Midwest Weather?

[mathking]

Well Dublin Schools just announced they are closing for Wednesday as well. I think most of central and northern Ohio is going to end up being off school tomorrow. Roads here are terrible right now. Half a foot of snow with sleet/freezing rain on top of that. (Here in Columbus you know it's bad when Ohio State cancels, which they did today.) The mix is just nasty. The plows been down the streets frequently here in the city, but 10 minutes later there is another sheen of ice on the roads. I was out shoveling an hour ago and I saw salt crystals from the road actually encased in the ice. Things here are starting to be like they were in Oklahoma and Texas at the start of the build cycle.

Unfortunately we are not allowed to have extra-curricular meetings if school is cancelled. Which means two days last week, today and probably tomorrow are shot. Looks like a long weekend ahead of us. Reminds of the season a few years ago when all of the bad weather hit before ship date. Just going to have to pile it on this weekend. If all of the needed parts arrived today (or arrive tomorrow) we ought to be able to get everything done. We might not be able to make some of the replacement parts we had planned on, but what can you do?

[AlmightyPiMan]

in independence, mo, we've got about 6 inches of snow on top of about 1/2 inch of ice on top of 3 feet of mud. yea, not fun for cars. but hey, this means team 1996 can meet from 8 am till 4 pm!

Originally Posted by boiler

Mother Nature hereby decreed that 1529 will not be taking President's Day off.

umm, maybe it's because we're a rookie team, but even before the kickoff we pretty much knew we'd be spending the night working on the bot over prez day...

[Andrew Blair]

Well, in Corry we have an interesting situation. If the school cancels all afterschool activities (like they did today), then we are not allowed to stay and work. However, if school is delayed or cancelled, we can work. Go figure. So, since we missed tonight, I'm hoping for a cancellation tomorrow. Better be, 'cause it needs to be ready for powder coat tomorrow afternoon! (And snow does not count as powder-coat...)

[redbarron]

Yeah here in good ole Cleveland,Ohio we have about 15 inches where I live (about as close to lake erie as you can get) . The school cancelled all after school activities and they are closed tomorrow which makes it the fourth or fifth day we have lost plus today. So we pretty much had five weeks to build a robot and we are pretty behind.

[Kevin Kolodziej]

Schools were closed here in Milwaukee for two days last week due to cold (no work done though, since students aren't allowed in our building if school is closed...something about if its not safe enough to come to school, its not safe enough to build a robot.... ), but so far, the snow, while coming down all day, hasn't piled up much. Its rather fluffy actually. Very windy though. I don't believe we'll be seeing any canceled classes this week, but to all those who will, may you make the best of them!

[Richard Wallace]

Originally Posted by Richard

This is not good news. When last I looked (late Saturday) we had a chassis and we had an arm, but the two had not been properly introduced. Looks like they are in for a whirlwind courtship when the weather improves.

No joy in frozen St. Louis.

OK, maybe a little joy after all.

[Steve S.]

well here in rochester this morning depending on where your location is..many places have anywhere from 6-about 10 inches of snow already with it still falling...and all schools are closed here >.<

(glad we made a plan to meet yesterday!)

[pufame]

Erie, PA... Right off the beautiful coast of lake Erie (that has yet to freeze and is still giving snow). High Temp: 15 degrees F (Feels like -2 F with windchill)

To put it in perspective, they canceled school today and the Erie School District has only canceled twice now three times my whole life... thats how bad it is here now.

Lets hope it clears up for our meeting tonight

[JoeXIII'007]

Ypsilanti, MI

My Calc 2 Washtenaw Community College course was cancelled as I arrived there (no quiz on trig integration, yay!)... so yesterday evening I ran a few errands and got home at about 6:30 because traffic was being horrible.

High School is closed now, so I am quite pleased.

Snow here is mainly drifting, or it either just looks bad or it really is that deep, I have yet to hear of an official measurement. Nonetheless, we got hit quite nicely.


-Joe

PS: time to shovel...

[Beth Sweet]

Somehow Lansing got away with only 3 or so inches last night and although the university is just now scraping it all away, we're still good to go for school and robotics (which means I have to go take my functions test in an hour... ewwwwwwwwwww)

[Ken Loyd]

Wednesday Arizona Update!

Partly cloudy with a high near 70'. A Columbus friend called at 3:00AM to let me know they were having a snow day. We don't get many of them here in AZ.

Ken

[synth3tk]

Some of us Ohioans aren't that fortunate. We're closed right now, and looking at the weather we can hopefully start again tomorrow. Probably would've been a good idea for us to meet more days from the start. Almost makes me feel some teams are at more of a disadvantage than the ones who can still meet at a factory or machine shop, but it just means that we have to work 10 times harder in less time.

[KathieK]

Rockville, CT
17 deg right now (wind chill is 0 deg.); wintry mix of sleet, snow, freezing rain for today. Less snow fell than they had predicted, but the ice is worse; the college I work for closed today!
Am sitting by the window watching the squirrels and songbirds at the feeder (beautiful to see cardinals and blue jays on a background of white snow) and working on updating the NEMO website with a hot cup of tea and heart-shaped blueberry pancakes (thank you hubby!)...

I learned today that sleet is frozen precipitation that falls from the sky whereas freezing rain is raindrops that freeze upon contact with the frozen ground.

[Andy Baker]

Originally Posted by KathieK

.... with a hot cup of tea and heart-shaped blueberry pancakes (thank you hubby!)...

Excellent... I just got a stack of chocolate chip pancakes, link sausage, and some hot chocolate after snow-blowing* and shoveling out the driveway. We got about 8-10 inches here in Kokomo. The radio is saying that there is a "snow emergency" still until noon.

I bet that people are in the shop working on the robot. This is one good thing about not having a shop at the high school... the team can get in anytime we wish, as long as mentors are present. I plan on going in at noon or shortly after.

* - while snow-blowing this morning, I realized where the HOT team (67) got their inspiration for a ball shooter last year. It looks much like the aiming mechanism of a snow blower.

Andy B.

[Clark Gilbert]

Woohooo!

Purdue is closed again on Wednesday! We're making history because I doubt this will ever happen again!