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To: Galirayo who wrote (13038)	3/31/1998 1:00:00 PM
From: Trader X	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17305

watch WDC, building a head of steam for another assault on the big 2-0. 20 is resistance to crack. Once it does, a new uptrend is established and verified. chart.yahoo.com X

To: Galirayo who wrote (13038)	3/31/1998 4:34:00 PM
From: Patrick Slevin	Respond to of 17305

What happened was, I was leaving for the PATH at about noon that day. Another trader talked me into having a beer so I stopped for one...then went on to the Trade Center. So being an Alcoholic Ass saved my life, true story. Anyway, I was obviously turned back and waited back at the trading room. Called a few guys up, they were still trading like madmen even though they were in #7 across the street. Traders are nuts. Told to evacuate, they kept going. I remember I tried to get a ride from an guy on the options desk at Salomon in #7 but his car was parked in a lot that had been turned into a heli-port for Med-Evac. So I walked to the ferry. Wasn't a trader in town that was not crowding the bars around the Center...you would think it was Thursday/Friday night. The West Side Drive was a myriad of multicolored lights....I don't know how they ever got anyone to a hospital. Wall to wall Emergency Vehicles. I got to the Ferry, wasn't a soul on it. No one was interested in going home. I had to listen to the older guys for weeks about how their kids had to wait in line for hours for the Ferry.....no way of getting home. But I'm not a gossip so I never told them the bars had more people than the Ferry. Gruesome stuff, but as it turned out having a glass of beer probably saved my life.