WOW !
Glad to hear that you are OK. Hope you are able to sleep tonight.
-Roger
Jan Eyerman wrote:
> Javier,
>
> Thank you for the kind words, it is nice to know that people in other
> countries care a little for the USA.
>
> The famous Eyerman luck held..... I am the unluckiest gambler there is, I
> ALWAYS lose. However, in the "real world" I am VERY lucky. My meeting at
> 9:00 AM in the World Trade center was YESTERDAY. It does seem strange that I
> will never again ride the escalator up from the PATH subway into the building.
> I will never again walk those marble halls, never see the huge underground
> shopping center. I bought the last candy bar from the candy stand outside the
> entrance to the PATH subway that I will ever buy.
>
> Twenty years ago my Mom had an office on the 80th floor of the North Tower,
> fortunately she has been retired for a long time, but I know the buildings
> well. They are a MAJOR transit point for the subways and the "PATH" and I
> often pass through the buildings when I am going to downtown Manhattan and the
> financial district.
>
> I can still everything the way it was at 11:00 AM yesterday when I rode back
> down the escalator to catch the PATH subway back to New Jersey.
>
> I was on my way into New York City this morning, stuck in a traffic jam on
> Route 280 in Newark when I saw the second airplane hit the second tower. I
> parked at the parking lot by the PATH station and watched the huge fires,
> waiting a short while and then called my wife to tell that I had not made it
> into New York this morning (much to her relief!). My meeting this morning was
> at 1 Penn Plaza, so I wasn't even going near the World Trade Center, but it
> was still a shock.
>
> The good news for me was that the people I met with yesterday made it out OK.
>
> So far, everyone we know is OK, some are just getting home now (10:30 PM).
>
> Jan Eyerman
> Flanders, New Jersey
>
> "Javier Alamo" <jalamo@servidor.unam.mx> wrote:
> All my sympathies to all USA list members and their families. We are
> concerned too.
> Good luck.
>
> Javier Alamo
> 66 Alpine
> Mexico City
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