You could hear metal flattening like a freight train, glass tinkling and breaking, and this white noise of a waterfall pancaking straight down. “The best way to describe, to give you an image of it, a freight train and a waterfall. “A police officer yelled, ‘Get out of the way it’s coming down right now!” Hingson said. The World Trade Center's South Tower collapsed. Not long after they walked out of the North Tower.
“We saw you going down the stairs and talking to Roselle and clearly you guys didn’t have any problem with what was going on, so we followed you down the stairs," Hingson said of what people told him. Survivors later told him, just the sight of him and Roselle encouraged them to keep going. “I kept saying to Roselle, ‘Good dog, what a good girl, keep going. Nearly 80 stories of stairs stood between them and safety. It took me about four floors until I realized what I was smelling was burning jet fuel," Hingson said. “Almost immediately, getting to the stairs, I smelled something and I couldn’t place it, but it was familiar. It was too risky for them to take the elevators, so they went to the stairwell. "We key off each other, we feed off each other, and the very fact she wasn’t nervous at all, that told me that we had time to try and evacuate in an orderly way.”
“Roselle wasn’t giving me any indication she was nervous," Hingson said. “We were on the southside of the building on the 78th floor, the airplane hit on the 96th floor," Hingson remembered. On September 11, 2001, Hingson was preparing to lead a seminar at his office in the North Tower of the World Trade Center. It’s that because I’m blind, people don’t think I can do stuff," Hingson said. “The biggest problem I face in the world isn’t that I'm blind. "It literally began to tip going in one direction, and that was certainly not something that we would expect.”įor Hingson, who was born blind, etched into his mind is what he heard, sensed, and felt that morning. “I was reaching for letterhead when I heard kind of a muffled explosion and the building began to shake," Hingson said. “On September 11, it was a typical day," recalled Michael Hingson.įor many people who think back to 9/11, it is the images that define much of their memory.
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