What it was like to jump from the World Trade Center on 09-11-01

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[vannrox]

What it was like to jump from
the World Trade Center
(on 09-11-01)

View from the Open Promenade

View from the Observatory

Inside the Observatory.

On the top. Imagine trying to be rescued by "chopper.

Its windy up top.

This is a view from the top.

A view looking at the tower next door.

A view towards the river.

On the top.

View UP UP UP.

Photo, from World Trade Center observation deck, looking north to midtown Manhattan.

Photo, from World Trade Center observation deck, looking east to the Brooklyn Bridge and beyond

[Rebelbase]

Interesting pictures that are definately worthy of their own thread. The title is rather tasteless though.

Those who who call you morbid (beyond lacking taste) need to get some backbone and toughen up some. We may see far worse things happen in this country, soon. Crying morbid won't help then either. Prepare now.

[uvular]

#32 That photo should be shoved in the face of every peacenik. We will never forget.

[1L]

Listen folks, the title was in poor taste. I think we can all agree on that. However, the point of this post is that if anyone ever feels some pause as to what we are doing (going hard after terrorism) is right, they should consider the plight of those referenced here. Vannrox, I believe if you could retitle this you would, but I see no ill intent inolved.

[finnman69]

Photo of WTC plaza before collapse

you can't really see anything gory, but the scene looks like you fefinitely did not want to be on the street under the towers.

[Jay W]

Vannrox's post is not morbidity. Morbidity would be photos of the bodies after they'd impacted on the street or plaza below (there aren't many of these photos, but there are a few floating around the web, including one of a severed hand.)

[vrwc54]

Thank You

[Lazamataz]

From the pictures I saw, the jumpers didn't look the least bit singed.

Some yes, some no. One picture looked like the mans shirt had been burnt into his (now very red) arms. And from the distance we were at, you cannot really tell the 1st and 2nd degree burns that were certainly present.

[pittsburgh gop guy]

Sorry - but have to lighten things up a bit:

TOURIST GUY!

[homeschool mama]

I don't have a problem with the pictures you've posted, vannrox. But I do think the title of your thread could be changed and you'd receive a much different response.

While we must never forget, the horror of it all hits too close to home. Your title was key in that.

HM

[csvset]

I would have to actually be burning to get to that point

You might Think that is what you would want to do.

The air would have been super heated, the smoke, choking and toxic. You wouldn't have had much of a choice. If you hadn't of jumped, you would have died in a matter of seconds anyways.

[sweetliberty]

Hehehe!

[ravingnutter]

Those scenes were censored from American TV.

Only after the initial video. Don't remember what station I was watching, had to be Fox or MSNBC on my satellite, but the cameras were just rolling live, no editing. I saw people start falling, all I could do was cry and keep screaming "OH MY GOD!" to hubby on the phone, who had called me to wake me up and tell me to turn on the TV. Those clips were never re-broadcast. Those clips still haunt me, I am crying as I am typing this. This has had a big impact on my emotional stability and my physical health. Since 09/11, I have developed high blood pressure spikes due to anxiety, am on meds now for it.

I am not sure that the American public could have handled it being replayed again and again, but then on the other hand, they may never understand the true horror of it all without having seen it. I pray for those who witnessed it from the streets of NYC, I can only imagine the hell they must be going through emotionally, my pain pales in comparison.

[homeschool mama]

You're right. The site is horrid. *Most violent rapes caught on camera*???

But the images of WTC people jumping....oh Lord. I hadn't seen these..am beyond words.

[ben richards]

I've thought about this too. I like to think of myself as a fighter, too, but you can't fight that unbearable heat and the thick smoke. I think these people chose their method of death and that was to jump.

[Fred25]

Back in the ‘80s, when I was a TV reporter, and when I wanted to show some “graphic” video on TV, I always warned the audience before I showed it. I told them to “close your eyes or turn your head away from the screen if you don't want to see it”, and when the scenes were over, I told them it was over so they could look at the screen again. My audience liked that approach very much.

[homeschool mama]

One never knows how they'll truly respond in such a serious situation...until the situation presents itself.

You seem to be second guessing the people who jumped, assuming they're cowards for not fighting hard enough to get out alive. I consider your comments disrespectful to the victims and their families.

[homeschool mama]

***Listen folks, the title was in poor taste. I think we can all agree on that. However, the point of this post is that if anyone ever feels some pause as to what we are doing (going hard after terrorism) is right, they should consider the plight of those referenced here. Vannrox, I believe if you could retitle this you would, but I see no ill intent inolved.***

bump!

[moodyskeptic]

Are you so sensitive that perfectly peaceful photos upset you? I see no atrocity in these pix, only the heartbreaking anticipation of one.

Have you noticed: we have not been shown footage of our own people jumping, of bodies discovered in the Pile, of wounds inflicted? While we are shown Taliban propoganda that seeks to shame us about "mistaken" bombings?

Grow up. This is not TV, it's real. Check your priorities.

[LarryLied]

Nice to hear you had a change of heart. No one wants to see these photos. We all would like to go back before 9-11. But we can't. And there are still those out there who see this as a TV show, who do not comprehend that real people died horrible deaths and that America has no choice but to see it never happens again.

[JayNorth]

the narrow stairwells seem to me not to have been large enough to handle a mass evacuation of the building. I thought that was poor planning and hope in the future that issue is addressed.

Since Sept 11 I keep wondering why they don't have a bigger fire sprinkler system that could basically soak the affected floors with tons of water. Obviously you would have to engineer floor drains to carry all the water into the sewage system. All that water would cool off the structural steel. I remember when the First Interstate building in Los Angeles had a major fire and the structural steel was the big worry then, too. (That one didn't fail.)

There's bound to be an FR engineer that can tell me my idea wouldn't work. Did the WTC have any fire sprinklers on the upper floors?