News from London

[trixtah]

Got one email back so far, from my friend and ex-colleague Andy. It was just a bit too fucking close for comfort:

Yesterday was certainly traumatic - I was late leaving home and missing my usual Victoria bound train caught one to Kings Cross instead, arriving around 9:30am as they were evacuating the place - and soot covered coughing passengers.  At first I thought there'd been a fire at Kings Cross since there were half a dozen fire engines outside and the police were in the process of cordoning off the road - I asked one of the coppers what was happening and he told me that there'd been a power surge that had knocked out all the electrics and caused a couple of fires.  So I got on my bike and started cycling to work.  I had just turned off Euston Road and was heading towards Russell Square when there was the sound of an almighty explosion which almost knocked me off my bike.  Turning the corner into Tavistock Place a couple of minutes later I was yelled at by a police officer who told me to keep back - behind him I could see the wreckage of a bus and bodies on the ground - so I just got out of there as fast as I could, swerving to dodge all the emergency service vehicles racing to the scene.

Half the department didn't make in to work that day, and it was horrible waiting for the mobile networks to unclog so that they could be checked on. But he and his girlfriend are safe, her parents who were coming down to visit (and were arriving at Euston) got turned back and are safe, all my old colleagues are fine.

I just wish everyone else would fucking email me back, although I realise that fiddling around on the internet isn't necessarily a priority right now. None of them are on any casulty or missing lists, but I would also like to know if any of them are lying in any bloody hospitals.

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