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London Terrorist Attacks July 2005

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Mirror

13:54 / 07.07.05

Just writing in to send my best wishes to all in London right now.

I just heard the official news conference report, giving a total of 33 confirmed in 3 train explosions (7, 21, and 5, sorry I didn't track the locations precisely), with no official numbers yet from one bus blast. An additional 60-some critical injuries and 300+ minor injuries were reported.

Olulabelle

13:56 / 07.07.05

Everyone other than Bill P is now accounted for here, right? Hasn't anyone got his mobile?

I am so grateful to Lith for keeping me updated. Sitting at work, no TV, no radio, this morning none of the news sites were working. I just kept refreshing this thread.

I love Barbelith and I don't care if that does make me a fithy slut.

Ganesh

13:57 / 07.07.05

Reported on TheMoonOnline:

7 Dead at Moorgate

21 Dead Kings Cross

5 Dead Edgware Road

Fatalities known but not confirmed about Tavistock Square

Jub

13:57 / 07.07.05

TFL says:

National Rail services are now being resumed and major terminals are re-opening

Bus services are expected to be running by 1600hrs

Docklands Light Railway services are being resumed

London Underground will be closed for the rest of the day and will resume service tomorrow morning.

Loomis

14:00 / 07.07.05

I must say that thankfully the casualties seem surprisingly low. I always figured that a bomb on a peak hour tube would kill hundreds. Not that I know anything about different sizes and strengths of bombs.

Still, I think we're extremely lucky that there have been so many survivors from these crashes.

Olulabelle

14:02 / 07.07.05

We're supposed to be coming up to London for a conference with our Counsel tomorrow, but obviously that's not going to happen now. I've just been told that civil servants and public service workers and people like the Bar in London are being told not to come in to work tomorrow. Is this true?

Ganesh

14:04 / 07.07.05

Police bloke on the telly says everyone should come into work tomorrow, as usual.

Sax

14:05 / 07.07.05

There goes your day off, then. The police said so.

Alex's Grandma

14:08 / 07.07.05

That's what we get for not panicking, I guess. Damn those stiff upper lips.

ONLY NICE THINGS

14:10 / 07.07.05

Honestly. The bombing was bad enough, but there's no need to fib about it.

Favourite quote on this so far I think has come from metafilter:

In response to the statement issued by the authors of this horror, for every fatality, the UK should send 100 additional troops to Afghanistan, and 100 additional to Iraq.

Not Here Still

14:10 / 07.07.05

News resources online set to slow down as USA wakes:

News of this morning's bomb blasts in London spread across the world on the internet within minutes of the first reports from the capital.
According to blog tracking service Technorati, there were more than 1,300 posts about the blasts by 10.15am this morning, just an hour after the first report of emergency services being called to Liverpool Street station.

Most UK news websites managed to keep running without suffering the crashes that other big breaking news events such as 9/11 caused, but some sites have been running slowly including the BBC.

However, experts said that when the US begins to wake up to the news and logs on then UK websites could suffer problems.

"There doesn't seem to be enough traffic at the moment to give websites any serious problems - but that is partly because the US is still in bed. Once they wake up, by 3pm or 4pm, things could all become a bit more difficult online," said Bobbie Johnson, the deputy editor of the Guardian newspaper's Online section.

The resistable rise of Reidcourchie

14:10 / 07.07.05

Astonishingly it looks like it'll take London less than 24 hours for its infrastructure to recover. That's pretty impressive.

Tryphena Absent

14:11 / 07.07.05

Everyone other than Bill P is now accounted for here, right? Hasn't anyone got his mobile?

Apparently he doesn't carry it with him all the time.

Smoothly

14:11 / 07.07.05

I for one will be "working" from home.

Not Here Still

14:12 / 07.07.05

Net aslo slows down as I keep posting the same info...

Goodness Gracious Meme

14:16 / 07.07.05

B barely uses his mob and I don't know of anyone who's got the number. If you have, please a)call him/b)PM it to me. I'll post as soon as I hear from him.

rizla mission

14:18 / 07.07.05

Astonishingly it looks like it'll take London less than 24 hours for its infrastructure to recover. That's pretty impressive.

Yeah - considering the situation just a few hours ago was post-explosion wreckage, people trapped etc., I think it's little short of incredible! London "hard as fuck" indeed.

Tryphena Absent

14:20 / 07.07.05

My brother's girlfriend's mum (so mother in law-ish) was on a bus directly behind one that exploded. Jeeeezzuus.

Goodness Gracious Meme

14:21 / 07.07.05

Yikes.

Psych Safeling

14:21 / 07.07.05

I am implicated in the 'skeletal'(?) staff tomorrow due to the fact I cycle in, and in spite of the fact I live twice as far away as most people.

I've loved my work today, I really have. From the testosterone-charged water-off-a-duck's-back narrow reaction spectrum to the discussions of what stocks this has created a buying opportunity in. Long live capitalism (or as I like to call it, the Revenge of the Losers).

(Yep, that's why I haven't posted in the bread'n'butter thread. Recruitment-folk, eat your heart out. I am city scum.)

Oh, and not meaning to rumour-monger, but there was just a really fucking loud bang to the SE of my office (where Moorgate becomes City Road ish). No-one else seemed to notice, so probably just another of my auditory hallucinations.

I'm cycling from here to Norwood if anyone needs a backy. Pub stop in Peckham/E. Dulwich pretty damn likely.

Jub

14:23 / 07.07.05

I'm off now. Take it easy everyone - hope everyone's friends family are okay. The long walk back to Golders begins.

Whisky Priestess

14:24 / 07.07.05

Ganesh:
I'm keeping the aspidistra flying.

Gypsy Lantern:
My stiff upper lip is so stiff right now it looks positively filthy

I'm keeping my chin and my pecker up.

Our Lady Has Left the Building

14:26 / 07.07.05

Apparently Thameslink is running again, that might help some people a bit...

Spaniel

14:32 / 07.07.05

Teh Bulldog!

NOBILITY

netbanshee

14:33 / 07.07.05

A bit late to the foray, but I needed to read the whole thread to make sure that everyone is ok... all of us in this Philadelphian office are sending warm vibes your way. Best of luck and keep safe London Lith.

Axolotl

14:35 / 07.07.05

For those outside of London I've been told that National Rail Enquiries are saying that all train stations are being shut every half hour for security checks.

Tryphena Absent

14:36 / 07.07.05

What I hate about events like this- apart from the obvious- is that you stop thinking about anything else. You want to be able to write about normal things like TV shows but the bombs become all consuming. Even though we all knew this had to happen eventually. I just feel a sense of relief, it isn't quite as bad as I thought it would be.

Ariadne

14:40 / 07.07.05

The emergency services have proven that all their planning was worthwhile, too - it all seems to have gone pretty well.

Psych Safeling

14:40 / 07.07.05

Nina - I've just been writing that exact thing on email to a friend in NY, and then performing every superstitious ritual I can think of.

bjacques

14:41 / 07.07.05

Re Not Here Again's last post:

The terrorists have awakened an angry giant...the American Rightwing Blogosphere!! Tremble before their rage!

I'm still trying to figure out what a "Quisler" is, from the Little Green Footballs posts. I guessed that LLL is Loony Liberal Left. Is a Quisler a licorice stick that traitors like to eat?

Anyway, thanks to Barbelithers and Londoners in general for coping with and mostly shrugging off the attack at the same time your Home Sec'y Clarke was pimping those £300 National ID cards (priorities, hey?). It's a good example to the rest of us. Chances are you'll catch those guys soon enough. If you do, maybe you can come to the states and get the Anthrax dude we seem to have forgotten about?

Take care.

And, uh, congrats on the Olympics.

Sax

14:42 / 07.07.05

Is it like a Quisling?

haus of fraser

14:44 / 07.07.05

after the aborted pub lunch I realised I should be doing some work.

I spent the afternoon editing reference footage of Puppets for a commercial pitch- y'know Thunderbirds, stingray, Being John Malkovich... just started looking on the final video reference Team America World Police - i know its hopelessly inapproriate but i'm laughing lots at the absurdity of it all...

Mon Oncle Ignatius

14:45 / 07.07.05

A friend arrived back in London from NYC this morning , only to be evacuated from Euston station and while standing outside in a jetlagged daze hearing a muffled explosion. We can't work out if it was the bus bomb or on the underground, as his sense of time was stuffed by flying in from America. He's OK, and is asleep on our sofa right now, having walked pretty much most of the way here to Stoke Newington and not being able to continue homewards to WoHo.

Cat Chant

14:46 / 07.07.05

Favourite quote on this so far I think has come from metafilter

[arthur dent]This must be some new use of the word 'favourite' that I wasn't previously aware of [/arthur dent]

What I hate about events like this- apart from the obvious- is that you stop thinking about anything else. You want to be able to write about normal things like TV shows but the bombs become all consuming.

Totally agree. For some reason, even though I'm far away from London, I went all shaky and weird when I heard about this and had to go to bed with some chocolate and some hot sweet tea, and read Take a Break and try to calm down - but because my brane keeps running a sort of 24-hour news channel, it was completely surreal, like a Martha Rosler photomontage reading top household tips against these... images...

anyway, everyone in London today is a hero. huggles to you all.

The resistable rise of Reidcourchie

14:49 / 07.07.05

The really shitty thing is, regardless of whose fault it is, or why these things happen it just drives it home that it's always some poor fucker trying to make a living that catches the brunt of it, regardless of what country it happens in.

Just got a call from a friend of mine who teaches in London, she sounded done in, emotionally exhausted from looking after her kids who needless to say were effected by what's been happening.

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