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<blockquote data-quote="Shadowrider" data-source="post: 1774894" data-attributes="member: 3099"><p>I was at work at Baker Hughes on South Sooner Road. I didn't hear the explosion because I was working in the shop that day instead of the engineering office. I heard the report on the radio and didn't think too much about it, I just thought one of the gas mains down there blew or something. A good friend, one of the CNC programmers, his wife worked in the Federal Courthouse building. He came out and said that it was bad and was a little shook up. He said he was leaving to go see his wife at the hospital. Now being that I knew exactly where she worked and that it was on 4th street and not 5th Street, it started to compute a little. So I went up to the front conference room, took off my boots and went in. Just as I go in, on the TV I see the first pass around the front of the building from the channel nine helo live shot. I had to sit down. Someone noticed that I was shaken a little and asked if I was okay, the whole thing is still surreal to this day, the timing of the TV visual when I walked in and the utter devastation of the building was a little much. I had always looked at that building and thought it was overbuilt. The amount of steel and concrete was mind boggling to a young guy that had worked building houses as a teenager. I replied to them that I had been going in that building ever since it was built, I had just been there at lunch the day before because I decided to go during my lunch that day instead of taking an hour off and going this morning. Then I explained that I was a member of the Federal Employees Credit Union and knew damn near everyone in there and that the lady that ran it was a family friend. Luckily she made it. She also had a very compelling story. She was having a meeting in her office and was sitting at her desk one instant and the next everyone was just gone and she was starring into the blue sky. Somehow she was able to get down and out of there with a bit of help. I distinctly remember an odd sense of calm when I left that day. I left through the South exit and walked through the courtyard on the South side of the building and circled around to my truck which was parked not 50 feet from where the bomb truck would be parked. I did this often because that courtyard was like a park. It was really pretty. The church bells were ringing at the old church next door. It was noon. It was an awesomely gorgeous spring day and it felt really peaceful and oddly quiet right in the middle of downtown OKC on a week day. I had not a clue that hell was coming the next morning.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Shadowrider, post: 1774894, member: 3099"] I was at work at Baker Hughes on South Sooner Road. I didn't hear the explosion because I was working in the shop that day instead of the engineering office. I heard the report on the radio and didn't think too much about it, I just thought one of the gas mains down there blew or something. A good friend, one of the CNC programmers, his wife worked in the Federal Courthouse building. He came out and said that it was bad and was a little shook up. He said he was leaving to go see his wife at the hospital. Now being that I knew exactly where she worked and that it was on 4th street and not 5th Street, it started to compute a little. So I went up to the front conference room, took off my boots and went in. Just as I go in, on the TV I see the first pass around the front of the building from the channel nine helo live shot. I had to sit down. Someone noticed that I was shaken a little and asked if I was okay, the whole thing is still surreal to this day, the timing of the TV visual when I walked in and the utter devastation of the building was a little much. I had always looked at that building and thought it was overbuilt. The amount of steel and concrete was mind boggling to a young guy that had worked building houses as a teenager. I replied to them that I had been going in that building ever since it was built, I had just been there at lunch the day before because I decided to go during my lunch that day instead of taking an hour off and going this morning. Then I explained that I was a member of the Federal Employees Credit Union and knew damn near everyone in there and that the lady that ran it was a family friend. Luckily she made it. She also had a very compelling story. She was having a meeting in her office and was sitting at her desk one instant and the next everyone was just gone and she was starring into the blue sky. Somehow she was able to get down and out of there with a bit of help. I distinctly remember an odd sense of calm when I left that day. I left through the South exit and walked through the courtyard on the South side of the building and circled around to my truck which was parked not 50 feet from where the bomb truck would be parked. I did this often because that courtyard was like a park. It was really pretty. The church bells were ringing at the old church next door. It was noon. It was an awesomely gorgeous spring day and it felt really peaceful and oddly quiet right in the middle of downtown OKC on a week day. I had not a clue that hell was coming the next morning. [/QUOTE]
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