[41530] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Horrible world trade center crash, traffic effect
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rachel Luxemburg)
Tue Sep 11 12:33:14 2001
From: "Rachel Luxemburg" <rslux@link-net.com>
To: "deeann mikula" <deeann@telerama.com>,
"Charles Sprickman" <spork@inch.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>,
"Avi Freedman" <freedman@freedman.net>
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 07:54:56 -0700
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If anyone happens to know whether any of the buildings immediately surrounding
the WTC have been affected I would really appreciate knowing which ones; my
sister is in 140 Broadway. Thank you. Sorry for the non-operational content.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of
> deeann mikula
> Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 7:22 AM
> To: Charles Sprickman
> Cc: Avi Freedman; nanog@merit.edu
> Subject: Re: Horrible world trade center crash, traffic effect
>
>
>
> On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, 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).
>
> few people (in pgh, PA) that i have been talking to on irc have
> reported ./'d news sites everywhere. (cnn.com, yahoo.com, msnbc.com,
> etc.) my office has been relegated am radio, which is pretty pathetic
> for an ISP.
>
> pretty poor performance for a network orginally designed to faciliate
> communication in just such circumstances. i hope that military and
> federal communication is faring better than the commercial sites.
>
>
> > 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
>
> i assume that in nyc or dc only. we are listening to AM radio just
> fine...
>
>
