The confoozled

[flemmings]

Graphics load slowly on this machine. So when I saw the headline Maple Leaf suspects slicers on The Star's page, I had a moment's head-hurt trying to parse these Maple Leaf suspects in the context of either hockey violence or Canadian nationalism. Then the photo of the meat-packing plant came up.

We have an odd situation at work, in that suddenly and unprecedentedly there are far more 4-year-olds needing Junior Kindergarten spaces than there are JK spaces to accommodate them. The local school had to do a lottery and there was much bad feeling over it. The Business Co-ord was saying to me 'It's like there was a mini-population spike in 2004. I wonder what caused it?'

'Can't imagine,' said I. '2003 was the complete annus horribilis. SARS, the Iraq War, the bla--- Oh.' Yes indeed. A two or three-night blackout in August '03 will give you a population spike in mid-2004.

Comments

[nekonexus.livejournal.com]

Like the spike after Ice Storm '98, in Kingston and points easterly of. Yeah. :p

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Well, yeah. That one took weeks to dig out from, didn't it? And now I wonder if our famous blizzard of '99 produced a spike in TO.

[nekonexus.livejournal.com]

Depending where you were, yeah. We were lucky in that our hole-in-the-wall apartment was on the block between the hospital and fire station, so we were only out of power for about 48h.

Not that we could go anywhere for days after that, given the state of the roads. :p

[tekalynn.livejournal.com]

Quite.

[tammylee.livejournal.com]

A two or three-night blackout in August '03 will give you a population spike in mid-2004.
Ha! Excellent deduction!