Lisa Dunham Owers

Diehard fan of @Seminoles, @WaltDisneyWorld and Christmastime. Mother of four spectacular kids.

[Love Classical Music and Movies 🎺🎻💖🎥🎬 @AlexTran677026]

I can't stop laughing 😂

[Barnaby Breaks History 🇺🇸 @BarnabyHistory]

🇺🇸 The Little Chapel That Stood

The day after the towers fell, a priest named Lyndon Harris walked down Broadway toward St. Paul’s Chapel. He had already decided it was gone. When he saw the spire, he wept.

He opened the door. Ash on the floor. The chandeliers still up. Not one window broken.

A sycamore in the northwest corner of the churchyard had caught debris, including a steel beam from the North Tower. The tree was damaged. The chapel was not.

Workers off the pile started using the porch to sit down and wash. On September 15 the Seamen’s Church Institute showed up with food and lit a grill on the sidewalk.

After that the doors stayed open. For nine months.

Cots in the pews. Eighty asleep at a time, helmets for pillows. Boots and belts marked the wood. Podiatrists set up in George Washington’s pew, the one he used after the inauguration in 1789. Massage tables in the aisle. Musicians played seven hundred times for whoever happened to be in the room.

Half a million meals were served before they closed the doors. Socks, boots, eye drops, cigarettes. Schoolchildren’s letters on the walls. The iron fence outside vanished under photographs, unit patches, teddy bears, and names.

They shut the relief operation down in early June 2002. They still ring the Bell of Hope every September 11.

St. Paul’s went up in 1766. It lived through the fire that burned Trinity in 1776. Oldest public building still in use in the city.

[Frank Caliendo @FrankCaliendo]

If Madden and Summerall were still around to explain the end of the Western Michigan vs Michigan game

[MLFootball @MLFootball]

🚨🚨HILARIOUS🚨🚨

A Michigan State professor took multiple SHOTS at rival Michigan while explaining the rules for his exams.

“If your timer hits zero, I’m not putting one second back on the clock. I’m sorry, that only happens at Michigan.”

“All of our minutes have 60 seconds, not 61 or 58 or 103, depending on whatever suits us best.”

“The Big Ten can pressure me all they want, but I’m just not gonna do it.”

THIS PROFESSOR REALLY DOES NOT LIKE MICHIGAN.

💀

[Tallahassee Police @TallyPD]

For years, Maurice Smith helped protect the line at FSU. These days, he’s traded garnet and gold for TPD blue and gold, bringing that same discipline, leadership and commitment to protecting and serving the Tallahassee community. #HereforYou

[Tommy 🇺🇸 @RealitySalesman]

This never gets old.

"Run idiot!" 😂

[Paul Dellegatto⚡️FOX @PaulFox13]

All signs pointed to a below normal hurricane season, no one thought it would go to this extreme.
There have been ZERO hurricanes in the North Atlantic so far this year.
September 10th (Thursday) is considered the "peak" of the Atlantic hurricane season. If we get through Friday without one forming, it will be the first time in the satellite era (since 1966) that we have gone this deep into the year without a hurricane in the Atlantic!
There have been two hurricane seasons that ended up with no hurricanes on record, 1907 and 1914. However, those seasons occurred long before satellites monitored the oceans, meaning several open-sea hurricanes likely went undetected by ships. Since satellite tracking began, the quietest seasons on record produced two hurricanes, 1982 and 2013. The way things are going, that record is also in jeopardy! #ElNiño

[Fox News @FoxNews]

Rutgers is paying tribute to its 37 alumni killed in the 9/11 attacks in a powerful way.

The Scarlet Knights will wear special uniforms and helmets this weekend to honor the alumni killed in the terrorist attacks as the nation marks the 25th anniversary of Sept. 11.

A fitting reminder that some moments are bigger than football.

@Outkick

[Barnaby Breaks History 🇺🇸 @BarnabyHistory]

🇺🇸 The Boatlift That Was Bigger Than Dunkirk

At 10:45 a.m. on September 11, 2001, a Coast Guard lieutenant named Mike Day keyed a radio in New York Harbor and said the only sentence that mattered.

“All available boats. This is the United States Coast Guard. Anyone wanting to help with the evacuation of Lower Manhattan, report to Governors Island.”

The boats were already coming.

The bridges were closed. The tunnels were closed. The subways were dead. South of the towers, hundreds of thousands of people had nowhere left to walk. Some jumped into the Hudson. Some stood on seawalls that were never meant to be docks and waited for anything that floated.

Dunkirk took nine days to pull 338,226 Allied soldiers off a beach in 1940.

On 9/11, roughly 800 mariners on about 150 vessels moved as many as 500,000 civilians off Manhattan in about nine hours. Ferries. Tugs. Dinner boats. Pilot boats. Yachts. A retired fireboat. Rubber dinghies that held two people. The largest water evacuation in history.

NY Waterway did not wait for the official call. After the second plane hit, the whole fleet moved. Captain Rick Thornton nosed his ferry against a seawall that was not a slip and started taking people off. Some of them he pulled out of the river. His company alone carried about 158,000 people to Jersey City, Hoboken, Weehawken, Brooklyn, and Queens.

On a normal Tuesday they carried 34,000.

The Staten Island Ferry moved more than 50,000 people and came back the other way with water, bandages, and men who still had work to do in the dust.

The old fireboat John J. Harvey, already retired, tied up near the Museum of Jewish Heritage, took civilians off the seawall, then pumped water when the hydrants downtown died.

Lt. Day later admitted what the day required. “I broke more rules that day than probably I’ve enforced in my whole Coast Guard career.”

In raw numbers it was bigger than Dunkirk. No boat went down. By nightfall the southern tip of Manhattan had been emptied by people who were not on anyone’s list of heroes when the morning started.

They were tug captains. Ferry deckhands. Pilots. A lieutenant with a microphone. Ordinary boats answering one sentence.

All available boats.

[Florida State University @FloridaState]

Tonight’s F-35 flyover was led by US Air Force Major Heath “Shady” Williams (FSU ’15), Capt Andrew “Cooked” Borger (FSU ’12), Major Robert “Rambo” Kouwe (USAFA ’14), and Capt Cody “Factor” Rochford (FSU ’17).

Thank you for your service! 🇺🇸

[Logan B. Robinson @LogansTwitty]

FSU alum and billionaire businesswoman Sara Blakely, founder of Spanx, was once again in attendance for a game last night.

[Tennessee Football @Vol_Football]

Our Tennessee Home 🦋

#GBO 🍊

[TheGrandeTop10 ꕤ @TheGrandeTop10]

Dolly Parton becomes the only artist in history to occupy the entire Top 10 of US iTunes with different songs 🩶

[Shaun 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇸 @shaunvlog_]

The United States Army Field Band dropped this absolute Tennessee banger at the Edinburgh Military Tattoo 🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🤩

[Ira Schoffel @IraSchoffel]

Every preseason, Mike Norvell visits an FSU Marching Chiefs practice, gives them a pep talk and tells them how much they mean to the football team.

This time, Norvell had the Chiefs come to football practice.

Very cool.

[Buzz Patterson @BuzzPatterson]

What you see. What they see. Very cool POV!

[Reid Wilson @PoliticsReid]

This is the greatest tweet ever written. For the dad joke lover in all of us

[Ultras Clips @ultras_clips]

🚨🇳🇴 The Vikings have taken over Miami Beach 🚣

[FSU Football @FSUFootball]

Jayden Todd helped save a man’s life last month, diving into action to save an unconscious boater

He was honored for his actions yesterday by the Citrus County Sheriff’s Office

#NoleFamily