Anonymous
Tue, 10 Sep 02, 1:53 PM
Before I start I would like to thank maculatus for the warm words.
I haved lived in the New York area my whole life and as I was thinking about what to post I was not sure what to say. We are 9/11'nd out as they say what could I say that has not been said?
But as I was thinking I figured we will all be seeing tommorrow the planes hit and the towers fall and interviews with surviving relatives. So I figured I will concentrate on something amazing that happened one year ago.
It is a cliche by now the firemen and police were heroes but what did they really do and who else were heroes?. We will hear the figure 2800+ died but how mamy survived?. We will never know for sure. But I will take an educated guess. 50000 worked there add tourists and others there on business. It was 8:46 so many had not arrived for the work day. So for this post I will guess 40000 were rescued and are alive today.
We first have to look at the people who designed the buildings. They have recieved there fair share
of blame. Even of those people who expected a major terrorist assualt on the U.S. none expected hijacked planes. The designers did 35 years ago designing the building to withstand the biggest plane of the day the 707. That was not enough to hold it up but kept the building standing 56 and 92 minutes enough time to get those who worked below where the planes hit out. Basically with a few exceptions if you worked below plane level you survived if not you died. Many of the elevators did work.
The police and firemen were a calming presence besides giving directions carrying people down etc.
a lot of what they did we will never know they are not here to tell us.
What has been greatly overlooked and the real reason I am writing this post is the civilians. Most had no military or emergency training and of course had never seen anything remotely like this.
From all reports most everybody stayed calm. This is a testement to them and makes them as much heros as uniformed personel. No telling how many of the 40000 would still be alive if everybody panicked in those closed smoke filled stairways and elevators.
I haved lived in the New York area my whole life and as I was thinking about what to post I was not sure what to say. We are 9/11'nd out as they say what could I say that has not been said?
But as I was thinking I figured we will all be seeing tommorrow the planes hit and the towers fall and interviews with surviving relatives. So I figured I will concentrate on something amazing that happened one year ago.
It is a cliche by now the firemen and police were heroes but what did they really do and who else were heroes?. We will hear the figure 2800+ died but how mamy survived?. We will never know for sure. But I will take an educated guess. 50000 worked there add tourists and others there on business. It was 8:46 so many had not arrived for the work day. So for this post I will guess 40000 were rescued and are alive today.
We first have to look at the people who designed the buildings. They have recieved there fair share
of blame. Even of those people who expected a major terrorist assualt on the U.S. none expected hijacked planes. The designers did 35 years ago designing the building to withstand the biggest plane of the day the 707. That was not enough to hold it up but kept the building standing 56 and 92 minutes enough time to get those who worked below where the planes hit out. Basically with a few exceptions if you worked below plane level you survived if not you died. Many of the elevators did work.
The police and firemen were a calming presence besides giving directions carrying people down etc.
a lot of what they did we will never know they are not here to tell us.
What has been greatly overlooked and the real reason I am writing this post is the civilians. Most had no military or emergency training and of course had never seen anything remotely like this.
From all reports most everybody stayed calm. This is a testement to them and makes them as much heros as uniformed personel. No telling how many of the 40000 would still be alive if everybody panicked in those closed smoke filled stairways and elevators.