Would you have evacuated the World Trade Center, against the instructions of building security?

I would have stayed, assuming it had been a bomb in the other building.

If I ever find myself in a similar situation, there is no way I would stay. What happened in NY will never be forgotten. I couldn't stay.

I would have probably stayed: the other building is going to be shedding lots of glass and may well have a fire at its base. Barring something pretty unlikely (e.g. a second plane hitting my building), I'm safer where I am.

I think I would have gotten the fudge out of there.

I would have ran faster than freikin' Micheal Johnson and further than an Kenyan!

I would have gotten my ass out of there as soon as I could, because that would be my first instinct.

I think I would have stayed. Live and learn.

No. I think I would have run far far away. I mean, I wouldn't really know until I got into that situation, and I hope I don't, but I think I am the sort of person who would leave.

It would depend on what I actually saw of the other building, how far up I was, and what was going on at my job at that time. It wouldn't have occurred to me that there might be a second collision, but it would likely have occurred to me, if I saw the state of the building next door, that it might topple over onto my building. Instructions given over a loudspeaker from unknown parties would not have influenced my decision very much. Do we know exactly who it was that gave those instructions, and under what authority?

I would have done as instructed by spirit. I don't know if that would have evacuating or helping as many other people evacuate as possible. It probably would have been the latter, but you can't help if you're dead. I'm the sort of person who knows I'm protected so I'll regularly swerve into traffic on my bike to shield a pedestrian who might be less visible or graced. Mostly I would have been calming people, word or not. If I were operating entirely on rationale, I would have convinced people to stay until at least the other building had had a chance to evacuate.

In the quake that hit last week, I was down the stairs in the blink of an eye. In other quakes I sat calmly through them. It depends on my state of consciousness at the time.

I probably would have tried to get out

i probably would have evacuated because of memories of the bombing. it is impossible to say tho' unless you were in that situation. i have a friend who was in the second building on a floor in the 70's and he and his coworkers got out as fast as they could. they were on the first floor by the time the plane hit.
my understanding is that the security people thought that the first plane was an accident and they thought there would be more injury if people were outside the second building from the debris from the first.

I would have evacuated. Primarily to rubberneck. If I had a good view from my office, I would have stuck around and met my demise.

I probably would have evacuated. Although, knowing me, I probably would have stayed in the building when TOLD to evacuate. I never believe evacuations....

Unless I thought it would get me fired from my job, I'm pretty sure I would have left the building because I'm paranoid about that type of thing. It's a moot point, though, because I would never work in a building like that in the first place. I've lived most of my life in small towns and that is where I plan to stay...far, far away from skyscrapers.

I have no idea how I would have reacted.

I would want to go outside and see what was going on.

I probably would have evacuated the building but if I was on the top storey, maybe I woul have been too lazy to go down.

I don't know.

I'd be dead

Yes.

I can't tell. I don't know what it felt like to be in the other tower.

perhaps, but why?

I can't answer this. I don't know how scary seeing the north tower from inside the south tower would have been. I don't know whether I would have decided that it was safer to be where I was, or out on the street with the chance of being hit by falling debris. Not to want to sound like a total lemming, but it would probably depend also on how my colleagues were reacting.

One thing I do know, is that when I set my mind to something, I carry it through. If I'd been trying to get out and had heard an intercom message saying everything is ok, please return to your desk, there's no way I would have turned round.

I probably WOULDN'T have evacuated the building,because I would've thought:
"What's the chances of another airliner hitting the second building?"

Besides,I would think that the building was built pretty sound,& the security people would know what to do during a disaster.But,if I saw my co-worker evacuating,I would leave with them.

To be perfectly honest tho,I would never work in a building that was that tall,being that I'm afraid of heights to begin with,I get sick to my stomach,if I'm in a building taller than 10 stories high.I don't even wear high heels,due to a fear of falling down on them.I hate elevators too,especially glass elevators.I would be the person with my back & palms of my hands against the farthest wall with my eyes closed.I get claustrophobic.Weird tho,cause I love roller coasters.

I have no idea what I would have done in that situation!

I simply don't know. How can you really tell?

Waited for instructions? I don't think so! I would have been gone at the first sign of trouble.It's just tragic that so many more people lost their lives because somebody made a mistake.

After reading this true story of a survivor of the tragedy, you'll know what my answer is.

When it is NOT your time to go. E.J.
From: Religion Today
September 18, 2001


Surviving the 81st Floor of World Trade Tower Two

A testimony of God's hand of protection amidst tragedy

Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001, began like any other day for Bethel Assembly of God deacon and Sunday school superintendent Stanley Praimnath of Elmont, Long Island. He got up early, took a shower, prayed, got ready and headed for work. The drive was uneventful. The train ride was the same. Yet, this day he would see the hand of God spare his life.

"For some particular reason, I gave the Lord a little extra of myself
that morning [during prayer]," Stanley said. "I said, 'Lord, cover me
and all my loved ones under your precious blood.' And even though I said that and believed it, I said it over and over and over."

When Stanley arrived at World Trade Center Tower Two, he took the
elevator up to his office on the 81st floor. "I work for the Fuji Bank
Limited," he said. "I'm an assistant vice president in the loans
operations department. The company is located on the 79th through 82nd
floors."

Stanley greeted Delise, a woman who had arrived before him. After
talking briefly, he headed over to his desk and picked up his phone to
retrieve his messages.

"As I'm standing there retrieving my messages, I'm looking out at the
next building, One World Trade, and I saw fire falling through from the roof," Stanley said. "Now, this entire building is surrounded by glass, and you can stand up and from there you can see all the buildings, planes and everything flying at the same altitude."

As Stanley saw "fire balls" coming down, his first reaction was to think of his boss who works in that building. He decided to try to call him to see if he was OK. "I'm dialing his number, and getting no response. So, I say to Delise, the temp, 'Go, go, go -- let's get out.'"

Delise and Stanley got on the elevator and went down to the 78th floor. Some other people were there. The company's president, the CEO, the human resources director and two other men joined the group and headed down to the concourse level of Two World Trade Center.

If they had continued on and exited the building, all of their lives
would have been spared. As it was, that's not the way it happened.

"As soon as we reached the concourse level, the security guard stopped
us and said, 'Where are you going?' Stanley explained about seeing the
fire in Tower One. According to Stanley, the guard said, "Oh, that was
just an accident. Two World Trade is secured. Go back to your office."

That turned out to be fatal advice -- aside from Stanley, Delise was the only one of that group to survive.

"We were joking, and I told [Human Resources Director] Brian Thompson,
'This is a good time to think of relocating this building -- it's not
safe anymore.'" Stanley headed back to his office, but before he got
there, he told Delise, that with the events of the day, she should go
home and relax.

Thompson went to the 82nd floor, the president and CEO went to the 79th floor and Stanley got out on the 81st floor. When Stanley got to his office, his phone was ringing. "It was someone from Chicago calling to find out if I'm watching the news," he said. He told the caller everything "was fine."

But everything wasn't fine -- far from it. As Stanley was talking, he
looked up and saw United Air Lines Flight 175 heading straight for him.

"All I can see is this big gray plane, with red letters on the wing and on the tail, bearing down on me," said Stanley. "But this thing is
happening in slow motion. The plane appeared to be like 100 yards away, I said 'Lord, you take control, I can't help myself here.' "

Stanley then dove under his desk. "My Testament [Bible] was on top of my desk," explained Stanley. "I knew, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that the Lord was going to take care of me once I got there." As he curled into a fetal position under his desk, the plane tore into the side of the building and exploded.

Miraculously, Stanley was unhurt. However, he could see a flaming wing
of the plane in the doorway of his department. He knew he needed to get out of his office and the building fast. But, he was trapped under
debris up to his shoulders.

"Lord, you take control, this is your problem now," he recalled praying. "I don't know where I got this power from, but the good Lord, He gave me so much power and strength in my body that I was able to shake everything off. I felt like I was the strongest man alive."

All the while, Stanley was asking the Lord to spare his life. "I'm
crying and I'm praying, 'Lord, I have things to do. I want to see my
family, Lord, help me through.'"

Stanley's office resembled a battle zone -- walls flattened into dusty
heaps, office equipment strewn violently, flames flickering about and
rubble everywhere.

"Everything I'm trying to climb on [to get out] is collapsing and I'm
going down," he said. "I'm getting cuts and bruises, but I'm saying,
'Lord, I have to go home to my loved ones, I have to make it, You have
to help me.' "

Suddenly Stanley saw the light of a flashlight. For a moment, it stunned him. "What were the chances of someone bringing a flashlight to this floor?" he thought. "My first gut reaction was, 'This is my guardian angel -- my Lord sent somebody to save me!' "

Stanley began screaming, "I see the light, I see the light." But after
clawing his way through the debris, he realized that he couldn't get out - all the exits were blocked and his "guardian angel" couldn't get to him--a wall was between him and the staircase. "He can't get to me and I can't get to him, and by this time I can't breathe," Stanley said. "I don't know if it was sulfur or what [burning jet fuel, perhaps], but I can smell this thing. I got down on my knees and said, "Lord, you've got to help me. You've brought me this far, help me to get to the staircase."

But then Stanley did something surprising. While praying on his knees,
he called out to the man behind the wall, "There's one thing I got to
know, do you know Jesus?" The man replied he went to church every
Sunday. Then they prayed together to enable them to break through the
wall.

"I got up, and I felt as if a power came over me," said Stanley. "I felt goose bumps all over my body and I'm trembling, and I said to the wall, 'You're going to be no match for me and my Lord.' " Moments later, he punched his way through the wall and, with the help of the man on the other side, was able to squirm his way through the hole in the wall. "The guy held me and embraced me and he gave me a kiss and he said, 'From today, you're my brother for life.' "

But the danger wasn't over. The man on the other side of the wall, who
introduced himself as Brian, was an older man and they still had 81
floors to walk down, with the building on fire and, unknown to them, in danger of collapse. "We hobbled our way down, and at every floor we
stopped to see if anybody was there, but nobody was, except a man was on the floor, and his back was gone, and he was covered in blood."

Stanley asked to be allowed to carry the man out, but a security guard
told him it would be better to send somebody up. When they finally made it down to the concourse, only firefighters were there. "They were saying, 'Run! Run! Run!', they were telling us to run out, but they were not concerned about themselves," he said.

Stanley and Brian would have run from the building, but now the
concourse was surrounded with fire. Wetting themselves under the
building's sprinkler system, they held hands and ran through the flames to safety at Trinity Church, about two blocks away. "I wanted to go to the church to thank God," Stanley explained, "As soon as I held onto the gate of that church, the building [World Trade Center Tower Two]collapsed."

Stanley and Brian made their way safely out of the danger area. Before
they parted, Stanley gave his business card to Brian in hopes of contact at a later time, and said, "If I don't see you, I'll see you in heaven."

Cut and bloodied, with clothes tattered and wearing a borrowed shirt,
Stanley finally made it home hours later to his wife, Jennifer, and his two girls, Stephanie, 8, and Caitlin, 4. "I held my wife and my two children and we cried," said Stanley. After thanking God for sparing his life, Stanley told God whatever he did, it will always be for His glory. "I'm so sore, but every waking moment, I say 'Lord, had you not been in control, I would not have made it.'

"For some divine reason, I know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that the
good Lord's mighty hand turned the plane a fraction from where I was
standing," said Stanley. "Because when it crash-landed, it was just 20
feet from me. I don't care who would rationalize -- what people would
say now or years from now, but I know it was the handiwork of the Lord
that turned that plane. My Lord Jesus is bigger than the Trade Center
and His finger can push a plane aside!"

By Dan Van Veen, Assemblies of God News Service




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I would have trusted the security

The same thing could have happened to an atheist. Adrenaline can give people superhuman strength, and the will to live can push a person to do amazing things to survive.

I would have been so scared that I would have left the building anyway.

I truly feel there is a reason for everything, it wasn't time for this person's death. God has something else planned for this person, he still has work to do on this earth. But, I do think he made a wise decision and evacuated immediately, and didn't listen to the security.

I agree with you that sometimes it just isn't a person's time to go. That's apparent whenever someone survives something against incredible odds.

Even if I ddin't know the second plane was coming, I wouldn't have wanted to be in a building right next to another building that was probably about to collapse.