September 11 Digital Archive

email359.xml

Title

email359.xml

Source

born-digital

Media Type

email

Created by Author

unknown

Described by Author

yes

Date Entered

2002-08-19

September 11 Email: Body

It is snowing office paper all over Brooklyn and Manhattan.

The relics of people's workday--the 50,000 people who worked in the World Trade Center.

Everyone in Manhattan who was outside is covered in grey ash. There are 2-3 inches of ash filling the streets.

The plane that crashed outside of Pittsburgh was a hijacked 767--I assume the pilot realized what was happening, and chose to crash in the countryside rather than let his plane be used as a bomb. All of downtown Pittsburgh was evacuated, and that's where I work. I walked home.

Cell phones don't work because everyone is on them, the networks are at capacity. It is impossible to get a phonecall through to anywhere in the New York area.

My sister-in-law's brother saw the World Trade Center collapse from the roof of his Manhattan office building. He is trapped at work, probably overnight, since obviously there is no transportation.

September 11 Email: Date

Tue, 11 Sep 2001 12:56:46 -0500 (EST)

September 11 Email: Subject

America attacked

Citation

“email359.xml,” September 11 Digital Archive, accessed November 30, 2024, https://911digitalarchive.org/items/show/37019.