[tcostell]

"well, I know it's a slim chance, but it looked like all that stuff was just billowing down in a cascade, isn't it possible that it could all just pile up in the spaces between the buildings, and the buildings themselves will be in fairly good shape when it's all cleared away?"

LOL ... If my memory serves...wasn't the hotel actually connected to the south tower? I can only recall ever entering the place through WTC lobby. If so that would mean that there was no space between the buildings.

You're better off without dealing with that kind of nonsense. Good story though.

[hellinahandcart]

I know it was connected to the South tower by a little walkway, and I do mean a little one. I don't think it took 30 seconds to cover it at a Midwesterner's pace. There may have been access to the North tower as well, I don't remember it in the lobby, though. I just remember the bar. :D

But you went outdoors on the plaza side of the hotel and looked up, you'd think "Damn, we're wedged right in here between those two mammoth towers that I can't even see the tops of..."