[41482] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Horrible world trade center crash, traffic effect
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Charles Sprickman)
Tue Sep 11 09:42:14 2001
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 09:39:41 -0400 (EDT)
From: Charles Sprickman <spork@inch.com>
To: Avi Freedman <freedman@freedman.net>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
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On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Avi Freedman wrote:
> FYI, 2 planes crashed into the world trade center.
> Sounds like on purpose.
> Not to be ghoulish, but the traffic impact is looking to be fairly large
> on the 'net (and on the PSTN in the NYC area).
Just to add a few points:
All VHF TV stations except for CBS 2 are off the air, many radio stations
are off the air, and it's largely impossible to get a call in. All
bridges and tunnels are closed (which I assume includes the PATH).
A horrible thing to wake up to... could see the smoke out my bedroom
window...
C
> FYI,
>
> Avi
>
