[eastsider]

I spent the afternoon of 9/11 perched by my window, looking downtown at the smoke and watching the jet fighters overhead (tres kewl). More to the point, there was a steady flow of people about three to four abreadst all walking casually uptown. No sense of panic, although it was eerily quiet (except for the jet fighters). I'd expect the same if and when we get nuked.

As for evacuation plans, you can put out a dinner setting for me in your "upstate" residence, A51. : )

(BTW, there's a silver lining to my doomsday scenario -- Yankee Stadium will still be standing. Go Yanks!)

[eastsider]

Oops -- didn't mean it to sound like I was saying the smoke from the Towers was cool, just the jet fighters. The smoke was decidedly uncool. : (

[summer]

LOL as to Yankee Stadium... :)

[areafiftyone]

As for evacuation plans, you can put out a dinner setting for me in your "upstate" residence, A51. : )

Anytime. But don't forget I am just 50 miles outside of Indian Point. So we can have dinner and glow in the dark at the same time. Save on my Con Edison bill that way! ;-)

[finnman69]

No sense of panic, although it was eerily quiet (except for the jet fighters). I'd expect the same if and when we get nuked.

I was riding my bike uptown on 9-11 up Sixth avenue (this is after I watched the second tower get hit, I saw victims leap to their death, and the eventual collapse of the towers)from Chelsea through the crowds and people were on the edge of panicking. I saw crowds all of a sudden start running when they thought another attack was coming. People were in a daze walking home, but I think they were close to losing it. I stopped and talked to random NYers who agreed with me, people were on the edge. This is not to denegrate my fellow NYers. It was really friggin' scary here that day and the days after. I never suffered nightmares like I had in the following days after 911 in my entire life. One more attack in the city would have done it.

Now do people panic completely and spontaneously if a warning liek that gets out. No. But is builds up gradually as people make a run on food and water, traffic out fo the city becomes impossible and looting begins. Martial law would not help the atmosphere either.