Missing valuable work days!

[McGurky]

ya they just called off school for the second day in a row, and our team is already behind, we will really need to catch up this weekend!!

[AJ R]

The bad weather is great. 1714 does not meet at a school, so school closures help us a lot. We meet at American Acrylics which is one of our main sponsors so the door is open all the time, even in this weather.

[Travis Hoffman]

We love snow days. Instead of starting work at 2:30; the students start at noon instead.

[Engineer]

-25F again this morning and many of the schools are closed again. It's actually supposed to warm up to 10F today and 20F tomorrow. Hurray a temperature on the positive side of the scale. We have not seen that for awhile. Negative temps is not that bad if you dress for it. You do need all exposed skin covered when you snowmobile or you get almost instant frostbite.

[gorrilla]

Originally Posted by waialua359

trouble in paradise?
We had to close our school for high winds, lots of rain, and huge surfs of up to 35ft. Maybe tomorrow also.
We wanted to work, but our admin sent all of us home.

i'd rather have rain then snow any day \


35ft!!!! i wish, all we get in florida is around 8 at the most in sebastian

[Doug G]

I think it was just 2003 that had the ship date postponed 2 days. I remember getting that e-mail early in the day (Sunday?) and then putting off telling the students until later in the day, simply because they were working so deligently and I didn't want them to slow down. I felt really guilty about it.

The weather issues as well as numerous other situations and such are always affecting some teams more than others. It is not fair but nonetheless, I feel it provides students with more real world experience at problem solving. Companies too deal with many issues outside of their control (even weather), but still have to stay on a timeline. Students that must go through these problems will have gained valuable lessons in project and time management.

[EricH]

Originally Posted by Elgin Clock

I think that actually happened 2 years in a row. 2002 & 2003 if I'm not mistaken?
It's rare, & we kind of were looking forward to it happening again the nest year, but alas, it was not to be.
Oh wells.

'03 and '04. '03 was weather; '04 was due to delays in getting KOP stuff out. I remember trying to figure out how to do something at some ridiculously early time the revised ship date--if it had been on the normal day, I would have been in bed hours before.

330 used to have a little issue with film crews in the facility where we had our build site during the last couple weeks of build. We'd move out for a day or two, then move back in. We finally moved for a while into another facility.