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There have been some e-mail bouncebacks so I thought it appropriate to post this bit of good news to the list. Many persons on this list have come to know Stewart Quealy from attending or speaking at Java and XML conferences in recent years. StewQ, his wife and baby daughter live near the World Trade Center. Their phone service is out and Internet access is intermittent, so this notice will give comfort to StewQ's friends. -------------------------------------------------------------- Ken, We are safe but we literally live only four blocks from the world trade and the situation here is certainly something to witness. Yesterday, our apartment literally shook twice (my wife said it was worse than the tremors she experienced growing up in Los Angeles). There is no phone service or tv or cell service (DSL is up and down). Currently, outside our window, it looks like it has just snowed as everything (no exaggeration) is covered with a thick layer of dust and debris. There are literally hundreds of burnt pieces of paper and documents strewn all over the street (some have the address of the World Trade Center stamped on them) that travelled several blocks in the blast. The scariest part was shortly after the second tower collapsed yesterday and the sky went completely black for nearly 10 minutes with people running for cover in the street. One man rang our buzzer for help to get out of the smoke and we let him in (he was caked in soot and coughing terribly for an hour). I can see the hospital across the street from our apartment (NYU downtown hospital) and there is still a steady line of people waiting to be admitted along with police, ambulances, and camera crews. It's like a bad Bruce Willis movie...scary, scary stuff...My dad works a few blocks down at one wall street and his building was evacuated yesterday right before the second tower fell (he said he could see people jumping from the world trade about every five minutes from his office window). There is no transportation in Manhattan below 14th street and everything is closed. Once the dust settles we will probably move uptown for a few days to my parents in the village as the debris is considerably less up there. -stewq ========== Ken North ====================== ken_north@c... KenNorth@e... http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Ken_North 2604B El Camino Real, #351 Carlsbad, CA 92008-1214 =======================================
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