6 years.
i remember it as vividly as the day. hearing the announcement over the loudspeaker in 4th period social studies with callahan. running to the office to try to get in touch with my mom. getting the busy signal. breaking down so badly that the principal had to take me into his office so i wouldnt freak everyone else out. spending the next 2 and half hours in the guidance office pressing redial trying to get in touch with my mom and dad, who both worked in the city. looking up from the phone and seeing my friend alana and wishing her a happy birthday. going over to the middle school to make sure my brother was ok. finally getting in touch with my mom who proceeded to break down, explaining the surreal sight of the second tower falling. hearing my dad was ok and on his way out of the city. getting sent home early. sitting on the coach with my brother for the next 4 hours watching the images over and over and over again on every news channel until my dad got home. my mom calling to tell us that she had to stay in her work building on bleeker street overnight because she couldn't get out of the city. hearing about the people who we knew who were in the towers, late to work in the towers, supposed to be in the towers, about to walk into the towers when it happened. hearing about the people we knew who hadn't been heard from yet. hearing about the people we knew who were in the towers and never coming out. and then the sun setting and rising like it always does, as if nothing were different.
6 years and the blood still drains from my limbs when i think about it, knowing that if they had chosen indian point as their target (which was a target option) that i would never have met every single person that is reading this post.
posted by syd @ 10:03 AM
3 Comments:
intense.
I'm glad i know you.
Syd,
Had M. Atta & company chosen Indian Point as their target, over 2600 lives would have been spared. The plane, being larger across than Indian Point's dome is wide, would have mostly missed its target.Whatever small portion of the plane did hit, would have disintegrated outside the walls, without harming Indian Point.
Perhaps one or two of the 50 or so workers inside the plant would likely have been killed, and maybe several dozen injured.
The automatic safety systems, which work without human intervention (and even without electrical power) would have dropped the control rods and flooded the reactor with borated water, shutting it down instantly.
No evacuation would have been necessary. No 2600 people would have died, no Afghanistan War would have occurred, and likely no Iraq war, either.
Electric bills in the region would now be approximately 5 times what they are now, and Al Qaeda would be planning its next attack, perhaps the world trade center towers.
Truly chilling, eh?
Harry Springer
Hudson Valley NY
thanks for that info harry! i hadnt known that...im not going to lie i listened and read more of the "close indian point" propaganda...
and yes...it is truley chilling.
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