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At 10:44 AM 9/11/01 -0400, Rich wrote:
I saw both towers collapse from my rooftop, the second one just a few minutes ago. Battery Park is all dust and smoke and I could see the cloud spread along the ground and puff up between buildings a mile away. I’m afraid this will change a lot of things. There must have been tens of thousands of people in those buildings. It’s beyond belief. I have to get to work right away. Don’t try to call for now because all the circuits are busy.
love to all of you,
Rich
The second building was hit 18 minutes after the first, but the second collapsed first, maybe 30-40 minutes after it was hit. The first one took more than an hour to collapse. There hasn’t been much information, but I’m afraid that a lot of people didn’t make it out. From my view, hundreds of people must have been killed immediately, and then the fire and smoke filled large parts of the tops of the buildings. Maybe people below that were able to get out, but people above would have had a hard time. The damage was tremendous. When the second one collapsed, the top just fell straight down and crushed the rest of the building at least down to the 30th floor or so. And then there were all the people on the planes, and the other planes like the one that crashed in Pennsylvania and the one that hit the Pentagon. One of the art directors here was on the Boston plane that hit the WTC.
I was on my rooftop because after I heard the second crash, I turned on the radio and they said the towers were hit. So I went up to see it. What an awful thing.
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