9/11 The Twin Towers

On any given business day, the twin towers

each had an occupancy of one hundred thousand

below the twin towers is a concourse filled with shops

as well as the entrance to the subway station

and the Path train station

When the towers were attacked at about 8.45a.m.

there had to be activity reminiscent of worker ants

busying themselves scurrying in all directions

The Path trains connect New Jersey with lower Manhattan

bringing residents of New Jersey to their employment,

somewhere in New York. The New York City Subway

connects Brooklyn, the Bronx, and Queens, three boroughs

of New York with Manhattan. Many of the people who live

in those boroughs work in Manhattan and must therefore

take the subway, unless they drive automobiles or take a bus

that travels to Manhattan, to reach their job.

Has anyone questioned the casualty count from the assault on 9/11.

Is it simply a remarkable stroke of luck, or is there more to the story.

Besides the passengers on the four planes that crashes, and the

multitude of fire persons lost at the twin towers site, there seemed to

be few fatalities, mostly the persons employed by Cantor Fitzgerald

and Morgan Stanley, who worked on the upper floors, plus the

people at the Windows on the World restaurant at the top of one of the towers.

Is it possible for tens of thousands of persons to rapidly evacuate.

Ten years later, reflecting back, it seems a remarkable achievement

for all those persons to refocus their attention from the task of

travelling to work to running to safety.

The upper floors of the towers were accessible by using two different

elevators, each going halfway up the building. It would take at least

five minutes by elevator, best time, from top to bottom, assuming you were able to get on both elevators, without crowds forcing you to wait for

another elevator.

From the train station you either walked up stair to the street level or

you rode the escalator, and you usually had to wait your turn to access

the escalator, because of all the people exiting the subway at the same

time.

The statistics of the Twin Towers seem un-believeable.