Mother Nature and the 6 weeks

[JaneYoung]

I wonder who holds the record for days lost due to weather.

[Al Skierkiewicz]

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!

[IceStorm]

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.

[davepowers]

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

[ouellet348]

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.

[Andrew Schreiber]

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.

[MarcD79]

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!

[klmx30302]

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.

[Grim Tuesday]

Originally Posted by pfreivald

In NYS it is illegal to hold extracurricular activities on a day when school has been canceled due to weather... Thus, Naples loses about three days a year due to snow/cancellations.

We know how you guys feel! In Ithaca, they tend to cancel after school activites (even though we arent until 5-9), and we must abide. Tomorow will be our third missed day, since they preemptively cancelled school.

I guess we all have the same handicap at FLR!

[Tetraman]

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.

[wjr1965]

Our team is in the Detroit area and we will already have lost three days - maybe more by the end of this week.

[pfreivald]

A. Ed, I didn't mean to imply you were doing anything illegal!

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.

[Al Skierkiewicz]

Can you pass over a another biscotti please?

[Tetraman]

Liverpool schools are closed today. Not a deal-breaker as 174 takes Wednesdays off to give mentors a break.

*takes a break*

[pfreivald]

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.