The tour guide started talking about what had happened on that site in 1993 and my sister and I looked at each other with a kind of eeek expression on our faces. Â I remember saying to her something like well, they'll probably never try something like that in this exact spot again..... My sister said wouldn't it be awful if a plane hit this building.
Castlebee,
Makes you wonder if you were picking up something subconsciously, doesn't it? Did you find yourself having dreams after the disaster? I did - more than once. Weird dreams about being in the hotel during the aftermath and certain sections being partitioned off with curtains 'cause behind the curtains was rubble.
One thing I've noticed in all the coverage is they never say much at all about the hotel itself. Â I don't know what I'm expecting to hear really. Â It just seems as though it would be mentioned once in awhile.
Yes. It was very frustrating - wondering. Wondering about some of the people we remembered who worked there. I kept hearing conflicting reports. Below is an excerpt from a Daily News Article about the Marriott's last minutes:
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The 843-room hotel was battered by the collapse of the north tower, then crushed to rubble under the cascading 110-story mass of the south tower.
Two employees and 20 of the 940 registered guests are missing.
Only parts of the Marriott's final hours can be pieced together.
'Like a Movie Set'
Andrew Ward, a reporter for Bloomberg who was staying in a 17th-floor room, heard the first explosion about 8:47 a.m.
One look at Tower 1, barely 100 yards away, told him he needed to run.
"It looked like a movie set, a giant hole where some floors used to be," he wrote.
He left without wallet, keys, computer, luggage or shoes. He banged on doors, telling other guests to ignore the emergency warning system, which "kept telling us to stay in our rooms."
Moments after 2 World Trade Center was hit by jet, the Marriott (foreground) was evacuated.
On the ninth floor, bond analyst Michael Yager, 30, of Carmichael, Calif., also heard the explosion. He looked out and saw "stuff falling, cars swerving down below," he told the Sacramento Bee.
Amy Loe, 23, of New Jersey, was working the front desk when the first plane hit. Suddenly, a human wave flowed in from the stricken building.
"Call an ambulance," a bellman shouted.
Fire Crew Dispatched
Shortly after the second attack, when a United Airlines plane hit the south tower, someone banged on Yager's door, shouting at him to evacuate.
In the lobby, a fire chief sent a crew to the top floor to check a report that bodies had fallen through the roof.
Then, a firefighter appeared from the north tower shouting at everyone to run, that the south tower had collapsed.
Debris from the crumbling tower hit the hotel, causing a partial collapse.
"We were covered in rubble," Loe said. "Everything was totally in black darkness. Some of the firemen and I, the pressure blew us across the lobby. I ran two steps and then 'Vrooom!' I was blown. I don't know how I got out in one piece."
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