Miraculous count: Some 90% got out of towers alive

miami hearld ^ | December 8, 2001 | SARA KUGLER

[Sueann]

"urgent reaction of workers"

I agree with you - the ones who were told to go back to their offices and didn't listen are alive today. Of course, the ones above the actual intrusion of the airplane, were not in a good place - however, several of them have reported finding a staircase down which they had not ever known about before - divine providence? I think so!

[Cicero]

I have been thinking that it was something of a miracle myself, from the first day that it happened. My oldest son was supposed to be at a meeting there, but didn't go because he got in late the previous night. Ditto for his brother-in-law. A friend of the people I stayed with after I got evacuated from my apartment had a friend call who was late to work because he dropped his kids off at school. And I talked to one person the day it happened who mentioned the public-address announcement sending people back to their desks--but she said that most of them changed their minds and went down anyway, or were advised to go down by local security people.

Those who were killed certainly didn't deserve to die, especially the rescue workers, but it seems to me that God was merciful.

[classygreeneyedblonde]

link to story

[classygreeneyedblonde]

everything happens for a reason and thank God that they all were late

[classygreeneyedblonde]

[Paradox]

I think alot that didn't get out were the ones told to go back and the ones above the fire

I agree, I cannot imagine the guilt that the PA operator (and/or those who made the decision to give the message to go back) must feel.

[operation clinton cleanup]

My point was that people may have been delayed getting to work because of a "Higher Power", I.E. the woman who slept through her subway stop. Sorry I wasnt more clear.

[ladyinred]

I think you are right. I can't imagine someone telling them not to get out though! I can guarantee you, I would have disobeyed orders and been out of there!

[sheik yerbouty]

NY traffic jams.

[ladyinred]

Wasn't his time to go, obviously. I can imagine how he must feel, wow.

[meridia]

Thanks for posting this. I've been wondering how many people LIVED, as I will never forget the horror of being told that 50,000+ people worked in the Twin Towers that morning of 911. I have not to date found anything about the total number of survivors.

[No!]

That's beautiful megs... I saved it.

THANK YOU! :)

[Ben Bolt]

These are the things that cannot be explained .How incredible you'r family was delayed ! I can only imagine your joy !

[meridia]

Oh... and I forgot: I hope that Mr. bin Laden and his close compatriots and ALL his supporters both Islamic and Western . . . I hope they all go to Hell and rot e t e r n a l l y.

[classygreeneyedblonde]

I know when I heard 50,000 I was shocked....thank God it was 50,000 that lived

[classygreeneyedblonde]

I would have been right along aside you

[operation clinton cleanup]

My sister works at the State Department and witnessed the crash into the Pentagon. They were told everything was o.k. and go back to work. Her and her co-workers opted to go home for the rest of the day.

[SoDak]

My best friend's sister was late for work that morning due to plumbing problems. Doesn't it seem like there are tons of similar stories all over? There were definitely some miracles in the dust that day.

[proxy_user]

I guess our habit of not showing up for work before 9:30 is of some use after all. I only wish that I had had the sense to leave the area before that tower collapsed.

[SteveH]

A recent Reader's Digest included an article about a woman who managed the subway trains and reversed the trains away from the WTC when she first heard about the first airplane hit. The story goes that thousands of people going to the WTC from the subway may have been saved because they did not arrive at work that day.