![]() ![]() My daughter moved into her husband’s apartment 600 ft from the south tower and had to flee into the black cloud on 9/11 with my infant grandson while watching people jump. I was married there in the chambers of a friend who was a judge, and the wedding lunch was at Windows on the World. I was always in and out of the building when government agencies had offices there. Its funny how much of my life was tied up in the World Trade Center. After the 1993 bombing I concluded the building wasn’t safe and I moved out. All the upper elevator passengers had to change elevators at the 72nd floor “sky lobby” which created a huge bottleneck. It was fun to look down on small aeroplanes flying along the Hudson river, but the movement of the building on a windy day made one slightly queasy. ![]() I used to have an office in one of the upper floors of the old World Trade Center, the twin towers. Looking south from Grand Central Station from 60 stories up, New York. ( MelRoy) Tehran, Iran: ‘The lives of citizens have been changed’ You may not have kept your balance, but the structure would remain intact, up to a point. It was a wild ride when a 6.5 quake hit, but of course our building like all others built according to the codes established after the devastating 1971 San Fernando earthquake “rolled with” the quake. ( Kat Harrold) Los Angeles, US: ‘Our building rolled with the earthquake’Īs I sat on the 22nd (top) floor of a Los Angeles high-rise, I also sat on the Earthquake Preparedness Committee, a joint venture between the government of the State of California and the government of Japan. To date I have received: two lighters, one pink thong, a singular sandal, a clothes peg, someone’s grammar homework, one rather angsty note to a girl named Amelia who “stole Connor” and last but not least. The frequency at which items appear seems related to the weather, so I eagerly await the summer. One thing I hadn’t taken into consideration was the amount of stuff that is either blown or thrown from the floors above, all of which inevitably lands on my balcony. I live on the third floor of a eight-storey apartment block. ![]()
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