To: montag813
I certainly wouldn't rely on the word of some schmoe on the other end of a phone. If you find yourself asking "should I evacuate", evacuate. Better to ask later "should I have evacuated" and be alive, then to listen to a scmoe and be dead. I don't blame the schmoe. They tried their best. Just don't rely on em.
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08/29/2003 7:08:37 AM PDT by
Huck
To: Huck
"I certainly wouldn't rely on the word of some schmoe on the other end of a phone. If you find yourself asking "should I evacuate", evacuate. Better to ask later "should I have evacuated" and be alive, then to listen to a scmoe and be dead. I don't blame the schmoe. They tried their best. Just don't rely on em"
There is a temporal judgement effect here as well - a lot of people in that building worked or traded on the commodity, bond, and equity markets. At that time of the morning, just walking out of your office if is isn't clearly necessary is the last thing anyone wants to do. At this point in time terrorism wasn't on the top of everyones' mind, and it had been years since the last attempt. I am not defending the mindset, just saying that when the threat is not very clear there is a strong instinct not to close your markets without cause.
Obviously in the future, under dubious circumstances, there would be immediate evacuation with no questions
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