Click on the small pics to see amazing shots of the scope of the damage.

I haven't seen these shots before. The devastation is amazing.

Amazing photos

Thank you for the ping LBGA and the thread. Even when we are away from home, driving the car, running errands, that picture of the second plane coming in keeps replaying in our minds. I just cannot get it out of my head. Nor can Mr.Snow Bunny.

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Run over to spaceimaging.com and download the 3 meg image file of it and put it in Photoshop or other imaging software. You can see the damned firetrucks. Gives you a real idea of the damage. A blurb I heard today on Fox said the debris field covers 16 acres. Not a bad picture for over 400 miles up.

Darn, I guess the thousands of people who cling to your every word already got there because I can't get to the site. I'll keep trying, though. :-)

Equivalent to the damage from a small nuke. Seriously, it is....

Those are amazing !!

Everytime I see the carnage and destruction from a different angle, I get mad all over again!
HOW DARE THOSE BASTARDS !!

Thank You for the ping.

Reporters who have seen it up close or from a helicopter are at a loss for words to describe it. They say it's so much worse than it appears on the video we've been seeing on TV - as awful as that is!

"that picture of the second plane coming in keeps replaying in our minds.
I just cannot get it out of my head. Nor can Mr.Snow Bunny."

Nor can I, it will remain etched in America's mind like the pics of the USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor.
We as Americans CAN NEVER FORGET!

God Bless America!
V is for VICTORY!

ohhhhhh Hi there . So glad to see you. Yes, you are like me too.
Thank you for the good post too.

Soon our troops will be doing there thing and we will be cheering them on.

God bless America and President Bush.

Thanks LBGA.

The scope of the damage in terms of real estate is what really got me in these pics. It's absolutely horrific, and to look at the acres of devastation it's amazing the the death toll is anticipated to be around 5,000.

The feelings this brings to me are similar to the time I first saw my car that my teenage son had rolled and walked away from. I searched all over the wrecked car lot for my car, and when I saw it, my knees wouldn't hold me up. That's what these pics did to me.

We will never forget, and I pray that those who enabled this carnage in foreign countries are made to pay for it, and those who enabled it in our country by neutering our military, CIA and preparedness capabilities will pay... by being removed from any position in which they can ever have any influence again.

It’s almost a certainty that our reprisal for Terrible Tuesday will be to return portions of the middle east to sand dunes. While I’m not saying that such action is NOT fully justified, we’d better be prepared for the list of “Those Who Hate America” to lengthen. For every madman we take out, there will be a dozen in line behind him ready to take his place. That means there will certainly be MORE such attacks HERE!

Which brings me to say that if the NJ/NY Ports Authority rebuilds the WTC on the same scale as the one now spread over much of Manhattan, the new design should incorporate large BULLSEYES on the sides.

I’ve spent my career designing steel structures and told my son before the SECOND plane hit the second tower that the FIRST building was “toast.” There was NO WAY those heat weakened columns would hold. And when the second plane hit the second tower, taking out the columns on one side, I knew IT was history. I cried as the second tower struck crumpled in the direction of the sliced columns (as I predicted it would) and, shortly after, the upper 20 floors of the first tower pan-caked into the lower 90 after THOSE columns buckled.

I’m not some anti-techno Luddite: Even BEFORE the events of 9/11, I was growing weary of watching bodies fall from burning high-rise buildings as rescue workers stood helplessly in the street below, poised to clean up the carnage. I wonder how many high-rise dwellers are today looking for farms in Kansas?

The evidence is growing that we need to seriously rethink our compulsion to concentrate populations in taller and taller, easy-to-hit targets which are also built to be efficient chimneys.

The loss of life in the WTC will be staggering. Compare that number to the final body count at the Pentagon. Then think about the differences in those two buildings.

I rest my case!

You have a point about highrises, but I speak from a personal point of view having once had an office on the 27th floor of a building. I had to crawl into it the first time I entered because of vertigo.

I probably worked with your firm if you are a structural engineer (in Georgiua) because I was with an architect who designed highrises. Still who would ever have thought that terorists would attack in such a way. I'm ready for a farm house in the woods.

Talk to ANY professional FIREFIGHTER: He (or she) will tell you to NEVER stay in a hotel room higher than about the 7th floor.

Why?

Although SOME big city departments can do a bit better, 70' is about as high as most fire departments can reach from the ground to rescue you.

Hope that info saves some lives some day.

Wow. Thanks for the ping. I've never been there and it is hard to imagine how much structural damage there really is. The human damage is more than mind-boggling. So much tragedy.... :(