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I'm just starting to read about this... it sounds horrible. Are you London FOLCs okay?

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,161768,00.html

PJ

We just got briefed on the attacks at our morning hospital conference.
Please check in London FoLCs, and let us know that you're ok!!

I'm okay I work in Greenwich which isn't central London, I live even further out and drive to work so shouldn't have too many problems getting home - although I'm sure the roads will be choked with traffic.

Yvonne

My thoughts are with you all, please be safe.

~Liz

This is awful. My thoughts and prayers are with all of you UKers. Please keep us posted and let us know that you're okay.

~Anna

Well holy Christ. And the hell of it is when I left London yesterday morning, everything seemed fine and calm and safe...Scary how all that can change in a second.

Be safe, everyone.

JD

DAMN JD!! Be careful out there and come home safe.

TEEEEEJ

I'm glad you got out of there before this happened, JD. I hope we hear from our London friends as quickly as possible. I won't relax until I know they're all okay.

Our sympathies go out to our friends in the UK. This is a terrible act of savagery.

Nan

My thoughts are with everyone in the UK after this horrible tragedy.

Well, I've never been more happy to see my house. I was supposed to go to Scotland this week, but when the protestors started hitting the streets, that trip got fuddled up. I have this knack for attracting disasters everywhere I go...Anyway, I've got to get repacking and all for a conference.

Jen

I'm fine as well. I was at work (the quietest day we've had in ages, actually) when a colleague came down and told me the news. I went upstairs to see what the TV news broadcast was saying, and there it was. It was a little surreal, since I actually live in Central London, near Hyde Park.

Nicole

I'm glad to see y'all are safe.

Jen, my parents flew out of London yesterday as well -- they're in Zürich this week. And my SIL and BIL and their kids are fine.

It was so awful this morning getting ready for work and hearing about this on the radio at 5am. What a shock. Been watching MSNBC all morning (we had it on at work), it's such a tragedy. My thoughts and prayers are with all you UKers ... I hope you, your families and friends are safe. What is this world coming to?

I'm still in shock about the news. Just a few weeks ago, I was still there... A lot of you probably know I was in London for the last year but I'm back in the Netherlands now. So I'm fine and everyone I know there is okay as well.

I just can't believe it. My thoughts are with all the victims.

Saskia

I'm still in shock too - been watching TV news for the last hour, after having been out all morning. That bus exploded on a route I used to walk along when I was in London for meetings several times a year. I'm hoping that my old colleagues at AUT headquarters are all safe and well. As the casualty count increases, I can't imagine what families and friends of missing or injured people must be feeling.

I'm so glad to hear from at least some of our London FoLCs. This is just sickening, so horrible. Yet again, though, wonderful response from the emergency services. Doctors, nurses, ambulance workers, police, firefighters, dispatchers, London Transport staff, everyone who works in emergency response all deserve our immense gratitude and appreciation.

Jill, I don't know if you heard, but some of your colleagues (British doctors meeting at the British Medical Association headquarters) were first on the scene after the bus explosion - they probably saved a few lives there.


Wendy

I'm glad you London FoLCs who have posted are safe. And yes, please chime in if you're okay. My thoughts are with the victims of these monstrous attacks.

I was horrified to hear the news. My thoughts and prayers are with the people of London today.

While watching the news, I found myself thinking about the bombing attacks on London during WWII and how impressed the world was with the bravery of London's residence. Terror attacks, like this one, and those bombings during the second world war are, in my opinion, like announcing to the entire world that your cause is doomed. It accomplishes nothing except to install resolve in the survivors.

Have all our FoLCs checked in yet? If you haven't, please do.

Yes, I'll second what Wendy said about the emergency services, and add that the media have been excellent, too. I remember thinking that 9/11 brought out the very best in our media - they were highly professional, informative and never hysterical or over-speculative - and the same is true today. Both public and commercial media services have done an excellent job of keeping us informed and providing useful advice, helpline numbers and so on.

Seen some devasting accounts of people being trapped in dark, hot, smoky tunnels with little air. Horrible. Absolutely horrible.

But transport services are already beginning to get back to normal and today a lot of people in London just got on and did what they would do on any working day - so we are not terrorised. We are defiant.

Yvonne

Thank you for your thoughts everybody.

I work on the outskirts of London, so I missed everything.

It's very close to home, as most of the transport links in the area where I live, in Walthamstow, go into the stations that were affected.

My housemate missed one explosion by 10 minutes, and two people she works with are injured.

Like Yvonne says, we just got on with it.

It's sad, we have seen scenes like this before in this city. It doesn't make it easier, but it does mean we know we will get through it.

Best wishes everyone.

Helga

I am glad you guys are all ok. I was horrified by the news.

I know how it felt when 9-11 happened in America. I felt it hard being a New Yorker. We all new someone who was killed or new family of people who had lost someone.

I am sure you are all going through a similar experience. It is a shock and scary and depressing as hell. The only thing you can do is try to get back to as much normalcy as possible.

But if you are having trouble sleeping, eating, crying or feeling hopeless, sad or numb, that is depression caused by the event. It is very common after an attack of this type. There is help and hope for these feelings. If it persist call your Doctor. Right now it is new and the shcok will be with you for a few weeks. See how it goes after that.

My prayers are with all of you. For the little bit of evil that is in the world, just remember there is much more good. Just look at the response of all the fire fighters, emergency workers, police and the community. God bless them! Laura