Fwd: More, not good

[Brad DeLong]

>      More from the guy who was on the 104th floor of the second tower hit.
>      His decision to leave was totally individual; there was no 
>decision by the company to evacuate.  Of the 90 people in his 
>company who were there, 70 are missing.
>      He got to the 20th floor in the 18 minutes before the second 
>plane hit.  Sometime before that, there was an intercom announcement 
>that their building had not been damaged and was perfectly safe.  At 
>that point, some people turned around.
>      There were two stairways.  When the plane hit the building, one 
>of them collapsed, totally (he was on the other, obviously).
>      With respect to the first tower hit -- people who got out said 
>that the weight of the water released after the plane hit quickly 
>began collapsing interior ceilings.  So even people below the point 
>of impact soon had to negotiate an obstacle course to even get to 
>the stairways.