Yeah. Those scenes in the lobby are just gut wrenching. Truly gut wrenching. You've got the bodies falling and you're watching the last moments of these firefighters as well. It's a disturbing poignancy.
The dude I mentioned that witnessed all these falling bodies was an interesting story himself. I met him and his mate in a bar called Tavern on Jane in the West Village a couple of years ago. Not too far from the WTC. The two of them would have been in their early 60’s.
This guy was a stockbroker for Goldman Sachs at the time. His mate was also a broker for a different firm. The two of them both worked in WTC 7, but on different floors though.
The GS guy told me that when the first plane hit the North Tower a bunch of windows on his floor in WTC 7 exploded due to the severity of the crash. He said for what seemed like an eternity, debris rained down and smashed into WTC 7. When it began to settle they could see what was going on at the North Tower. Everyone was unsure if they should evacuate for fear of being hit by debris outside. Anyway, they decided to evacuate.
GS guy tells me they get downstairs and outside and there is *smile* just everywhere, people running everywhere. Debris still falling. Chaos. But get this. GS guy decides to go back into WTC 7. He wasn’t sure ground level was all that safe and I think he said he wanted to go back and get something he’d left behind as well. Dumb, I know.
Anyway, he gets half way up the stair well and all of a sudden hears this almighty explosion and the whole WTC 7 building shakes severely. He didn’t know it at the time but it’s the second plane hitting the South Tower.
He realises what the hell am I doing in here, the building is super hot, a bit smokey, moaning and creaking and he flies back down the stairs to get out.
He gets back outside the front of WTC 7 and as he’s moving away, that’s when he witnesses all these bodies smashing into the ground. Anyway, he runs a block or two away from WTC 7 and stands and watches the two Towers on fire. The South Tower comes down and he thinks he’s going to die, again. He gets some cover, but is totally caked in building dust etc after and staggers further away and gets some responder treatment before finding his way home, uptown.
His much smarter mate on a lower floor inside WTC 7 evacuates immediately, but does it via an exit path that he had scouted when he first started working in the building. He’d been in the WTC in 1993 when it was bombed and always felt the area was a possibility for more attacks. He was one of the first out of the building because he knew a quicker evac route. Unlike his mate, he got out straight away, walked uptown straight away, and got himself across the river to New Jersey where he watched the towers coming down from the boat that he was on.
WTC 7 collapsed as well, later in the day.
Unreal.
The dude I mentioned that witnessed all these falling bodies was an interesting story himself. I met him and his mate in a bar called Tavern on Jane in the West Village a couple of years ago. Not too far from the WTC. The two of them would have been in their early 60’s.
This guy was a stockbroker for Goldman Sachs at the time. His mate was also a broker for a different firm. The two of them both worked in WTC 7, but on different floors though.
The GS guy told me that when the first plane hit the North Tower a bunch of windows on his floor in WTC 7 exploded due to the severity of the crash. He said for what seemed like an eternity, debris rained down and smashed into WTC 7. When it began to settle they could see what was going on at the North Tower. Everyone was unsure if they should evacuate for fear of being hit by debris outside. Anyway, they decided to evacuate.
GS guy tells me they get downstairs and outside and there is *smile* just everywhere, people running everywhere. Debris still falling. Chaos. But get this. GS guy decides to go back into WTC 7. He wasn’t sure ground level was all that safe and I think he said he wanted to go back and get something he’d left behind as well. Dumb, I know.
Anyway, he gets half way up the stair well and all of a sudden hears this almighty explosion and the whole WTC 7 building shakes severely. He didn’t know it at the time but it’s the second plane hitting the South Tower.
He realises what the hell am I doing in here, the building is super hot, a bit smokey, moaning and creaking and he flies back down the stairs to get out.
He gets back outside the front of WTC 7 and as he’s moving away, that’s when he witnesses all these bodies smashing into the ground. Anyway, he runs a block or two away from WTC 7 and stands and watches the two Towers on fire. The South Tower comes down and he thinks he’s going to die, again. He gets some cover, but is totally caked in building dust etc after and staggers further away and gets some responder treatment before finding his way home, uptown.
His much smarter mate on a lower floor inside WTC 7 evacuates immediately, but does it via an exit path that he had scouted when he first started working in the building. He’d been in the WTC in 1993 when it was bombed and always felt the area was a possibility for more attacks. He was one of the first out of the building because he knew a quicker evac route. Unlike his mate, he got out straight away, walked uptown straight away, and got himself across the river to New Jersey where he watched the towers coming down from the boat that he was on.
WTC 7 collapsed as well, later in the day.
Unreal.