School Closings

[HUNT397]

I am just wondering how many other teams out there are having a similar problem of their school being closed (due to 14 in of snow and -5 F tempatures) limiting when you can work?

FYI... SO far the school has been closed for 5 school days not includeing the weekend.

[Team 135]

We are having the same problem, and every snow day we argue with the school administration to let us in and we will have to see today what happens.

[11Mort11]

we just go in
theres an infamous story
of how they worked in the back of the woodshop with no heat locked out had to walk in the snow to school to get the robot programmed if we have to we would go in

ask anyone on MORT we only hear this story six times a day

[Koko Ed]

I remember the days of school closings.
Now that I work for a living that is just a memory. Unless there is some sort of major catastrophe my job does not shut down. Period.
There was a major blizzard in '99 and it dropped 24 inches of snow while we were at work. They let us go a half an hour early and the snow was up to the hood of my truck. They didn't dig out the parking lot til 1am and I then I was up til 3 digging out my own driveway so I could get my truck off the street. Fortunately they canceled work the next day and then the day after that they got another 20 inches on top of that (but that was a Saturday so not many people were working anyways).
Now I plan ahead and have extra food stored at work and such just in case such a thing ever happens again.

[Andrew Schreiber]

I know when I was on 27 we went in, gosh thats when I got most of my work done. We had keys to the building. Now 397 does the same, we just let ourselves in. Actually when we have snow days we go in earlier.

[EricLeifermann]

They don't really close school up here in Houghton. On the off chance they do we just tell the high schoolers they don't have to come if its to dangerous for them to get to the facility, as we don't work at the high school. We did get one day off this year so far, but it was more the 30+ below zero wind chill we had than the snow.

[Matt C]

Wasn't there some type of extension back in 2k3 due to a blizzard near ship date?

[Jherbie53]

Originally Posted by Matt C

Wasn't there some type of extension back in 2k3 due to a blizzard near ship date?

There was a major snow storm in the north east in 2003 and 2004, so they decided to extend the ship deadline to Thursday rather then Tuesday for both years.

Now we don't officially have it at the school on snow days, but it you are passing by and happen to see some cars outside and are wondering whats going on, you can come in. We also stress that if the roads or weather are bad don't come in. I remember a couple of years ago is was so bad that some of the people from Fruitport, which is about 40 mins north of us, on the team had to stay with one of our mentors for the night. It's not worth getting into an accident at night so you can be at school in the morning.

[EricH]

Originally Posted by Jherbie53

There was a major snow storm in the north east in 2003 and 2004, so they decided to extend the ship deadline to Thursday rather then Tuesday for both years.

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.

[Jherbie53]

Originally Posted by EricH

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.

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.

[chinckley]

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

[Racer26]

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.

[zacattack]

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.

[k4r3n2]

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!

[Blue_Mist]

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?