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Mother Nature and the 6 weeks
Mother Nature does not care that FIRST teams are on a tight schedule. We have lost many days and I suspect we will lose most of this week.
Please remember to be safe this week. Use your time off to develop scouting sheets, to run game scenarios and to work on awards. This is part of the challenge, don't take unnecessary risks. |
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It may sound cliched, but there have been instances where not being able to get into our shop due to weather has actually been helpful to our team! It's an opportunity to re-think the choices you have made, and sometimes being forced to put down the tools leads to better design decisions (at least it has for our team!)
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Yeah we're going to lose this week most likely due to this storm. 20inches in a rural area just sucks.
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To us this is a blessing! The team doesnt have to go to school and I dont have to go to work so we get at least 24 hrs straight to get as much done as we can. Bring on the white stuff!
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I'm not exactly excited about losing a meeting to 30 inches of snow - especially because I personally only get two meetings a week and this cuts one of them :(
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We are also looking at losing tomorrow afternoon (after school activities canceled) as well as Wednesday due to the storm.
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We were sent home early tonight and the rest of the week looks bad. Loosing week four is gonna suck big time. I'm so glad we are not doing a week one regional this year,
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Last year, we didn't lose too much to the snow, as the major snowstorms of the year dumped between Christmas and the week before kickoff.
This year, we haven't been so lucky. We've had about a week of snow days since build season has begun, and we're getting "Snowpocalypse" tomorrow that will wipe out even more days of the build season. That being said, I'm glad the snow is coming now instead of week 6. |
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Luckily, when the big snow storm hits us we really only have a chance for a snowday on the only schoolday we don't build, wednesday.
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Given the time Banebots has already cost us, what's a little snow?
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Day #9 off today; Day #10 tomorrow!!
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We'll see how things go here. I had 2-3 inches on the ground at home this morning with 12-24 more on the way this afternoon.
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Hey, a day or two off would be great for me. Course, living across from KU I have the benefit of having a full machine shop within walking distance, sounds like I should take the parts that need machining home with me tonight.
I second the comment about BB costing us more time than snow since we will only lose (at most) 4 days to this snow storm (Wed, Thur, Fri, Sat). |
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Right as I open this thread, my sister yells down that school is canceled.
We didn't get much done yesterday, so clearign our minds will be helpful. Southern MN has 3 ft on the ground in most places (screw driveway, i've got a freaking canyon!) but they were all on weekends, save for today's. The upshot of this is no snow predicted this weekend for our area. Pizza build, woo! |
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We have lost 1/3 of our build time. It's all part of the challenge :D
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Man, our First Team got lucky, basically up in here, up in here, up in there, we are getting snow tonight and tomorrow, luckily for us, meetings are mondays, tuesdays, thursdays, fridays, and saturdays. Unfortunately at the moment it seems to look like we wont have school thursday which puts poop in our schedule. =(
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Up here we've got about thirty inches on the ground from the storms over the past month and we're expected to get another eighteen or so between today and tomorrow. We've had five nights locked out of the school due to snow and two more due to maintenance on the roof of the school cleaning that snow off. Today and tomorrow only add to that meaning by the end of week four, we will have been locked out nine out of twenty eight build days.
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At the risk of cursing our build, all I have to say is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zESYDjWrpbA :D
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We've been told to expect 8-18 inches here over the next 24 hours. I'm still betting its unlikely to shut down schools here. The GTA is usually fairly prepared for snow like that. Well, the municipalities are, anyway. The drivers... well, they all seem to forget how to drive, every time theres more than a micron of snow on the ground.
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We'll probably get a snow day tomorrow, and depending on how the storm tracks, maybe the next day...
...so we'll just work longer/harder to make up for it. It's not like we have, erm, what are those things again? Oh, right: options. |
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In my 10 years of FIRST I can only recall my team cancelling one meeting due to the weather (if the mentors can go to Xeorx to work they can go the site afterwards. The kids were given the option of showing up if they wished if the conditions were bad) but now that we are in a site run by the City school district we have had a meeting cancelled and a work day (no meeting scheduled but we could have had access to the site to work) with the very likely possibility of having tomorrow's meeting cancelled as well.
This year has definately been challenging to say the least. |
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They just canceled school for tomorrow and all after school activities for today and tomorrow. We can not meet (school rule) when activities are canceled. We were planning on meeting both days because we are behind schedule from back orders from vendor (s).
Now we'll see what Thursday will bring. :eek: |
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Because we had our own site the school district had no say on when we could or could not have the site open. |
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I wonder who holds the record for days lost due to weather.
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Well,
It is snowing here in Chicago, and schools are now closed. No after schools events and no school tomorrow. I am home now but after traveling most of the way home at a normal pace, the snow began to fall and it has taken me 1.5 hours to go the last seven miles. Visibility a couple of hundred feet at best with wind gusting to at least thirty. Higher winds coming with waves on Lake Michigan predicted to be 18-25 feet by tonight. Surfs up dudes! |
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We were shut down on sat. due to the snow even though I didn't think the roads were all that bad outside. Building administration wouldn't even let us just delay the meeting.
Then today with the impending "snow storm of the century" we were told that all after school activities were canceled. We normally only meet until 6 on Tuesdays and it hasn't even started snowing here yet an hour after the kids would have left and gotten home. We've now lost 2 Saturdays and 2 after school days due to weather or other activities happening in the building. Even with all of this for only being a 2nd year team I still feel like were mostly on schedule. We've been waiting for parts to arrive or materials to be welded up anyways. Guess we just add more days to make up for the lost days. Nothing else that you can really do about it when you live in the snowy climates. |
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My team has missed multiple meetings due to snow, and I predict we'll lose another tomorrow:(. This isn't going to be fun. But on the bright side, it allows mentors and all of the kids to take a well deserved rest and re-think designs.
Dave, GUS 228, team228.org |
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We've lost four days so far, and will probably lose another two this week alone. The only good thing is that we're waiting for the final parts to arrive and it's given us valuable time to work over the CAD designs. Since we can't get into the school with the snow, we've resorted to having the three "all-star" machinist on the team take a plow truck and go to the engineering shop of our fantastically generous engineer and mentor. I must say the sight of a bunch of nerds getting in a big truck with robot parts and riding out into the storm must be pretty funny. At least it's only week four.
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Tomorrow might be our first snow day I say might because last we checked the school was still open despite KU already being closed tomorrow. (If any of you doubt that I rubbed that one in the students' faces you really don't know me)
A lot of our stuff is waiting on orders (BB I am looking at you) or waiting on machining. As such ICanCountTo19 and I will try to hole ourselves up in a nice warm machine shop tomorrow (after sleeping in until 12) to do those parts. If we have our way we will actually come out ahead of schedule because of this snow day. |
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Not liking this storm after storm routine. With Week "0" scrimmage coming up in 2.5 weeks, I hope this doesn't continue. Not only does our team have to build a robot, it has to prepare for the Scrimmage......fun is!
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Our team has lost 4 days as of now because even though we had school today after school activities were canceled so we could not meet, we've lost 15 hrs of build time and only made up 3 hours so far. And because were definitely not having school tomorrow we've lost 5 days now and a total of 18 build hours. There's also the possibility that we'll have no school on Thursday as well which would bring the total to 6 days and 21 build hours lost to snow.
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I guess we all have the same handicap at FLR! |
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Hopefully the drive to FLR won't be evil to everyone.
My only advice is to email FIRST and simply explain that your team has lost X number of work days. I'm sure that if FIRST receives enough non-whiny emails about the weather situation, they will add an extension of a day like they did one year. |
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Our team is in the Detroit area and we will already have lost three days - maybe more by the end of this week.
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A. Ed, I didn't mean to imply you were doing anything illegal! :eek:
B. I'm not too worried about it. It is what it is, and shall be what it shall be. We have a snow day tomorrow, with a small possibility of one Thursday as well. I am eating a chocolate biscotti made by my wife, while sipping tea next to the wood stove -- tea made with honey from my bees, no less -- while my faithful hounds sleep at my feet. C. It is impossible to be grumpy about anything when eating biscotti made by one's beautiful wife, drinking tea sweetened by one's own honey, warmed by a wood stove, and with a dog asleep on one's foot. Simply impossible. |
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Can you pass over a another biscotti please?
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Liverpool schools are closed today. Not a deal-breaker as 174 takes Wednesdays off to give mentors a break.
*takes a break* |
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Al, I've been known to occasionally mail honey to other FIRST mentors...
Tetraman: How much snow did you get? We have a snow day, but the roads are clean and dry after the whopping 2" we were pounded with last night. |
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Wow... Chicago is really getting hit hard. Winds damaged Wrigley Field roof.
It's an ice storm here in Watertown. |
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I feel ya Chris, we lose one every now and then and it always seems to be on one of my two days with the team. We have a garage to work in right now, and while hand tools are doing fine I do miss the nice straight cuts of the power tools. I'm almost addicted to the smell of fresh cut metal at 7am on Saturday :o.
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Well,
I think we are mostly dug out now. Drifts in my front yard were over my waist. The sun came out this afternoon but temps are now going into the minus region tonight and wind chills may be as low as -25 to -30 F. Plows have only come within three feet of the curb because they can't push anymore snow. |
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This year, we've been on the sleet, freezing rain and very little snow side of the storms, so we've only lost 2 days. I feel for you all out in the Mid-west and in New England. We will be competing in the BAE Granite State Regional in Week 1. Any teams that will be competing there, and need assistance, give us a shout. We're happy to roll up our sleeves and help you all out. Last year there were plenty of teams that did that for us. That's what "family" does for each other! Hang in there and be safe above all else! Steve |
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