Windy city

Where do you walk your cat?

Like much of the city, I woke up at around 2 in the morning yesterday as a warm wind hammered in. Environment Canada says that was actually when we hit our daytime high — 2 in the morning! — with winds gusting to 59 km/hr.

I had power but more than 6,000 other places in the city didn’t by the time morning hit. And there was damage and downed signs but fortunately no reports of injuries.

On Reddit, people reported seeing transformers spark out and some damaged houses.

Oh, and those warm winds tied but did not break the temperature record.

This newsletter won’t always be about the weather but it will be as long as the weather is bizarre.

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Quick news:

• Councillor Cori Ramsay wrote a detailed blog post outlining the decisions made in the city budget this year then posted it to Reddit where she proceeded to answwer questions from folks there. It’s nice to see some respectful online engagement between an elected official and the general public talking about actual policy. Very social internet 2009.

• The school district is changing catchment areas, the most notable of which are redirecting some students from Duchess Park to DP Todd, making the need to eventually expand DP Todd’s capacity more urgent.

• Rob Shaw wrote about the personal conversations between premier David Eby and the parents of the Prince George boy who took his own life that led to the B.C. government introducing a series of policies to take on online exploitation.

• A number of Prince George based advocacy organizations are calling for a greater level of coordination between agencies working to address the city’s housing and health crisis. Reading betweeen the lines, there’s some tension between some of the grassroots orgs and those that are more official.

• Despite the weather, Otway hosted one of its more successful ski tournaments over the weekend.

• A Prince George chef pushing to get more women into the industry.

• This billboard for the new Two Rivers Art exhibit certainly caught my eye:

• Edo Japan Spruceland, Red Robin Prince George, and China Taste have been given high hazard ratings by Northern Health inspectors, following inspections earlier this month.

• The regional district is now able to have secondary suites.

• Missing person.

• Places to walk cats.

• I completely failed to share this graphic the Cougars made when Riley Heidt took the record for all-time franchise points. Put that on your bedroom wall.

• Today’s song:

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