RE: Horrible world trade center crash, traffic effect

["Rachel Luxemburg" <rslux () link-net com>]

If anyone happens to know whether any of the buildings immediately surrounding
the WTC have been affected I would really appreciate knowing which ones; my
sister is in 140 Broadway. Thank you. Sorry for the non-operational content.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog () merit edu [mailto:owner-nanog () merit edu]On Behalf Of
> deeann mikula
> Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 7:22 AM
> To: Charles Sprickman
> Cc: Avi Freedman; nanog () merit edu
> Subject: Re: Horrible world trade center crash, traffic effect
>
>
>
> On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, 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).
>
> few people (in pgh, PA) that i have been talking to on irc have
> reported ./'d news sites everywhere.  (cnn.com, yahoo.com, msnbc.com,
> etc.)  my office has been relegated am radio, which is pretty pathetic
> for an ISP.
>
> pretty poor performance for a network orginally designed to faciliate
> communication in just such circumstances.  i hope that military and
> federal communication is faring better than the commercial sites.
>
>
> > 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
>
> i assume that in nyc or dc only.  we are listening to AM radio just
> fine...