Word: dust
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...stood there completely stunned. After a few seconds, the revolving door began to turn and a single man entered, covered from head to foot with concrete dust. For a second, it seemed he had just walked in from a blizzard—only this blizzard was comprised entirely of dust...
...minutes later, the door began to revolve again. In came an older black woman, who like the man before her, was completely covered in dust. I took a bottle of water from the store in the lobby and gave...
...building guards began directing us toward the parking garage. More than one hundred of us had entered the garage when the dust became too thick to breathe. Somehow my co-worker and I became separated. People in the garage began to yell to those trying to exit the lobby and, slowly, we all re-entered the lobby. I found her again and it’s safe to say we were relieved to find each other. We were directed toward the back of the building, the side that faces away from the direction from which the dust was coming...
Imagine the densest, thickest nighttime fog possible. Replace the water droplets with extremely fine dust particles. You can only see about 20 feet in any direction. You cannot see the sun you could just ten minutes earlier. The dust is so fine that even with a shirt pulled over your mouth, you can still taste it. The air smells acrid and charred. Your eyes instantly begin to sting and burn but there is no way to keep the dust out of them...
...walked for over an hour to reach my apartment in the East Village. We were covered in cement dust. I remember commenting to her that we may have been exposed to large amounts of asbestos. Her response captured the moment perfectly...