Assuming an emergency situation and only two stair wells: People moving at a normal pace, two abreast means 4 people per second are exiting the building. In 10 minutes thats about 2400 people. I am sure they had more than 2 stair wells and people were moving far faster than 1 person per second/stair. Deepak -----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of Roeland Meyer Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 3:00 PM To: 'John Fraizer'; Terence Cc: nanog@merit.edu Subject: RE: More CNN reports... I'm impressed. From all of the reports, the appearance is that they've managed to empty most of the building in less than 10 minutes. |> From: John Fraizer [mailto:nanog@Overkill.EnterZone.Net] |> Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 11:06 AM |> |> According to my sources inside Sun, everyone from their |> offices got out |> OK. That was the word he had when I spoke to him at around |> 11:45pm -400 |> on the 11th. |> On Wed, 12 Sep 2001, Terence wrote: |> > |> > Sun Microsystems occupied 2 whole floors of one tower of the WTC.