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Hi everyone. I regularly read Lugnet, but I rarely post. Tonight, I
cannot help myself. I work in the city (Manhattan). This whole thing is
really too close to home for me. As some of you maybe notice, I work for
Deloitte. I work out of the World Financial Center, across the street from
World Trade Center. I worked in WTC 2 (the southern tower) this past summer
on a project for Morgan Stanley. I had my own office that was about 20 feet
away from where the second jet crashed, and I am scared to death that many
of the people I befriended there might have suffered from the horrible acts
that occurred today. Also, many of my Deloitte friends work on the floor
above where I worked, so I don’t know if they made it. I am unable to get a
hold of anyone because the phone lines are pretty much for emergency use
only. I also worry about friends of mine that work in the Pentagon. I am
just beside myself. I sit here typing, still covered in soot from the WTC.
No matter how much I try to wash it off, it is still there.
Today is hell. I ran through half of Manhattan to get to my sister’s
dorm at NYU. She’s a freshman here, and was petrified from today’s events
and that I could have been one of the casualties. When I found here, I wept
like I have never wept before. Everything seemed like a God-awful
nightmare. As my sister and I walked around a little, suddenly people
stampeding towards us because of bomb scares. Knowing that a loved one of
yours may be in trouble is more terrifying than the thought of your own life
being in danger.
This day has been a mixture of several emotions. Sorrow, anger,
sadness, frustration. I could go on and on. I have cried all day, walked
about ten miles through this city, but no matter how exhausted I am right
now, I know I cannot sleep tonight. I would like to go to my apartment in
Hoboken, NJ, but transportation there is closed. Some of my friends told me
that is looked a field hospital from all the people shipped from downtown to
Jersey for medical attention. Here I sit, still my sister’s dorm room, not
knowing who is OK and who is missing. I hate this.
Tomorrow, I may be heading downtown to help with the evacuation and
recover efforts, if the area is secure. It will be strange not seeing the
building there. I’ve walked through there almost every day, worked in all
of the three buildings that collapsed, and have eaten my lunch in the plaza,
when I had time. Now that is all gone. This is terrible.
Today has been a constant cry of sirens. For hours, ambulances have
been going back in forth to the hospitals. If you stood in one spot, you
could see the same ambulance pass by. It would take 20 minutes for the
ambulance going to the hospital to return downtown, and 30-40 when it went
back to the hospital. The ambulances have large strips of tape saying “BLS”
for basic life support and “ALS” for advanced life support, so that rescuers
know whom to put into which ambulance quickly to save the most lives the
quickest. There are fire engines, police and ambulance from all over. This
afternoon, there were at least 50 fire engines lined up along the Joe
DiMaggio Highway. There have literally been parades of 20 ambulances going
through the streets to downtown at anytime. People are in awe by it, but I
just pray that they keep people alive.
While I could go on about this hellish day created by unspeakable
creatures, I think this message should be ended with one final request.
Please pray. It doesn’t matter who you worship, just please pray. Pray for
the 78 police officers and 200 firefighters presumed dead, and their
families. Pray for the passengers and families aboard the four planes that
crashed today. Finally, pray for the people and there families in the
buildings struck today. If you know people who may have lost loved ones,
please show your support, and help them through this catastrophe. Thank you
for allowing to vent a little. It is greatly appreciated. God Bless.
Chris
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| Two more things. There is still hope. I just saw that survivors of the wreckage are calling on there cell phone right now. There is still hope. Another thing to pray for. My sister's roommate just informed that a little girl that her mother teaches (...) (23 years ago, 12-Sep-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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