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mwmac 10-01-2017 19:04

Snow Days 2017
 
Today marks the 5th consecutive snow day for all schools in the greater Boise area. Any other areas getting hit like this? BTW, forecast for tomorrow, morning rain changing to snow and temperature dropping to 19...

Philip Arola 10-01-2017 19:06

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The Portland/Metro area in Oregon is having similar problems (but not 5 days in a row). Tomorrow isn't looking good, considering the catastrophe that mid-December was (kids being stuck at schools until later than 10 pm).

[sarcasm]Yay for Oregon's salt-less roads![/sarcasm]

Big-b 10-01-2017 19:07

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Here in North Carolina, today is our second snow day, but it seems unlikely we will have a third as snow is melting.

TDav540 10-01-2017 19:08

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Central Virginia has been out of school for five days as well. Likely to clear up later this week, but I wouldn't be surprised for the first day of HS classes to start on Monday.

MikLast 10-01-2017 19:15

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Medical Lake HS (and most of spokane) was closed Monday, and we were unable to meet due to not knowing the school policy on meeting. In the wake of an unfortunate accident over the weekend with one of the students at our school, it is unlikely that we will allow us to meet if tehre is a snow day to keep us safe. Chances are theres going to be more snow days this week alone, and in turn means more days lost.

andrewda 10-01-2017 19:32

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Same issue in Eugene OR area. Today is our first full day back from winter break, after 4 additional snow days before winter break.

AiDontKno 10-01-2017 20:03

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We've been hit by heavy snow and freezing rain up here

logank013 10-01-2017 20:45

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Have any of you been able to meet this season? I'm just curious. Best of luck to you all.

The Ginger 10-01-2017 21:27

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today in Minnesota we had a heat wave of 16 degrees (without wind chill), along with a light 3-ish inches of slop that caused the back of your vehicle to slide when slowly turning at 5 MPH... School was alright today, there was one bus that ran a little late...

you southerners are so lucky... :(

It dosent help that our school has a rep for no snow days...
even when the rest of the state cancels, cough2016cough

MonroeM 10-01-2017 21:50

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Here in central michigan we had today off and just heard that we have tomorrow too.

On snow days we meet a 12:00 pm if members can make it to the school safely.

mman1506 10-01-2017 21:54

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Even being up in Canada I can count the number of snow days I've had on my left hand. Can't imagine 5 days in a row. My school board is known for doing stuff like this:

dmorewood 10-01-2017 22:43

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Quote:

Originally Posted by MikLast (Post 1628901)
Medical Lake HS (and most of spokane) was closed Monday, and we were unable to meet due to not knowing the school policy on meeting. In the wake of an unfortunate accident over the weekend with one of the students at our school, it is unlikely that we will allow us to meet if tehre is a snow day to keep us safe. Chances are theres going to be more snow days this week alone, and in turn means more days lost.

Was this student one of your team members? I offer my condolences to your team and anyone else who may have known him. This is an excellent example though of making safe decisions about going in on snow days, if the roads seem too bad don't risk it. Your life is not worth risking to make it into a high school robotics lab.

Jay O'Donnell 10-01-2017 23:12

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In all honesty the fact that teams from snowy areas don't get destroyed every year is pretty amazing. Between 1058 and 229 I've always missed out on a decent chunk of meeting time.

logank013 10-01-2017 23:38

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Also, with school cancelled, do your schools allow you to meet at school despite cancellation? I know ours won't let us meet if school is cancelled or after school activities are cancelled. If they do let you meet during snow days, I hope you take advantage of that extra time. ;). Once again, good luck to you all.

TheBoulderite 10-01-2017 23:41

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Originally Posted by mwmac (Post 1628893)
Today marks the 5th consecutive snow day for all schools in the greater Boise area. Any other areas getting hit like this? BTW, forecast for tomorrow, morning rain changing to snow and temperature dropping to 19...

WOW. We had one in Colorado last Thursday, but that's been it. Have you guys been able to work at all? Hope the weather clears up soon.

MikLast 10-01-2017 23:55

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Quote:

Originally Posted by dmorewood (Post 1629009)
Was this student one of your team members? I offer my condolences to your team and anyone else who may have known him. This is an excellent example though of making safe decisions about going in on snow days, if the roads seem too bad don't risk it. Your life is not worth risking to make it into a high school robotics lab.

While not on our team, many on the robotics team are also in the school band, which he was a part of. He was going to JROTC drill practice when it happened.

maxnz 11-01-2017 00:01

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Here in St. Paul, MN we almost never get a snow/cold day. St. Paul Public Schools says that school is canceled if the temperature is below -25 Fahrenheit or the wind chill is -35 Fahrenheit or if it is nearly impossible for buses to make it to school (i.e. the plows can't finish clearing a snowfall of more than 1 ft before 6:15 when buses start picking kids up). I can count less than 10 snow/cold days since Kindergarten (and I'm a senior).

To all you in the south and northwest: stay safe and brainstorm ideas to share when you finally meet.

gcgeobuff 11-01-2017 02:06

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Team Tators is lucky enough to be able to meet for better or for worse on snow days but I shudder to think about the other local teams.

CrazyMohawk 11-01-2017 02:09

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We're on the WA side of the Portland area and we've been in huge conference calls for the past couple days doing strategy sessions. Tonight was supposed to be our first meeting since leavening our kickoff event (witch was almost canceled) but the school shut us down 10min in.

onenerdyguy 11-01-2017 08:51

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Team 5929 meets until they kick us out of the building, forcibly.

Since our coaches are the Tech. Coordinator and Head Maintenance for the district, who have access to the building 24/7, heat/light controls, and know how to run a snow plow, that means we're always here.

sidagarwal 11-01-2017 09:34

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Quote:

Originally Posted by logank013 (Post 1629046)
Also, with school cancelled, do your schools allow you to meet at school despite cancellation? I know ours won't let us meet if school is cancelled or after school activities are cancelled. If they do let you meet during snow days, I hope you take advantage of that extra time. ;). Once again, good luck to you all.

I am from North Carolina, and we have not met yet. Watched kickoff online. And no our school board does not allow anyone to meet when there is school. Kinda sucks and good luck to you as well

FrankJ 11-01-2017 10:04

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We had a 56 degree snow day yesterday. :] To be fair to the school system the northern part of the county is very hilly, and the northern suburbs still had ice on the neighborhood streets in the AM. The county uses a fusion powered heater to remove ice from neighborhood streets. Slow but sure.

By school rules we have not been able to meet as a team since Sat.

cscottm 11-01-2017 11:16

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This is where it's nice to live where regular snow is a thing. Sure the roads get bad, but pretty much everything still runs. (Twin cities have been snowing for 3 days off and on now). My city has it's own massive snow plow fleet, as do most northern cities, and I (senior in HS) have never had a snow day. The only day were we didn't have school was a cold day, because accounting for wind it was like -60 outside.

Bad weather aside, it is rather unfortunate for most teams, but I suppose I can only remind everyone to stay safe, and remember that staying unharmed is more important than robotics.


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