We are in agreement. I too expected many more fatalities. Ever see a fire alarm go off in an architect's office? I'll bet its even worse in the offices of fire alarm and suppression firms. I think your description of the folks guiding the planes to the buildings is off. I seriously doubt they were getting any. -jc Ralph Walter wrote: > In a message dated 5/3/2002 12:48:46 PM Eastern Daylight Time, > [log in to unmask] writes: > > > >> Well, ditto, Drew -- but I would like to be spared the sanctimonious >> stuff about how swell the buildings were, and performed. The Trade >> Center was a shitty structure built in a shitty time - no? > > Well, goddammit, they got all but 2500 or so people out of those > buildings a hell of a lot faster than anybody could've imagined, and > before they collapsed which I don't see that anybody could have > imagined. I expected 10 times the number of fatalities, and still > think it's a miracle that they didn't occur. > > As for shitty structures built in shitty times, I don't know that I > want to debate the opposite side on that, but I still think that > anything less than rebuilding them as they were (like f'rinstance 5 44 > story buildings instead of 2 @ 110) is a concession to those fuckers. > > Ralph