The Day of the Storm

The Day of the Storm: A Novel Mass Market Paperback – February 15, When you read a novel by Rosamunde Pilcher you enter a special world where emotions sing from the heart. Rosamunde Pilcher is the author of such worldwide bestselling novels as The Shell Seekers, September.
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We eventually reunited on the Thursday evening in Times Square. Q When you reflect on the events of now, what impact do you feel they had on your life? After everything had happened and I finally returned to Canada, I still felt numb. It was difficult, especially the first six months afterwards. Naturally friends and family were curious to hear my story, but it was very difficult for me to keep re-living the experience. In that time, I couldn't watch the news or read any newspapers, as I wanted to avoid any news story about the tragedy. I found concentrating on anything for more than a short time really difficult.

It wasn't until about half a year later that I actually saw the footage of the towers collapsing - to that point I had only seen it on that day on the neighbour's television in real time.

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It seemed completely unreal to see it again, like it was some special effect out of Hollywood. Someone else I know who was also there regarded us as 'honorary citizens,' and it wasn't until she said that that I really understood my relationship to New York. I also knew that I needed to return some day, but it wasn't until the spring of that I actually came back. Visiting New York didn't actually feel as strange as I thought it would.

I made a point of visiting the WTC site and to me, having only seen it for such a short time in September of , it didn't even seem like the same place. But in a strange way, it was good to be back, like I was visiting an old friend. I think nearly everyone remembers 'where they were' that fateful morning. For me, being that close to such an awful tragedy is a part of my history and will be a part of me for the rest of my life.

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Australian David Officer took this photo from the Empire State Building on September 10, , and was planning to visit the World Trade Centre with his family the next day. Monday the 10th we visited the Empire State Building and bought our 'superpass', which included the observation deck at the World Trade Centre. It was a fairly hazy day on Monday so we decided to wait for a clearer day to visit the WTC. It was as clear as a bell so we determined today was the day to do the WTC.

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We went down to a cafe on Broadway for breakfast with the idea of going straight down to the WTC after breakfast. My wife must have dawdled a bit because she saw a plane overhead and thought to herself, "gee, that's very low". I immediately thought that some idiot in a Cessna had not been watching what he was doing. It shortly became apparent that it was a bit bigger than that. When the second plane hit I realised that it hadn't been an accident and that it must be terrorism.


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We basically finished our breakfast and went back to our room to watch the rest of the events unfold on TV along with the rest of the world. After that all the tourist attractions closed so we spent a few days wandering the streets of Manhattan as we could not go anywhere. Food even started to run a little short and it was quite surreal to be wandering around with fighter jets flying overhead the whole time. We had airline tickets to Orlando to go to Disney World but it soon became apparent that planes were not going to fly for a time so we ended up hiring a car and driving there.

I still think of those events fairly regularly as I look at my family and think how lucky we were. I'm sure we would not have survived being on the observation deck as I think I would have tried to go to the roof expecting to be helicoptered off , rather than going down through the stairwells. Artist Monika Bravo was filming out the window from her studio on the 92nd floor of the World Trade Centre's Tower One as a storm rolled across the city.

One of her fellow resident artists was killed in the attacks the next day. Still images taken from footage filmed on the 92nd floor of the World Trade Centre's Tower One during a storm on the evening of September 10, What do you recall about that day, and the circumstances in which you took the video?

Back then I was part of a residency program on the 92nd floor, Tower One at World Trade Centre sponsored by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council; it was a residency that gave 15 artists the possibility to work in a corporate environment for a period of six months. I had started going at the end of May, but always felt an uneasiness being inside of the building. As a matter of fact, I had painted all my walls black and had blocked the views from my window.

One of the reasons I wanted a studio up there was to be able to film the clouds; the whole summer I had waited to film some clouds until September 10 at 2: On that Monday things were a bit weird. I remember leaving the space a bit before midnight and taking the tape out of my camera I never did that before.

Originally I was planning on staying the whole night making a hour video, but my husband Juan called me around 11pm and suggested I go home because according to him I had no water and sleeping over would be very uncomfortable. I left the building; two other fellows stayed. One of them, Michael Richards, an artist from Jamaica, perished during the attacks. The morning of September 11, , I woke up around 7: We were having breakfast upstairs. At the time we lived in a duplex apartment in Brooklyn Heights where we could see both towers from the bedroom window.

The phone rang and Juan answered it; it was my friend Susanna asking whether I was home or at the studio. As Juan replied, he [turned] towards the window and a few minutes later we saw the second plane crashing into the second tower. At that moment I decided not to watch it live. Some years before I had made the conscious choice to either experience events fully or to record them via a camera; same with this.

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I needed a filter and went downstairs and turned the TV on; this allowed me some form of detachment. I was aware that it was happening, but was detached to the fact that it was happening to me. We sat in front of the TV for hours in shock; we managed to call our family and close friends immediately to let them know we were fine. I started to call the rest of the artists just to make sure no-one was in the building, but Michael never answered and a few hours later we were told he was among the thousand that were missing.


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    6. We organised a meeting two days later to deal with practical issues, such as what to do now that we had no studio; some artists had lost a great deal of work and tools, so we needed to create a comfortable zone where we could operate both physically and psychologically. During one of these meetings at my house a few days later, I remembered having the footage and I decided to make a film of it right away and give a copy to the rest of the people at the residency.

    I dedicated it to Michael's memory. The film is called September 10, , Uno nunca muere la vispera, a Spanish saying that translates something like, one cannot die on the eve, one never dies before it's time. A friend of mine on the day after, when she learned I was safe, wrote it in the subject line of an email. I found it not only true but extremely poetic and that is why I used it as the title. What is beautiful about the film is that you can always feel the presence of both buildings and the landscape around them; it starts with a view of the Statue of Liberty being completely covered by a cloud as the raindrops start touching the window.

    It is very eerie, yet very melancholic; it is not about the attacks, but it's an ode to the day before. I experienced loss at a very early age when my father suddenly died in an accident; that not only shaped my life and work but gave me so much perspective. I believe it also gave me a strong sense of purpose; that is why I went off to live my life as fully and to experience as much as I could in order to find my own voice.

    When I think of what happened 10 years ago, I feel that taken out of context it was a big event, but seeing it in the map of my entire life it is part of the daily transformation I am committed to. It did make me question and asserted my compromise with being an artist and how I just serve as vehicle for it. Honestly, I never felt I was close to death that day, on the contrary it made me feel so close to life.

    Mike Horan says the date stamped on this photo, which he posed for less than 24 hours before the Twin Towers fell, transforms an otherwise unremarkable holiday snap. Mike Horan stands in front of the New York skyline on September 10, September 10 , was just another enjoyable day of an eventful trip that my girlfriend and I made to New York that year.

    We had travelled from Limerick, Ireland to visit my sister who was living in Manhattan with her fiance. While there we spontaneously decided to get married and tied the knot in NY City Hall on September 7. I guess the remaining days of our holiday could have been considered as our honeymoon. As the ferry made its way across the Upper New York Bay I recall the excellent view of the Downtown skyline and the unique perspective you get from the bay. The towers were the dominant feature and five days earlier we were at the top looking down at the ferry I was on now.

    As our tour of the immigration museum drew to an end we visited the American Immigrant Wall of Honour to search for family names. This area of the museum overlooks the Statue of Liberty and the New York skyline. I asked my now-wife to take a photograph of me with the skyline in the background. The time of the photo was approximately 5: We had borrowed the camera and I was unfamiliar with the settings so it was only when we returned home to Ireland and had the photos developed that we realised the date settings had been switched on and all the snaps of our New York visit contained the date within the picture.

    The date, which is not in the American format, uniquely transforms this otherwise unremarkable holiday snap. When I showed my holiday photos to friends and family it was this picture that received the greatest reaction purely because of the presence of the date, which gives it a sense of eeriness due to the impending carnage that was soon to follow. I think the date has the appearance of a timer counting down the dying moments of an old world since replaced by the tense and paranoid world we live in today.

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    To ask other readers questions about The Day of the Storm , please sign up. Lists with This Book. Ultimately, it was about reading a book that, in all likelihood, will not please. For me, the name Rosamunde Pilcher has always been synonymous with hyper sentimental stories and a happily-ever-after ending — a genre where I see myself far beyond the target audience. So it was really a sacrifice on my part to dedicate my precious reading time to such a novel. Since I was free to choose the book, I picked this one, simply because it is short. It turns out the story was not as bad as I initially feared.

    Nonetheless I think it would be quite possible to turn this into a nice little novella after the image of women is revised, the scenes are stripped down, repetitions erased, and perhaps two or three characters eliminated. View all 19 comments. This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. View all 3 comments. Oct 20, Vicki rated it liked it. I needed a calm non-thinking stress-less book and Rosamunde Pilcher always fills the bill.

    Apr 13, Naksed marked it as couldnt-get-past-the-sample. Nothing wrong with the writing but this particular story just felt a little too dull and depressing our little downtrodden urchin heroine soaked to the skin in unforgiving storms etc and I feel like a more cheerful read at this time. I will come back to this author at some point. Nov 04, MomToKippy rated it liked it Shelves: Pilcher's short novels are comfort food for the reader. I am seeing that they are a bit formulaic. Young woman struggles in quaint English seaside town or country village.

    Young woman encounters quirky English characters. Young woman discovers family secrets. Young woman learns about herself. Young woman falls in love with cad and is rescued by good guy. The story usually comes to an abrupt and happy ending. At least I know what I am getting and completely enjoy her writing style and imagery. Wh Pilcher's short novels are comfort food for the reader. When I can't decide what to read I read Pilcher these days which seems to be often.

    Hey, what is the with the borderline incest in all these books? Was it common for cousins to marry in this era? View all 4 comments. Nov 23, Grace rated it it was ok. My expectations are so much greater after having read Pilcher's longer novels, I am let down with her shorter novels which are undeveloped and sketchy.

    My first book of the year. Perfect for reading on a cold winter day. Mar 17, Bonnie rated it really liked it. Rosamunde Pilcher has a beautiful way of putting words together, and has a knack for drawing one in as a close observer to a different culture, climate and year. Jul 05, Lily rated it it was ok. Jul 15, Penny Raspenny rated it really liked it Shelves: This book was interesting, bittersweet and beautiful. There are a couple things I would have liked to be a bit different but, nevertheless, it was a nice story with interesting characters and amazing scenery.

    I always appreciate writers that manage to actually transfer me to a place with their writing, and make me wish to go visit the places they describe. The coast of Cornwall is now imprinted in my mind's eye, and I crave to see it up close. Nov 16, Jojo rated it really liked it Shelves: This is the book that taught me what a nymphomaniac is; a character is suspected of being one a couple times, and when I first read this, ages ago, I had no idea what it meant so I looked it up.

    Also, I did a book report on this book in middle school. We usually had to choose book report books off an approved list, but sometimes we were allowed to do one on a book we liked, and I chose this one. I thought it was very romantical. I might have had a silly literary crush o This is the book that taught me what a nymphomaniac is; a character is suspected of being one a couple times, and when I first read this, ages ago, I had no idea what it meant so I looked it up. I might have had a silly literary crush on the main dude. But I didn't want anything that would make me think or make me feel bad about my terrible writing.

    This seemed like a good choice. It's definitely one of the better short Pilcher books, but suffers a bit, as all the short ones do, because of its length. Everything just happens so quickly! I used to count the number of times a couple had been in each other's presence in the short Pilcher novels before suddenly being mad in love with each other, and it was always, like, four.

    This one's a little better than some others, but still. It definitely feels rushed. Jun 24, sleeps9hours rated it did not like it. Even for an airport book it was awful. I did finish it because it was what I brought for a 16 hour travel day, but it looks like Pilcher wrote a couple of good long novels the shell seekers that probably took some serious time and effort to produce, and a bunch of short crap to make a living otherwise. Apr 26, Lorraine rated it liked it Shelves: This is the story of a girl who goes to the bedside of her dying mother and discovers who her father is.

    Of all the Rosamunde Pilcher's I have read, I would say this is probably my least favourite.