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So, as the news keep flooding in, most of you will know by now. London's been hit. As of now, the MET estimate around 150 injured, how many casualties no one knows for sure. There seem to be two casualties confirmed, but we suspect the number to rise. We didn't know, you see... Our offices situated in the basement, with no television or radio we are almost completely shut off... It's because that I called out to another office, did we find out. It was a shock: 'There have been explosions in London'. We scrambled for the BBC website, finding no updates there... The web-radio was painfully slow to load: 'there have been six explosions on the underground'. 'Power Surges', even then the inverted commas seemed too big to explain it all... The internet then decided to overload. The office went hay-wire. Random peeps kept calling us practically every minute, making sure their friends were ok. I kept trying to ring out to my parents but it was clear that the mobile networks were overloaded, either that or something worse... My sis was ok, as MSN worked perfectly (strangely). She sure won't be coming home for a few more days. A bus was bombed, it was clear then that a terror act was in progress. Another bomb in Russell Square, this time of a suspected suicider. One of the workers here called his contacts at the BBC. Tried to anyway, with all of them replying 'Can't talk...' and rushing about down there. Hah, surprisingly for a media company, there was a serious lack of working televisions around. So my colleague ran out to buy an aerial for one of them. We watched the fuzz as Tony confirmed this as an act of terrorism. I went out at some point in the afternoon, and the high-street was almost completely dead. A sizeable portion of shops were closed. Although there were crowds still milling about with nowhere to shop, the road (the busiest road generally) was virtually deserted, with no more than five cars per stretch. Of, course... reportedly, with one unexploded bomb found on one of the buses, the rest of them were recalled back to the depo.
Then at last I got a call from my parents. They were ok. Although my Dad was much too close to Edgeware for comfort. There are heightened security measures around our house, with you having to show proof of residency before you're let in. I'll see when I walk home. I am lucky, for it's ten minutes to my house....others though. No buses run in central London, the tube system is suspended. Many peeps at our offices are hitching rides.
One of my co-workers calls it his lucky break. It was bloody lucky. He came in on the underground and heard warnings of 'power surges', thought little of it and changed lines. It was when he got to his destination that he saw people being rushed out. Tube was being locked-down. It was mad... July 7th, another date for the diary.
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May the future bring you much love, hope, and peace
Hopefully Tony doesn't go off on the same tangent that Dubya went off on after the WTC bombings. He called it a Crusade! A CRUSADE! You don't call an invasion of Islamic territory a Crusade! That just makes them angrier! Ugh, I have an idiot for a President. But I think that your Prime Minister has a bit more class than Dubya.
I hope that know one you care about was injured or worse in any of those bombings. If there was, then my sympathies go out to them and yourself.
Try to avoid mass transit, my Latvian-British friend. At least for awhile.
I'm glad you're OK! I was getting a teeny bit worried...
Well, I'm glad yer cool, and hopes to talk to you soon!
But at least it's over now, as much as it can be.
Great sadness for the lives lost... but we must go on and stick it in their bastard terrorist faces.
My bbc news ticker thing popped up 33 confirmed dead an hour ago... I guess we'll know for sure this evening or tomorrow. 45mins to go and I'm off home