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Re: Horrible world trade center crash, traffic effect

  • From: Brad Dreisbach
  • Date: Tue Sep 11 09:55:59 2001

On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 09:39:41AM -0400, Charles Sprickman wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Avi Freedman wrote:
> 
> > FYI, 2 planes crashed into the world trade center.
> > Sounds like on purpose.
> 
> > Not to be ghoulish, but the traffic impact is looking to be fairly large
> > on the 'net (and on the PSTN in the NYC area).
> 
> Just to add a few points:
> 
> All VHF TV stations except for CBS 2 are off the air, many radio stations
> are off the air, and it's largely impossible to get a call in.  All
> bridges and tunnels are closed (which I assume includes the PATH).
> 
> A horrible thing to wake up to...  could see the smoke out my bedroom
> window...

A plane reportedly just flew into the pentagon in dc.
I heard it on a local radio station.  still trying to get more info...

-b


> 
> C
> 
> > FYI,
> >
> > Avi
> >