Midwest Weather?

[Joe Matt]

Closed Wednesday too Clark? Wow. We were closed till 11am here (including all day yesterday). Very nice to get a break.

[FIXIT]

Is it only Ohio teams that are feeling the pressure to work three times as hard and four times as long in order to make up for lost days?

I like a challenge, but we are teetering on a state of emergency in Cleveland. I wouldn’t be surprised if they started air lifting supplies in soon. Streets are closed, the snow is getting deeper and deeper, and we are falling farther behind every day the schools are closed. So far this build season the Cleveland schools have been shut down 5 days—it’s really hurting us to lose almost a week.

Yet, we will ship on time and hope for the best. I just hope FIRST takes into consideration the difficulties all of us are facing and tries to figure out a way to ease the pain and make it fair for all the teams!

[Ryan Dognaux]

Originally Posted by Clark Gilbert

Woohooo!

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

I'll second that, I just hope we have a meeting tonight. Two nights in a row of no robotics is really going to hurt us...

[Lea103]

So far we've lost two days of build time; school was closed early yesterday and cancelled for today. The school doesnt let us stay when it closes early. Animation is really in a bind seeing as the deadline is approaching really fast, and yes there is school Monday for us now which means we lost that entire day of work... best of luck to all

[Wedge34]

we just had 14 inches of snow and sleet mixed + 6 inches of powder which we already had, and its blowing like crazy. Cant wait to get to Scottsdale over spring break!

[Lil Bit]

The weather is real bad up here that the schools was even closed!

[Lil Bit]

Are team is trying are best to finish on time but the schools have shut down and do to the weather some members are unable to leave out to to get to are work site so we are falling back. Good luck teams hope you all make dead line!

[chinckley]

Here in Southwest Michigan we are really hurting. We have lost eight days due to school closing so far and they are predicting more for tomorrow.
Last night we got some work in but the snow was blowing sideways and the roads horrible. This is unbelievable. It seems so unfair to the students. They are working so hard. I am not sure we can finish before Tuesday pickup. In all my four years I have never seen weather like this during build season. I know one year they delayed ship by two days. Michigan and New York are getting hit hard. Michigan has more teams than any state (over 100) but California and with the Govenors grants this year we had even more. I wish there was a way to let FIRST know the difficulties we are having just getting to school. We do not have a nice large sponsor (outside of school) where we can go to work on snow days. We rely on our school. Any helpful ideas on how we can finish? We are not allowed to stay overnight either.

Carolyn Hinckley - Teacher

[nightdragon]

I feel your pain...we have students that take over an hour to get to robotics on good days...and that is by public buses since we don't bus students. We have lost 5 days already and it looks like another one coming up. The students have been busting their butts to finish what they can, but when you can only work so many hours only on weekdays, what can you do?

[Ken Loyd]

Well, it is Thursday and another sunny day here in paradise. Back in 1979 there was a blizzard in the midwest. A friend and I put snow skis and snow shovels on a rack on my 1974 MGB. The car was so light we appeared to ride on top of the snow rather than thru the snow. We became the delivery service for the neighborhood assisting those who could not help themselves. This just goes to prove there was life before FIRST (but it wasn't as much fun!)

Ken

[65_Xero_Huskie]

Originally Posted by Ken Loyd

Well, it is Thursday and another sunny day here in paradise.
Ken

=GLARE= *Whispers to everyone in the snow* Who else is shooting lazerbeams at him with their eyes after he turns around?

[Al Skierkiewicz]

Originally Posted by Ken Loyd

Back in 1979 there was a blizzard in the midwest.

Ah, The winter of '78/'79. I spent a great deal of that season clearing snow out of the 10 meter dish in the back of the station. That dish was our downlink video feeds from the network. PBS later looked at our plight and came up with funding to put dish heaters in. Can you imagine someone thinking Chicago wouldn't need dish heaters?

[EricH]

Originally Posted by Ken Loyd

Well, it is Thursday and another sunny day here in paradise.

How did you know what it's like in Southern California?

Oh, and SoCal's main bad weather is rain that shouldn't be called rain compared to the rest of the country (during the winter only), the occaisional tiny hail (every two to three years), and the occasional big earthquake or mudslide.