[42326] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: AT&T Switch operational in basement of WTC
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Stewart)
Fri Sep 14 20:43:25 2001
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Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 20:38:40 -0400
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From: Dave Stewart <dbs@ntrnet.net>
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At 08:21 PM 9/14/2001, Randy Neals wrote:
>AT&T's switch in the basement apparently operated after the collapse until
>4PM.
>They expect to recover the switch hardware....
Gotta love the 5E...
>So if you can build a switch room that doesn't collapse when 2 x 110 story
>buildings fall on it, why not get those engineers to design the building so
>it doesn't collapse in the first place?
Oh, please...
An hour or so of 1200-1500+ degrees?
