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Allen and his coworkers began the long trek home, where they stayed for several days. The Stock Exchange remained closed for a record four days.

Though the in-plant—the closest one to the catastrophe—was not damaged nor filled with dust from the collapse, life there has definitely not been the same since the disaster. It took a while for work to start trickling back; the in-plant's shocked customers had much more on their minds. Even now, security is so much tighter that deliveries of paper and other supplies—even mail—are slow in coming.