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You are lucky that you got out of there. You were standing right next to 90 West St in picture 16 which got heavily damaged from falling debris and fire. Where you standing there when Tower 2 came down?

Pretty lucky, yes. I was going to go up to Liberty Street, but my girlfriend begged me not to go any closer.
We were right there across the street from 90 West on the SW corner of Albany and West when the building came down, same as that picture. I saw the building buckle, turned and yelled RUN as the survival instincts and adrenaline kicked in. I didn't know which way the building was falling, just knew that I had to run as far as possible in a few seconds before the building caught up to us. My girlfriend lost a shoe, and started screaming my name as she fell behind, so I had to run back and get her. It felt like we were moving in slow motion, so I threw her behind a brick planter and covered her so that we would have a chance of surviving and hopefully be able to dig out from the ruble. I guess the tower fell straight down and a little in the other direction, and we managed to get a building between us and the tower, so the only thing that came down on us was inches of soot. I heard a few rocks fly over head, but I knew we were OK when I did not hear anything crash down around us and it got real quiet. It was erie since just before there were sirens everywhere and the building grumbled like an avalanche as it came down. I can still hear that sound in my head when it's real quiet. I knew that the silence meant that all those emergency personal at the base of the towers had just been crushed. I finally peeked out and could not even see my hand in front of my face. Finally got to where I could see a little, and we never looked back, not even for the shoe. I can't say for sure, but I believe that we could have just barely survived standing on that corner, but it would have been one hell of a dare with a 110 story building coming down that we had to lean way back to fully see.