So this is it, Halloween weekend is here! I can't believe that October is pretty much over. The good news is we avoided the dreaded "Weather Bomb". When did a bit of wind, snow and rain become a "Weather Bomb"? Back in my day, (man, I sound old when I say that) unless we got more then 20cm of snow it was called "snow", but in this day of "Alerts" we have to dramatize everything so people will pay attention. Here's an idea Weather Network, don't put he Alert Status up to RED unless we are going to get 100km/hour winds, more than 20cm of now in 20 hours and more than half a months rain in day. Of course, if they did that they wouldn't have anything to fill the 24 hour of TV programing with. Guess what we got here in Ottawa from this "Weather Bomb" - nothing, it was a little windy, it clouded over, a bit of rain fell and that was it. It was nothing more than any other October day.

This day in History:

1972 - Don Cockroft of Cleveland Browns kicks 57-yard field goal.