Still in shock.
Silvermoon
relay my past week. Although my story pales in comparison to many others:
Although I don't work in Manhattan anymore, specifically Bellevue, I go down
there alot and (this freaks me out) I stop at the World Trade Center. I
have friends who work there including my brother in law, Paul who worked
(yes, past tense) on the 83rd floor of the first building that was hit. My
cousin's husband Bennett worked across the street.
Freaky because I was planning on stopping by sometime this past week. One
of those things where you think of going somewhere but have no set day or
time. I am glad I didn't decide to be anywhere near there at that time. I
wouldn't anyway, I would have stopped there after rush hour, but still.
I can't imagine what my life would be like if I still worked at Bellevue.
The "wall of prayers" is a long walkway to the entrance that I walked down
everyday to go to work. I soak up people's emotions like a slap hitting me
if I do not 'block' myself. I can't imagine having to go past that all day.
My friends are ok. One had a dentist appointment and the other two hauled
ass! Bennett heard the first hit and ran out of his building just in time
to see people jumping from the building. He ran and almost fell over a
torso. He kept running. Paul is alive. This is what happened to him:
He and his co-workers were hanging around waiting for a meeting when the
first plane hit their building. The other side of his floor (these floors
are HUGE) was blown. He looked at his co-workers and just said GO! They
ran to the stairs and made it down to the 70th floor... then the door was
locked. (I am not sure what door and why there was one, I am reluctant to
pry him for details he is still in shock, but I will ask him at some point).
They found a maintenance guy who was able to unlock it and they continued
down. Now mind you, even though he is a runner it still takes almost a
minute to go from floor to floor.
I am going to interject here. If you ever been to the WTC, when you walk
through the doors there are escalators to take you up to the elevator banks.
He got to the escalator when the power went out. He laid down on the
escalator, face down and covered his head when he heard a deafening sound.
The other building was falling. The lobby of the building he was in acted
like a vacuum sucking in debris. He felt debris rushing over him and
something hitting his back. Paul was just hoping that the ceiling wouldn't
come down on him. When the big rush of debris stopped he got up and ran to
the plaza where there are many shops. He ran through Borders books and out
the back door. He ran about two blocks and went into a store and used their
telephone... that's when his building came down. He was so incredibly
lucky!! Talk about timing!! Whatever hit his back didn't even hit his
spine, just the muscle and it isn't even a deep cut!!
I was hysterical and waited with my sister for him to come home. Paul
walked to his other office on 42nd street and got a lift from a co-worker.
He got home around 10 pm still covered in dust. When he came home, this
stoic, not a touchy feely man, broke down in tears.
I am still in shock and cry often. I really don't know the day and date.
The days just melt into one another. I will never be the same again.
My ISP's main center is a few blocks from, WAS a few blocks from the WTC. I
couldn't log on and had problems completing phone calls to
Manhattan and even Yonkers which borders the Bronx. They re-routed circuits
and my area was active early Friday morning but I missed the window. The NY
stock exchange has been commandeering all circuits and we have to yield to
allow them to get the stock market ready. The link to my ISP is still shaky
especially today with the stock market opening. But at least I am able to
send this.
My heart goes out to those who have family and/or friends who are missing,
injured or did not survive.
Blessed Be
Silvermoon
Baird Stafford
<snip>
> My heart goes out to those who have family and/or friends who are missing,
> injured or did not survive.
But here is one more of "us," safe and with most family and friends also
safe.
Thank the Gods!
Blessed be,
Baird
Synnoveah J Cooke
On Mon, 17 Sep 2001 16:39:14 CST, "Silvermoon" <mag...@CFforever.net>
wrote:
..
Synn
..
Let the fire within you be lit.
Let not one word extinguish it.
Feed it and warm with its light.
Bathe in its glow and surrender
Your ego to its care.
************************
Forgiveness is the scent
the violet leaves on the
heel that crushed it.
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Matthew Vincent
wrote:
>I haven't posted in a bit, especially this past week. I just wanted to
>relay my past week. Although my story pales in comparison to many others:
Your suffering matters too. Thank for your sharing. I will send some
healing energy your way as I think of your recovering from this.
Blessed be,
Matthew
Shez
<mag...@CFforever.net> writes
I am delighted to hear your Brother in law got out safely, did any of
his colleagues make it to. ?
If it takes a minute to go down a floor, he did extremely well to get
out at all, I cant believe that staircases had locked doors, I wonder
how many other people came upon such a barrier and couldn't find someone
to open it.
--
Shez, the Old Craft lady sh...@oldcity.demon.co.uk
www.oldcity.demon.co.uk/shez/
Silvermoon
"Shez" <sh...@oldcity.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
> I am delighted to hear your Brother in law got out safely, did any of
> his colleagues make it to. ?
I haven'y spoken to him since the 12th. I am reluctant to bring anything
up, he was so badly shaken. But I do have questions and I will ask my
sister instead of him. I am very curious also. My sister worked with quite
a few people in the building also.
> If it takes a minute to go down a floor, he did extremely well to get
> out at all, I cant believe that staircases had locked doors, I wonder
> how many other people came upon such a barrier and couldn't find someone
> to open it.
I know, a scary thought! I feel very sorry for those who were told to stay
put. The buildings were designed to withstand an 'accidental' hit by an
airplane. The would have still stood if not for the searing heat of the
fire literally melting the steel beams. Many people were told to rmain calm
and stay put never thinking that the building would fall.
I remeber that morning listening to the news station. A reporter on the
scene mentioned that the tower collapsed. The reporters at the station
thought she meant just the top floors, she said, no... the entire building!
I am still shaken, cannot think straight, cry here and there and am now
starting, a few days ago, having disturbing dreams. It's going to be a
while.
Blessed Be
Silvermoon
Wood Avens
wrote:
>I am still shaken, cannot think straight, cry here and there and am now
>starting, a few days ago, having disturbing dreams. It's going to be a
>while.
I wish you light and love and peace, and gentle dreams and quiet
healing.
BB
Wood Avens
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Shez
<mag...@bestweb.net> writes
shocked and disgusted, but obviously its going to Affect America a lot
more, its going to take time, Its Grief, trauma and shock, and the fear
of it happening again.
America always thought it was safe, even when they knew that atom bombs
might reach their country, they believed their government could bring
them down before any real harm was done.
America as an Isolationist country is no more, its not even a choice now
You are part of the world and its dangers.
The shock and the trauma will pass slowly, but it will leave you a
harder, stronger and a far more aware people,
I do sympathise I remember the terror of the first bombs that fell on
Britain, most of the country went into shock, the trauma of that time
lasted for many years Some of our Older people still have nightmares
about it, Even I occasionally re-live one of those nights to.
Get counselling if you can, anything that can help you cope with the
trauma your going through. It doesn't go away without some help believe
me.
Shez
<fre...@spam-me-not.com> writes
>X-No-Archive:yes>news:EdqlyREa...@oldcity.demon.co.uk...
>> America always thought it was safe, even when they knew that atom bombs
>> might reach their country, they believed their government could bring
>> them down before any real harm was done.
>
>the world was ending in a nuclear war. This was mostly because I was
>convinced Ronald Reagan was going to start one. I worked with the
>nuke-freeze movement for awhile as well, until I came to the realization
>that Bob Dylan was right - there was really *nothing* we could do, the U.S.
>& the U.S.S.R. was much bigger than both of us and if they really wanted to
>have a nuclear war there was nothing we could do to stop it.
>
>I'm *still* surprised to this day that Reagan *didn't* start a nuclear
>war...
The end of the world via Nuclear warfare, that was the start of the
flower power movement, because Kids everywhere thought that the world
wouldn't last very long, soon everything would blow up. So why not enjoy
yourself while you could. :)
I was to old to join the movement and I didn't believe the world would
end with Russia and America throwing bombs at each other.
Being a cynical witch, I realised that both sides were to scared to
actually do anything. It was all posture and bravado.
Reagan would not have been allowed to make that decision himself, he
might have been the president of America but even he couldn't push the
button without going through channels. Their were enough sane people
around to keep him to heel.
I gather from historical research, and some of the biography's written
about him, that he would indeed have pressed that button if others had
not stopped him, ignored him, or persuaded him into a new course.
Their is nothing you can do if your one person, but put a thousand of
those people together and you have a movement, CND are still active and
still pushing for the end of nuclear threats.
>
>Frenchy
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