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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?

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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!!!

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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

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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

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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

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We ended our meeting early today (5 hours early) and it still has not begun to snow. That and we have no meeting tomorrow.

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Can you say snowshoing? We're snowed in here at the shop in Southeastern Mighigan. We'll find a way out sooner or later.

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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.

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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?!

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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).

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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.

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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.

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The school system canceled all extra curricular activities for this weekend. That includes the robotics team. :( :( :(

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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.

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we sent the practice bot and sensor stuff home with Bharat. They have a programming party going all weekend long.

WC :cool:

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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..

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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?

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We have like a foot and a half in some places and we are still meeting lol

go michigan

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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...

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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.

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What is this 'snow' you speak of? I live in Arizona! :cool:

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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.

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Like sand storms but it melts.

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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

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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.

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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. :)

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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. :]

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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.

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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

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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: ...

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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.

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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.

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It just started coming down here in Worcester. We're supposed to get between 30-36" in the next 2 days

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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 :(

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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

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Yep.
Snow.

Starting to come down now.

--Petey

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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yep lots of the snow

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 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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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

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Still at meeting in NJ... we got 6-7 inches of snow... but were still rockin.

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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

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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

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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.

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We cancelled our meeting today, but met Friday and plan to meet Monday.

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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!

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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

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i know here in suffolk county it was declared a state of emergency. There is about 6-7 inches on the ground

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Lucky.

Last year, we had to cancel our FLL tournament due to a blizzard.

--Petey

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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).

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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

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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.

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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.

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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...

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Yay! Sleding! Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

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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.

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What's Snow?

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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!

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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:

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Just finished shoveling, 8-10 inches all ready and its not supposed to stop till sometime tomorrow... ugg.

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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.

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The School cancelled all after school activities for Friday and the weekend. So we are just doing some planning at home until Monday...

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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the students are coping well, but the mentors are just freaking out

Not really.....but maybe we should go to the beach in celebration? :D

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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.

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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

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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:

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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:

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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

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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!

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We all plowed through the snow to get to our meeting here in florida, i almost got stuck!

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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

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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.

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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...

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SNOW
robotics put on hold for 3 days

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Yeah. It's the same here in Massachuessetss. Of course they call it a state of snow emergency. :rolleyes:
Yeah but I would take a snowstorm over a hurricane anyday just because I know everything is still going to be intact.

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Many team members have been squinting to preserve their eyesight, as seen in this picture.
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:

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It's not *THAT* bad... I moved out here to Mass from CA my whole life and it hasn't really bothered me yet :)

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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

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Snowing? well..over here in Hawaii, its kind of more "humid" then snowy.. :D

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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.

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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

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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

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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:

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Well its cold here brrrr
but we still are working hard.
Rain, wind, sleet, or snow.

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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!

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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.
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.

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[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

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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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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 :)

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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: