London Bomb Blast updates

The latest death toll is 37, and the latest injury toll 700. All the horror stories have filtered in by now, people on the tube carriages screaming for help, bodies on the tracks and the streets... It's still kind of surreal, it's all sinking in very, very slowly.

The thing is, there are often evacuations on the underground. People leave a bag or something behind, someone reports and all of a sudden an entire section of a tube line is shut down. So today, when I was sitting on the tube at London Bridge and they said there was a power surge, most of us just sat there and waited for them to say how long it would take to get moving again. So it really did come as a big surprise to have this person running along the platform yelling at us to get out of the train and the station...that's when I knew it was something more than a 'power surge'. Especially after they said the entire tube network was closed. For most people, an attack against Britain, particularly in London, was not a matter of 'if' but 'when', and today was that day.

This afternoon getting home was going to be an issue, but the South-West trains were still running from Waterloo. John, my boss, gave a few of us a ride there and when we got out it was the silence I noticed. Apart from a few police cars and an amulance, there weren't many other cars and everyone was just really quiet, very still. When I got to Wimbledon, many of the shops had closed early, particularly those around the train station. Again, everyone was just really really quiet, even the local teenagers that hang out around the shopping centre.

The next few days should be particularly interesting. They are expecting the majority of the tube system to be up and running again tomorrow, and hopefully the busses in central London will be back up as well.

So what does Melanie do when she's a little shell-shocked, and thinking that she could have been a victim today? She goes shopping and spends too much money, of course. Retail Therapy DOES work, don't let anyone tell you otherwise!

In the meantime, thanks again to everyone who tried to call me, or hopped online just to check I was okay. It's nice to feel loved, even if it is under such circumstances.:)