Am I wrong for thinking this?

[TheLoneGunman]

I just called up my broker, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, last night and they said I was getting a check next week to close out my account (so I could pay next month's rent -- I live in Northern California)

Their offices (for the division that handles my account) are in the WTC.

My landlord is my neighbor and not a big company. I am not sure that he will be very compassionate if I can't pay the rent.

Should I worry about this?

Is this the wrong thing to worry about?

[mojo]

nobody here can judge you. especially if you gotta look out for yourself. it's inopportune, but dont worry about what anyone thinks. something happened...if it didnt happen, you would be doing it anyways. it's not like you're worried about your money BECAUSE of what happened. you just need it.

just take care of yourself and dont worry about the rest of the stuff. the bad guys in this are the ones that are responsible for the tragedy

[speedracer120]

I wouldn't worry. A big company like that has computer records which altough may have been located in the WTC, they also probably have colocated servers.

[brainsmile]

you should be ok

[g222leav]

Originally posted by speedracer120
I wouldn't worry. A big company like that has computer records which altough may have been located in the WTC, they also probably have colocated servers.

i was chatting with my cousin downstate, i think he said that the back up servers were located at uiuc...university of illinois at urbana/champaign.

so you should be ok.

[Hiro]

Originally posted by mojorisin
nobody here can judge you. especially if you gotta look out for yourself. it's inopportune, but dont worry about what anyone thinks. something happened...if it didnt happen, you would be doing it anyways. it's not like you're worried about your money BECAUSE of what happened. you just need it.

just take care of yourself and dont worry about the rest of the stuff. the bad guys in this are the ones that are responsible for the tragedy

You have always had a way with words Mojo...risin.

[pennypinch]

There won't be a problem at all. It's not like they're keeping all this money in a vault Scrooge McDuck-style!

The workforce and space MSDW has in the WTC is but a fraction of its workforce. True, a large fraction, but there's still lots of money, and lots of people at MSDW to serve you.

[Markel]

For those of us not immediately impacted by this tragedy, I think it is quite normal to think about what kind of effect it will be having us. I dropped a few bill payments in the mailbox yesterday, and later wondered if the airline situation will result in them not being delivered before their deadlines. I realize this is trivial (even trivial seems like to "big" a word) in comparison to what is going in in NYC and D.C. right now, yet it is a way that I am affected.

In your situation, I would think that if you explain the situation to your landlord that he would be understanding (unless he is totally heartless).

[Blu]

TLG brings up an excellent point. There are literally tons of documents that are lost b/c of the collapses. Many financial firms were in those buildings, and they probably kept a few months worth of docs on site. Also, alot of document storage companies used the WTC. It's going to take an incredible to regather the information.


TBG

[BigJon]

I was under the impression that most of the debris (papers and such) would be cleaned up by the NYC sanitation deptartment . . . does this mean they will throw it away? Who knows . . . I would see it to be very hard to sort through all of the debris to see who it belongs to, without releasing confedintial information. Hopefully these businesses kept backups because for our sake, most of the paper debris should be destroyed (so that confidential info stays that way).