Once is an accident, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action
Thursday, July 7th, 2005 10:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caddymanIt's not looking good at the moment.
Happily for me personally, my habit of going to work late and then staying late has meant that I am nowhere near Central London, and with very little hope of getting there today.
The incident at Liverpool Street Station just before 9 this morning was thought to be an explosion due to a power surge, and this line seems to have been adhered to even after a separate incident at Edgeware Road station which is around 8 miles away.
It has now been confirmed that a double-decker bus has exploded in Tavistock Square or Russell Square outside the BMA.
This does not seem to me to be the effects of mere happenstance.
Many, but not all, mainline stations are now closed, and overland rail services are stopping outside London. The entire Tube network has been evacuated.
Understandably, the news is very confused at the moment, and reports vary. You don't get accidents like this; someone has deliberately set out to cause as much disruption as possible. It appears that there have been explosions at Liverpool Street, Edgeware Road, King's Cross and a couple of other places, but sorting rumour from fact is not easy at the moment.
Unsurprisingly, the BBC News website is sluggish; I expect it's getting more hits now than it has done for some time.
Edit The reason your mobile phones won't work in the area is because the network has been switched off so that phones can't be used to trigger explosives. Most, but not all networks in the centre have been switched off.
Happily for me personally, my habit of going to work late and then staying late has meant that I am nowhere near Central London, and with very little hope of getting there today.
The incident at Liverpool Street Station just before 9 this morning was thought to be an explosion due to a power surge, and this line seems to have been adhered to even after a separate incident at Edgeware Road station which is around 8 miles away.
It has now been confirmed that a double-decker bus has exploded in Tavistock Square or Russell Square outside the BMA.
This does not seem to me to be the effects of mere happenstance.
Many, but not all, mainline stations are now closed, and overland rail services are stopping outside London. The entire Tube network has been evacuated.
Understandably, the news is very confused at the moment, and reports vary. You don't get accidents like this; someone has deliberately set out to cause as much disruption as possible. It appears that there have been explosions at Liverpool Street, Edgeware Road, King's Cross and a couple of other places, but sorting rumour from fact is not easy at the moment.
Unsurprisingly, the BBC News website is sluggish; I expect it's getting more hits now than it has done for some time.
Edit The reason your mobile phones won't work in the area is because the network has been switched off so that phones can't be used to trigger explosives. Most, but not all networks in the centre have been switched off.
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Date: 2005-07-08 12:28 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-07-08 12:34 am (UTC)Still, London is pretty much used to it, even if not on this scale. In the '70s, '80s and early '90s, the Irish did their best to blow up every litter bin, parked car and mail box in central London.
That didn't stop us, this won't either. But it's always a relief to know your friends are safe.
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Date: 2005-07-08 08:34 am (UTC)Quite. As the old timer caught up in the Canary Wharf show some years back said: "We've been blown up by a better class of bastard".