10:09 am — “I knew something like this would happen someday.”

  • Turned on the news at 8 and found that it’s not as bad as I’d first heard, thank God. At that time they were say­ing two fatal­i­ties with 150 injured. That toll will cer­tainly rise, but one police­man haz­arded 40 dead, which is still much bet­ter than the num­ber I’d been think­ing. It seems that it may have been only four bombs and not seven.

    Reporters are say­ing that the emer­gency response has been extremely fast and effec­tive, in part because every­one had been expect­ing some­thing like this. One Lon­don reporter com­mented that he saw a woman shak­ing her head and say­ing, “I knew some­thing like this would hap­pen someday.”

    There was footage play­ing over and over on Fox of the video that some­one on one of the trains shot as peo­ple were get­ting off the train. I’m assum­ing that the video was shot with a cell phone or some lit­tle hand-held cam­era, because it’s so blurry and low-quality it’s dif­fi­cult to see what you’re look­ing at some­times. Even­tu­ally you make out shat­tered win­dows. I don’t know what the sit­u­a­tion was of the per­son who shot this, but the sur­pris­ing thing really is that they were able to shoot it at all. The peo­ple on the train aren’t run­ning. Every­one is mak­ing their way off the train, but given how slowly they’re mak­ing progress, the faces (such as you can make them out) are remark­ably composed.

    Did they really know some­thing like that would hap­pen someday?


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