Northeast rocked by storm

[fimmel]

central western VT is bad but not terrible. we still have power but no meeting (our like 5th cancellation but we should be able to make up for it if we dont have any more.

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[flamefixed]

blaxbb i know how you feel. this is the second time our school aka only workplace has been canceled. we arent allowed in the school. though our teacher/mentor has some persuasion, and a construction entrance, so tonight may be anotehr story school is closed friday and monday too, but we managed to get the entire day opened for us, hopefully this will help make up the lost time along with long hours saturday and sunday.
but man was that ice bad. drove home last night around 10, very thankful for all wheel drive and blizzak tires haha

[Cory]

You guys should come finish your bots up on the west coast--it's been 70-75* here since last week.

[Stu Bloom]

Originally Posted by Cory

You guys should come finish your bots up on the west coast--it's been 70-75* here since last week.

That was just downright MEAN!

[Ericgehrken]

Being on the west coast is huge advantage.

[EricH]

Originally Posted by firstbots195

Being on the west coast is huge advantage.

Good weather and six more hours to build...the only teams that have it better are the Hawaiian teams!

[Ericgehrken]

Now I wanna move west!

[Roger]

Heh. This reminds me of how the weather is considered in New England:

NEW ENGLAND TEMPERATURE CONVERSION CHART

60 F: Southern Californians shiver uncontrollably. People in New England sunbathe.
50 F: New Yorkers try to turn on the heat. People in New England plant gardens.
40 F: Italian & English cars won't start. People in New England drive with the windows down.
32 F: Distilled water freezes. Maine's Moosehead Lake's water gets thicker.
20 F: Floridians don coats, thermal underwear, gloves, wool hats. People in New England throw on a flannel shirt.
15 F: New York landlords finally turn up the heat. People in New England have the last cookout before it gets cold.
0 F: All the people in Miami die. New Englanders close the windows.
10 below zero: Californians fly away to Mexico. The Girl Scouts in New England are selling cookies door to door.
25 below zero: Hollywood disintegrates. People in New England get out their winter coats.
40 below zero: Washington DC runs out of hot air. People in New England let the dogs sleep indoors.
100 below zero: Santa Claus abandons the North Pole. New Englanders get frustrated because they can't start their "kahs."
460 below zero: All atomic motion stops (absolute zero on the Kelvin scale). People in New England start saying, "cold 'nuff for ya?"
500 below zero: Hell freezes over. The Red Sox win the World Series.

But don't put me in the second part. I've lived up here a long time and I'm sure I'm still considered one of the "new neighbors".

And what about that monsoon that blew thru yesterday? The streets were like rivers all the way home!

[EricH]

Originally Posted by Roger

Heh. This reminds me of how the weather is considered in New England:

Inaccurate. At 60F, the Californians start saying it's cold. It takes about 30F (no parka) to get them shivering uncontrollably.

This from a Californian in South Dakota.

[KathieK]

Not only is ship date looming, but so is the Suffield Shakedown Scrimmage scheduled for this weekend - the first place we get to see the official FIRST field in action. The flooding is causing a lot of cancellations for this evening and the temps are dropping making icing a concern again tonight.

[DarkFlame145]

Originally Posted by Stillen

Can't get to the school???? wow, you musta got hit hard.....We got power lines laying in the road, trees on top of the lines, snow up to the bumpers on the trucks, and more ice/water than the storm drains can handle, with rolling brown outs.....

Just click it into 4 wheel and go..... Our entire build team is here right now, almost like the storm never happened.... Not even the janitors showed up, just the DAWGS.....

4X4 doesn't help on ice, I learned that the hard way last winter. Snow it can help, but not ice.

Originally Posted by Cory

You guys should come finish your bots up on the west coast--it's been 70-75* here since last week.

But we have water =P When I was in Cali. over Xmass break seeing my family and jusy seeing home many of the lakes we passes where really low.

[Cory]

Originally Posted by DarkFlame145

But we have water =P When I was in Cali. over Xmass break seeing my family and jusy seeing home many of the lakes we passes where really low.

Yeah we've been in the midst of a mini drought here. We got a lot of rain in January though.

[Daniel_LaFleur]

We've missed 5 or 6 build days due to weather. We work at the school, and if it's closed we cannot build.

Unfortunately this has really impacted our already very tight schedule. I'm hopeing we can get it all together before ship date.

[Roger]

EricH I have no doubt about that. My boss flies in from his home in Florida (yeah, I know) and cranks up the air conditioning in the office. To him the warm office reminds him of outdoors in hot Florida, even if here it's 25 degrees (F) outside.

[BigJ]

SE wisconsin is supposedly getting another foot of snow on sunday.

Hopefully the public schools won't be closed on Monday....