Facts & Figures...

[Guest BifEverchad]

A by-the-numbers look at the World Trade Center attacks one year later:

 

 

VICTIMS OF THE ATTACKS (not including the 19 hijackers):

 

- New York: 2,801 (those confirmed dead or missing in trade center and aboard the two jetliners)

 

- Washington: 184 (at Pentagon and American Flight 77)

 

- Pennsylvania: 40 passengers and crew on United Flight 93.

 

Total: 3,025

 

EXCAVATION:

 

- 1.8 million tonnes of debris removed from World Trade Center site at a cost of $650 million US. The work was completed May 30.

 

- 50,000 tonnes of debris removed from the Pentagon. The work was completed Oct. 16, 2001.

 

PHYSICAL DAMAGE:

 

- Commercial: 1.24 million square metres in six buildings destroyed, and another 1.96 million square metres in 23 buildings damaged in New York.

 

- Utilities: Two Consolidated Edison substations destroyed and 19,500 Con Edison customers experienced outages in New York.

 

- Pentagon: 56,600 square metres damaged; 11,327 square metres destroyed.

 

TRANSPORTATION:

 

- In New York, the PATH commuter train station destroyed, 12 subway stations damaged or closed, West Street and Church Street severely damaged and closed, vehicular access to area south of Canal Street prohibited for seven days.

 

ECONOMIC COSTS:

 

- The financial cost of the attacks in New York is estimated to be about $83 billion US, including, among other costs, $21.8 billion in destroyed or damaged buildings, $5.2 billion in lost tenant assets, $1.1 billion in private costs of cleanup and victim assistance, $900 million in subway damage and $365 million in overtime by police officers, firefighters, sanitation and other city employees.

 

- 83,100 jobs were lost in New York.

 

- At the Pentagon, reconstruction cost $501 million. 300,000 people were involved in the clean-up and reconstruction effort, which took three million man hours to complete.

 

- 4,600 Pentagon employees were displaced. Of them, 3,000 are scheduled to return to work at the Pentagon by Sept. 11.

 

 

Sources: New York City Mayor's and Comptroller's Offices, New York Governor's Office and the Pentagon.

[Guest Kingpk]

Remember when it was feared that 20,000 -50,000 were feared dead?

 

That was the hardest thing for me to grasp that day. If it happened at noon, I shudder to think what would have happened.

[Guest DJ Jeff]

To this date, a year later, I still can't get over what happened. It was like a scene from a movie, except it was real. I was glued to my TV all day, just worried for everyone in the WTC.

[Guest Sebastian_the_Bastard]

Harsh. It's kinda crazy to think about and hard to believe it was a year ago.

[Guest Retro Rob]

I also remember what the predicted death tolls were last year. Now when I read 3,000 people died, that doesn't really sound a like a lot compared to the 50,000 that were originally thought to have perished.

[Guest bob_barron]

All I have to say is wow

[Guest HartFan86]

I remember 50,000 was the first number I heard. I was just in awe and couldn't believe it.

[Guest bob_barron]

God Bless the FDNY and NYPD keeping the death toll as low as it could've been

[Guest diavolina]

i think our media here in the US just loves to overexaggerate just a little TOO much.

we need to quit being selfish..there are other countries with a hell of a lot more problems than we'll ever have. and yes sept. 11th was bad...i'm not saying it wasn't, but it would be nice if the media could just let us all attempt to move on with our lives.

the people who were directly involved don't need to hear about it everyday for an entire year...they have a constant reminder anyway...lost family members and friends.

i really hate the news.

[Guest Kotzenjunge]

I never heard as high an amount as 50,000 or even 20,000. I had actually estimated 5,000 myself, and even that was higher than what I was hearing.

 

They did do a tremendous job with the Pentagon though. Back in June, all that remained was a crane, and when I went up there this time, there was no evidence whatsoever that something had happened.

 

Fo sheez,

Kotzenjunge

[Guest DrTom]

we need to quit being selfish

Selfish? When have we been selfish since 9/11? When have we asked for the rest of the world's sympathy or help? The things common people did on 9/11 and the days following were some of the most selfless acts I'd ever seen.

 

but it would be nice if the media could just let us all attempt to move on with our lives

I'm no fan of the press, but I think they've been decent about their coverage, on the whole. Of course, the one-year anniversary forced everything back onto the news, but that one day aside, I think the media has been surprisingly responsible with respect to oversaturation.

 

the people who were directly involved don't need to hear about it everyday for an entire year...they have a constant reminder anyway...lost family members and friends.

A friend of mine lost his father in the WTC attacks -- he was head of security for the second Tower. My friend was actually in NY to visit his father when the attacks happened. He never once complained about seeing news coverage, or reading about things in the paper. Maybe he's a particularly stoic case. I'll agree that the victims' families don't need to hear about it constantly, but I think the media has been more responsible in the aftermath of 9/11 than they have following other tragedies.

[Guest Incandenza]

I gotta go with Tom on this. The media coverage of the anniversary wasn't quite the blitzkrieg I feared it would be.