| cyberninja45 said:
Thousands of people evacuated doesn't mean an evacuation(full) of the building. Thousands of people died, thats not a successful evacuation. |
The vast majority of people who died in the WTC were those who died in the planes or in the building on impact, firefighters, or people who were above the point of impact. How would you suggest they had been evacuated? There were an estimated 14-17 thousand people in the towers at the time of the attacks. Approximately 50 out of the 220 floors were either at the point of impact or above it. That is 22.7%, if you take the middle of the two estimates and remove emergency personnel, that means about 14.2% of the people in the towers at the time of impact didn't manage to evacuate in time. It's not a good number by any means, but the best you could probably hope for in the situation.
Also why do you keep talking about it collapsing rapidly? Have you ever seen a large building collapse slowly? Buildings are meant to hold up the floors above them, not catch them as they fall. Once the collapse began the force on each subsequent floor increased substantially due to gravity and the increased mass of the falling floors.
