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Salon.com explains Why did the buildings collapse?
"According to Gregory Fenves, a professor of Civil Engineering at the University of California at Berkeley, the planes weakened the buildings' structures at key points. Fenves, working on information gleaned from preliminary TV reports, stressed that he was speculating. He said that if the planes had hit the structures higher, they could have merely damaged their tops; if they had hit lower, they would have been up against the enormous weight and resistance of the base of the buildings. "
i heard Gregory Fenves last night on npr. i was relieved to hear him speak, it bolstered my denial system by giving me technical details to focus on. how do people deal with stuff like this? denial gets you through some of it, concentrating on the actions which must be performed now by leaving the emotional baggage for later. but then innocent little words like ‘baggage’ bring it all flooding in. so then what? you talk to people, anyone you can find. your roommate, your co-workers before you get sent home, people on instant messenger, email, greymatter blogs, and then are left to carry on, sorely wishing your girlfriend wasn’t visiting LA for the week.