Closings and cancellations following the September 11, 2001 attacks Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description

Following the September 11, 2001 attacks, several institutions responded with closures, cancellations, and postponements. Some of the most significant are listed here.

Table of contents

1 Closings 2 Evacuations 3 Cancellations 4 Postponements 5 Travel effects 6 Web sites 7 External link

Closings

(taken to mean unusual closures on September 11, for any reason)

• The stock exchanges on Wall Street. Wall Street never opened its stock markets on September 11, even as CNN continued to show futures numbers early in the day. As Wall Street itself was covered in debris from the World Trade Center and due to infrastructure damage, it remained closed until Monday, September 17 - four days total.
• The Washington Monument
• The Statue of Liberty
• The Virginia State Capitol
• Other US landmarks, including the Seattle, Washington Space Needle.
• All federal buildings in Washington, D.C., including the White House. Approximately one million federal workers were sent home across the country.
• NASA
• The Supreme Court of the United States
• All schools in Maryland
• Resorts and vacation spots
  • Disneyland (only for September 11)
  • Walt Disney World (only for September 11)
  • Universal Studios Florida
  • SeaWorld
• Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport
• All federal and state buildings in the state of Massachusetts
• Many schools across the country.
  • Children were well aware that they were shocked and sickened by watching the television coverage of the attacks over and over, that many schools had to be dismissed. This has happened before. They were victims of an act of terrorism before--Oklahoma City bombing killed 168 people, 19 of them children.

Evacuations

(taken to mean evacuation in light of perceived threat of attack)

• the United Nations headquarters in New York City
• the Sears Tower in Chicago
• several skyscrapers in downtown Houston
• the Transamerica building in San Francisco
• the Renaissance Center in Detroit
• parts of Washington, D.C, and New York City
• international flights bound for the USA were diverted to Canada
• in London, Canary Wharf tower and the Stock Exchange Tower
• the Empire State Building in New York was evacuated a couple of times on Sept. 11 and after due to false reports of potential threats.

Cancellations

For probably the first time since the John F. Kennedy assassination in 1963, everyday life in the United States came to a standstill, even for children, because they were victims of terrorism before--six years earlier, they were victims of the Oklahoma City bombing--19 of the 168 killed in that attack were children. Mundane events were cancelled out of shock, respect for the dead and wounded, or due to fear of more attacks. Many thought it was not a time for fun and games when death and destruction were seen live on television. Perhaps most importantly, Americans understood the fact that never again could safety be taken for granted.

• Broadway theater shows (until Thursday evening when they resumed with dimmed marquees)
• US sporting events including: [1]
  • Major League Baseball. Games were first postponed for one day, then three, then all games through Sunday the 16th were postponed.
  • The National Football League postponed football games on Sunday, September 16 and the Monday night game the night following. This was not an insignificant decision; in 1963, then-NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle did allow games to be played the Sunday after the John F. Kennedy assassination, later calling that the biggest mistake he ever made.
  • NASCAR racing cancelled the Sunday, September 16 Winston Cup (NASCAR championship series) race.
  • Division I-A college football games to be played Thursday, September 13 and Saturday, September 15 were postponed. This was not an insignificant decision; in 1988, Syracuse University was severely criticized for allowing the basketball game between SU and Western Michigan be played hours after 35 SU students returning home after a semester abroad were killed in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, which at that time was the worst act of terrorism against the United States.
  • The PGA golf tour cancelled the World Golf Championship (the American Express championship in Saint Louis, Missouri. This was the first time in five years the PGA cancelled a tournament.
• Voting in the city of New York (September 11 was a mayoral primary election day) was halted. Elections in Syracuse, New York and Buffalo, New York were delayed.
• Even months after the attacks, events were still impacted, with Blockbuster Entertainment cancelling its spring 2002 awards show.

Postponements

• The 2001 Emmy Awards. Originally scheduled for September 16, 2001, the glamorous awards show was rescheduled twice (among rumors of cancelling the show entirely) before finally taking place on November 4, with a somewhat somber atmosphere.
• The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, a meeting of the heads of state of the nations of The Commonwealth to be held in Brisbane, Australia, was postponed. The organisers of the meeting claimed the cancellation was not so much a fear of terrorist attack on the meeting itself, but a desire by many Commonwealth leaders to stay at home in case of any further crisis-making world events (such as the commencement of overt military action in Afghanistan or elsewhere).
• Even after normal television programming resumed after nearly a full week of news coverage following the attack, some daily talk shows such as The Tonight Show, The Daily Show and Late Show with David Letterman took additional time before beginning to broadcast new installments, with Letterman in particular stating that he wasn't sure that wanted to continue to do the show. All the shows did, eventually, return, though their first episodes back were somber affairs without exception.
• The fall season premieres of a number of American TV series were delayed.
• The 2001 Ryder Cup of golf, held in Britain, was postponed a whole year.

Travel effects

For at least a full day after the attacks, bridges and tunnels to the island of Manhattan were closed to (non-emergency) vehicle traffic in both directions. Among other things, this interrupted scheduled deliveries of food and other perishables, leading to shortages in restaurants.

All civilian airplane traffic in the United States was grounded until Thursday, September 13. United Airlines cancelled all flights worldwide temporarily. First stranded planes were allowed to go to their intended destinations; then limited service resumed. On Thursday night the New York area airports (JFK, La Guardia, Newark) were closed again, and were reopened Friday morning. The only traffic from La Guardia during the closure was a single C9C government VIP jet, departing at approximately 5:15PM on the 12th.

All train service through Union Station was suspended.

Beginning September 27, one-occupant cars were banned from crossing into Lower Manhattan from Midtown on weekday mornings, in an effort to relieve some of the crush of traffic in the city (the morning rush hour was lasting from 5:30 AM to noon), caused largely by the increased security measures put in place.

Web sites

• The popular Internet humor site Bert is Evil was taken down permanently by its webmaster after it was discovered that a fabricated image from the site of terrorist leader Osama bin Laden supposedly posing with Sesame Street character Bert was being used in pro-bin Laden propaganda. Despite the webmaster's pleas, several mirror sites of Bert is Evil remain online as of 2004.

External link

• SAFETY: One-Occupant Cars to Be Barred From Some Entrances to Manhattan, New York Times, 9/26/2001

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