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Folks,

Dux:

'The Terrible Shrinking Empire'.... Appropriate for Halloween as that sounds like one of those horror film titles from the 50s.

Looks like we started something, eh? Don't get yer nickers in too much of a twist over it. Stiff upper lip you know. Just say 'Good riddance to bad rubbish.' and get on with it. You will always have Doctor Who and Danger Mouse as well. Dan Dare is new to me. He looks rather heroic featured on that stamp. Other than Blackhawk which we recently discussed, my comic heroes were Superman, Batman and the Flash. OK, OK Donald Duck too.

It is 11 PM EST. I guess that is something like 04:00 GMT. The wind has picked up and the rain has returned tonight. It is getting steadily colder by the hour. We expect up to 50 MPH winds tonight and tomorrow morning with a driving rain while we are...driving. According to C51 they are expecting up to 100 MPH gusts in the Toronto area tomorrow.

'Big' impresses many Americans. What really impresses me about Sandy is that while it is thrashing us with wind and rain at one end it is pounding Toronto with twice the velocity at the other. This is a superstorm indeed. One we may be talking about for years to come. But for a fortuitous blocking cold front it would have landed in our lap first.

Good luck to C51 and all those dealing with Sandy north of us tonight.