A car bomb found in central London. It was only a matter of time. Everyone's been getting on with life as normal since that last ones. You can't let it affect you or you'd never leave the house. But it is a worry. It could be anywhere at any time.
I remember the July 7 bombings. In fact we were only talking about them yesterday. Everyone know someone or know of someone who was affected. A girl in a sister company was offered a seat on the Tube by a kind man. The bomb went off and he lost his legs. How would you feel if that happened to you? Another girl from work saw the bus blow up in Russell Square. A friend of ours got off the bus and as she walked round the corner it went up.
So today it all comes flooding back. I remember being on the Tube and the train not stopping at Euston. 'I'll get off at the next stop,' I thought. It didn't stop their either. The next one was way out of my way but everyone had to get off there and was evactuated from the station. As I got off I got a call from a colleague who told me a bomb had gone off in central London. Then the line went dead and there was no more communication to be had. I was panicking about Mrs F-C, about my brother and had no way of getting in touch. There were people everywhere, buses weren't stopping at packed stops and I had no clue what was going on.
Then I bumped into a colleague whose dad, by chance, lived around the corner. So off we went to cadge a lift to work. The radio was by now reporting about the four bombs and reports were coming in about the bus. The colleagues dad was very jolly all the while, pointing out where they were building a concert hall around King's Cross, and 'there's a lovely little Ethiopian restuarant down there'. All I could think was that the world was about to end.
Then once at work everyone had to be accounted for. Thankfully no one was hurt from work or my other life. But it was a strange day. It'll come again. Let's hope it's not here quite yet.
4 comments:
It can't come soon enough for News24. They seem angry at a) the bombers for not doing their job properly, and b) the public for not turning into a hysterical mob and burning down the nearest mosque at the drop of a hat. What happened to measured, informative reporting? It's not as if this story needs any more drama added to it. Rolling news is a total disgrace.
Totally agree with the above. The whole fear of "dead air" has left us with ill-informed babbling goons saying absolutely anything to fill the time. I remember turning on the telly after a long walk home across North London on 7 July (I never made it to work), and there was so much misinformation on every channel – it made it so much more terrifying that no one knew what was going on but felt the need to endlessly speculate anyway. Grrrrr.
Everything is breaking news now. Someone in Whitehall makes a coffee and they're wheeling in an expert on beverages to give their take on the matter.
As the Squirrel says, too much airtime to fill.
The comment about News 24 is truly shocking. It is utterly disrespectful to those who lost loved ones in the previous bombings. There is also nothing more annoying than people just talking but not actually saying anything.
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