Having gotten quite a few individual queries, let me give the list a
heads-up. I am fine, although short on sleep.
I live about four miles from the Pentagon. What I presume to be the
crash rattled my windows, and sounded like one of the larger BOOMs
from a large fireworks demonstration downtown. There were a lot of
sirens, but that isn't too unusual in this area. When I started
hearing jet fighters, that was unusual -- by then I was getting email
to turn on television.
While I haven't driven to the Pentagon, and have no intention of
doing so, most people who haven't seen it don't realize how large and
spread out it is. It's really not one building, but five concentric
pentagonal "rings", from the outermost E ring to the innermost A
ring. The damage appears to be localized to one side, probably with
penetration to the C ring, and in a part that's been under renovation
recently so might not have been fully populated. It could have been
much worse in Washington. Ironically, there's a central courtyard in
the Pentagon that has a snack bar called the "Ground Zero Cafe."
New York, of course, is quite another matter. There are reports of
smoke from the World Financial Center, about a block away from the
WTC. When I taught classes directly for Cisco, the training facility
was in that building. Indeed, a couple of Cisco instructors had just
finished a class and left when the 1993 (IIRC) bomb went off. I may
have friends in the WTC; I know of at least one that was there with
his new wife when the first plane hit, and they did get out.
For those of you that don't follow the NANOG list, we may start
seeing increased network disruption, especially on transatlantic
links, as carrier facilities in the WTC area run out of fuel for
their generators. People are guessing 48-70 hours, unless they can
get more fuel. Verizon had a CO in one of the buildings that
collapsed.
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