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Re: Horrible world trade center crash, traffic effect
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (M. David Leonard)
Tue Sep 11 14:43:55 2001
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 13:27:23 -0400 (EDT)
From: "M. David Leonard" <mdl@equinox.shaysnet.com>
To: Charles Sprickman <spork@inch.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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More good news (for me, anyway): my son Nathan was at his desk
on the 58th floor when the first plane hit and he escaped with no injuries.
I don't know if he will still have a job, but at least he's safe. Info
came via AIM.
David Leonard
ShaysNet.COM
On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Charles Sprickman wrote:
>
> 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
> >
