Did it ever occur to you that thousands upon thousands of people were trying to email friends and family at the same time?
I wasn't trying to email my husband overseas, he was here, my son was in London.
My son narrowly missed being caught in the first bombings because he over slept. The second time he was returning to London on the day of the bombings. The first time I awoke at exactly the time of the bombings and turned on my computer to the alert and reached my son on the cell phone before he even knew what had happened. I had to tell him to just go back to his apt and wait. The second time my cell phone was out of commission and I couldn't get through to my husband after I mentioned the London bombings.