North Eastern "Blizzard"

[ForgottenSalad]

We had a snowball fight immediatley following shipping the crate last year... Was quite a good end to a build season... Worst comes to worse, we get snowed in, and advantage of that? More time to work on the robot.

[dutta]

::looks out window::

We're getting snow here (central NJ), though nothing heavy yet. Still, our school has decided it won't take any chances and is already closed for the weekend, forcing us to relocate and throwing a bit of a wrench into our building plans. The snow better not disable us too much. Didn't anyone tell mother nature about the ship date?!?!

[Eric Scheuing]

It's supposed to begin soon. I don't think there will be too much affect on our robot, but that's just our team.

[Richsgt]

It'll affect the robot a little bit, more because of the facility we use the snows going to make us lose a day tomorrow, which just means we work later tonight so no real 'time' lost just a long night. Sides every night now is long

[Kim Masi]

Yes unfortunately we miss tomorrow which i guess means less driver practice...blizzard like conditions are in the forecast...oh well...thats what we get for living in CT...we'll be ready though

[Erin Rapacki]

I think this minor snow storm has perfect timing, it's forcing my team to rest (or catch up on Homework) on Sunday so we're extra ready for this last week of build!

[Bemis]

We have the luckiness of liveiong on the other sid eof the Appalachians, so we won't get hit unless that storm is really strong. Unfortunately, we get lake effect off lake erie, so we still get the lost time.

[Elgin Clock]

Actually, the most hindering part of the build so far for us in CT has been the fact that we knew there was no school on the last 2 days of build. Presidents day holiday and all.
That's annoying.

As for the snow, it hasn't hit CT yet, but we are expected as of a few hours ago to get hit around 1am and get 10-12" of the white junk.
We will know by 11am tomorrow whether or not we can build.

I thought we were done with winter.

Groundhog.. I hate you.

[Matt Krass]

It's not too bad here, just a about a quarter inch and it's slowing, we're gonna be here a while...

[Matt Krass]

Originally Posted by Matt Krass

It's not too bad here, just a about a quarter inch and it's slowing, we're gonna be here a while...

I stand corrected...in several feet of cold, vehicle blocking snow. Guess I'm not debugging those interrupts today! To be honest I don't know if anyone made it to the shop, we're pretty much shut down.

[Tom Bottiglieri]

22" and counting...

[Conor Ryan]

I just measured 26". And we have 4'3" snow drifts in my back yard.

Snow weighs about 20 pounds per cubic foot, my driveway is about 30 feet long and about 12 feet wide. At roughly 2 feet, that leaves me, if my math is correct, 14,400 pounds to shovel....Not accounting for snow drifts. Better get to work.

[Mark McLeod]

Originally Posted by Matt Krass

To be honest I don't know if anyone made it to the shop, we're pretty much shut down.

Are you kidding it's crowded here!
The sled dogs take up a lot of room though!

We're getting ready for a food run now.

[K.Shaw]

this storm is crazy! we are heading into the 2 foot range on snow and the weathermen are predicting it to taper off after 6pm soo 4 more hours of this. there's a rumor that there may not be school tomorrow which will really affect our build, but luckily we will be able to go and take our stuff off site if need be.

good luck to all the north eastern teams with the snow.... remember your health is more important than a days worth of work on a robot!

[Matt Krass]

Originally Posted by Mark McLeod

Are you kidding it's crowded here!
The sled dogs take up a lot of room though!

We're getting ready for a food run now.

I'm still stuck on this side of the snow, take a look at my interrupt code for me ;-)