Luckily no one we know was involved (so far). Patty and Max were at home and stayed home. We are not large consumers of public transportation so we were not particularly at risk.
I and many of my colleagues were at an internal corporate leadership conference at a hotel out in the country. But for the rest of my company, the subway/tube is one of the major transportation means to get to Canary Wharf, which is where we and many of the other banks, advertising agencies, etc. are now located. It's further east from the City, or historical financial district (kind of like the difference between Wall Street and the World Financial Center, if you've ever been to Manhattan). I got back home early evening, so things are under control.
People here are pretty spooked out, but from my perspective it was only a matter of time before something happened. Information got clamped down pretty hard which caused sensationalist rumors like "they just shot a suicide bomber in front of Citigroup's building!!" All of the banks have very well developed security and disaster recovery apparatus now so they take care of everything pretty well. Morgan Stanley was the poster child for this during September 11 (remember the head of security Annie?) and the rest have caught up a lot. They ended up evacuating one of our buildings and MS across the street later in the day b/c a bus was parked out front and no one could figure out why; then there was a suspicious package, so they evacuated the rest of the buildings...
I was truly expecting a Dirty Bomb or something big here, so today's events, while tragic, are not as bad as it could be. London is very well versed in dealing with these things thanks to the IRA bombings in the 70s /80s so they've done a good job and saved a lot of lives due to rapid deployment of triage facilities, etc. And, perhaps more importantly, Joe Citizen is better prepared here too - people are super observant of unattended bags, people submit to and expect a higher level of security, there is less panic...
Oddly, Rudy Guiliani was here yesterday. Must have brought back some pretty mixed feelings. He made some strong, heartfelt and articulate statements on TV here last night. Outstanding ambassador for the US -- Rudy for President
to all of you!!