Escape

[generalhenry]

It's getting back to normal now, but I sure got out of Mumbai in the nick of time.  The terrorists hit a week after I left and they attacked right in front of my motel.  The Hotel the seiged was arround the corner, and they bombed the train station around the corner from my office.  I would have been safe in my office at the time, but yeah scary

Comments

[animate_mush]

Yikes.
I'm glad you're okay - and glad you're back.

[zachaa]

Eeek! It's a good time to be back, then. I hope everyone you knew back there is okay.

[generalhenry]

Everyone I know is safe, just spooked, they could hear the gun fire.

[inversereality]

On the other hand, your presence may have tipped the cosmic balance and brought PAIN DOWN ON THE INFIDELS! Oh, oops, wrong side. It’s not so much the moments of the actual violence as the after-effects that are so devastating, however. Just imagine trying to live in the city afterward. So f***ing pointless and horrible what happened, but glad you came back before the trauma struck.

[devilfish5150]

Isn't it disturbing how this group attacked in a much bolder and more direct way; no skulking around in the shadows or done-in-0-seconds suicide bombings for them, it was a halfway between a terrorist attack and an invasion.

I'm in a 2-week class on advanced security ATM coincidentally; we're practicing storming a comdemned pier with old wrecked aircraft on it and a fake ship made of cargo boxes and shooting one another with small paint bullets-- not paintballs, paint bullets. Ow.

It is giving me a new appreciation of the police and army personnel who responded to this event in Mumbai. They probably did this hard training for more like 2 months rather than 2 weeks. Imagine what would have happened if they had not been prepared?

[hirundo_rustica]

Maybe I'm confused but I thought there had been something about the police not responding as quickly as they could/should have?

I'm sure your family were/are relieved. Any time something like this happens out of the blue I think it makes people- Americans especially- afraid of the rest of the world. Just what any terrorist group hopes to accomplish. It doesn't hurt to be careful of course, but I hope it doesn't discourage your own further travels.