premise: I wanted to say something , but what do you say at a time like this ? And I thought , what did I say to my friends in New York on 9 - 11 ? I rose from my chair , walked over , and asked if they had spoken with their families . They had . What might have happened prior to this that I 'm remembering the 9/11 attacks ?
hypothesis: Some kind of disaster must have skipped in the area .