A friend of mine in the US (a brit) phoned to see if I was ok. Being in Hemel Hempstead at the time I was.... He also said that the networks were blathering on about the "Dunkerque Spirit - no doubt the Blitz came into it at some point too. A much more accurate comment I heard on the UK news was that decades of IRA attacks and the odd tube and bus strike had prepared Londoners equally well for travel "chaos".