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With a major snow storm hitting the Midwest, and the Northeast, how is your team coping with the weather?
Are you doing anything special?
slickguy2007
22-01-2005, 13:21
With a major snow storm hitting the Midwest, and the Northeast, how is your team coping with the weather?
Are you doing anything special?
I don't think we had much of a choice because our school cancelled all after school activities on friday. They also cancelled all extracurriculurs at our school during the weekend.
GO 1403!!!
haverfordfords
22-01-2005, 13:24
With a major snow storm hitting the Midwest, and the Northeast, how is your team coping with the weather?
Are you doing anything special?
We had a meeting today that ended early due to the snow coming down way too fast. They are saying up 10-18 inches of snow here in the suburbs of philly.
The snow will take care of the rest of today, tomorrow, and maybe monday. The city is never prepared to plow the snow away. Plus, the EAGLES game is tomorrow, so all the snow plow drivers will be watching the game instead of plowing the roads.
So to answer your question, it will slow us down a bit, but we'll just have to make up the time later - unfortunetly there is nothing we can do about it.
Jason, currently snowed in
With a major snow storm hitting the Midwest, and the Northeast, how is your team coping with the weather?
Are you doing anything special?
Is considering canceling our meeting anything special?
It's not hit 10 degrees yet today. We're looking at 10-20 inches of snow, and wind chill of -13 tomorrow.
And we're in southern NH.
I may need to go skiing.
--Petey
We got 12 inches or so in the past 12 hours so we cancled todays meeting and moved it to tomorrow. YAY living in southeast michigan :D
Alex Pelan
22-01-2005, 13:34
We ended our meeting early today (5 hours early) and it still has not begun to snow. That and we have no meeting tomorrow.
Chris.Steimel
22-01-2005, 13:34
Can you say snowshoing? We're snowed in here at the shop in Southeastern Mighigan. We'll find a way out sooner or later.
Logan Byers
22-01-2005, 13:48
northeast indiana never gets mass amounts of snow. For instance, the December snow storm that hit Inianapolis and Chicago but not in between (which is where we are). Even though we got maybe a few inches (2 or 3) our rookie team from across town did cancel their meeting. We, on the other hand, are working.
Greg Marra
22-01-2005, 13:49
We ended our meeting early today (5 hours early) and it still has not begun to snow. That and we have no meeting tomorrow.
Yea, we could have done so much more work if we didn't get all this crazy snow. And we don't even get to miss any school because it will all be plowed by Monday! Is there no justice?!
tkwetzel
22-01-2005, 13:51
Up here in North Central PA, we have gotten 6+" of snow already and it is still falling pretty hard. No team meeting for me to go to, but there is enough snow to keep me from going snowboarding :ahh: (my car can't make it to the mountain).
Over here in Ann Arbor, he have gotten too much snow too quickly. So, we postponed our 7 hour meeting from today and moved it to tomorrow.
My team is doing nothing special...
We live on long island, so the snow storm hit us but its not enough to stop us. Robotics must go on.
Bcahn836
22-01-2005, 13:55
The school system canceled all extra curricular activities for this weekend. That includes the robotics team. :( :( :(
Karthik1
22-01-2005, 14:00
If I remember correctly in 2003 the ship date was extended because of a large snow storm, but I am not completely sure about this so some one please correct me if I am wrong.
Wayne C.
22-01-2005, 14:11
we sent the practice bot and sensor stuff home with Bharat. They have a programming party going all weekend long.
WC :cool:
jrocket567
22-01-2005, 14:12
I think they added on 2 or so days to certain teams that were nailed by the snow.. down in VA, we havent had school Thurs or Fri, but the 'skeleton' crew got together both days, but weve been forbidden to get together this weekend.. but even if were out monday, robotics must go on.. wether the school supports it or not!
j
p.s- those not fimiliar with Richmond snow- 1in of snow knock school out for 2+ days :-D ...now the more richmondish winter weather is here- freezing rain and sleet..
Beth Sweet
22-01-2005, 14:14
We had to cancel this morning because of the insane snowfall. This is not a good thing for a rookie team who's going to be pushing it to finish a robot in time anyways... Ahhh!!! Snow, snow go away, come back after build season, ea?
Tom McCurdy
22-01-2005, 14:16
We have like a foot and a half in some places and we are still meeting lol
go michigan
Sakura141
22-01-2005, 14:19
nya... we're so behind right now, we don't even have our ideas on paper... we needed today, but West Ottawa cancelled everything, I mean we are practically snowed in. *cries* We'll never get our robot done if this snow keeps bombarding us like it is...
We had our meeting today but around 9 o'clock or so they told us to start calling home for a ride but we could leave when we wanted too. But by the time I left the roads where really bad. I hope that the weather gets better so that everyone can have the robot built completely in time to ship.
What is this 'snow' you speak of? I live in Arizona! :cool:
Here in Canada EH. WE be watchin the snow come down from our shop. Not a lot of kids showed up but alot being accomplished. We be lovin this stuff. Everything sooo clean and crisp. AH, the Great White North, Land of The Blizzard.
What is this 'snow' you speak of? I live in Arizona! :cool:
Like sand storms but it melts.
Karthik1
22-01-2005, 14:41
Our meeting was canceled. We needed today to do robotics, because our school is weird and we have finals now so that means that we won't have enough time to meet during the week because all our members will be to busy studying.
Julia Magoolia
22-01-2005, 14:43
We're still meeting as scheduled, but we're prepared to cut out early if the snow gets to be too much. I don't think it's actually started yet... So we'll see!
Of course, this is NH.. we're used to it!
Yan Wang
22-01-2005, 14:44
We met at 9am today, hoping to go to 5pm as usual, but we stopped at 2pm due to the weather. The roads are thick with snow.
On MLK Jr Day, the normal meeting time of 5pm-9pm got cut off at 7:30pm.
We really hope FIRST extends the ship date again this year. The current ship date is during our 1-week winter break while last few years it's been the Tuesday afterwards.
Lisa Perez
22-01-2005, 14:45
We cancelled today's meeting (we have only reached 6" so far, but at least half of our team lives more than a 1/2-hour away)..
But hey, since we're still waiting on the aluminum, it's ok :P
silliewillie
22-01-2005, 14:46
we don't meet on the weekends anyway... so it's not too big of an issue for us. still working on stuff like programming at home though.
Rich Wong
22-01-2005, 15:11
we sent the practice bot and sensor stuff home with Bharat. They have a programming party going all weekend long.
WC :cool:
That was a smart move!
In NYC, everything was canceled this morning because the schools won't be open.
Our Manhattan FLL Tournament and the Sunday Long Island FLL Tournament was canceled.
I ran to the local library and got a couple of books, tapes, and DVDs for the long weekend. I still have my LEGO to play with... hehe. :)
Ashley Weed
22-01-2005, 15:11
It started pretty early here this morning, before 10 I think. We started to get "booted out" of the shop around 2 or so. A few went down to our playing field building at the other end of town, before heading home. I quickly decided against it when I had to put the Jeep in 4wd to get up a street in town. Oh well, ride out the storm, stay safe everyone. :]
roboticsguy1988
22-01-2005, 15:17
Our team decided to take today and Sunday off because of the storm........We got quit a bit of snow here. However 2 out of the 3 people in the software crew worked today........but that was because the lived really close, and software takes a lot of time.
With a major snow storm hitting the Midwest, and the Northeast, how is your team coping with the weather?
Are you doing anything special?
Well, as bad is the weather is in Idaho Falls, I would have to say that we are enjoying the sunshine and snowmobiles. But I would really love a storm to stop by and give us a little white-out. :D
tribotec_ca88
22-01-2005, 15:24
I would be absolutely thrilled if I looked out my window and saw snow...
We're literally melting down here, which, if you think about it, also slows us down...because I guess heat brings out the laziness in all of us :yikes: ...
Today the Delaware FIRST Lego league tournament had to be shortened to about 12:30 instead of ending at 4 or 5 like it was going to. the schedule got messed "buggerd" up a bit according to one adult. The day was cut short because about 5-10 teams didn't show because of fear of snow and it started to come down at about 9am ish and hasn't stopped yet. also I'm sure the MOE meeting tomorrow will be delayed or canceled. but i hope not. I hope anyone in the storm will drive safe and be smart on the road.
SirLancelot
22-01-2005, 15:38
Yep, we're hanging out at the tech room at school freezing and hoping for the snow to stop. It didn't halt our meeting today, though- a good 10 hours long. Getting a lot done, even with only a few people.
It just started coming down here in Worcester. We're supposed to get between 30-36" in the next 2 days
Steve Howland
22-01-2005, 15:58
We had the shop until 3:00 today and it had begun flurrying at about one. But we stayed as long as we could and got out before it got too bad, so that was good luck for us, though a school dance for tonight was canceled :(
Matt Leese
22-01-2005, 16:01
This reminds me of a story I heard from a friend. She was working for TRW at the time and they were working on a project proposal for the military. They were located in LA and right before the proposal was due, the LA riots broke out. Now TRW had a policy of never asking for an extension on a project proposal so they made sure it got done even with the riots ongoing. The interesting thing was that everyone else who was bidding for this project asked for an extension because of the LA riots. Except none of them were located in LA...
Matt
Yep.
Snow. (http://www.weather.com/weather/local/03049?from=breadcrumb)
Starting to come down now.
--Petey
Mark Pettit
22-01-2005, 16:12
I can't resist, sorry. . . .
It's nearly 80 in Phoenix, Arizona today. I rode my bike in to school this morning before the sun came up and shorts and a sweatshirt were sufficient to keep me warm enough.
Most of the team is sporting shorts/tee-shirts at the build today.
On Thursday a decision was made to postpone the Maryland FLL State Championship from today until next Sat. It's a lot of work to reschedule these events, but we have a great team here in Maryland led by a tireless FLL partner, Mark Heil.
It's too early in the season to even talk about extensions and I wouldn't hold my breath. There was a couple day extension granted in 2003, but many of the teams it was suppose to benefit, still couldn't get out to work on their robots. What a mess that was. That blizzard happened the last week of the build season.
Every team has it's own set of challenges. For some, it's the weather.
With a major snow storm hitting the Midwest, and the Northeast, how is your team coping with the weather?
Are you doing anything special?
Although our chances of going out this weekend are very slim, our web dsign team is still going to strive to get together somewhere and work on our site. Hopefully Monday will be a bit more cleared up so we can continue our hard work on this years robot.
I hope the snow stops (It's ironic for a HS student to wish for that). If this keeps out, we won't finish our robot on time. We've already lost a few days due to snow. But we have a few days off (5) before ship date which is good and bad. Good: We get longer time to work. Bad: Younger members who can't drive may have difficulty getting to meetings since they aren't already at the school building for school.
Morenoh149
22-01-2005, 17:05
yep lots of the snow (http://www.weather.com/weather/local/10455?lswe=10455&lwsa=WeatherLocalUndeclared)
We had to cancel the meting today around 1:00 and tommorrrow is canceled too!!?
It's gonna be had for us because we're a rookie team.
Anyway GO Blue Falcons !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
TEAM 1597 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Greg Needel
22-01-2005, 17:13
when i left this morning we had about a foot of old snow and since our shop has no windows we had no idea we had another foot on the gound by the time we left...good thing about living in the North east is they have plenty of snow removal equipment and once it stops it will only be a matter of time before the streets are cleared....the 1 good thing about the snow...fresh powder on the slopes and i am gonna hit them hard come tomorrow morning
cadman2k5
22-01-2005, 17:15
Still at meeting in NJ... we got 6-7 inches of snow... but were still rockin.
Kevin Kolodziej
22-01-2005, 17:23
I'm not sure how much we actually got here in Milwaukee (they predicted 10-15 inches), but the drifts in some places (like on top of and around my car) are at least 24 inches. The city was pretty much locked down this morning, so of course our meeting was cancelled. Its bright and sunny out right now though! Maybe I should go grab my shovel and start digging.... :rolleyes:
Kev
It's not hit 10 degrees yet today. We're looking at 10-20 inches of snow, and wind chill of -13 tomorrow.
--Petey
10 degrees? That's a heat wave up here in the North Country of New York, as we have not seen over 0 for a few days now. Often it is said that we don't get a lot of snow because it is too cold to snow. Ever try to start at car when its -25? (Thats not the wind chill.) We had our meeting today as usual today and that was the temp when we left for the high school. Good luck to all that have to dig out from the storm, and drive safely.
-Eric
We worked.
We finished out Tic Tac Tetra Tournament, intergrated the robot, named the robot painted the crate, took lots of pictures and video and did alot of work on the animation and the website.
People who needed to leave early left but we got things done.
Goobergunch
22-01-2005, 17:45
We cancelled our meeting today, but met Friday and plan to meet Monday.
Some of our team's committees met today at our facility - I guess the Bobcats didn't make it over to practice? I left just as the snow started falling..
I don't care so much if it snows today, as long as we don't have snow and frigid temperatures for our tailgating party at the UTC New England Regional! Last year it was WAY too cold to stand outside asking everyone to help eat the bagels and donuts!
tiffany34990
22-01-2005, 18:06
good luck guys w/ the snow-- the only snow we saw is in the pit--aka metal shavings which obv. don't look like snow
Robotics Dude
22-01-2005, 18:39
i know here in suffolk county it was declared a state of emergency. There is about 6-7 inches on the ground
On Thursday a decision was made to postpone the Maryland FLL State Championship from today until next Sat. It's a lot of work to reschedule these events, but we have a great team here in Maryland led by a tireless FLL partner, Mark Heil.
It's too early in the season to even talk about extensions and I wouldn't hold my breath. There was a couple day extension granted in 2003, but many of the teams it was suppose to benefit, still couldn't get out to work on their robots. What a mess that was. That blizzard happened the last week of the build season.
Every team has it's own set of challenges. For some, it's the weather.
Lucky.
Last year, we had to cancel our FLL tournament due to a blizzard.
--Petey
We had our meeting as usual. Not much happened. Although it was hard for some of us to get to our shop because no salt trucks were out yet. So on that note, I pulled out of my sub and almost slid into the corner gas station....pump(Gulp!). Other than that people just went out for a spin(Literally).
Kyle Love
22-01-2005, 19:43
We didn't really get much "new" snow today. We just had to get through the snow that fell last night. (Which was around 3-5 inches.) Good thing we didn't have to cancel because I would consider today a huge day of accomplishment. Hope all you guys getting more snow will make it out ok. :)
-Kyle
Pi Is Exactly 3
22-01-2005, 19:50
Our super. is kind of a snow-day-nazi (like the soup nazi, but with snowdays) so nothing is ever really canceled. We don't have meetings on sundays but if the snow affects things on monday, then that may be cancelled. I doubt that'll happen though.
Sscamatt
22-01-2005, 19:59
Our meeting ended at 1pm, but that's because we got kicked out of the school, not because of the snow. Now no meeting until Wednesday because of midterms.
geeknerd99
22-01-2005, 21:07
We have 2 inches on the ground here in Blacksburg, and our super. panicked and closed down everything... we already missed Thurs., Fri, and today's 10 hour meeting...
And there isn't even icing...
plutonium83
22-01-2005, 21:53
Yay! Sleding! Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
We had to cut short our meeting today by about 3 hours. We ran the meeting 9-1 instead of 9-4. In retrospect, I would have shortened the meeting to 9-12. It was really blizzarding by one here in NJ. Hopefully the roads will be clear by our Tuesday meeting.
Tytus Gerrish
22-01-2005, 22:02
What's Snow?
tkwetzel
22-01-2005, 22:02
I hope the snow stops (It's ironic for a HS student to wish for that). If this keeps out, we won't finish our robot on time. We've already lost a few days due to snow.
Maybe a good selling point when asking a school to start a team: FIRST students don't want snow days, they want to continue school so they can work on their robot.
Anyways...update: now there is easily over 12" of snow and it is still falling. Special things that I did: found out that with the current amount of tread on my tires and many other factors, my car will not reach any speed over 5 mph in the snow, if I press the gas, the tires just start spinning, so I did have a little fun in the parking lot with that. Me and some friends went to Walmart and got a snow tube and rope and snow-tubed behind a minivan. Lots of fun stuff, I love it...and as for tomorrow, I'll be on the slopes all day snowboarding!
Alex Cormier
22-01-2005, 22:04
yay 20 inches of snow by the end of tomrrow total for this weekend! i hate the cold but i like the way snow looks other then that i hate snow! go away :mad:
Aaron Lussier
22-01-2005, 22:05
Just finished shoveling, 8-10 inches all ready and its not supposed to stop till sometime tomorrow... ugg.
Stephen P
22-01-2005, 22:10
p.s- those not fimiliar with Richmond snow- 1in of snow knock school out for 2+ days :-D ...now the more richmondish winter weather is here- freezing rain and sleet..
I'm also on a Richmond team, and we weren't allowed to meet today and probably tomorrow due to a inch or so of icy mush. GRRRRRRR so frustrating. Anyhoo, I and a teammate took some stuff to my house to work on. But this kind of precipitation is no fun, could y'all up north Fed-Ex us some powder? Now I'm stuck with doing doughnuts on the ice in the school parking lot for fun.
MrAmazing
22-01-2005, 22:13
The School cancelled all after school activities for Friday and the weekend. So we are just doing some planning at home until Monday...
mtaman02
22-01-2005, 22:19
With a major snow storm hitting the Midwest, and the Northeast, how is your team coping with the weather?
Are you doing anything special?
Yeah Shoveling it all around =) The teams that I work with are taking it easy this weekend but god willing next weekend will be very busy
NYC has close to about 6" - 12" down so far
Karthik1
22-01-2005, 22:30
Well good things can come out of this. Our team members have been shoveling drive ways for found-raising. I guess every cloud does have a silver lining.
The snowstorm reminds me that Rochester has had some of it's worst snowstorms in the first week of March which is the week that we have the FInger Lakes regional.
I certainly hope it doesn't happen this year.
Jay H 237
22-01-2005, 22:58
Our team isn't meeting this weekend so it's not affecting us. If they close school on Monday then we'll lose a day since our stuff will be locked up until Tuesday.
I don't have an exact amount of snowfall where I am right now. My house is on top of a mountain and it's very windy right now so the snow is blowing around and drifting. One area of my driveway is still bare pavement while the area behind the house is covered with a big drift. Kinda funny to see, my Toyota is clean while my Chevy, which is nosed in behind the house, is buried.
Stephen Kowski
23-01-2005, 00:41
how is your team coping with the weather?
the students are coping well, but the mentors are just freaking out
Are you doing anything special?
Not really.....but maybe we should go to the beach in celebration? :D
Pat Fairbank
23-01-2005, 01:58
We got a few inches of snow here in Montreal today, I suppose it's from the same storm you're going through down there. The drive home was a bit slippery, since they haven't gotten around to dumping some of the hundred-thousand or so metric tonnes of salt they spread in this city every year. It's been a bit too chilly here to snow the past few days, with temperatures somewhere in the minus 30s. However, us being Canadian, it doesn't affect our team at all. In fact, in my five years of high school, and despite feet of snow and lots of freezing rain, I've never had a single snow day... except for that time when that toilet blew up... but that's another story.
Still snowing in good ole Southern New Hampshire.
Drifts, too. Out the window to my left the snow is 3 feet deep. Out the window to my right I can see grass.
Predicted total snowfall is 20-30 inches.
--Petey
Rich Wong
23-01-2005, 10:58
Blizzard Saturday:
Read CD postings, go shovel snow, read CD postings, go shovel snow.... (repeat)
Blizzard plans for Sunday:
Wake up read CD postings, go shovel snow, read CD postings, go shovel snow... (repeat)
:yikes:
bigqueue
23-01-2005, 13:08
With a major snow storm hitting the Midwest, and the Northeast, how is your team coping with the weather?
Are you doing anything special?
I have plenty of fuel for my snow blower.....a few DVD's should the cable system go legs up....and plenty of hot chocolate do defrost me after my snow clearing adventures.
As for the robot....well, I can think and drink hot chocolate you know.
-Quentin
:yikes:
Ryan Albright
23-01-2005, 13:14
Got to love Florida.
Only thing we have to worry about is hurricanes and that is during the off season. We all were saying how we were hating Florida during the hurricanes, well now this is when we are rejoicing becasue we are in Florida
Erin Rapacki
23-01-2005, 13:19
I'm loving this Snow Storm!
Finally, all ambition to go drive somewhere in order to waste time has ended because the roads are bad. So, instead, I've been able to catch up on a lot of FIRST-related stuff on my home computer. Woohoo!
UlTiMaTeP
23-01-2005, 13:48
We all plowed through the snow to get to our meeting here in florida, i almost got stuck!
From Weather.com
Severe Weather Alert from the National Weather Service
...BARNSTABLE MA-BLOCK ISLAND RI-BRISTOL RI-CENTRAL MIDDLESEX COUNTY MA- DUKES MA-EASTERN ESSEX MA-EASTERN KENT RI-EASTERN NORFOLK MA- EASTERN PLYMOUTH MA-NANTUCKET MA-NEWPORT RI-NORTHERN BRISTOL MA- NORTHWEST PROVIDENCE RI-SOUTHEAST MIDDLESEX MA- SOUTHEAST PROVIDENCE RI-SOUTHERN BRISTOL MA-SOUTHERN PLYMOUTH MA- SOUTHERN WORCESTER MA-SUFFOLK MA-WASHINGTON RI-WESTERN ESSEX MA- WESTERN KENT RI-WESTERN NORFOLK MA-WESTERN PLYMOUTH MA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF... ATTLEBOROUGH... BARNSTABLE... BARRINGTON... BEVERLY... BOSTON... BRISTOL... BROCKTON... BROOKLINE... CAMBRIDGE... FALL RIVER... FALMOUTH... FRAMINGHAM... FRANKLIN... GLOUCESTER... LAWRENCE... LOWELL... LYNN... MILFORD... NANTUCKET... NEW BEDFORD... NEWBURYPORT... NEWPORT... NEWTON... NORTH ATTLEBOROUGH... PLYMOUTH... PROVIDENCE... QUINCY... SOMERVILLE... SOUTH KINGSTOWN... TAUNTON... VINEYARD HAVEN... WALTHAM... WARWICK... WEYMOUTH... WOONSOCKET AND WORCESTER 846 AM EST SUN JAN 23 2005
... BLIZZARD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM EST THIS EVENING...
AN EXTREME SITUATION IS OCCURRING IN EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS. FOUR INCHES OF SNOW WAS REPORTED IN 25 MINUTES AT CHELMSFORD MASSACHUSETTS SHORTLY AFTER 7 AM AS THE LAST EXCESSIVE BAND OF POWDERY SNOW SWINGS SOUTHEASTWARD.
THE NORTH SHORE IS BEING BLITZED BY SNOWFALL RATES OF ALMOST 4 INCHES PER HOUR. IT MAY LAST ONLY ANOTHER HOUR OR TWO BUT ITS A COMPLETE SHORT TERM PARALYSER.
IT IS SPREADING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH INTO BOSTON NOW AND WILL CONTINUE THERE THROUGH AT LEAST 11 AM. THIS BIG SNOW BAND WILL ARRIVE ON THE SOUTH SHORE BETWEEN 10 AM AND 11 AM AND THEN CROSS THE UPPER CAPE BETWEEN 11 AM AND 2 PM. IT TENDS TO LAST ABOUT 2 HOURS. THAT MEANS 8 INCHES OF SNOW MAY FALL IN PORTIONS OF THE BOSTON AREA IN A 2 HOUR PERIOD DURING MID AND LATE MORNING.
FINAL BLIZZARD TOTALS FOR MOST OF EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS WILL RANGE BETWEEN 28 AND 38 INCHES SETTING A NEW SINGLE STORM RECORD FOR BOSTON... SURPASSING THE AMOUNT FROM THE GREAT BLIZZARD OF 78 AND THE PRESIDENTS DAY STORM OF 2003.
ISOLATED TOTALS OF 40 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE. VULNERABLE LOCATIONS FOR NEARLY 40 INCH STORM TOTALS ARE ESSEX... MIDDLESEX... PLYMOUTH... NORFOLK AND BARNSTABLE COUNTIES IN MASSACHUSETTS.
EVEN IF THIS STORM COMES UP SLIGHTLY SHORT OF RECORD... IT IS A DANGEROUS STORM WITH THE WORST OCCURRING NOW INTO EARLY THIS AFTERNOON AS WINDS STRENGTHEN AND TEMPERATURES FALL TO NEAR 10 ABOVE.
NANTUCKET MAY END UP WITH ONLY 12 TO 22 INCHES... BUT BLIZZARD CONDITIONS WILL DESCEND ON THAT ISLAND LATER THIS MORNING OR THIS AFTERNOON.
NORTHERLY WINDS WILL BE GUSTING AROUND 75 MPH ON BARNSTABLE AND NANTUCKET COUNTIES. THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS LIFE THREATENING STORM BECAUSE OF SEVERE BLOWING AND DRIFTING OF THE NEWLY FALLEN SNOW AND TUMBLING TEMPERATURES.
SCATTERED POWER OUTAGES HAVE OCCURRED THIS MORNING AS WINDS ALL ALONG THE COAST GUST BETWEEN 55 AND 65 MPH ON BOSTONS NORTH AND SOUTH SHORES AND EVEN ON NARRAGANSETT BAY. A 78 MPH WIND GUST WAS REPORTED IN EAST FALMOUTH BY A SPOTTER.
THERE HAS BEEN ISOLATED DAMAGE REPORTED TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
POWER OUTAGES MAY BECOME WIDESPREAD THIS AFTERNOON ON THE CAPE AND NANTUCKET WHEN THE BRUNT OF WIND HITS THERE... BETWEEN 75 AND 80 MPH.
DRIFTS OF AT LEAST 6 FEET ARE OCCURRING.
OVER CAPE COD... NANTUCKET AND MARTHAS VINEYARD... THE SNOW HAS BEEN OF A WETTER CONSISTENCY EARLY TODAY AND THERE HAS BEEN SOME RAIN ON NANTUCKET. THIS RAISES THE ANTE FOR POWER OUTAGES IN EXTREME SOUTHEAST NEW ENGLAND WITH THE SNOW CLINGING TO WIRES AND BRANCHES.
ALL THE HEAVY SNOW WILL TAPER TO SNOW SHOWERS LATER THIS AFTERNOON OR EVENING... BUT CONSIDERABLE BLOWING AND DRIFTING WILL PERSIST INTO LATE THIS EVENING ACROSS EXPOSED AREAS.
THERE IS A CHANCE OF BLIZZARD CONDITIONS CONTINUING ON PARTS OF CAPE COD INTO EARLY TONIGHT AS HEAVY SNOW SQUALLS POUND PARTS OF THE CAPE. A BLIZZARD WARNING IS ISSUED WHEN SUSTAINED WIND SPEEDS OR FREQUENT GUSTS OF OVER 35 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH CONSIDERABLE FALLING AND/OR BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW. WHITEOUT CONDITIONS OCCUR AT TIMES. THOSE VENTURING OUTDOORS MAY BECOME LOST OR DISORIENTED... SO PERSONS IN THE WARNING AREA ARE ADVISED TO STAY INDOORS.
--Petey
KORN_lover_2007
23-01-2005, 14:38
Here in eastern Kansas we don't have as much problems with snow as we do with ice. Usually we'll be at a meeting in the evening and everyone will start looking up the weather on the internet. If it says it is getting icy, we will be allowed to leave early if we want. Otherwise we just drive slow.
Heretic121
23-01-2005, 15:39
that weather channel report was the real deal...
RI earlier today was put into a "State of Emergency" as all of the state is covered in at least 20" of snow... we got about 2ft here in Newport, and thankfully its just high winds at the moment... the thing with the winds is some spots have 3in of snow... and in drifts its upwards of 4 feet!!! well the main good thing about this is no school tommorow has already been declared...
Nitroxextreme
23-01-2005, 15:56
SNOW
robotics put on hold for 3 days
that weather channel report was the real deal...
RI earlier today was put into a "State of Emergency" as all of the state is covered in at least 20" of snow... we got about 2ft here in Newport, and thankfully its just high winds at the moment... the thing with the winds is some spots have 3in of snow... and in drifts its upwards of 4 feet!!! well the main good thing about this is no school tommorow has already been declared...
Yeah. It's the same here in Massachuessetss. Of course they call it a state of snow emergency. :rolleyes:
Only thing we have to worry about is hurricanes and that is during the off season. We all were saying how we were hating Florida during the hurricanes, well now this is when we are rejoicing becasue we are in Florida
Yeah but I would take a snowstorm over a hurricane anyday just because I know everything is still going to be intact.
how is your team coping with the weather?
Many team members have been squinting to preserve their eyesight, as seen in this (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=33296) picture.
Are you doing anything special?
Well, I had to take off my sweatshirt before I went outside to drive the kitbot yesterday, and I had to move the OI out of the sun, because the plastic was getting too hot.
(I'll get my comeuppance soon enough... life-long Californian moving to Pittsburgh. Brrr.) :ahh:
(I'll get my comeuppance soon enough... life-long Californian moving to Pittsburgh. Brrr.) :ahh:
It's not *THAT* bad... I moved out here to Mass from CA my whole life and it hasn't really bothered me yet :)
O I am sick to death
of all this snow
the falling temperatures
and all it's woes
I truly feel just like an Eskimo
but spring, it's true
that it is overdue
and so I button up my jacket
and I face the season's chill
but of this awful weather
I have truly had my fill
I truly love beauty
of a simple daffodil
I wish that spring would come today
Ikeyballz
23-01-2005, 16:59
Snowing? well..over here in Hawaii, its kind of more "humid" then snowy.. :D
Well, as was said, our Rhode Island state of emergency is putting a damper on things.
No one has school tomorrow apparently, and I cancelled our meeting because people drive up to an hour to get to Brown where we work... we come from all over.
On Saturday we started a meeting, and then left early... my mom continued to yell at me about what takes precidence: safe driving or robotics, needless to say I couldn't quite answer....
I've never seen his much snow ever!!!! I miss summer.
Bcahn836
23-01-2005, 19:52
The snow storm is gone the roads are clear , and there is no school on Monday?I hope they have a good reason or at least a reason at all. No school means no meeting :( :( and time just keeps ticking away as that deadline gets closer and closer
We kind of know what you're being through,not being able to work, cause our kits arrived here only last Friday due to customs bureaucracy, but on the other hand that wasn't that bad because we used this time to think about the strategy and design of the robot.
Ryan Albright
24-01-2005, 11:57
Yeah but I would take a snowstorm over a hurricane anyday just because I know everything is still going to be intact.
I wouldn't when it snows it stays for day's, maybe weeks. When a Hurricane roles through its only here for a couple of hours. The building codes of Florida after hurricane Andrew are ridiculous anyway that most newer houses and remodels and so forth stay intact. Our biggest thing is power, like you guys are dealing with power outages.
And plus look how long Florida went without getting a direct hit from a hurricane
Andrew 1992
4 hurricanes 2004
12 years
You guys deal with snow every year
nkauj_ntxoo16
24-01-2005, 14:14
During our breakfast club on the 22nd of January, we had a major snow storm that day.. Few of the team members did not show up to the meeting, but some team members, coaches and engineers have managed to show up. I guess sometimes we just work through even some of the harsh weathers. :yikes:
Cyber Punk 234
24-01-2005, 14:18
Well its cold here brrrr
but we still are working hard.
Rain, wind, sleet, or snow.
tkwetzel
24-01-2005, 15:10
The snow came back today. In under an hour we have already accumulated about 2". That is on top of the 12" we got on Saturday!
I wouldn't when it snows it stays for day's, maybe weeks. When a Hurricane roles through its only here for a couple of hours. The building codes of Florida after hurricane Andrew are ridiculous anyway that most newer houses and remodels and so forth stay intact. Our biggest thing is power, like you guys are dealing with power outages.
What power outages????? The only power outages I can think of are the people close to the shore in Massachusetts which ironically had hurricane force winds.
The snow storm is gone the roads are clear , and there is no school on Monday?I hope they have a good reason or at least a reason at all. No school means no meeting and time just keeps ticking away as that deadline gets closer and closer
Opps I read your location and it said you are in California. I didn't realize it was California Maryland. Personally I think it's a smart thing to do. Here in Boston the roads have only now become clean enough where you are not risking life and limb driving.
Ryan Albright
24-01-2005, 15:26
[QUOTE=Adam Y.]What power outages????? The only power outages I can think of are the people close to the shore in Massachusetts which ironically had hurricane force windsQUOTE]
Well thats what i heard down here on the news, and i can only believe what the news tells me
preussrobotics
24-01-2005, 15:27
In San Diego, it was 78 deg at the beach, but I watched the snow on TV!
Sorry all! I couldn't resist rubbing it in!
I was soo mad today, all the other schools and school distrects in the upper to mid part of Delaware and parts of MD, PA and NJ were all closed expect for mine. I dont think that was fair to the kids who had to stand outside in the -3 degree weather. I am happy I didnt go today :)
Katie Reynolds
24-01-2005, 15:34
I was soo mad today, all the other schools and school distrects in the upper to mid part of Delaware and parts of MD, PA and NJ were all closed expect for mine. I dont think that was fair to the kids who had to stand outside in the -3 degree weather. I am happy I didnt go today :)Last week, the Upper Peninsula of Michigan got *tons* (read: 3-4 feet) of snow and the windchill was in the -40s ... Michigan Tech was the only school in the UP that was open, one of the days! :yikes:
In San Diego, it was 78 deg at the beach, but I watched the snow on TV!
Sorry all! I couldn't resist rubbing it in!So what. There is practically no way you guys can ever get a day off from school.:) It's an interesting concept when you live in an area to get large enough storms to close entire cities. Of course there goes another day of robotics.
Ashley Weed
24-01-2005, 15:44
Can it possibly snow anymore! LOL
..... no, really.... it stopped snowing here, yesterday afternoon. I walked out of class around 2..... Guess What! It's snowing again! Gotta Love NEPA! :eek:
Sachiel7
25-01-2005, 22:28
Does anyone know if FIRST is considering a small time extension? I know many teams here who have missed up to a week (us included, even though we're not in public school) of meeting and build. Its setting us behind a bit.
So far, I haven't heard any mention of an extension. What do you think?
BoyWithCape195
25-01-2005, 22:33
We have not had meetings so far this week. We are supposed to have one tomorrow...but there's supposed to be another 4 to 8 inches of snow tonight and tomorrow all day :ahh:
BlazinFire47
25-01-2005, 22:53
As what nkauj_ntxoo16 has said, yes few had showed up and most of us stayed to get the job done in a way. I left my house half an hour before the usual and just barely got there through the unplowed roads from the great evil beneth. Yes though many of our team members did show it was all out of determination for the game and FIRST all in all. So for those who went through this dreaded time thank you for your detemination on meeting the deadline(3 weeks away!!!!) on time. Cya later guys and gals!!!! :D
In San Diego, it was 78 deg at the beach, but I watched the snow on TV!
Sorry all! I couldn't resist rubbing it in!
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FreakyAntelope
26-01-2005, 07:17
Well, here in Boston, school is cancled for *another* day. I'm not complaining or anything, but I got up at 4 this morning to finish my english paper... not to mention that I havn't been to Robotics in a week! :ahh:
Maybe we'll have robotics regardless...
- Toby
Mike Betts
26-01-2005, 07:44
Does anyone know if FIRST is considering a small time extension? I know many teams here who have missed up to a week (us included, even though we're not in public school) of meeting and build. Its setting us behind a bit.
So far, I haven't heard any mention of an extension. What do you think?
All of the regional venues are already booked. I seriously doubt that there will be an extension.
our mentors won't let us have meetings because of the snow... I believe we have 28-30 inches of snow and now it is snowing again and i guess we are getting 6 to 9 inches... jeeeeeez... I haven't been to school since last thursday!!! almost a full week off... hehehe...
we are gonna have to like kill ourselves trying to make up time...
Woke up this morning to very heavy snow... we probably have 4-5" already, and it's only supposed to get worse as the day goes on.
Sachiel7
26-01-2005, 12:52
Originally Posted by Mike Betts:
All of the regional venues are already booked. I seriously doubt that there will be an extension.
Actually, in the past FIRST has extended the shipping deadline by a few days (usually 2-3 days) due to teams being unable to meet because of the weather. They do not change the dates of the regionals. I think many teams missing up to a week of build could be ground for an extension. I'm just wondering if FIRST is considering one. My team, personally, is meeting for the First time in a week tonight.
All of the regional venues are already booked. I seriously doubt that there will be an extension.
I wouldn't be surprised if First extended the deadline like the other time it did. This time we have had such heavy snow snowers so close to each other. Boston is getting another 10 inches today.
BoyWithCape195
26-01-2005, 13:34
We have not had meetings so far this week. We are supposed to have one tomorrow...but there's supposed to be another 4 to 8 inches of snow tonight and tomorrow all day :ahh:
Yep, and as I thought...we have no school today, so that means no robotics :( That makes it four days since our last meeting :mad:
indieFan
26-01-2005, 13:37
I wouldn't be surprised if First extended the deadline like the other time it did. This time we have had such heavy snow snowers so close to each other. Boston is getting another 10 inches today.
As I recall, FIRST only extended the deadline due to the fact that *shipping* for the teams that were in the storm areas would be all but impossible.
indieFan
Snowed in??? Cmon guys, if you're from the area, then traveling to the school should be a piece of cake. Our school cancelled Monday and Wednesday of this week. I'm looking at 6 diehards right now milling/turning/cutting out parts right now. We've brought in pizza for them for dinner and such. The students even stated they've accomplished more than they would have during a regular school day, reason being, NO DISTRACTIONS... Make use of the time where there is no lines for the machines.............Let the snow fly.......... 30 inches and counting here in Leominster, MA
we aren't allowed to have build because its "unsafe"... I haven't been to school in 7 days... jeeeeeeez...
BoyWithCape195
26-01-2005, 17:15
Snowed in??? Cmon guys, if you're from the area, then traveling to the school should be a piece of cake. Our school cancelled Monday and Wednesday of this week. I'm looking at 6 diehards right now milling/turning/cutting out parts right now. We've brought in pizza for them for dinner and such. The students even stated they've accomplished more than they would have during a regular school day, reason being, NO DISTRACTIONS... Make use of the time where there is no lines for the machines.............Let the snow fly.......... 30 inches and counting here in Leominster, MA
Well when school is canceled, no one is allowed in the school, and every activity is canceled. The janitors don't let any one in, a they themselves leave really early in the morning.
mgreenley
26-01-2005, 17:38
So far this year our team has held it's meetings, though we did shorten the closing time to noon on the day of the snow-storm (Actually it was a district-wide decision). As for working through snow-storms, I have only one outstanding piece of advice to give. Be careful. If getting to robotics means that you have an epic to recant come the school week, then think of how difficult it would be for EMS services to reach you should anything go awry in the shop. Snow days are good days for media, chairmans, animation, business plan, programming and other non-tool activities.
As for previous years, we we're involved in the snow-storm two years ago and have been snowed in. All said though, the time makes no special demands than any other time; saftey is always the chief concern in our shops.
Michael Greenley, Team 341 "Miss Daisy"
my team met on saturday and we left around 6pm due to the storm...we got about 24 ft here in RI so sun and mon we could not meet, yesterday, we had a snow day and we met from 10-2ish...this week we all have midterms and the snow...today we ended up w/ half a day of school but there was a smaller storm today so we lost build time
JakeGallagher
26-01-2005, 20:46
Last weekend we canceled the Sunday work session because of the 20" snowstorm headed our way. Today another storm caused our school to cancel all after-school activities...making us cancel a late meeting (we were supposed to go until 8 tonight). Hopefully we'll have better luck for the rest of the week and into the weekend... o.O
Kristen_267
30-01-2005, 12:51
So what. There is practically no way you guys can ever get a day off from school.:) It's an interesting concept when you live in an area to get large enough storms to close entire cities.
Not true. Hurricane Days! You'd be surprised how much school we got off this year due to hurricanes...in some areas, school was cancelled for 2 or so weeks!!
But i guess that, outside of Hurricane Season, we just have to wait for the weekends! :)
We would have gone back to school on friday but "the pipes were frozen"... I bet they just didn't want to open school for one day... haha...
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