Updated 2 years ago
On the bright side, a pleasant aroma of freshly cut hay would have wafted through lower Manhattan.
“At one point, someone noticed that the World Trade Center plans showed a 200,000-gallon underground tank of Freon, used for the building’s cooling system. I remember the hair on the back of my neck standing up… Part of our analysis was to locate this sucker in relation to fires we were mapping—using thermal imagery—that continued to burn underground. If the fires reached the tank, the result could be catastrophic, because Freon, when heated, can transform into phosgene, a toxic gas used in chemical weapons.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-08-10/nobody-knows-what-lies-beneath-new-york-city
