[doug from upland]

Thanks for the anecdote. Our company protected the glass in a building about a block and a half away for the Murrah building. Buildings all around it had blown in glass and significant damage. Our building did not lose a pane of glass. Through the efforts of the SSAF president, we may be getting a Florida international airport to be making some changes. A commissioner met with him last week and was amazed that the structural engineer, who told him it would be safe to again park in the close short-terms lots, had not told him what would happen if a car bomb parked in that lot. Yes, the structure would survive, but the kill zone from the shards of glass would be up to about 182 feet.

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Yes, the structure would survive, but the kill zone from the shards of glass would be up to about 182 feet.

Mentioning shards of glass...I think the term "maiming zone" would be of interest
to anyone running an airport or facility that's a likely target.

Did you see the segment on Sixty Minutes II about the hardened structural changes
made to the part of the Pentagon hit on 9-11 that probably saved quite a few lives?

It was interesting to see how even the specially constructed window system
would bend, but not break, under that sort of assault. IIRC, one of the survivors talked
about seeing the fireball out side his window...but it didn't come it.

That aired maybe three, four months ago.