Bad Weather Affecting Teams

[Quill]

Well we are out here in the desert in Southern California and the past few days it has been warming up. Tonight it got up to about 30 Farenheit I think. Anyway over the weekend our record "lows" caused water pipes to burst around part of the school. I guess they got them fixed because it didn't affect class. The only thing is is that we had a pond outside of the classroom we use. One of our supporters got his car stuck in the mud but we got him out. Other than that we haven't been too badly affected. Good luck to those in the really bad conditions.

[Zach Wydick]

ya, up here in washington we missed 4 days of school and had basically a 7 day weekend. When we get a little snow like the other guys said it turns to ice and then we cant have school or go to robotics. Out of those 7 days i think we worked 3. Now we are really grinding it out and trying to catch up. Good luck to all teams.

Zach Wydick
Aviation High School Robotics
Team #1983 President

[Jeremytice]

This last monday we had a sort of an ice storm down here in NY. We had to cancel our meeting on monday but other than that we are still doing pretty well...

[Billfred]

We finally got a dose in South Carolina today. The University of South Carolina isn't opening until 10:00 AM, which means I get out of two classes today! Wooooooooooooo!

I wonder if that applies to food, too.....

[K.Porter]

Surprisingly enough, the weather has been just fine up here in Maine.
We didn't see any winter weather until last weekend (just a little ice and sleet, canceled a leadership meeting, that's all) And now we just have a deep freeze without any precipitation.
(For those of you in southern climates, don't feel obliged to complain about the cold weather that you're having...It's not really cold 'till it drops below zero, plus a wind chill...)

[Tonya Scott 476]

I have never seen sleet and ice like we had here. Starting last Friday, it started coming down hard--sleet! Most of the kids at our high school (1400 students 9-12) were checked out by their parents by 2pm. I live out of town, so another teacher kept my 2 kids (that was all that showed up for last hour class) and I put my car in 4x4, and went home. It sleeted/rained for 2 days. Now we have this incredible thick layer of ice, unlike anything I have ever seen. You can drive over it, on the soft parts of your yard, and cant see tire marks. Our school was out Monday for holiday, and then Tues because the parking lots had to be cleared. South and eastern Oklahoma are devistated. They haven't had electricity since Friday night.

The scary news---the temp hasn't been above 30 degrees, and we are supposed to get up to 10-12 inches of snow this weekend again.

Our street and state road crews aren't set up to handle this----we just don't normally get this type of weather.

I think this next blast is supposed to come on up to the east after this weekend---so watch out.

I'm not sure how we are going to get a robot built if we lose another week--and we have been doing this for 8 years-the rookie teams in our state are getting really frustrated-as you can understand.

[jcatt]

Down here is sunny south Florida we don't experience this things you call "Blizzards" ...lol...But we do have unseasonably hot weather. I myself am from England and to me 80° during January just seems unnatural to me. Lol

[GaryVoshol]

Originally Posted by EStokely

It is a drag, before I was reminded by administration that when school is cancelled no activities could occur we met for some of those days.
Where else will you get students calling teachers at 9AM to ask when they can go to school and work on the robot? FIRST has something going right :-)

We always wanted a Snow Day, because we could generally manage to get through by 10:00 or so, and have a full build-day rather than just after school.

Was it two or 3 years ago that many areas were closed down on Ship Day because of weather? Quite a few anxiety attacks!

[dtape]

In Ma, the weather has been behaving strangly. Last weeknd, it was about 50. This weekend, there is snow that is predicted. Plus we have midterms so that reduses our hours as well.

[Brandon Holley]

the part of the country that is supposed to be having bad winters and such (the northeast, more specifically boston) is just plain old cold. We have been praying for snow and NOTHING yet!!

I do recall an event probably like 3-4 years ago at my old team (11) where we had to shovel through 8 feet of snow to get into our lab !! I think it was like a day or 2 before ship so we HAD to be there.

[Pat Fairbank]

So far this week, we've had freezing rain and snow. Plus, I've had to crawl into my car through the trunk for three days now, because all the other locks are frozen.

But no, it hasn't slowed down our build at all.

[RichardJames]

Montreal is the pitts, but not because of bad weather so much as eerily good weather. The streets were generally dry until last week, and the temperature was above 0C (32F)!!! This is weird because normally we have snow here as of the beginning of December. I`m sure it`s just a strange weather phenomenon, but a lot of people are concerned about it. The temperature has been a full 7C (13F) above the average for Montreal!!!

Some people consider this nice, but it basically means it`s been raining on us every day instead of beautiful fluffy snow.

[mathking]

Well, all of the precipitation that fell as ice in Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri and Illinois just fell as rain in Ohio. It is now getting colder which is nicely meshing with all of the flooding. It's killing all of the wheat crops here in central Ohio. Flooded fields are now freezing over. Fortunately we haven't missed any build days yet. I don't think there are any FIRST teams in the areas affected by flood (down near the Ohio river). It affecting my basement, however.

[JaneYoung]

I just arrived at work after being out since last Friday.
I've parked on the top level of the 5 level parking garage, which is still a solid sheet of ice. Slipping and sliding across the lot to the elevator was quite an adventure and will be again at 5. Reminded me of my ice skating days in Kirkland Lake, Ontario, woohoo.

The team is meeting and is keeping an eye out for the 2nd blast that may come through.
Stay warm,
Jane

EDIT: my husband's business is a feed and ranch business for the cattle ranchers in the surrounding areas. When it is cold like this the ranchers stock up on hay and feed for their cattle. The supply is low and we'll have to get more hay out of the other barn tomorrow.

[Onnaprogramer]

Its 16 degrees fahrenheit here in alaska man you guys are wimps