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office. it was in a weird location. i convinced myself that she was at a client s house, because that was my excuse at the time for why she wasn t home. still, their mom was a rock. center of their universe. they told themselves they d be laughing about this later, or they d be relieved, anyway. we said, let s just get ready for school. just keep on with our day. she ll be home when we get home. yeah. same time. same morning. and just two doors down the street, one of pam s closest friends, julie koh, was still in her pajamas. my home phone rang, which is odd, because your home phone never rings that early. it hardly ever rings ever anyway. right, right. i mean, we re, i know, one of the rare people that still have a home phone. and so i picked it up and it was scott. scott baldwin was pam zimmerman s fiance. he lived a few hours away, near chicago. he said, i haven t heard from pam, i m really worried. i don t know what s going on. i ve been trying to reach her
system is more than inconvenient. aviation expert mike ward. air transportation is part of our communications center. today it s shut down completely, people aren t moving a to be, mail isn t moving, good aren t moving. because of that we re probably going to have tens of billions of dollars hit on our economy for this. phone service strangled to, americas largest cell phone network with cell towers atop the world trade center destroyed, reports called nationally doubled. we can compare today s events to anything we have experienced before we ve gone to earthquakes, significant floods but nothing like today s event. in chicago, karen davis frustrated at her attempts to work at home. i could not get a single signal on my way home, and then i couldn t get a signal on my home phone when i got here, really frustrating not to be able to get contact with anybody. among the events canceled tonight major league baseball
where she is. g i hope she s but as as the drive went on, it became more and more anxious, more and more tight. and i would be calling the kids on the home phone just saying, w we re gonna be there, you know, and t tryin to sound reassuring. the kids had just a nanny with them because paige had parted ways with her husband, rob dixon, who d since moved out of state. still as a single-mom, with three little kids, paige had her life well in control. due in no small part to her obsessive organizational skills. she ran several small businesses and kept track of every soccer practice and dentist appointment in an old-fashioned, hand-written, day-planner. i mean, every page was full and crossed referenced and and she was always with it. and she d come over to visit it came in the door right there in front of her. she was always checkin it, and phonin .
charlotte and her boyfriend jake were eating a late dinner. he took a few more bites of his dinner and by that point, charlotte and i were close to being finished. that s when steve told them about a strange phone call he received from carol s brother who told him that apparently carol s home phone suddenly cut out when she was talking to her mother ruth and nobody could reach her. how did charlotte react to that? she was worried. charlotte said she texted her mom earlier that evening and everything was fine then. now she called her mother. voicemail. hey, mom, it s char, i heard from grandma that something happened when she was on the phone and i m kind of getting worried about you. so, if you want to text me back or call me, or something just let me know you are okay and everything is okay. the beginnings of panic bubbled up in charlotte s brain,