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It was smoky and hard to breathe inside the crowded stairwells, which acted like a chimney. Some people I know were stuck inside elevators, which stopped when we lost power.
A few weeks later I had the opportunity to see the crater made by the bomb. It was enormous, and it was scary to stand at the edge of it, but it would pale in comparison to what happened eight years later.
It was smoky and hard to breathe inside the crowded stairwells, which acted like a chimney. Some people I know were stuck inside elevators, which stopped when we lost power.
A few weeks later I had the opportunity to see the crater made by the bomb. It was enormous, and it was scary to stand at the edge of it, but it would pale in comparison to what happened eight years later.
Rest in peace to those who were killed that day.
I was a kid. I remember it snowed that day.
Do you remember how long people were stuck in elevators for? An hour or more?
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I remember that day because it turned that I was coming down with a sinus infection (as I had a high fever the next day) and was feeling unwell. When I mentioned this to someone they dismissed my physical well being vs. what had happened at the WTC.
I had a friend I worked with on a contract at a major bank. I'd left by that point, but he was still there. He also had a side job with a firm in World Trade. On his lunch break from job 1, he went to WTC to deal with job 2. He was there when the bomb went off. He was way up top. He wasn't hurt, but had to climb down ninety something stories, then go back to job 1, covered in soot.
I remember that day because it turned that I was coming down with a sinus infection (as I had a high fever the next day) and was feeling unwell. When I mentioned this to someone they dismissed my physical well being vs. what had happened at the WTC.
Yep. I was in college at the time. While I was apolitical back then, I remember thinking that Clinton better do something about radical Islam terror before it gets out of hand "someday."
Years later, we know what happened. They finished the job.
Yep. I was in college at the time. While I was apolitical back then, I remember thinking that Clinton better do something about radical Islam terror before it gets out of hand "someday."
Years later, we know what happened. They finished the job.
We always knew they'd be back. I worked with two different people who said next time they'd fly planes into the buildings. Nobody mentioned commercial--one thought it would be a small kamikaze plane loaded with explosives and the other figured a cargo plane, like FedEx, because the security at that part of EWR wasn't all that back then. (I figured it was going to be a truck bomb. No imagination.)
In retrospect, with the bollards and all the security equipment and procedures put in place in those buildings after 2/26/93, planes were really the only way they were going to be able to do it.
2/26 was frightening. 9/11 killed all fear of death for the rest of my life.
My BIL was there that day. He had to walk down flights of stairs in the smoke. Fortunately for him, he was transferred to another location before the next attack.
I was in the WTC complex a half hour before the explosion and took the E train to the Citibank building in LIC where I worked. When I got there people had heard on the radio that there was an explosion in the WTC and they thought it was in the PATH station. They initially didn’t know if it was terrorism or some kind of accident.
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