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Re: Ed Boxer - I'm OK - A day I will never forget
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Wed, 12 Sep 2001 12:58:53 GMT
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Ed, Hi, great to see you who is so close to the incident, is OK! sadly it
will not be a day you will forget. I have read your posting as below, I
couldn't imagine how you must feel then and now, all I do know is no one
really knows what something is like unless you go through it, in which you
did. It must have been hard to write about it. It's terrible that anyone
has to deal and go through these sorts of things... It's hard to know what
to say... I wish you and your friends/family all the best
Mel
P.S I hope Sunny is ok too.
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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
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