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Know what you mean, cept davenport hardly ever closes. We work in a machine shop, and quite a few people on the team have a key, so snow day's are generally a time to get a lot of work done (if the parents let me drive). We have a simple policy when it comes to snow days. On our team, you are only allowed a certain number of absences, so we take roll every night. On a snow day, we still have the meeting (often meeting earlier) and just don't take roll. If you're there, thats great, but if you can't make it, oh well. I remember right before Christmas, we were busy modifying the drive system on last year's robot for Bald Eagle Days, and a handful of us were in that shop darn near every day trying to get the robot ready when it started snowing. That was just an excuse of we didn't want to drive in the weather, and worked till it quit snowing.
Malhon

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I thought '04 was due to KOP issues... Both years, 330 was glad of the extension due to two more full days of being able to work on (or repair) the robot.

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This is the reason I love living in Arizona...
Todays Weather:
Mostly Sunny, High 71
Low 59

Current Conditions: Sunny 70 degrees

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Today's weather in Solon, OH:

Sunny
High: 15°F
Low: 9°F
Current: 10°F

The school closing announcements were made last night because it was too cold for salt to work. Because of this, there was no way to retrieve supplies to work on the robot.

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We have had 3 snows days but we have one other problem our fearless mentor takes up the sole role of plowing his communities roads and driveways so we are unable to during the snow storm generally. However we did arrange for another mentor to come in once but typically we have to close down a lot this year because of the biggest snow season in three decades in chicago.

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Today's weather in Toronto, ON, Canada

-15C
feels like -30C :)

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If you get out of school just because of -5 degree and 14" of snow...you are lucky....if you live where I am from we just had a week of -50 degrees with wind chill and still going to school.

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I've only had one snowday in the past 5 years...we don't get them. As anti-politically correct as this may sound, the NYC school system exists to be daycare for the poor, not to educate youth. Any knowledge gained is a side effect. As such, schools must be open in all weather, so the kids can get breakfast and lunch. It's a sad state of affairs, but it unfortunatley won;t change anytime soon.

Oh, and the weather right now outside my window: 18F degrees, 35 mph gusts.

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Your probably right, I didn't pay as much attention then as I do now to that type of stuff. But I thought there was a storm around that time, it might not of been as bad as 2003, but I could be wrong. We were also glad for the extra two day as well both years. Of well, it doesn't really matter, unless its to educate others and me.

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We have had 4 snow days so far during build season, including today.
We have also had 2 teacher PD days (so students were not at school) and
had to get back to school. There were 3 other days (the nights before snow days) where it was so bad they would not let us stay. We work in the school, so we can work when they say. So basically we have lost a full week. It really hurts. :(

There can be more snow days after ship, but please no more this week.
We built in some days, but this is getting out of control.

Carolyn

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I'm pretty sure most of the other South-Central Ontario teams can back me up when I say that the American school boards are pretty wussy when it comes to a little bit of the white stuff. Here in Durham Region there have been exactly ZERO snow days this year, and its nearly been our snowiest winter ever. They're talking about shattering 70+ year old records, and the most they do is cancel the buses. There have been at least 3 different occasions where we received 20+cm (8"+) in a given night this year. Even when there are snow days, its just more time to work on the robot. But unlike some schools, by the sound of it, we're in every weekend too.

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My school sucks, we had 22 in of snow in North Ogden, Utah and they didn't even cancel school! There have also been other times where we got a lot of snow, one day over 700(out of 1800) students didn't even go to school when there was a foot.

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My school is residential, and it makes everyone go home every 6 weeks for an extended weekend. Well one of these weekends happens to fall on Feb 14 through Feb 18 (the last 4 days!!!). Last year we moved all of our stuff to a teammate's garage where several space heaters weren't able to bring the temperature above 40 degrees. We finished the robot somehow though. This year we are moving to my basement, which is at least insulated so it should be much better.

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Yeah, our two snow days during build season were quite horrible thanks to the fearless mentor's plowing, although the second one was an early closing and we camped out in my fearless teammate's basement to work on the drivetrain after emptying our room at school of all useful things :) It'll get done somehow!

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This makes me appreciate California weather. Today we had eerily good weather, with sun, a few clouds and a light breeze. Global warming starting to take effect here by the coast... And I've never seen snow in my eleven years in California, but I have seen hail and ice on the roads (not good when you bike to school!). And bit of crunchy frost on the grass soaking through my shoes when it melts.

And we've talked about sleeping in the shop for so many years, but never actually done it. Maybe this'll be the year?