Snow days

[Abhishek R]

Originally Posted by MrBasse

I always wonder what extremely low temperatures are in a place like Houston.

About 20 degrees. Very bipolar, 20 one day then 60-70 the next.

[Wayne Doenges]

Not to rub it in but since we are associated with 4H and not much with the local high school we can still meet on snow days.
Even though the high school was closed all last week, we were still able to build.
Stay warm and stay safe.

On a differnt note. I was stationed at Kelly AFB in San Antonio for 10 months in 1976. One day it snowed 1 inch and the highway patrol closed the interstates around San Antonio. Since I'm from Indiana and 1 inch of snow is a dusting, I went around the barricades and had the whole interstate to myself

[rsegrest]

Originally Posted by MrBasse

I always wonder what extremely low temperatures are in a place like Houston.

Well, we are 90 miles north of Houston. I lived in PA for 4 years and learned that and cold is a relative term

For Houston and counties north our cold was...brace yourselves and don't laugh...@18...yes it is a positive number which is why I said don't laugh. We did get 2in of snow but the problem down here is that people do not know how to drive in it safely and salt? No they use sand down here.

Unfortunately we lost last Friday as well and are looking at maybe losing tomorrow if the current forecast holds up (predicting rain this evening with drastically falling temps and then 2+ inches snow starting around mid-night). So we will see, will this be a first for our east Texas team and lose not just one but two days to SNOW? We will keep you posted!

[FrankJ]

High 50s low 60s here in sunny Ga. Probably the warmest day of the year. The weather service has actually suggested that we go buy milk for tomorrow's snow storm. It is fun to watch our northern transplants demonstrating how not to drive on wet snow & ice.

We have a huge fusion powered snow remover down here. It can take a couple of days to work sometimes, but is cheaper than snow plows for a once in 5 year event.

[Kyle A]

We had a 2 hour delay here in Corry PA today. So it started out looking like we were good, but just got a phone call that all after school activities have been canceled. Also if tomorrow goes as forecast, it looks like we will be out 2 or 3 days this week. Saturday we ended up putting in more hours than usual because we expected this to happen.

[DBortnick]

CPS (Chicago Public Schools) will be closed tomorrow for now the 4th "extreme weather" day this month.

Honestly, this is more days off this month than I had in 12 years as a student going through CPS.

My team meets and builds at the school, considering the school is closed for safety reasons with student traveling to and from in extremely frigid conditions, I'm not sure how our team is going to recover the lost time.

[MysterE]

Its amusing. Generally we only miss days for school due to hurricanes in Baton Rouge, LA. Of course, during Katrina we missed almost two weeks of school so they can make up for snow days. Still, that is only during the fall.

This year, I am looking at having two more snow days between tomorrow and Wednesday. This is beyond the one we had on Friday. Unfortunately, we are in a relatively suburban area and there are a lot of bridges around here that tend to freeze. This will keep us closed.

Just to give an example - there were over 200 traffic accidents on Friday alone with the ice that was on the roads. No salt, only sand. Still my own children (7 and 9yrs) are looking forward to playing in the snow for once in their lives.

Best -
Daniel

[Wayne Doenges]

Originally Posted by MysterE

Still my own children (7 and 9yrs) are looking forward to playing in the snow for once in their lives.

If you don't get enough snow, for your kids, I can ship you some of our snow

[sarah_storer]

Panthrobotics is about 5 miles away from us so the conditions are the same for the BulahBots, no school Tuesday and most likely Wednesday too.
Our coach has communicated to us that we will not meet Tuesday because of weather and driving conditions and that we'll see what happens on Wednesday.
So we'll loose about two days of build at the end of build season
....and the pressure sets in.

[waialua359]

Originally Posted by Mr.Paulson

-20 this morning with windchills -45. We have a 7 foot drift in our front yard from the wind yesterday. Tomorrow morning it is supposed to be -25 or colder for actual temps. Hope we have school...never thought I would say that when it is this cold...

I'm going to assume that by the time we get there on March 4, we won't have to worry about being frozen to death.

[Al Skierkiewicz]

School and all activities including robotics have just been cancelled for Tuesday as well. Students are to stay home. Even work is telling people to use their judgement and stay home if they can. However, as a broadcast engineer, if I don't come to work, no one can watch TV (Sesame Stree, Clifford and other PBS children's programming.) tomorrow. Leaving the cabinets open tonight so pipes don't freeze.

[thursam]

The county just cancelled school for our school, so we lost a day of build that we need - and we're so close to stop build, too.
Mother Nature needs to calm down until Feb. 18.

[cadandcookies]

Originally Posted by waialua359

I'm going to assume that by the time we get there on March 4, we won't have to worry about being frozen to death.

I wouldn't count on it... It probably won't be -50 windchill, but subzero temperatures at this point I would say are quite likely. Fortunately, if you're staying in any of the downtown hotels in Duluth, you probably won't even have to go outside to get to the venue-- Duluth has a great skyway system.

EDIT:

Also, my school district (ISD 196) has had five cold days this January. I'm pretty sure that that's more days off that we've had over the last three years combined. Ridiculous. Fortunately we're still on schedule...

[waialua359]

Originally Posted by cadandcookies

I wouldn't count on it... It probably won't be -50 windchill, but subzero temperatures at this point I would say are quite likely. Fortunately, if you're staying in any of the downtown hotels in Duluth, you probably won't even have to go outside to get to the venue-- Duluth has a great skyway system.

EDIT:

Also, my school district (ISD 196) has had five cold days this January. I'm pretty sure that that's more days off that we've had over the last three years combined. Ridiculous. Fortunately we're still on schedule...

We are staying at Spirit Mountain and had planned to spend a day at the Park snow tubing, skiing and zip lining.
Well, maybe not?

[Christopher149]

Even though we could have met today (we can meet snow days), we cancelled because the weather is in fact bad. It was a good idea, since at ~3pm, I couldn't start my car without jumpstarting. I was out today, since MTU was basically the only UP school open.

Here's what my deck looks like, with snow pressing against the windows. You can have some if you want