“It’s scary,” confides this 82-year-old American woman, looking affable under her work cap. “He came home panicking, crying, shaking, and I started crying too,’ says this confident entrepreneur, in a big red hooded sweater.

Patricia Sisk says she hasn't felt such a sense of fear since the September 11, 2001 attacks, which killed nearly 3,000 people. Paul Kratsas claims to have feared for a long time that such a tragedy would occur on the bridge.