Posted by  ngon nguyen on January 07, 2002 at 13:59:26:

In Reply to:  Re: Ironic? Inspired. Irrefutable? - Refutable maybe? posted by Richard Haut on January 05, 2002 at 15:25:59:

Posted by Jay Zimmerman on January 05, 2002 at 20:13:09:
I've been following this forum lately and discussions of the WTC because reading about the WTC, looking at pictures, drawing and creating, seem to be the best way I can deal with the trauma. I hope my comments can help in the discussions of how the towers fell.

From my perspective, the films do not really show the way the south tower collapsed. I cannot speak about the north tower as the clouds of smoke and ash blocked my view of it when it fell.

I was in our (former) apartment overlooking Trinity church, about 2 blocks diagonally southeast of the towers. I had been standing on our little Juliet balcony videotaping the fire for about 20 minutes, but when the tower fell I was inside (thank God!) However my view was horribly perfect. There were NO visible signs of leaning prior to collapse. There were NO visible signs of failure until collapse. A few bits of metal had been falling during the fire, but all came from the damaged area.

When the south tower collapsed, a moment that will be forever etched in my soul, the entire top portion above the fire stayed intact. I remember because it seemed so surreal. The top simply when down, shearing glass and metal off of the lower floors as it went. It went straight down and disappeared--still intact--behind the other buildings (all of which are tall so the tower still had a ways to go.)

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I did not see the exterior columns glowing. Presumably all the interior columns are heated to a perfectly uniform temperature?

Ngon

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