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Re: Ed Boxer - I'm OK - A day I will never forget
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Wed, 12 Sep 2001 23:09:30 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Ed Jones writes:
> First of all, to all the people who have e-mailed me - both Joe and I are fine.
> We greatly appreciate your concern.
>
> As to the terrorist attack, allow me to provide a little color.
>
> I work in the World Financial Center - directly across West Street from the
> World Trade Center twin towers. I was standing at a printer by the window
> facing the WTC when the top of the north tower exploded. Pieces of building
> the size of a bus were raining down along with what looked like confetti. All
> of it was hitting the windows in our building. We immediately evacuated the
> building. We had just walked down 27 floors and exited the fire stairwell onto
> West Street when this rocket noise was overhead. I thought it was a missile.
> 1000s of people ran through Battery Park City towards the Hudson River. The
> second explosion happened.
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> I met up with some of my co-workers. We started walking toward the Staten
> Island Ferry - on the promenade along the Hudson River. Everyone was trying to
> call anyone on his or her cell phones - none worked. Every pay phone we passed
> had a line of 20+ people. 2 of my co-workers decided they were going to wait
> in Battery Park to figure out how to get to NJ.
>
> True to NYC, construction workers were still working on a new high rise in
> Battery Park City and the parks department was mowing the lawns in the Battery
> Park as if nothing was going on.
>
> We get to the Staten Island Ferry Terminal - it's a mob scene - literally 10's
> of thousands of people are waiting to get on a boat. They announce that the
> first ferry out will not be until the bomb squads have searched all the boats.
> The ferry terminal has about 50 pay phones - there were lines for all of them,
> but we each made at least one call to let people know we were OK. We met
> outside the terminal to wait for a boat.
>
> While we were waiting for the boat, we heard a huge explosion and saw tons of
> gray smoke and debris flying down the streets towards the ferry. Everyone ran
> out of the ferry terminal - we ran in - the boat began to load. Everyone on
> the boat grabbed life vests and put them on. People were fighting for life
> vests. As the boat is loading the gray smoke and debris are flying past the
> boat (it looked like the initial attack scenes from Independence Day - the
> movie).
>
> The boat finally left Manhattan - it was not until we passed the Statue of
> Liberty that you could see anything out of the windows of the boat. When we
> docked in Staten Island and unloaded, we started walking towards my apartment -
> a long ramp exiting the Ferry Terminal to the street. We looked towards
> Manhattan and saw that the WTC twin towers were gone.
>
> We met three more of my co-workers walking up the ramp - they had no idea where
> they were going - they came to my house too. We stopped at a neighborhood
> deli so some of them could get some necessities. The proprietor was handing
> out bottled water and was offering the phones in the store to anyone that
> needed to make a call - the Pharmacy was doing the same.
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> By the time we got to my Apartment - its 10:30. The people that came with me -
> 1 Staten Island - 2 Brooklyn, 1 Upper East Side Manhattan and 2 NJ. We spent
> the next several hours determining how they would get home. We still have one
> girl from NJ staying with us. Her husband is stranded in Brooklyn.
>
> The Staten Island Yankees Baseball stadium (next the ferry terminal) - has been
> turned into a triage center. Evidently work has gone on all night.
>
> Looking out my living room window this morning is an unbelievable sight - the
> WTC twin towers are gone. Smoke is still billowing across lower Manhattan. I
> have no idea how many of my co-workers got out of the area before the buildings
> collapsed. I have no idea how much damage was done to the building I work in.
>
> READERS BE WARNED - THE FOLLOWING IS VERY GRAPHIC.
>
> Sunny - one of the girls from Brooklyn - was coming to work, walking down
> Liberty Street (the street at the south end of the WTC) when the first
> explosion occurred. Body parts were raining down on Liberty Street along with
> building debris. She was hit by a hand.
>
> When we exited the fire stair well, before the second plane flew in, we saw
> that people were jumping from the top floors of the Trade Center - many of them
> on fire.
I'm glad you're OK..... I felt so bad when I first saw what happened.... I
was only over there a few years ago.... standing at the top of the
towers.... It felt so wierd to see them come tumbling down.... I hope this
act unites the whole world as one..... lets just hope...!!!
Kev...: )
www.ozbricks.com/andrastavia
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