Nick Greenslade > Emotional Roller Coaster: July Seventh Two Thousand and Five

Thursday, July 07, 2005 July Seventh Two Thousand and Five

Seeing the map of the tubes and accompanying explosions, I see my path to work every morning. This morning was no different, but just earlier than usual. I got out of Moorgate at 830am.

Around 910am I walked up towards Liverpool St to see a client, and just saw dozens of police and fire engines screaming around the roads. A little unnerving. I got on the phone to Cherry -- no idea yet. Got to the client, and its plastered over their television in the foyer. 1st Power surges, 2nd a collision, then a bus wrecked. Next someone says a suicide bomber did the damage to the bus and explosions have gone off at the same time. I just got a little shaky then. Meeting was cancelled, grabbed a colleague who was also in another meeting, and we trudged back to the office. Everywhere was roped off, couldn't get past the stations, phones were useless. I got one call thru -- to Mum and Dad at home, which made me feel better to know they knew I was OK.

Back in the office it was all a little wierd. One friend said she got stuck at Kings Cross, and had to go through the tunnel onto an old disused platform, magically appearing outside at St Pancras St, to utter chaos. Another friend, said her friend was on the Edgeware Rd train when the bomb went off. He was shaken, but OK - just freaked. MSN was my saviour - group talks to Mum and Dad, Cherry and Cherry's parents, jsut to communicate we were all OK. Emails were passed around -- lots of you OK? mails.

Couldn't really work much through the day. Left at 330pm, to get to my girl. It was the wierdest thing. 100s of people on the streets, just walking, heading towards central hoping for a cab, or just to get closer to home. I walked from Old Street, to Picadilly to Cherry, then to home --- about 10 miles in 2.5 hours.

I'm now on my couch, taking in the day, watching the news and reading reports. Everyone I love and care for are safe. Tomorrow is another day.

I left home a year ago today.

Posted by Nick @ 7:06 pm 2 comments

2 Comments:

At 3:41 am, Anonymous said...

i can't help thinking that this is just the way the world has turned out ... it's great to hear you and cherry are safe. everyone we love (including Jane, Greg's sister, who was due to get on the number 30 bus but decided to go buy a paper instead) is safe.
don't think you will be able to escape it by coming home - it will happen here one day too. love you.

At 12:13 am, Anonymous said...

glad to hear you are safe.