Folks,
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Take some chill pills.
1) When I read the OP's post I was a little disappointed with the speeling mistakes, but I was able to discern that he was attempting to strike a comical tone, not an angry tone, and that he was not attempting to create a carefully crafted request. When you see CAPITALIZED letters or lots of !!!!!!!, please remember that not everyone interprets them the way you do. The world is a diverse place.
2) To everyone who suggested that folks in the mid-Atlantic should have planned for something as obvious as snow, well I'm pretty sure most did. However, this is a once in a hundred years event (actually the worst since records have been kept here, but why quibble). How many of you folks tossing rocks have plans that anticipate that sort of extremely unusual disruption?
3) As other folks have implied, when school-based teams with workshops in their schools are forbidden from entering the schools, who among the rock-throwers would like to guarantee to protect the careers and assets of the faculty and mentors if they encouraged students to travel on hazardous roads to reach the school, and then let them into it? Never mind asking who could undo a serious accident should one happen?
So - Let's take a step back, re-read that original post with our senses of humor turned up as high as they will go, and then ask if the Mid-Atlantic teams (or other folks in a bind) need any help we can supply.
I suspect that offering to publish solutions to basic kit-bot level problems (so that any team in a bind can assemble a useful robot before the shipping date), or offering to help design or build/assemble an extra copy of a "standard" mechanism (bumpers?) for a team that won't have time to build their own, will earn a team or person more brownie points than anything I have read so far in this thread."
"No robot [or team] left behind"
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Find the big picture...
Blake