Reader mail: water pressure

Reader Derek Hayes writes: "My neighbor and I somehow got on the topic of residential water pressure. He maintains that it is considered "high pressure" coming out of the tap. My take on it is that although it is indeed pressurized, it cannot be called "high pressure". Could you tell me what the average household water pressure in Ottawa is?"We sent to the question to the Ottawa Library's "Ask A

Rant of the Day: The Snow Tax

Zoom has a post on knitnut.net titled "Mayor Larry's Snow Job":A snow tax! Can you believe it? As if we haven’t suffered enough this winter. Talk about adding insult to injury. I only heard about it a few minutes ago, but right off the top of my head, I have three problems with Mayor Larry’s proposed $50 per household snow tax. Read on...Related: Ottawa Politics Guide

Lots and lots of photos and videos of snow

Ottawa must have set a record today -- if not for the 51 56 cm snow over the weekend, then certainly for the huge number of videos and photos taken of the snow.Check out all the pics at flickr, and all the vids on YouTube.We also saw this note on the Ottawa Citizen's web site: "The Citizen's Digital Edition is available free to all readers today (Sunday, March 9, 2008) in light of difficulties

Ottawa's snow by the numbers

There's a great list of Ottawa snow stats on Forestdragon's Weblog. Keep in mind, these were all compiled before the apocalyptic snowfall this weekend. Some highlights:Number of days without snow: 25 Amount of salt used: 220,000-plus tonnes Amount of snow moved: 2.4 million cubic metres Latest recorded snowfall in Ottawa: June 27, 1950 Latest measurable snowfall: May 25, 1961, 2.3 cm Latest and

Guerilla Magazine: unordinary territories

There's a great collection of photos in the latest issue of Guerilla Magazine, featuring "ten outstanding photos of reimagined local territories" by students from the School of Photographic Arts Ottawa.Related: Ottawa Photography Guide

Rant of the Day: Dear Winter: I'm sorry. It's over...

Alison on the Party of 3 blog has a gentle rant about winter:Dear Winter, Although it hurts me to do this, I have to tell you that it's over between us. This relationship has gone on for too long now and I just don't feel the same way about you that I used to. Don't be sad, we had fun. Remember how it started off so romantically in December -- the long walks in the snow, the snowball fights, the

Rant of the Day: Richard Akerman on Ottawa's new transit plan

Check out Richard Akerman's take on Ottawa's new light rail plan. (Warning: swear words!)

Honestly, just call the train a tram, which is more accurate, and build the f*****g thing. Everyone's all "billions of dollars blah blah blah". We're the capital of a rich country, this is ridiculous.

So far we can't build:
* a new central library
* a new central concert hall
* a new tram-based rapid

Weather warning RSS feed?

Does anybody know of a Weather warning RSS feed?I know there are lot of weather forecast RSS feeds out there, but I've never been able to find something specifically for warnings/watches.If you know of one, please post in the comments!