The world has changed, but the bad times will be shorter than most people fear.

A few blocks from our office sits a Westin Hotel that on Sept. 10-11 hosted the Forecast 2002 Conference of the Steel Service Center Institute. A couple of the programs addressed construction and other topics relevant to the PHC industry, so I dropped in for a few hours with a mind toward reporting on those predictions.

Right after the tubular panel on the morning of 9/11/01, the moderator told of stupefying events unfolding in New York and announced the rest of the conference had been canceled.