Lunar Bovine - Jason Cobill's Weblog » flush http://lunarbovine.com/blog Because sometimes I do things that are interesting. Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:15:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Hockey Vs Toilets http://lunarbovine.com/blog/2010/03/hockey-vs-toilets/ http://lunarbovine.com/blog/2010/03/hockey-vs-toilets/#comments Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:12:48 +0000 jcobill http://lunarbovine.com/blog/?p=1126 Saw this fantastic graph today and had to share it. This is Edmonton’s water usage (in Megalitres) during the gold medal men’s ice hockey game on February 28th, showing that Canadians can cause a Superbowl “Half-time Flush”. It’s what American infrastructure planners have nightmares about – huge fluctuations in water usage caused by the synchronized armies of fans watching TV together.

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I read a blog suggesting that as many as 80% of Canadians were watching the game live – which makes me wonder if the other 20% of people were wandering around outside wondering where everyone was. It must have been a ghost town out there. I wouldn’t know – we had to be near the TV so the players could hear us. :)

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