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