The Great Storm....twenty years on

The gales on the night of 15 October 1987, which came to be known as the Great Storm, cost 18 lives and uprooted 15 million trees. Winds reaching 122mph ripped across the south-eastern corner of England (and took this blogger by surprise).
The Great Storm is remembered for the famous (or infamous) weather forecast 20 years ago today, in which weatherman Michael Fish appeared to dismiss rumours of a "hurricane". However Mr Fish has stated he was referring to weather conditions in Florida at the time and not the Great Storm.
As I recall, the Great Storm was followed days later by the financial storm of Black Monday. When on 19th October 1987, shares fell by £50 billion at the London Stock Exchange, in the wake of a crash on Wall Street.
Recovering from the Great Storm
The wrong man