Snow Storm

[roboticsguy1988]

Our team decided to take today and Sunday off because of the storm........We got quit a bit of snow here. However 2 out of the 3 people in the software crew worked today........but that was because the lived really close, and software takes a lot of time.

[Dan Man]

Originally Posted by Covey41

With a major snow storm hitting the Midwest, and the Northeast, how is your team coping with the weather?

Are you doing anything special?

Well, as bad is the weather is in Idaho Falls, I would have to say that we are enjoying the sunshine and snowmobiles. But I would really love a storm to stop by and give us a little white-out.

[tribotec_ca88]

I would be absolutely thrilled if I looked out my window and saw snow...
We're literally melting down here, which, if you think about it, also slows us down...because I guess heat brings out the laziness in all of us ...

[Kyle]

Today the Delaware FIRST Lego league tournament had to be shortened to about 12:30 instead of ending at 4 or 5 like it was going to. the schedule got messed "buggerd" up a bit according to one adult. The day was cut short because about 5-10 teams didn't show because of fear of snow and it started to come down at about 9am ish and hasn't stopped yet. also I'm sure the MOE meeting tomorrow will be delayed or canceled. but i hope not. I hope anyone in the storm will drive safe and be smart on the road.

[SirLancelot]

Yep, we're hanging out at the tech room at school freezing and hoping for the snow to stop. It didn't halt our meeting today, though- a good 10 hours long. Getting a lot done, even with only a few people.

[Cory]

It just started coming down here in Worcester. We're supposed to get between 30-36" in the next 2 days

[Steve Howland]

We had the shop until 3:00 today and it had begun flurrying at about one. But we stayed as long as we could and got out before it got too bad, so that was good luck for us, though a school dance for tonight was canceled

[Matt Leese]

This reminds me of a story I heard from a friend. She was working for TRW at the time and they were working on a project proposal for the military. They were located in LA and right before the proposal was due, the LA riots broke out. Now TRW had a policy of never asking for an extension on a project proposal so they made sure it got done even with the riots ongoing. The interesting thing was that everyone else who was bidding for this project asked for an extension because of the LA riots. Except none of them were located in LA...

Matt

[Petey]

Yep.
Snow.

Starting to come down now.

--Petey

[Mark Pettit]

I can't resist, sorry. . . .
It's nearly 80 in Phoenix, Arizona today. I rode my bike in to school this morning before the sun came up and shorts and a sweatshirt were sufficient to keep me warm enough.
Most of the team is sporting shorts/tee-shirts at the build today.

[RoboMom]

On Thursday a decision was made to postpone the Maryland FLL State Championship from today until next Sat. It's a lot of work to reschedule these events, but we have a great team here in Maryland led by a tireless FLL partner, Mark Heil.

It's too early in the season to even talk about extensions and I wouldn't hold my breath. There was a couple day extension granted in 2003, but many of the teams it was suppose to benefit, still couldn't get out to work on their robots. What a mess that was. That blizzard happened the last week of the build season.
Every team has it's own set of challenges. For some, it's the weather.

[Cujo]

Originally Posted by Covey41

With a major snow storm hitting the Midwest, and the Northeast, how is your team coping with the weather?

Are you doing anything special?

Although our chances of going out this weekend are very slim, our web dsign team is still going to strive to get together somewhere and work on our site. Hopefully Monday will be a bit more cleared up so we can continue our hard work on this years robot.

[KTorak]

I hope the snow stops (It's ironic for a HS student to wish for that). If this keeps out, we won't finish our robot on time. We've already lost a few days due to snow. But we have a few days off (5) before ship date which is good and bad. Good: We get longer time to work. Bad: Younger members who can't drive may have difficulty getting to meetings since they aren't already at the school building for school.

yep lots of the snow

We had to cancel the meting today around 1:00 and tommorrrow is canceled too!!?

It's gonna be had for us because we're a rookie team.

Anyway GO Blue Falcons !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

TEAM 1597 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Greg Needel]

when i left this morning we had about a foot of old snow and since our shop has no windows we had no idea we had another foot on the gound by the time we left...good thing about living in the North east is they have plenty of snow removal equipment and once it stops it will only be a matter of time before the streets are cleared....the 1 good thing about the snow...fresh powder on the slopes and i am gonna hit them hard come tomorrow morning