Reply #28: lower Manhattan was either shut down or slowed down [View All]

[petgoat]

There was good reason to keep people out while they cleaned up the
dust, which was full of asbestos and mercury and stuff.

That does not justify a rushed removal of the steel, which impinged
only on the WTC site itself. The steel was loaded on barges right
there. By the time the cleanup was done, Manhattan had been back in
business for some time.

"Representative pieces of steel WERE retained."

Not the pieces from the crash zone. Not the pieces that failed. And
note that the NIST report says that the perimeter column pieces they
studied were NOT representative of the whole because only two of them
out of 170 showed signs of heating above 250 degrees C, and none of
their core steel showed heating above 250.

They rushed the cleanup and in the course of it, failed to get the
steel that would have showed what happened. This was done by a former
prosecutor who thought he had a presidential destiny.