| The video quality is bad. I was less concerned with filming & more so with comprehending what was happening that day. I spent a few minutes taking video on 8th ave & 26th. I was living on 25th at the time. (The recording heads on my camera were dirty.. so it skips for a while in the beginning.) Then I went to my office. At the time, I didn't realize the south tower had completely collapsed. I thought maybe a few floors toward the top had caved in. The north tower & smoke blocked my view, so I was going off of what I heard on the radio. The office was chaos so I went to the roof of my building (26th between 7th & 8th) & set the camera down on the ledge. If I knew the buildings were going to fall down, I would have moved the camera 20 feet to the left or right. It's not the best shot. It's not great footage. But nobody knew what was going to happen that day. My roommate was in the 1 World Financial building. He evacuated & watched the 2nd plane hit. He made it home a while later, covered in dust. His nose & mouth were clean from where he'd tied his shirt around his face. The only person I knew who died that morning was my friend John's mother Jacqueline Norton. She was on Flight 11, on her way to her son's wedding in California. They didn't find much with the plane debris, but they found her purse & returned it to her sons. John recently visited her name on the new monument. |
