On 29/04/05, Gabriel de Figueiredo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Mumbai for weather alerts. > > Reminds of the great London storm way back in October > 1989 (I think) when Michael Fish, the weatherman at > one of the TV stations, informed viewers that someone > telephoned him that the French had predicted a storm > on the way, but that the Brits had nothing to fear as > the Met hadn't told him anything untoward. That storm > uprooted a great number of trees, especially at > Greenwich. We too had a tree fallen down in our > backyard (from 3 houses away), and it was the first > "blackout" experienced by me in my twelve years in > London. As an aside, a couple of days later the stock > market crashed sending house-prices falling ...
RESPONSE: Events took place in 1987. The stockmarket crash was a Worldwide event. http://www.metoffice.com/education/secondary/students/1987.html In southern England, 15 million trees were lost, among them many valuable specimens. Trees blocked roads and railways, and brought down electricity and telephone lines. Hundreds of thousands of homes in England remained without power for over 24 hours............. The stock market crash:- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/2131739.stm excerpt:- Or indeed the great granddaddy of them all, 19 October 1987 - aka Black Monday - when the US market lost almost one-quarter of its value in a few hours. Cheers, Gabe Menezes. London England.
