Quote Originally Posted by BleeckerSt_Girl View Post
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How strange! Very disconcerting to think of how so many people were purposely not told what was going on or where they were being deposited, and were not allowed to watch the news.
I assume it was someone's idea of security? They either didn't want us all to panic, or they were afraid someone in the airport was a terrorist? As it was, we landed between the 2 tower attacks, so much of the information was not quite correct, anyway.
My brother found us a place to stay and he also found our luggage, they just dumped huge piles of luggage around the baggage claim area. We were supposed to leave without hotel reservations or luggage or anything. If it had been me, we would have, I have a tendency to be a sheep. But, my brother refused to leave without at least hotel reservations. We stayed in Inver Groves - a corner with a gas station, an Applebees and a hotel.
Other than being trapped no where with nothing, we had it fine compared to those in NYC. All of the people stranded at this hotel were in the same boat and we all made the best of it, sort of like a dysfunctional family.
Oddly, by day 3, we all got shuttled to the "Mall of the America", which is where everyone else was, too - the place was absolutely full of people, not like the baggage claim, but more busy than any mall I've seen.
Why was that odd? Because it's supposedly owned by one of Osama's brothers.