Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 10:05:24 -0400 <...> am i understanding right, one of the trade towers collapsed?
criminy.
At 10:07 AM 9/12/01 +0200, Bryan Atinsky wrote:
> 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
> >