My neighbor finished paying off her house in 2024.
She bought it in 1994 for $78,000. Thirty years of payments at $593 a month.
She's 74 now. Social Security pays her $1,910 a month. That's $22,920 a year.
The place two doors down sold for $615,000 last spring, so the county reassessed hers to match.
Her tax bill this year: $8,100. That's $675 a month.
She paid $593 a month to buy the house.
She pays $675 a month to keep it.
Thirty years of payments ended and the bill went up.
The deed says she owns it. The county bills her like she's renting.
I’ve seen countless video clips from that tragic day, and I watched much of it play out on live television as a freshman in high school.
This is the first time I’ve seen this video, and it’s one of the most haunting.
#NeverForget
The official narrative is falling apart
9/11 was a building demolition; a plane cannot cause a building to collapse.
Explosions were heard, and explosive fragments were recovered at the scene.
my favorite 9/11 story is the guy who worked in the WTC but was cheating on his wife so spent the day with his mistress, and when his wife called him being like "omg are you okay?" he was like "oh im fine im just at the office" and that's how she found out
If you didn’t watch this happen on live tv you will simply never get it. This is what everyone was feeling as they watched this happen in real time. She put the exact words to it.
Twenty-five years ago, a woman stood in the hole an airliner had punched through the North Tower and waved for a hundred minutes.
She is in dozens of photographs and several video clips. People have been arguing about her for a quarter century. Her name, almost certainly, was Edna Cintrón.
She was 46. She worked as an assistant billing administrator at Marsh & McLennan, on the 97th floor.
Flight 11 hit that building at 8:46 and tore open floors 93 through 99. It went through her company. Marsh lost 295 employees and 63 consultants that morning, more than any other firm in the North Tower.
Minutes after the impact, people on the street and photographers on rooftops started noticing movement in the gash itself. A woman had made it to the torn edge of the floor slab, where the aluminum had peeled the wall open and there was outside air. She was leaning against a piece of the ruined exterior column, and she was waving her right arm.
She kept doing it.
Here is the part that is hard to sit with. Nobody was coming. All three stairwells in the North Tower were severed at impact. The roof doors were locked and the smoke made a helicopter landing impossible. Not one person at or above the 92nd floor of that building survived, 1,355 people in total, and that was already true at 8:46, before she ever reached the opening.
She had no way of knowing that. So she stood there in the wind, 1,300 feet up, and signaled for help to a city that could see her perfectly and could not reach her.
Witnesses and footage put her still there, still waving, until roughly ten seconds before the tower came down at 10:28.
She was never formally identified. Her remains were never recovered, and the identification rests on video and photographic analysis and on the people who knew her recognizing her. Her husband William believed it was her. They had been through a lot together, including a period without a home, and she had carried him through his drinking.
So the honest way to say it is this. We are nearly certain who she was, and we are completely certain what she did, which was refuse to stop asking for help for a hundred minutes on the worst morning in American history.
Her name was Edna Cintrón.
I'm going through old footage of 9/11, and this one really shows what it was like for people who weren't even in the immediate vicinity of the towers. Absolutely insane
You know how every few years you’ll see footage that you’ve never seen before on 9/11 and wonder how you’ve never seen it before
Well that’s exactly what this is for me
Chris York is on a family vacation and most of his footage is on the rooftop of Liberty Court a few blocks away from the World Trade Center
In it, you see clear footage of the twin towers about a week before the September 11th attacks. Beautiful day, manhattan looks great.
Then there’s a long delay in his camera roll. When it resumes (1 minute mark) the north tower is struck. You can see the earliest first responders at the base of wtc1 - including battalion chief’s Joseph pfiefer
While Chris is filming, the South tower is struck, and he recalled later that he could physical feel the blast and the heat of the explosion.
In my opinion this is rare footage and perspective 500 feet above the streets and 500 feet below the strikes.
Never forget what took place 25 years ago today. Love and respect to those involved, those affected, and our great heroes who saved so many lives. Good bless America and its people.