John

Pittsburgh

[John @jtix540]

What a day. Caught Sikeston 2.0 near Effingham. Lots of footage to review.

[John @jtix540]

@alexpagepilot Boring

[Federico Pavan @PavanFederico00]

Video incredibile di Rosalba Pipitone, sempre da Marsala. Questo potrebbe essere il tornado siciliano più intenso da diversi decenni, ci sono auto scaraventate in giro. Seguiranno aggiornamenti

[StormNet @StormNetWx]

Elevated threat of tornadoes detected for Friday, October 9th, 2026.

See attached map for details.

This forecast initialized on Monday night. Follow for future forecast updates.

[Giovanni Rizzotti @Gio_wx]

I have been convinced for years that Askewville was one of, if not the, strongest tornadoes ever in North Carolina. The level of tree debarking, vehicular damage, and obliteration of structures is almost unmatched to anything in the state. And I’m sure more is hiding out there…

[John @jtix540]

Never stop chasing

[TheOlChippy @TheOlChippy]

Pretty remarkable and rarely circulated footage, apparently filmed by workers inside 2 World Financial Center, the 44-story skyscraper directly across the West Side Highway from the World Trade Center.

You get an unusually clear aerial view of the lobby entrance to the North Tower, including the northwest corner where the FDNY command post was established. Essentially, we are seeing the outside perspective of the situation captured from inside the tower by Jules Naudet.

There are a lot of interesting details in the footage. You can clearly see the narrow passage between the North Tower and the Marriott, as well as the pedestrian bridge connecting the northwest side of the complex across the West Side Highway to the World Financial Center. That bridge would later become part of Battalion Chief Joseph Pfeifer’s escape route after the South Tower collapsed.

Later, you can even hear a PA announcement inside 2 World Financial Center telling everyone to remain calm and that there is no threat to the building.

Then, around the 1:30 mark, you hear Flight 175 roaring toward the South Tower before impact.

Even after people clearly see the plane hit and begin yelling exactly what happened, others in the background are still shouting, “It was a bomb!”

At that point, the people filming realize their own building may no longer be safe and decide to leave.

Just before they go, the cameraman asks: “Should I bring the camera?”

[John @jtix540]

@wxsarahk Absolutely pissed

[ben “reschultzed.com” schultz @reschultzed]

as of today, the post-9/11 era makes up exactly 10% of american history

[Nick Krasznavolgyi @NickKrasz_Wx]

Like are you kidding me? This is a historic radar scan for Utah. This could’ve been intense (EF3+).

[John @jtix540]

@Honeybadgermom I’m with you. It’s a part of us. Took a solo trip to nyc to be there Friday.

[Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @DrewPavlou]

The story of 9/11 hijacker Nawaf al-Hazmi is absolutely fucking insane.

Oklahoma State Trooper C. L. Parkins pulled Nawaf al-Hazmi over for speeding without a seat belt in April 2001.

At the time, both the NSA and CIA suspected him of being a senior Al Qaeda terrorist but had no idea he was in the country.

Suddenly, there he was, just randomly speeding without a seat belt in Oklahoma of all places.

It was the perfect opportunity to discover and collapse the entire plot on the spot. Thousands of lives could have been saved.

State Trooper Parkins did everything right. He ran a National Crime Information Center check on the driver and the vehicle and came up with a valid California driver’s license and an address in San Diego.

But nothing flagged him as a terrorist. The CIA and NSA had made no effort to share information about Nawaf al-Hazmi with other sections of the American state. So Parkins had absolutely no way of knowing who he had really just stopped. Nawaf al-Hazmi copped a $138 fine and went on his way.

Nawaf al-Hazmi ultimately spent almost two years just bumbling around America completely freely. Nobody knew anything about it - the government simply had no idea who the hell was in the country at any given time.

Here was a guy who had fought as a jihadist in Bosnia and fought for the Taliban in Afghanistan. He had been photographed attending a senior Al Qaeda meeting in Malaysia with Al Qaeda terrorists who later blew up the USS Cole. Yet he was easily able to obtain a B-1/B-2 tourist visa and simply fly to the US unmolested.

On August 23, 2001, the CIA finally formally added Nawaf al-Hazmi to U.S. watch lists and alerted the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) and the FBI.

They belatedly added him to a list to prevent entry to the United States, at which point the INS determined that Nawaf al-Hazmi was already inside the country.

This obviously should have set alarm bells ringing. But the search for him was only cursory. The FBI did not search credit card databases, bank account databases, or car registration, all of which would have produced positive results. They also appear to have failed to check the 2000–2001 San Diego phone book which listed Al-Hamzi's name, number and address.

Al-Hazmi was not a master of counter-intelligence spycraft, to put it lightly. While living undercover as a senior wanted terrorist in an enemy land, he got into traffic accidents, partied with strippers in Las Vegas, and drew the attention of neighbours by hiring a fucking limousine to pick him up from his rental place. WHILE BEING A WANTED FUCKING TERRORIST!!!

And just to top it all off, four months prior to the 9/11 attacks, he actually CALLED police himself to report somebody trying to steal his wallet.

Al-Hazmi ultimately purchased his 9/11 plane tickets online using a credit card with his real name. This raised no red flags, since the FAA had not been informed that he was on a terrorist watch list.

As a final added insult to injury, he set off a metal detector at the airport but passed through secondary screening.

So many endless opportunities to catch this guy, but the American government had absolutely no idea who the hell was living in their country.

The American state was a blind giant.

[Financelot @FinanceLancelot]

The problem with being ahead of the curve is, everyone thinks you're retarded

[2001 Live @25YearsAgoLive]

Passenger on a plane today, 9/15/01.

[Dustin McGrew @dmcgrew]

The crescent moon is framed by the BNY Tower and US Steel Tower as it was setting tonight here in Pittsburgh. I noticed that you could also see St. Mary of the Mount and even the Green Tree water tower between the two towers as well which was pretty cool so I got a close up shot of that as well. #pittsburgh

[Pittsburgh Steelers @steelers]

JUST THE BEGINNING

[2001 Live @25YearsAgoLive]

Windows have been shattered across the North and South Towers of the World Trade Center by the blast a few minutes ago, and workers in the South Tower report feeling physical heat from hundreds of feet away. There is even smoke in the South Tower.

Nevertheless, public address announcements are ordering workers not to evacuate and return to their desks, as the fire only concerns the North Tower.

[John @jtix540]

Words can’t describe it.

[Charlie Kirk @charliekirk11]

You can tell a lot about a person by how they react when someone dies.

[John @jtix540]

Realizing 9/11 is unc coded 🥀