London

I wanted to take a moment today to send my prayers warmest thoughts to British friends and residents after today's horrendous bombings in London. I first learned about the news from my Friend Randy over morning coffee, I'm now streaming BBC to keep up on what's happened and the details.

BBC News Coverage

I'm actually a bit worried at the moment, as my friend Andy is in London for a university field trip today — I'm hoping that he was not effected by the blasts, but I've not heard anything back from Andy just yet.

Update 9:15 AM CST: Andy is in London and OK. He responded to my friend Lo's SMS message a short while ago with this reply:

I am in London as I was scheduled to visit [...] Didn't happen as all pub transport was off. I'm fine but didn't achieve what I came to do. :-(

Good to hear Andy is OK, however there will likely be many who are not, and that is very disturbing.

Comments

[Neal]

Glad to hear your friend is OK. Unfortunately, I think he may be stuck in London overnight (if he wasn't already planning to be), since emergency services are advising people to stay put. My sister-in-law, similarly, is safe but stuck, I suspect.

[Mike Rohde]

Sounds like Andy actually made it out of London -- he says it was a surreal atmosphere in London where he got to and that he did a fair bit of walking. I'm just happy he's OK.

[John]

Thanks for you kind thoughts Mike

[Mike Rohde]

You're welcome John. Here's to hoping that things like this will be few and far between, if not stopped altogehter.