Report from NY

[Mindy, a.k.a. CLH]

No: HPFGUIDX 25968

Hi everyone. I live and work in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, right across the
bridge from downtown Manhattan. This morning at 8:45 I went to vote and
then went to work. On my way to work I met  a woman who said to me, "I
hear the Twin Towers are burning." I thought she was kidding, until I
arrived to my office, a Yiddish-language newspaper. A street away from my
office, there is an excellent vantage point where I watched both building
burn. It was terrifying. The smoke billowed like crazy. The two towers
looked like lighthouses beaming huge plumes of smoke. they looke like a
pair of stockings with runs going down the side, as the smoke kept
lowering down. I ran to my office where all the writers and reporters
were in a tizzy. My husband called. He had been on the Brooklyn Queens
Expressway on the way to his job in Boro Park and he saw the first tower
burning. He stared at the building in amazement, when he saw the 2nd
plane crash into the 2nd tower!!! He thought he was dreaming!!! My father
who is one of the senior editors at our paper went outside to watch and
he came back shaken up that he just watched the 2nd building collapse. I
thought I was dreaming. What??? No more Twin Towers??? One of the radio
reporters referred to it as two molars missing from the teeth of the
skyline of NYC. The streets in Williamsburg were deserted. Across the
street from my office there is a firehouse. We watched in amazement as
hundreds of policemen and firefighters arrived to be bussed across the
bridge to Manhattan. The streets were blocked off. There were not enough
busses so the yeshiva (boys school) next door donated some busses. One of
my bosses is a Hatzoloh (volunteer paramedic) member so he spent most of
the day in Manhattan. He ran for his life when the building collapsed.
One of my other coworkers walked across half of Manhattan and across the
Williamsburg Bridge to get to work. It was chaos all day at my job. There
are hundreds and thousands of dead and wounded. One of my husband's
business associates has a son who works on the 90th floor. He faxed his
wife a letter at 9:15 AM telling her he has no way to leave the building
and he will probably die and he tells her goodbye and sorry. I dissolved
in tears at that story.
I can write for hours. What a day it's been. Thank G-d I am safe and so
are all the people I know. There has been no death count so we still have
to wait and see.

MINDY
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