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I lived in Michigan and often went to Canada, love it there. I think I have been to Niagara about 40 times and used to go to Toronto and Stratford even more frequently. Toronto sometimes up to 20-30 times a year, sometimes just day and evening trips then driving back with snooze breaks at each rest stop down 401. Windsor was just across the river so was there a lot to go to dinner, book stores and later the casino. Got pissed as hell when Bush made it so we had to have a passport, before that our driver's license was adequate

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Mike, you may be correct about a hurricane hitting Florida in 87 years, which would be the so-called "Yankee" hurricane of 1935; but Kate was a tropical storm that hit in 1985, as you know. Yes, that is quite a feat, that a hurricane came to Florida in November, and November 10th is the latest record date for a hurricane making landfall from the EAST, breaking the November 4th, 1935 "Yankee" storm near Miami Beach. Today is also, speaking of 50-foot waves, now that you mentioned it, today is the anniversary of the infamous "Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald" storm that sank that great ship. I am not sure of the individual wave heights that day; they COULD have approached 50 feet. That gale center had its' own hurricane-force gales and prompted flash flood watches, a high wind warning, a tornado watch all for Central New York through 5 P.M. and a band of cold front thundershowers in the afternoon; it was a windy, muggy 70 degrees. The high wind warning was till midnight. It was a storm for the weather annals, that's for sure. Maybe you might remember that storm, Laura.

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