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To: ExGeeEye

Oh really.

Yes, please do tell us about this phone-in civil engineer who casually made a real-time prediction of the first and only failure IN HISTORY of a steel structure building due to fire.

What is his name?


91 posted on 05/01/2023 1:46:34 PM PDT by servantoftheservant
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To: servantoftheservant

SHE was a friend of my sister’s, from Finland (where my sister was living and working at the time).

My sister brought her over ostensibly to visit our mother, and then to bring Mom and everyone visit me, but really because the two of them thought she (the engineer) would be a good match for me, both of us being single at the time.

We spent a few days with me playing tour guide around Grand Rapids, and down to the state Capitol. We sorta liked each other but... not that much.

Then they went back to Mom’s home, preparatory to flying back to Helsinki on Sept. 12.

but.

****

So there I was watching Fox news in the morning and was watching when (then) E.D. Hill said that there was news of a small plane hitting the WTC, and the reportage of this “accident” continued until the second plane went in. I knew, then, and I think so did everyone else who was watching, that this was a deliberate attack. I called my mother after the second plane to get her to turn on the TV, and we all talked to each other (Mom’s was a big house and had three extensions on the line) while watching the coverage...

Her name was Raila. I forget her last name at the time, and we both eventually married other people closer to our respective homes. My sister may still be in touch, I don’t know; she and her husband are starting a trip through Europe this month beginning in Helsinki.

I do recall that within a couple years of 2001 Raila was employed by the city of Espoo, Finland, in an engineering capacity.


96 posted on 05/01/2023 2:10:12 PM PDT by ExGeeEye (For dark is the suede that mows like a harvest.)
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