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Wow this ice storm that just came through might kill our build season. Most power lines are wrecked, most roads closed, and I am not sure whether we can get in the school to work on or maybe even crate and ship the bot. I'm wondering how other teams are dealing with this.

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we havent been able to get to our workshop for 2 nights in a row... this is bad )=

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we're doin pretty good in boston still

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Team 469 doesn't work at our school, so school closings aren't a big deal for us.

Nonetheless, the bad weather does get in the way. It makes driving to and from our workplace difficult (and scary).

Unfortunately, I hear that there's another storm coming in soon. I hope it doesn't affect teams that much.

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Thankfully we haven't had too much bad weather, although today we had to cancel our meeting due to weather.

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Up here in Maine, we've had 5 weather related cancellations this build season.

Luckily, this storm is tracking just to the west of us, and even though school was canceled today, it's warming up enough that it's rain instead of ice (or so we hope)
With the storm this weekend, it looks like it'll fall just as we're finishing up and shipping...I don't think I'd mind being snowed into the shop that night though...we'll need the extra time.

This has certainly been the worst weather for a build season I've experienced so far...although, it's nice being a senior this year, so I won't have to make up any of these days of school! :D

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Can't get to the school???? wow, you musta got hit hard.....We got power lines laying in the road, trees on top of the lines, snow up to the bumpers on the trucks, and more ice/water than the storm drains can handle, with rolling brown outs.....

Just click it into 4 wheel and go..... Our entire build team is here right now, almost like the storm never happened.... Not even the janitors showed up, just the DAWGS.....

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the thing is we can't get in the building

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Yeah same here. They canceled all after school activities yesterday and today school was canceled. This afternoon we called the school to see if we could somehow get in but they said since school was canceled for the day all school actives were also canceled. With our scrimmage only a few days away, this is going to greatly impact our schedule.

I lost power for about 4 hours this morning and there a few students who are still without power.

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Man, if only the Integra had 4 wheel drive, and more than 3.5 inches of ground clearance.....
anyhoo, We've had a fairly rough winter, I think it's snowed every other day. Even the mediorologists can't seem to get things right. Yesterday they said we might get some flurries, but nothing measureable, but it started snowing in the morning, and kept snowing all through the day.
Well, I hope you guys can get your robot done.
Good luck and God Bless
Malhon

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We're in the same boat. No school = no afterschool activities. This is our third lost day this season.

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central western VT is bad but not terrible. we still have power but no meeting (our like 5th cancellation but we should be able to make up for it if we dont have any more.

...forest
...2370

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blaxbb i know how you feel. this is the second time our school aka only workplace has been canceled. we arent allowed in the school. though our teacher/mentor has some persuasion, and a construction entrance, so tonight may be anotehr story :] school is closed friday and monday too, but we managed to get the entire day opened for us, hopefully this will help make up the lost time along with long hours saturday and sunday.
but man was that ice bad. drove home last night around 10, very thankful for all wheel drive and blizzak tires haha

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You guys should come finish your bots up on the west coast--it's been 70-75* here since last week.

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That was just downright MEAN! :mad:

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Being on the west coast is huge advantage.

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Not only is ship date looming, but so is the Suffield Shakedown Scrimmage scheduled for this weekend - the first place we get to see the official FIRST field in action. The flooding is causing a lot of cancellations for this evening and the temps are dropping making icing a concern again tonight.

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Good weather and six more hours to build...the only teams that have it better are the Hawaiian teams!

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Now I wanna move west!

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Heh. This reminds me of how the weather is considered in New England:

But don't put me in the second part. I've lived up here a long time and I'm sure I'm still considered one of the "new neighbors". :)

And what about that monsoon that blew thru yesterday? The streets were like rivers all the way home!

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4X4 doesn't help on ice, I learned that the hard way last winter. Snow it can help, but not ice.

But we have water =P When I was in Cali. over Xmass break seeing my family and jusy seeing home many of the lakes we passes where really low.

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I live in Pa and we got hit pretty bad but it didnt really stop us from working those nites.

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Cruel, and I'm not even in the north east. Course, in Flint its been 0 or lower almost everyday this week...Like cold enough that us native Michiganders put on a light coat to go outside. Though, we aren't as used to the cold as you New Englanders. We should force the West Coast teams to come out here during the winter. Course, I look at Pink Teams vids and they are in the sun in a dry parking lot, lucky teams!

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Up here in Wisconsin were having loads of snow. I think we had 3 snow days in the last month. Each on different weeks. Another 3-5 inches is on its way in a couple of days.

We're averaging 5-7 inches per week with almos 2 feet on the groun now. Lots of south eastern WI teams are applying for extensions. It killed our build season.

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Jeesh Tim.. be lucky.

We've missed about 5 or 6 four-hour work days so far. We do have one heck of a great 5 week build season robot though so far, with some long days coming for most of us this weekend. :)

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Inaccurate. At 60F, the Californians start saying it's cold. It takes about 30F (no parka) to get them shivering uncontrollably.

This from a Californian in South Dakota.

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Yeah we've been in the midst of a mini drought here. We got a lot of rain in January though.

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We've missed 5 or 6 build days due to weather. We work at the school, and if it's closed we cannot build.

Unfortunately this has really impacted our already very tight schedule. I'm hopeing we can get it all together before ship date.

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EricH I have no doubt about that. My boss flies in from his home in Florida (yeah, I know) and cranks up the air conditioning in the office. To him the warm office reminds him of outdoors in hot Florida, even if here it's 25 degrees (F) outside.

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SE wisconsin is supposedly getting another foot of snow on sunday.

Hopefully the public schools won't be closed on Monday....

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I was out running errands earlier today and noticed the iris and daffodils that have popped up everywhere over the last couple of days. I had my camera with me because of crunch week and took a couple of photos as I was thinking about this thread and all the different weather conditions affecting the teams.

It made me think that it might be fun to start a thread for the next few days and teams can add photos of the different weather conditions we are in where ever we are.

Kind of like the Inspirational Photos thread - only with weather right before ship.
a. is this a dumb idea?
b. what forum would we start it in?

I'm sorry about the bad weather conditions and missed days of build.
Jane

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Here's some pictures of the same type of thing a few years ago: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/pho...gs/whyweworkin

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SOOOO glad we're in sunny San Diego!!! haha
ACTUALLY, we had a crazy bipolar thunder storm yesterday and almost nearly
ruined valentines day =/ and today... theres not a cloud in the sky, haha.

and of course since its like summer all the time, we had no difficulty finding pool noodles at walmart =]

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We have missed 7 plus days. 4 were snow days and the evenings before they sent us home after school because it was coming in.

It is hard.

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Me, too, Jane! Only ours are in the grocery stores and I attributed them to Valentine's Day...
After yesterday's windy sunny cold day, today is rainy, cloudy sinus-y weather in Connecticut.