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Subject: FW: A day in my life
This is from Tammy, she is a coworker of mine at Software Ag.
I worked on the 102nd floor of 2 World Trade Center.
I saw the explosion when the 1st airplane hit Tower 1.
I did not see that it was an airplane. I thought it was a gas explosion.
I called my mother at 8:48 AM to tell her that the explosion was not in my building and that I was OK.
No one on my floor told us to evacuate. I took it upon myself to get out.
When myself and 2 other coworkers got to the 98th floor, we and others were told to turn back because our building was OK.
About 20 employees went back up, I asked them to move out of my way because I wanted to get out of here and they let me passed.
We I got to the 85th floor there were individuals asking us again to turn back and go back to out offices and I again asked them to move out of my way.
There were overweight people that I had to pass because they blocked me from going down the stairs. I even pass people who were out of breath, or were hyperventilating.
The staircase was SO HOT. I was pouring sweat and my legs felt like rubber bands. I would jump down the last 3-4 stairs in order to get down the stairs because I worked so high up.
When I reached the 66th floor an earthquake hit. (It took me 15 mins. to get to this floor) I did not know a plane plowed through my building.
We then started to trample down the stairs until someone said not to because it might weaken the building.
We thought the shaking was aftershocks of the explosion on Tower 1, or that Tower 1 fell down.
It was when employees from the 64th floor started to enter the stairwell was when we found out it was a bomb (we still did not know it was another plane) that went off, and that people were jumping out of the windows.
When I reached the 44th floor, I felt despair because I did not feel that I was ever going to get out of the building. I felt like I could not go on, but I forced myself to it.
As we reached the ground floor, I saw gigantic slabs of steel and concrete hit the ground and it made us VERY fearful.
The police told us that if we could run, run, so my coworker Mary and I held hands and started to run.
I came to a pool of blood and I had to jump over a dead woman who was across the street from Tower 2.
I asked my coworker Mary how did this happen and we heard that a plane hit the building.
I was confused because it was such a clear day that I thought the pilot was drunk to do something like this.
Mary and I kept on running east to get away from the debris. We then found out that it was a terrorist attack.
It was not until I got on a bus and reached midtown Manhattan when I found out that the Towers collapsed and that a 767 jet plane, not a Cessna plane like JFK, JR., hit the Towers.
I started to cry.
When I finally got home and saw on TV what happened was when I really lost it.
I am still in a daze.
My boss, Pam Gaff, Controller of AON Compensation Consulting is missing as well as the President, Ed Straub, a Consultant, Erica Van Acker and one temporary worker, Darren Bohan is still missing.
I feel so sad. My lower back is in pain and my legs ARE KILLING me, but I> made it out so I can't complain.
I only ask if you can say a prayer for Pam, Ed, Erica and Darren.
Tammy