Missing valuable work days!

[Joe Schornak]

I barely remember the last time it snowed here in Phoenix. It was in '97 or '98, and it lasted for about 20 minutes. There was barely enough snow on our car windshield to make a decent snowball, as it melted as soon as it hit a solid surface.

The last time my school actually told people not to come was when a water main broke and flooded parts of the campus, and the closest thing to a hurricane I've ever experienced was in August, when a storm brought in 80 mph winds. Every single power line was knocked over on a street near my house, and trees were down all over the city. It was rather exciting at the time, but it pales in comparison to some of the conditions described in this thread.

Good ol' hot, sunny, boring Arizona...

[DonRotolo]

Originally Posted by paragon571

we have that problem to but we cant work at our schools they hate us

Can you elaborate? Why is it that you think the school hates your team? Is it something you did, a lack of understanding, or?? (Serious question but also seriously off-topic)

[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.

[smurfgirl]

Originally Posted by 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.

You're one of the lucky few teams that bad weather is actually good for...

[ikhana870]

we had a power outage one day, and because we are located on a University campus the WHOLE campus was closed... we got out of school at like noon.

[ebarker]

Originally Posted by Elgin Clock

Did you have a Tornado/Flood day last year though, or was that outside of the build period? I forgot when that happened - I just remember seeing some damage in April still (Plywood on the Westin & Omni hotels, etc.)

It was after the build. During the Peachtree Regional, literally a tornado was in the area, and it was hailing, and lightning hit the building a few minutes before the finals on Saturday and killed the field control equipment.

After about a 3.5 hour delay the heros on the site lashed together some manual control boxes to do the disable/auto mode and the UL Safety people were programmed to be the disable/enable/auto mode operators so we could have the matches and finish the regional.

RE snowflakes. We don't do snow. The stuff we have that we call snow is a lot more icy than they have up nawth. It doesn't have the same driveability as that stuff in Minnesota plus we don't have the gear to deal with it so we cancel school if there is a snowflake spotted by our hyperventilating news anchors.

[synth3tk]

Originally Posted by ebarker

RE snowflakes. We don't do snow. The stuff we have that we call snow is a lot more icy than they have up nawth. It doesn't have the same driveability as that stuff in Minnesota plus we don't have the gear to deal with it so we cancel school if there is a snowflake spotted by our hyperventilating news anchors.

I believe that. When New Orleans recently got a few inches (read: less-than-2"), one of my buddies at my video game community said the whole city shutdown, because they don't have plows or tons of road salt sitting around. When he posted pictures, it literally looked like an average snowfall up here. We don't even blink at two inches.

But you can't compare apples and oranges.

[Chaos in a Can]

Our team is comprised of students from multiple schools, and though we work at one of those schools, we are not affiliated with that school, so we can work on snow days.
Interestingly enough, we were able to meet at the school even though school was cancelled, so we aren't losing any time.

[Cow Bell Solo]

Well lucky for us, we had to be one of the few schools in MN that didn't cancel or have some kind of delay, but hey, as we know I'ts White Bear. We also have a good relationship with the principle at our school where we work and he has let us into the school before when no one else is there.

[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.

[AndyB]

Today will be the 3rd meeting we've canceled this week. (1 on monday due to snow, thursday, and friday due to the cold). We aren't permitted to meet if school is canceled.

[ayeckley]

Teams in the south of Israel have had it difficult as well, having to meet in bomb shelters. Read this article:

There ought to be some sort of award for that...

[Sunshine]

Well..............

Thanks for the reassurances.

Some of you have put everything in perspective when you start talking about tornadoes and fires. Sorry for your pain. My small problems are nothing compared to others.

And actually, we are now able to turn lemons into lemonade...........

School was canceled again today, but they are allowing us to come in at 12:01 because it is supposed to warm up enough. We will actually be able to get 8 hours of work in. Now, I hope all the kids can make it safely. We are lucky.