I know this is really off topic, but I feel that through this site that I have many friends and being a New Yorker can understand what everyone must be going through.

Please know that I hope that everyone, friends and family are well and were not in the vicinity of this tragic event. All of us will keep you in our thoughts and prayers.

Thankyou, my grandad and cousin were in London but they are both safe

Thank you for your thoughts.

Brought back the absolute horror of 9/11 that sickened us all as we watched helplessly on TV.

Yes... I was in Jerusalem doing some practical maintenance work in a hospital their, we'd had a great day and were in high spirits, and the sjock of what our team leader told us when we arrived back at our hotel was such that I honestly thought he was kidding when he said there'd been an attack on the twin towers and the pentagon was on fire - it felt like it should have been a movie script. And then we crowded round the door of the manager's office and saw the second plan hit and couldn't believe it. It was almost a week before I got home and actually saw all the reports and footage properly, and it seemed totally unreal, like some huge and not at all funny practical joke - it was just unbelievable what had happened, and especially the way those planes just *vanished* into the buildings... looked like a badly done special effect, because if one was imagining that, you wouldn't expect them to just disappear so completely. Horrible. Can only imagine what it was like for those passengers in the final moments... Our thoughts were with you all - thank you for thinking of us.

I just can't imagine how people who were on their way to work, school or for other reasons felt when that horrific event took place - and the explosion on a double decker bus - reports say that it ripped off the top of the bus - it's hard to know what to say - these things make me both sad and angry. I suppose we can all hope and pray for a better world.

yes it did - the bus was an unbelievable sight with a few seats and upper-deck poles left sticking up.

My husband heard an interview this morning with a guy who was in the front carriage of the Kings Cross train, and after a few minutes bashed his way out and walked along to the platform and up to street level - the station was deserted having been evacuated after earlier bomb(s). The police looked at him in amazement and said Where have you come from? and it was the first they knew of the bomb on the train.