Snow Storm

[av11d]

We had to cut short our meeting today by about 3 hours. We ran the meeting 9-1 instead of 9-4. In retrospect, I would have shortened the meeting to 9-12. It was really blizzarding by one here in NJ. Hopefully the roads will be clear by our Tuesday meeting.

[Tytus Gerrish]

What's Snow?

[tkwetzel]

Originally Posted by 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.

Maybe a good selling point when asking a school to start a team: FIRST students don't want snow days, they want to continue school so they can work on their robot.

Anyways...update: now there is easily over 12" of snow and it is still falling. Special things that I did: found out that with the current amount of tread on my tires and many other factors, my car will not reach any speed over 5 mph in the snow, if I press the gas, the tires just start spinning, so I did have a little fun in the parking lot with that. Me and some friends went to Walmart and got a snow tube and rope and snow-tubed behind a minivan. Lots of fun stuff, I love it...and as for tomorrow, I'll be on the slopes all day snowboarding!

[Alex Cormier]

yay 20 inches of snow by the end of tomrrow total for this weekend! i hate the cold but i like the way snow looks other then that i hate snow! go away

[Aaron Lussier]

Just finished shoveling, 8-10 inches all ready and its not supposed to stop till sometime tomorrow... ugg.

[Stephen P]

Originally Posted by jrocket567

p.s- those not fimiliar with Richmond snow- 1in of snow knock school out for 2+ days :-D ...now the more richmondish winter weather is here- freezing rain and sleet..

I'm also on a Richmond team, and we weren't allowed to meet today and probably tomorrow due to a inch or so of icy mush. GRRRRRRR so frustrating. Anyhoo, I and a teammate took some stuff to my house to work on. But this kind of precipitation is no fun, could y'all up north Fed-Ex us some powder? Now I'm stuck with doing doughnuts on the ice in the school parking lot for fun.

[MrAmazing]

The School cancelled all after school activities for Friday and the weekend. So we are just doing some planning at home until Monday...

[mtaman02]

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?

Yeah Shoveling it all around =) The teams that I work with are taking it easy this weekend but god willing next weekend will be very busy


NYC has close to about 6" - 12" down so far

[Karthik1]

Well good things can come out of this. Our team members have been shoveling drive ways for found-raising. I guess every cloud does have a silver lining.

[Koko Ed]

The snowstorm reminds me that Rochester has had some of it's worst snowstorms in the first week of March which is the week that we have the FInger Lakes regional.
I certainly hope it doesn't happen this year.

[Jay H 237]

Our team isn't meeting this weekend so it's not affecting us. If they close school on Monday then we'll lose a day since our stuff will be locked up until Tuesday.

I don't have an exact amount of snowfall where I am right now. My house is on top of a mountain and it's very windy right now so the snow is blowing around and drifting. One area of my driveway is still bare pavement while the area behind the house is covered with a big drift. Kinda funny to see, my Toyota is clean while my Chevy, which is nosed in behind the house, is buried.

[Stephen Kowski]

Originally Posted by Covey41

how is your team coping with the weather?

the students are coping well, but the mentors are just freaking out

Originally Posted by Covey41

Are you doing anything special?

Not really.....but maybe we should go to the beach in celebration?

[Pat Fairbank]

We got a few inches of snow here in Montreal today, I suppose it's from the same storm you're going through down there. The drive home was a bit slippery, since they haven't gotten around to dumping some of the hundred-thousand or so metric tonnes of salt they spread in this city every year. It's been a bit too chilly here to snow the past few days, with temperatures somewhere in the minus 30s. However, us being Canadian, it doesn't affect our team at all. In fact, in my five years of high school, and despite feet of snow and lots of freezing rain, I've never had a single snow day... except for that time when that toilet blew up... but that's another story.

[Petey]

Still snowing in good ole Southern New Hampshire.

Drifts, too. Out the window to my left the snow is 3 feet deep. Out the window to my right I can see grass.

Predicted total snowfall is 20-30 inches.

--Petey

[Rich Wong]

Blizzard Saturday:
Read CD postings, go shovel snow, read CD postings, go shovel snow.... (repeat)

Blizzard plans for Sunday:
Wake up read CD postings, go shovel snow, read CD postings, go shovel snow... (repeat)