Let’s say for whatever reason (terrorists missed their flight, they crashed the plane before making it to lower Manhattan, etc) only one tower had been hit on 9/11. What would have become of the other tower?
It would have of course been unusable for awhile after the attack, regardless of what shape it was in, because of all the wreckage surrounding it. But is there is any chance they would have left it standing?
Or would the debris from the one tower falling have damaged the other building beyond repair or messed up the foundation to the point where it was no longer sound? And if so, how would they have gone about taking it down?
I’m very sorry for what you had to experience on that day and I understand it’s a very emotional topic, but I thought the OP posed a perfectly reasonable and interesting question.
I searched for infos about how to survive a rhino attack but unortunately, none of the advices apply anymore once it has already plowed through your door, I’m affraid.
If you needed an answer fast, I believe you’re doomed. Note that if you came to such a situation, it’s probably entirely your fault. For my part, no rhino ever came close to my door. Prevention pays (I invested in an African amulet, and it was well worth the € 2000 cost, as it proved to be 100% effective).
Good wiki section on whether the attacks were one or two occurances for insurance purposes. Larry Silverstein got double the face value of the policies.
I live in a three story house, with each floor very small (Tokyo prices). The first floor is several steps down, but since rhinos have poor eyesight, it’s not likely going to see the stairs until it’s too late, and so the chances are that the rhino would trip. Ooops.
While we didn’t purchase the house anticipating the need for protection against the creature, it is nice that the layout would prevent a full charge into the house. Also working in our favor is the narrowness of the private road in front, and the lack of a front yard. Mr. Rhino wouldn’t get a full speed direct hit face on. He’s have to run at an angle.
Our door couldn’t handle a determined, or even a slightly less than bored beast, so it would gain admittance. However, the outer walls on the first floor are concrete up to the level of the rhino’s head, so I don’t expect much damage to the overall structure of the house. Naturally, we’d lose the interior walls, and if the rhino were to get all the way to the back of the house, our bathroom would be stamped flat.
The stairs up to the second floor wouldn’t support its weight, so after stomping around for a while, I suppose it would head back outside to continue whatever it was doing in a Tokyo neighborhood before this distraction.
I haven’t checked our homeowner’s policy, but I don’t think that rhinos are specifically excluded, so we should be covered. I don’t keep my watch collection on the first floor, so anything should be OK. We would be out the deductible, but being able to tell that story again and again would be worth that.
I’m having a hard time finding a cite, but I recall talking heads on tv saying that one tower could not have survived on its own - they provided ballast for each other.
Not sure what that means, but I suspect they’re saying the imbalance in load would have made the ground unstable for the other one. They were close enough that it’s hard to believe one could come down without seriously damaging the other directly as the result of vibration and direct impact of debris. Even in the absence of any signs of damage I doubt anyone could have felt secure in leaving the other one standing.
I can’t do it from work, but if you Google around there are mocked-up images of the site rebuilt as a giant middle finger (possibly from the Onion, or Onion-style humor at least).
