Many people that worked, or lived, in buildings around the WTC, such as, but not limited to, the World Financial Center, had to be evacuated out the back way and got on ferries and boats to Staten Island. When the towers started to crumble, from the vantage point of the ferry, it looked like Manhattan Island was sinking. There were Air Force and police planes flying above, but the people on the boats were not sure if they were ours.

The effect on many of these people was immediate, and sometimes delayed, but all of the people that we knew that went through it were very badly affected.

One woman, a Financial expert who was in the area that day, and was a frequent guest on economic programs on radio and television, saw a man that was running get cut in half by falling debris. She was very traumatized by this and went out on disability