It's amazing how damned pretentious hardcore punk and metal band names and album titles got in the early 00s...
They can make something like "Tales From Topographic Oceans" seem rather sensible in retrospect...
Anyway: those hands are from a picture that included a "DON'T WALK" sign in action. The fact that when I was manipulating them they lined up in such a way as to suggest someone fending off falling debris -- or blocking out a particularly bright light -- is just another in a long line of happy Photoshop™ accidents.
Much of the background detail is from overhead guy wires and telephone lines and such...
NO Reference to the World Trade Center attack of 9/11 was intended, nor should be inferred.