[NYC GOP Chick]

That reminds me: On my forced march from Brooklyn Bridge/City Hall to 93rd St. I passed a number of ATM's and public phones. There was a huge line for all of them. So the public phones south of 14th St definitely were working after the second tower fell. No need to wander further downtown.

You *walked* all that way??? Shoot, I found what was probably the last cab in lower Manhattan, right before the Williamsburg Bridge, and he took me up to 50th and First -- ahead of most of the marching refugees.

I hit an ATM at some deli on Water Street minutes after the south tower was hit. I figured that a couple hundred in cash and a few credit cards could get me anywhere I wanted that day. Little did I know...

My understanding is that most public phones were working -- at least for calls within the city -- for at *least* most of the day. Some *may* have gone out when WTC #7 hit the Verizon building as it collapsed, but that was late afternoon.

Funny, I didn't see Chelsea waiting on line at any of those phones.

Funny, I didn't see Chelsea in lower Manhattan that morning.

[Oschisms]

I was trapped on the 4 train when they fell- Didn't see an empty cab the entire way. Never got ahead of the refugees. With the marathon training, the distance wasn't a bother at all. The heavy bag was a bummer, though. Luck was truly a lady to me: My boss will never again hear complaints about working 10 to 7.