Amount each tower swayed from true center in strong winds: 3 feet
Sources:
(1, 8, 18) NOVA/WGBH Educational Foundation;
(2-7, 10-15) Twin Towers: The Life of New York City's World Trade Center, by Angus Kress Gillespie. Rutgers University Press, 1999;
(9, 16) www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/ World_Trade_Center.html;
(17) www.pbs.org/wgbh/buildingbig/wonder/ structure/world_trade.html
~ 9/11 Debris: An Investigation of Ground Zero - 2 parts, each 15 mins
Extreme ruin helped speed up the recovery/cleanup effort. A film by 911conspiracy.tv.
~ 9/11: The WTC Elevator Key - 37 mins
A film by 911conspiracy.tv, detailing the WTC Tower 1 lower level explosions which stopped FDNY firefighters. Note the video won't play embedded because there is an advertisement placed by YouTube for completely falsely linking artist "Dinosaur Jr." as a copyrighted entity.
Is it coincidence that the fireproofing upgrades and renovations done in the Twin Towers corresponded with the floors that "failed" to begin the "collapses?" (see graphic)
See closeups of 7 World Trade Center, afterwards: 1. (see right side) 2.3.
Banner quote by Noam Chomsky taken from Towers of Deception: The Media Cover-up of 9-11, by Barry Zwicker, New Society Publishers, Gabriola Island, BC, Canada, 2006, p. 180. Zwicker's source is listed as Understanding Power: The Indispensible Chomsky, Peter R. Mitchell and John Schoeffel, eds., The New Press, 2002, p. 26.
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