Explosions in London?

Tattooed Angels · Post by **Tattooed Angels** » 7/7/2005, 2:18 pm

Soozy,

glad you are okay.. This is scary to watch. They are lucky more weren't killed ie happened on a crowded train.. As of now, they(CNN,MSNBC, FOXNEWS) are saying 37 killed and over 700 injured.

It is very frightening to me in this day and age that there we still have so much hatred in the world where people are trained to kill.

This also brings up memories of the attacks in NYC. I work for the subway.. It is scary enough with the normal day to day things going on.. Add a bomb threat and it becomes sheer panic and chaos.. Afte 911 I actualy was removed from several stations cause of supicious packages. Every week we are reminded how to be on the lookout for supicious people and package..We even have Gas Mask now in our booth in case of a chemical attack.This is more us to clear out the stations and help customers .. I Think this is the reason today's train bombings upset me. That easily could be the station I work at..

My heart and thought out to those people..We should say a prayer for them.

As for not wanting to leave the train, that is touch and go.. The 3rd Rail is no joke.. If touched while power is on will kill you.. With NYC.. They shut down the system.. Many people were stuck in tunnels for hours till rescue crews showed up.. We are trained to lead passangers to safety and how to shut off 3rd Rail if need be..

Soozy · Post by **Soozy** » 7/7/2005, 2:27 pm

that doesn't mean that they did it. Even back in the IRA days they'd have multiple people claiming responsibility for attacks - they'd only know it was the IRA because of specific code words that they'd use.

dream in japanese · Post by **dream in japanese** » 7/7/2005, 2:34 pm

oh i know, but right now that seems to be the only lead.

Soozy · Post by **Soozy** » 7/7/2005, 2:42 pm

Brief synopsis of my day:
8am wake up - sleepy but quite happy
9am drive to work for reasons unknown have the radio on instead of a CD
9:15am hear news of an explosion at Liverpool Street as i'm driving into the carpark at work
9:20am have email from friend working in Aldgate (next to Liverpool Street) saying that he's working in Edinburgh today. Am very very happy to hear that.
9:20am BBC news reports 3 explosions caused by a power surge
9:20 - 11am - the news gets worse and worse - after hearing about the bus blast (originally rumoured to be 3) it becomes clear that this is not a power surge but an act of terror.
10am - 12noon - try to call/email anyone I knew working in London - all finally get in touch to say they're ok.
11am - internet dies - only communication we get is from phone calls and some people with radios.
afternoon - try to help people find a way to get home given that the trains have stopped running.
6pm - get in car to drive home. Blanket radio coverage of the bombings makes it realy hit home.
6:30pm onwards - talk to multiple friends to confirm I'm ok.

Another of my friends works near the first bomb - luckily I didn't realise that until after I'd heard he was ok.
Another friend gets the train into Kings Cross adn then takes the tube to Paddington which is one stop on from Edgware Road. She got in to work early, but the Edgware Road bomb went off at 9:17 and their office hours start at 9:30 and as of this morning when we spoke to her people were still unaccounted for.

Tattooed Angels · Post by **Tattooed Angels** » 7/7/2005, 2:47 pm

Soozy wrote:that doesn't mean that they did it. Even back in the IRA days they'd have multiple people claiming responsibility for attacks - they'd only know it was the IRA because of specific code words that they'd use.

I don't know if you are responding to me or not..I have'nt heard who is responsible today. On an early newscast where they were talking about Al-Queda having camps where they train people to kill. I merely said in this day and age that is scary that much hatred exist in this world

you also got to realize that the news you get being close to where took place is not necessarily the same news feed we get. Everyone puts their spin on it.

So from your post I assume IRA was responsible for today

Soozy · Post by **Soozy** » 7/7/2005, 2:54 pm

I wasn't replying you you Gail, but to Maria's post before yours. And I think you're missing what I'm saying. Just because someone claims to have planted the bombs doesn't mean that they did. There are all kinds of organisations in the world that for whatever sick and twisted reasons want to associate themselves with these evil acts in order to get themselves greater publicity. I'm not saying it's no Al Qaeda, or whatever group it was that the BBC mentioned - just that until we have more proof than a posting on some website we have to keep an open mind about who might have done it and why.

dream in japanese · Post by **dream in japanese** » 7/7/2005, 3:05 pm

i know what you're saying. i'm not saying that it was them a gazillion percent, i'm just stating what they suspect at the moment. you're right it could of been anyone or any group.

Tattooed Angels · Post by **Tattooed Angels** » 7/7/2005, 3:17 pm

Soozy wrote:I wasn't replying you you Gail, but to Maria's post before yours. And I think you're missing what I'm saying. Just because someone claims to have planted the bombs doesn't mean that they did. There are all kinds of organisations in the world that for whatever sick and twisted reasons want to associate themselves with these evil acts in order to get themselves greater publicity. I'm not saying it's no Al Qaeda, or whatever group it was that the BBC mentioned - just that until we have more proof than a posting on some website we have to keep an open mind about who might have done it and why.

thanks for clearing that up.. I can see what you are saying..I still find it scary and sad that extremist like this exist..

I know there will never be world peace, but there has to be a way for all of us to co-exist.

it is scary how all these innocent people die or get hurt for no other reason then being at the wrong place at the wrong time.

megxyz128 · Post by **megxyz128** » 7/7/2005, 6:02 pm

i heard one of the bombs was at the russell square station. a month ago i was getting on at russell square to come home. that's where our hotel was. scary. :no:

Hope · Post by **Hope** » 7/7/2005, 9:45 pm

a family friend's daughter (who is an adult) was early in going to work by about 20 minutes. it saved her life.

Henrietta · Post by **Henrietta** » 7/7/2005, 11:30 pm

Oh my goodness. :cry:

nikki4982 · Post by **nikki4982** » 7/8/2005, 1:22 am

All I really have to say about all of this is: :cry:

megxyz128 wrote:i heard one of the bombs was at the russell square station. a month ago i was getting on at russell square to come home. that's where our hotel was. scary.

I stayed in a bed & breakfast right near Russell Square in '99, too.

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Waiting to Exist · Post by **Waiting to Exist** » 7/8/2005, 1:23 am

I went to London once. I rode the underground. That's about as close to this incident as I get, fortunately, least as far as I remember.

For the record, I stayed at some hotel called like the Hotel Alpha Dolphin or the Hotel Alpha Beta Gamma Delta.

I think Alpha was in there somewhere.

Henrietta · Post by **Henrietta** » 7/8/2005, 11:10 am

I love the random Dolphin thrown in there.

Soozy · Post by **Soozy** » 7/8/2005, 11:51 am

It's the pictures of Kings Cross that freak me out. It's just down the road from the station I get into, and I've been there many times at around that time in the morning to get to customer sites up north. I'll also often walk down from Euston to Oxford Street via Russell Square which i love for all the second hand bookshops. Just the other night I got stuck at Edgware Road in the middle of the night trying to get home from U2. Liverpool Street already holds wierd memories for me. I should have been there in 1993 the night that an IRA bomb went off. We were coming back from a school trip to Germany and were due to take the ferry and a train from the port into Liverpool Street. For some point late in our travel planning it was decided that we'd fly instead. I got home from the trip to find my mum watching events unfold on the tv. I've been back a few times to meet up with friends who work in the financial district there, but it still reminds me how lucky we were that night.

I've just been talking to my friend who works near Liverpool Street. He walked for an hour around the back roads last night to get to the station so he could get home and spent today at home. He said the atmosphere was really strange with no traffic and the streets full of people walking. Today there were lots of bomb alerts all over town - stations and streets being evacuated, but luckily nothing came of any of them. I'm going to watch the news soon to see what the latest is. But people seem remarkably calm and stoical about things.

Tattooed Angels · Post by **Tattooed Angels** » 7/8/2005, 5:56 pm

Soozy wrote:It's the pictures of Kings Cross that freak me out. It's just down the road from the station I get into, and I've been there many times at around that time in the morning to get to customer sites up north. I'll also often walk down from Euston to Oxford Street via Russell Square which i love for all the second hand bookshops. Just the other night I got stuck at Edgware Road in the middle of the night trying to get home from U2. Liverpool Street already holds wierd memories for me. I should have been there in 1993 the night that an IRA bomb went off. We were coming back from a school trip to Germany and were due to take the ferry and a train from the port into Liverpool Street. For some point late in our travel planning it was decided that we'd fly instead. I got home from the trip to find my mum watching events unfold on the tv. I've been back a few times to meet up with friends who work in the financial district there, but it still reminds me how lucky we were that night.

I've just been talking to my friend who works near Liverpool Street. He walked for an hour around the back roads last night to get to the station so he could get home and spent today at home. He said the atmosphere was really strange with no traffic and the streets full of people walking. Today there were lots of bomb alerts all over town - stations and streets being evacuated, but luckily nothing came of any of them. I'm going to watch the news soon to see what the latest is. But people seem remarkably calm and stoical about things.

Reading all of these I can't help but think back to how things were when the towers were hit and collapsed. The horror and calmness all at once..How people walked for miles in a daze from the shock of it all.. those images will forever be etched in my mind. I thank god( like you are now) that on that day I wasn't at that area.> i have worked there many tims before.. I totally can relate to not knowing if friends are okay. I remember getting in touch with my friend the morning of 911 cause I was afraid for people I knew in the area. Luckily so they were all uptown. I did find out months later that one of my friends actually worked in the area and what he went through that morning.. I know too many people who were effected by that.. Just from work alone..

It is errie to go back to a place that you probably been to hundreds of times before.. Then something horrid happens and it is never the same. I still can't go to the site the towers stood and not get upset..

The bomb scares are the worse after the fact. Since you had the attacks you can't take anything as false. That is what I was talking about in an earlier post about having to evacuate stations..

I am glad to see you are all right for the most part. I just got an email from another friend who lives there and thankfully so he is okay..

The image of the bus scares me.. I was reading this morning recounts of what happened. They showed a photo that someone took on their cell phone.. It is still scary to me that in this day and age we aren't as sasfe as we think..

Is the subway back up?.. For days they had the stations closed here.. I think it took almost a year till the trains went back to somewhat normal. On the major rails in and out of the city they brought in the National Guard and the Army..Yesterday they beefed it up again..

Soozy · Post by **Soozy** » 7/9/2005, 7:00 am

So it turns out that someone who was in my college at university is missing - they think she was on the Kings Cross - Russell Square train that they're still having problems getting to. I didn't know her well, but it was a small college so everyone mostly knew everyone else's names and faces. I have a funny feeling she might have been on our university challenge team one year, but I'm not 100% sure.

Rusty · Post by **Rusty** » 7/9/2005, 8:35 am

Awwww.

nikki4982 · Post by **nikki4982** » 7/10/2005, 2:41 am

Oh no.

I'm sorry, Sooz. *hugs*

Dr. Hobo · Post by **Dr. Hobo** » 7/10/2005, 3:30 am

*hugs sooz*