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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is no good administrator who would leave children unattended, no matter how long that meant staff had to stay at school.  This was an incredibly rare event.  It doesn't make sense for them to have a plan for EVERY single thing that could go wrong.

The kids would be kept safe at school.

In a lot of ways we have it much much better now because there is so much immediate information. [b] In 2001 there was no texting or social media.
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That is true, but should we rely on that if we had another such emergency?  We did have cell phones back on 9/11, and they were not helpful then because so many people were trying to call and find out what was happening.  Maybe also because at least in NYC, certain cell towers went down?  Nobody could get through.  Could our data networks handle such a load emergency now?  I don't know. [/quote]

I didn’t get a cell phone until the days after, but I recall it was difficult to even make a landline call and so many people were trying to load various news sites that you couldn’t access those either. Someone in my office had an old radio and he turned it up so we could hear it around the floor until we were told to evacuate. Would anyone even have a radio these days?

Being evacuated to the street in NYC with no way to contact anyone and no where to go since I didn’t live in Manhattan remains one of the scariest moments of my life.[/quote]

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