Mother Nature and the 6 weeks

[JohnBoucher]

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.

[nikeairmancurry]

Originally Posted by JohnBoucher

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.

100% agreed this upcoming storm will affect probably 60% plus of robotics teams...

[Jared Russell]

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!)

[thefro526]

Originally Posted by Jared341

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!)

It also gives tired mentors a time to take a well deserved nap.

[JamesCH95]

Originally Posted by thefro526

It also gives tired mentors a time to take a well deserved nap.

This.

[Dustin Shadbolt]

Yeah we're going to lose this week most likely due to this storm. 20inches in a rural area just sucks.

[Alan Anderson]

Originally Posted by dShad

Yeah we're going to lose this week most likely due to this storm. 20inches in a rural area just sucks.

Heck, 20 inches at once in an urban area (where that's twice what they're prepared for) is going to shut things down for a while.

[fox46]

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!

[Chris is me]

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

[yodameister]

We are also looking at losing tomorrow afternoon (after school activities canceled) as well as Wednesday due to the storm.

[IndySam]

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,

[1986titans]

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.

[dricks]

Originally Posted by Alan Anderson

Heck, 20 inches at once in an urban area (where that's twice what they're prepared for) is going to shut things down for a while.

That doesn't make our 1/4" of ice seem so bad!

[AcesJames]

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.

[rsisk]

At the risk of cursing our build, all I have to say is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zESYDjWrpbA