tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post1078238482079498991..comments2024-03-29T11:36:35.692+00:00Comments on Capitalists@Work: October 1987 / October 2013CityUnslickerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15929544047783163175noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-47099105544852153852013-11-01T21:06:16.480+00:002013-11-01T21:06:16.480+00:00The storm was Thursday night
I was working at JPM...The storm was Thursday night <br />I was working at JPMorgan <br />I went to work on the Friday, because we were putting a bond trading system live that weekend, I also went to work on the Saturday and Sunday <br />On the Monday the system was live, first day of trading. It was not a calm day! <br />I remember it all well Botogolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17024057489361848870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-69807787431448560592013-10-29T11:27:45.671+00:002013-10-29T11:27:45.671+00:00From memory, Black Monday was AFTER the storm, *ch...From memory, Black Monday was AFTER the storm, *checks Google*<br /><br />Yes, AFTER.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-70414454337412177092013-10-29T07:13:41.256+00:002013-10-29T07:13:41.256+00:00I went to school that morning. It was terribly unf...I went to school that morning. It was terribly unfair because my older brother's school had closed, but mine had not.<br /><br />I watched things flying around through the window. We weren't allowed to go outside at break time.Blue Eyesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-33673386296737489702013-10-28T22:57:05.115+00:002013-10-28T22:57:05.115+00:00The morning of the 1987 storm I was asleep in my s...The morning of the 1987 storm I was asleep in my section house room in Golden Lane (Barbican.) A bang on my bedroom door. The lights had failed - a copper with an Ever Ready shining in my face "All Hell's broken loose. You're needed down the nick."<br /><br />That was the purpose of the section house - a ready reserve of coppers for such emergencies. <br /><br />Half an hour later I was out there in my greatcoat with radio and riot helmet sit-repping from a doorway in Cheapside. <br /><br />What I saw was unbelievable. Scaffold collapses, windows blown it, trees split asunder - sheet steel hurtling end over end at about 80mph. <br /><br />Putting anyone out in that was idiotic. <br /><br /> Electro-Kevinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18073103431166273080noreply@blogger.com