Ray,
Thanks for the links. On the first site, I found it interesting how many attorneys, large contractors and one rep for commercial recyclers (remember the WTC steel?) made their way to the organization's BOD. Their high tech site with professional graphics must have cost a fortune.
The second site looked a lot less like a campaign promotion for the Bush Cartel, but it struck me as more editorial than informative.
This is more the kind of thing I was thinking about after doing a little poking around. I typically avoid blogs, but for eye witness accounts, blogs are likely the best resource.
parishofshotton.org.uk
nycbloggers.com
My thought was that if there were bombs and seismic events, a lot of folks should have mentioned what they saw, felt or heard. From a quick look at a few samples, that does appear to be the case. Things along the lines of, "The ground shook and the building fell.", or, "I heard an explosion and turned to see the tower falling.".
This is the search string I used if anyone else wants to play around with the idea:
search.yahoo.com
If the steel got hot enough for the supports to begin slowly bending, the beginning of the collapse should have been the least violent part of the event, especially considering the acceleration of gravity is at its slowest when an object starts falling. Noise and vibrations should have been at the highest point toward the end of the collapse, not at the beginning. |
