[41484] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Horrible world trade center crash, traffic effect
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brad Dreisbach)
Tue Sep 11 09:51:29 2001
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 09:48:21 -0400
From: Brad Dreisbach <bradd@dn.net>
To: Charles Sprickman <spork@inch.com>
Cc: Avi Freedman <freedman@freedman.net>, nanog@merit.edu
Message-ID: <20010911094821.A5918@xpander.dn.net>
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0109110937040.25121-100000@shell.inch.com>; from spork@inch.com on Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 09:39:41AM -0400
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On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 09:39:41AM -0400, Charles Sprickman wrote:
>
> 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...
A plane reportedly just flew into the pentagon in dc.
I heard it on a local radio station. still trying to get more info...
-b
>
> C
>
> > FYI,
> >
> > Avi
> >
