Hi Lynne,
I got your previous mail OK. I guess that it's just that the news
is everywhere that no-one has really responded. Hope you and yours
are OK. I had a worrying morning, as some friends of mine were
on-site at an NY firm, and one of the offices they could have been
in was in the WTC. Luckily, they turned out to be safe and out of
harm's way in another office in NJ instead.
Growing up in London, I have some idea of what it's like to be in a
city where things get blown up - but today's events are on so much
larger a scale. It's affected everybody here, 3000 miles away in
Vancouver, for sure. Let's hope the madness does not escalate.
..Mark..
On Tuesday, September 11, 2001, at 08:14 PM, Lynne d Johnson wrote:
> I sent this to the list earlier today. One person responded to it,
> but I
> never received the message myself, so just wondering if you all
> received it.
>
> It has been a hell of a day for New York and DC...for America.
> ----------
>> From: Lynne d Johnson <ldj00@earthlink.net>
>> Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 12:01:17 -0400
>
>> \
>>> \----------------------------------------------------------/
>>>
>>> New York City Shuts Down
>>>
>>> By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> NEW YORK -- Terrorist attacks at the peak of rush hour paralyzed
>>> Manhattan, shutting down subway lines, crippling cellular phone
>>> service, and forcing evacuations from Wall Street to the United
>>> Nations.
>>>
>>> The mayor closed lower Manhattan to make way for emergency
>>> vehicles. Thousands of people left by walking across the Brooklyn
>>> Bridge.
>>>
>>> The election was called off. The airports were closed. Trading on
>>> Wall Street was suspended. The United Nations building was
>>> evacuated. Offices throughout Manhattan closed. Children were kept
>>> in their schools because their parents could not get to them.
>>>
>>> Victims from the attack on the World Trade Center -- many suffering
>>> from extensive burns -- began arriving at hospitals in New York
>>> City about an hour after the two planes slammed into the twin
>>> towers, witnesses said Tuesday.
>>>
>>> "Hundreds of people are burned from head to toe," said Dr. Steven
>>> Stern at St. Vincent's Hospital in the Greenwich Village
>>> neighborhood of lower Manhattan.
>>>
>>> About 50 or 60 doctors and nurses were standing in scrubs and
>>> uniforms waiting for the next wave of ambulances to come in. The
>>> first wave arrived around 10 a.m. EDT, doctors said.
>>>
>>> The entire entrance to the emergency room was lined with stretchers
>>> covered with white sheets.
>>>
>>> Doctors said the victims mostly had burns.
>>>
>>> "So far we've received
>>> a few patients, mostly second-degree burns," Dr. Gary Fishman at
>>> St. Vincents said. "We are expecting the brunt of the people to
>>> arrive soon."
>>>
>>> Mayor Rudolph Giuliani told New Yorkers to remain in their homes or
>>> businesses, unless they are located south of Canal Street. People
>>> in the downtown area are advised to head north and clear out the
>>> streets.
>>>
>>> "Remain calm and try to assist in the rescue effort and pray,"
>>> Giuliani said. "The main thing is having these streets open so we
>>> can move people out of there."
>>>
>>> Most of the early patients were being sent to New York University's
>>> Downtown Hospital and to St. Vincent's.
>>>
>>> At about 8:45 a.m. EDT, a plane struck one the north tower of the
>>> landmark complex in lower Manhattan, and the building was soon
>>> engulfed in flames. Moments later a second plane struck the south
>>> tower.
>>>
>>> Both towers of the complex collapsed, the first falling about 75
>>> minutes later and the second crashing half an hour after that. The
>>> entire south end of Manhattan was engulfed in smoke and airborne
>>> debris.
>>>
>>> "The whole of lower Manhattan is coated in half an inch of dust,"
>>> Reuters reporter Daniel Sternoff said.
>>>
>>> People were fleeing the area in a panic.
>>>
>>> At St. Vincents, hospital
>>> staff appealed for blood donors in the street, Reuters reporter Ian
>>> Driscoll said. The line to give blood was over 100 people long.
>>>
>>> "We expect smoke inhalation, trauma, and burns," Dr. Bernd Reisbeck
>>> said. "I expect we will be working non-stop for at least the next
>>> 24 hours."
>>>
>>> At every pay phone, people were lined up a dozen deep to call loved
>>> ones, but many ended up hanging up in frustration at the profusion
>>> of busy signals. At one pay phone in Greenwich Village, a woman was
>>> sobbing into the phone, saying she didn't know whether a loved one
>>> was OK.
>>>
>>> Cell phone service throughout Manhattan was interrupted. Regular
>>> phone service was congested, forcing many callers to dial
>>> repeatedly to get through. AT&T shut down its entire phone and
>>> communications system in Manhattan, according to a spokesman, who
>>> declined to give his name.
>>>
>>> Bridges and tunnels leading also were closed, a Port Authority
>>> spokeswoman said, leaving hundreds of trucks and cars stuck as they
>>> tried to enter the city.
>>>
>>> All subway lines stopped running, said Bob Slovak, spokesman for
>>> NYC Transit.
>>>
>>> Rockefeller Center, the complex of offices and shops that is a
>>> favorite tourist destination in the heart of the city, was among
>>> the buildings where property managers urged tenants to go home.
>>>
>>>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/11/nyregion/11CND-
> NYC.html?ex=1001233630&ei=1
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