London: Today.

"At least 37 people were killed and about 700 injured after four bombs
ripped through London’s underground network and tore the roof off a bus
during Thursday-morning rush hour, police said.

No warning was
given ahead of the attacks — the deadliest terrorist incident in the
capital in recent years — and police are investigating claims that an
al-Qaeda-linked group was involved." More

I sent a lot of emails this morning, I made a few phone calls. Each one for the very same reason, “Just to see if you are okay. Are you?”

“When I got to work, my husband called. He said that maybe there was a car crash. We turned on BBC, they said there was a bang. No one knew what was going on for ages.”

“We I are both fine thank god. He traveled through Kings cross after 8 am and happily was in work for about 8.30, half an hour before everything went crazy.”

“Yeah, it seems like they are al quaeda franchises, not the big thing. Making bombs out of internet recipe.”

“Thank god, it’s not New York.”

“My parents are stuck in their apartment in Convent Gardens, the police has cordoned the place off. Last night they were escorted to get food but all the shops are closed. They are leaving for a conference tomorrow, they aren’t even sure if they can leave when they need.”

“I am okay. I was on the way to work. No, I drive. I don’t catch the bus.”

“The city is running fine. Quite incredible.”

“Luckily, she got to work early yesterday. It was quite close.”

“I think we were expecting it. But it wasn’t as bad as I thought it would. There really isn’t a lot of security in the tube stations.”

“In was on my line. Two of the bomb sites I passed. I work above Liverpool station, which is where it happened. I arrived 10 minutes early. I think the police knew something because for the last few days there were a lot of them around the station. I am working from home today. It’s good I arrived early, otherwise I would have been stuck in the tunnel… which would be a terrible fright.. not to mention it could have been me.”

“It was never a matter of if. It was a matter of when.”

“There is no being careful. It’s so random. I am pretty scared. It’s so close to the office. We were joking there are so many line! Why ours!”

“It all happened pretty close to work and home, but so far I do not know anyone that was caught up in it. (touch wood) We start work at 8am, so were tucked safely away in our buildings at the time.
London is back to work this morning, which is great, and 90% of the tube system is back up and working which is truly incredible!”

“I lived on the edge of London, then I drive even further away. If I hadn’t read the news or didn’t turn on the TV, I wouldn’t know anything happened.”

“They were asleep! Luckily, we called them to stay home. All the tubes were shut down. Usually, grandma has two of her grandkids in London, this week she has four. The phone network was jammed. I have been fending phone calls all day. Luckily, we called home before the news hit so no one was too worried. ”

“It’s probably to do with the Olympics. They were just waiting to see if London got it. Then it could be the G8, but Edinburgh would be a bigger target, but I suppose the security will be intense and it would be very difficult to get through.

“I walked two hours with a colleague, then my husband picked me up at Camden because you couldn’t go in the city, all these roads were closed. The day before I was wearing heels, I didn’t yesterday. You really don’t know if anything is happening, I was sitting in the tube reading about the Olympics on the Metro magazine. It took me a while for it to sink in and be scared.”

“I am surprised everyone has to go to work today too. I guess if you are in the unaffected areas, it would seem pretty normal.”

“There was news report that said it was 42 people was dead but they retracted it -it’s only said 38 or something like that. That’s lucky. It could be so much worse.”

“I had the worst morning as I could not get hold of him to see if he was ok for over 2 hours. I was out of my mind with worry as all the phones were down and networks jammed. I didn’t know this while I was ringing and had visions of him being in the underground. Its hellish enough down there on most mornings regardless, the crowds, no air con, no seats etc, I shed quite a few tears yesterday watching the news. He finally got through to me hours after, however I heard from a friend in DUblin that he was ok. The power of texting.

Its Iraq usually or other war torn countries that have to deal with this on a regular basis, I could never imagine this being part of daily life.”