[41540] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Horrible world trade center crash, traffic effect
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Charles Sprickman)
Tue Sep 11 13:08:43 2001
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 12:01:18 -0400 (EDT)
From: Charles Sprickman <spork@inch.com>
To: "Thomas P. Brisco" <brisco@globix.net>
Cc: John Fraizer <nanog@Overkill.EnterZone.Net>,
Mally Mclane <mally@mally.net>, Brad Dreisbach <bradd@dn.net>,
Avi Freedman <freedman@freedman.net>, <nanog@merit.edu>
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Some good news... an eyewitness who was on the 81st floor of Tower 1(?)
got out (along with everyone on his floor) before the collapse.
Considering the towers were 110 stories high, that bodes well for
evacuation of the towers post-crash...
On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Thomas P. Brisco wrote:
>
>
> We're sitting here and watched the tower fall. NYC is insane,
> people (at this point, 30 blocks away) are starting to run in the
> streets. The entire island is locked down, you apparently CANNOT get
> off of Manhattan island.
> The second tower just went down. We're getting reports via
> phone from people about 10 blocks away.
>
> - Tom
>
> On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, John Fraizer wrote:
>
> > Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 10:05:29 -0400 (EDT)
> > From: John Fraizer <nanog@Overkill.EnterZone.Net>
> > To: Mally Mclane <mally@mally.net>
> > Cc: Brad Dreisbach <bradd@dn.net>, Charles Sprickman <spork@inch.com>,
> > Avi Freedman <freedman@freedman.net>, nanog@merit.edu
> > Subject: Re: Horrible world trade center crash, traffic effect
> >
> >
> >
> > Just some additional information:
> >
> > One of the towers has collapsed completely. Additionally, FBI
> > flash-traffic is indicating a threat of virus attack in conjunction.
> >
> > On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Mally Mclane wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > hi,
> > >
> > > > A plane reportedly just flew into the pentagon in dc.
> > > > I heard it on a local radio station. still trying to get more info...
> > >
> > > been confirmed by CNN. A third plane.
> > >
> > > The first was apparently a boeing 767, hijacked out of Boston. Bush has
> > > already appeared on national tv to announce it as a terroist attack, NYC
> > > is shut down, all airports are shut down.
> > >
> > > good luck:(
> > >
> > > m
> > >
> >
> >
> > ---
> > John Fraizer
> > EnterZone, Inc
> >
> >
>
> -- --
> Thomas P. Brisco tbrisco@globix.net
> Senior Network Architect 212-625-7073
> Globix Corp.
>
>
