dcinput for Fri 7th July, 2006
One year ago today: “A possible terrorist attack has occured accross the London tube network. The whole network has been shut down. On my way to work on the Silverlink this morning we were told that due to an emergency the Victoria line was closed”.
That day I had a strange feeling something wasn’t quite right about half way through my journey to work. When I arrived everyone had gathered in the kitchen watching the TV. We were all in shock, hardly anyone spoke as we watched the live coverage on the BBC. All mobile networks were down and so we sent out emails to all our friends to make sure everyone was safe.
Having only recently started blogging, I searched the web for information and was completely amazed by the ripples accross the blogosphere. It was my first ever experience of networked journalism and also of how the web community could come together to offer support.
The comming months were to be pretty difficult times for Londoners. The atmosphere on the daily commute was seriously tense for many weeks and I know of several friends that were routinely stopped by police and searched simply becasuse of the colour of their skin. One friend was stopped so many times by police wearing machine guns that he temporarily moved back to Australia.
One year on and London has recovered well though I still am very aware that another bomb could be on every tube and bus I board.