[41595] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Horrible world trade center crash, traffic effect
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Smith)
Tue Sep 11 16:29:24 2001
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Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 13:45:18 -0500
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From: "Steve Smith" <ssmith@freeliant.com>
To: "M. David Leonard" <mdl@equinox.shaysnet.com>,
"Charles Sprickman" <spork@inch.com>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
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Congrats and God bless.
-----Original Message-----
From: M. David Leonard [mailto:mdl@equinox.shaysnet.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 12:27 PM
To: Charles Sprickman
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Subject: Re: Horrible world trade center crash, traffic effect
More good news (for me, anyway): my son Nathan was at his desk=20
on the 58th floor when the first plane hit and he escaped with no
injuries. =20
I don't know if he will still have a job, but at least he's safe. Info=20
came via AIM.
David Leonard
ShaysNet.COM
On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Charles Sprickman wrote:
>=20
> 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...
>=20
> On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Thomas P. Brisco wrote:
>=20
> >
> >
> > 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
> >