Hi-jack fall-out

[Bryan Atinsky]

>From what I remember yesterday (watching it live from Israel here on the BBC
TV and CNN), it wasn't much more than 30-45 minutes from the second plane to
hit, than the first of the towers collapsed.  And not much longer after that
the other tower collapsed. If the elevators weren't working, then that is a
hell of a lot of people in the stairwells.

Maybe my remembering of the times is a bit off, but it was not 3 hours.

Bryan Atinsky
IMC-Israel
English Editorial Coordinator
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brad DeLong" <jbdelong at uclink.berkeley.edu>
To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 8:47 AM
Subject: Re: Hi-jack fall-out


> >
> >>  >
> >>  >Look: 50000 people worked in those buildings. If half were trapped,
we
> >>  >have 25000 dead. If 1/3 were trapped, we have 17000 dead.
> >>  >
> >>  >It takes time to evacuate: those people didn't have much time.
> >>  >
> >>  >
> >>  >Brad DeLong
> >>
> >
> >Fifty thousand refers to the whole complex including the shops and
underground
> >station.  More like ten thousand per tower in the actual buildings.
Three
> >hours is plenty of time to evacuate a building for the people below
> >the flames.
> >  The casualties will still be horrendous, but I would think that 25k is
very
> >much on the high side.
> >
> >d^2
>
> Ah. I thought it was 25,000 per tower...
>
> This is good news.
>
>
> Brad DeLong
>