Re: [registrars] New York disaster

["Ross Wm. Rader" <ross@tucows.com>]

My thoughts are with you. I can only hope that everyone made it back from
Uruguay safely.

Best wishes and prayers,

-rwr



Tucows Inc.
t. 416.538.5492
----- Original Message -----
From: "Antony Van Couvering" <avc@nameengine.com>
To: <registrars@dnso.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 10:33 AM
Subject: [registrars] New York disaster


> Registrars,
>
> You may have heard about the World Trade Center explosions.  From the
> terrace at the NameEngine offices, we watched two planes crash into the
> two towers of the World Trade Center; subsequently, part of the south
> tower fell to the ground.  The New York streets are pandemonium.  Lower
> Manhattan is covered in smoke.  We have very spotty phone connectivity,
> mobile phones are completely out, I don't know how long the Internet
> connectivity will last.
>
> It's a beautiful late summer morning, and as the sun hits the towers,
> you can see the glass glinting as it falls, like confetti, blown out by
> the heat of the fires.
>
> Several NameEngine staffers have friends who work in the World Trade
> Center, they have all refused to go home and are numbly trying to do
> their work.
>
> Now the second tower has fallen, and there is nothing left but debris,
> and smoke, and dust.  I have never seen the like of this magnificent,
> terrible destruction.
>
> Antony