's so scary! 

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1 hour ago, Defmix100 said:

I feel like I remember years ago people were calling her out that the towers weren't visible from this location but I don't know if that's true or not with the distance

I suspect you can see the smoke and such for miles never mind just up the island. I saw it distinctly from the lounge at the tallest dorm in my school, in NJ, 15 miles away.

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Just now, KNJ said:

I suspect you can see the smoke and such for miles never mind just up the island. I saw it distinctly from the lounge at the tallest dorm in my school, in NJ, 15 miles away.

So sorry you had to live through that and have those shocking memories first-hand. And since jet fuel is no ordinary fuel, that and the immense gravitational forces of impacts on such immense buildings would cause terrible shockwaves of debris particles/smoke to cover miles and miles for hours. It's why many firefighters who survived and saved countless lives that day are/were much more at risk of lung cancer and other pulmonary disease - those noxious gasses, the soot and tiny debris particles stayed behind and wreaked havoc on their lungs, all because they were longer in the proximity or in the buildings than people fleeing. 

As a non-US citizen the videos on every news channel were horrifying enough, they're burnt into my retinas. My mom literally thought (because the volume was off at first) they were showing a disaster movie. I was ten. Again, I feel bad you had to see this unfold yourself, even if it was from a technically safe distance.