London today

A few explosions in London today. I'm fine. Scared still though. Left for work this morning at about 8:45am and the tube was closed. This happens sometimes, so didn't think anything of it and caught the train (also goes from Balham) into Victoria Station. Tried to get the District line tube from there but found out that all tubes were closed in London due to a "massive power failure". Hmmm. So started walking towards work and realized that I had a radio on my mp3 player (thanks Rob). After listening for 5 minutes I hear about exploding buses and tubes and people going nuts and decided that central London wasn't the place I wanted to be today. So headed back to Victoria and grabbed another train to Balham and now I'm in an Internet cafe and it's 11:15am. Feels a bit better to be 30 minutes away. So far everyone that I know that I've spoken to is fine. I'll let you know.

Strange thing is that through all the troubles that have occurred between NY and London, this is the first one I'm actually here for. 9/11 I was at Cornell. The NY blackout I was in Rio. The recent UK consulate bombing in NY I was on a plane to London from NY. I have to say I'm surprised at how long it took me to realize how serious this is. Where I was there was no panic and no smoke or anything. In fact, I walked by Big Ben and Westminster and there were still Japanese tourists taking pictures like on any other day.

I hope all your friends and family are well and I wish London the best of luck getting through this. Quite a contrast from yesterdays celebrations of getting the Olympics.