AT&T Switch operational in basement of WTC

Dave Stewart dbs at ntrnet.net
Sat Sep 15 00:38:40 UTC 2001


At 08:21 PM 9/14/2001, Randy Neals wrote:
>AT&T's switch in the basement apparently operated after the collapse until
>4PM.
>They expect to recover the switch hardware....

Gotta love the 5E...

>So if you can build a switch room that doesn't collapse when 2 x 110 story
>buildings fall on it, why not get those engineers to design the building so
>it doesn't collapse in the first place?

Oh, please...

An hour or so of 1200-1500+ degrees?




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