Snow Storm

[Mark Pettit]

I can't resist, sorry. . . .
It's nearly 80 in Phoenix, Arizona today. I rode my bike in to school this morning before the sun came up and shorts and a sweatshirt were sufficient to keep me warm enough.
Most of the team is sporting shorts/tee-shirts at the build today.

[RoboMom]

On Thursday a decision was made to postpone the Maryland FLL State Championship from today until next Sat. It's a lot of work to reschedule these events, but we have a great team here in Maryland led by a tireless FLL partner, Mark Heil.

It's too early in the season to even talk about extensions and I wouldn't hold my breath. There was a couple day extension granted in 2003, but many of the teams it was suppose to benefit, still couldn't get out to work on their robots. What a mess that was. That blizzard happened the last week of the build season.
Every team has it's own set of challenges. For some, it's the weather.

[Petey]

Originally Posted by RoboMom

On Thursday a decision was made to postpone the Maryland FLL State Championship from today until next Sat. It's a lot of work to reschedule these events, but we have a great team here in Maryland led by a tireless FLL partner, Mark Heil.

It's too early in the season to even talk about extensions and I wouldn't hold my breath. There was a couple day extension granted in 2003, but many of the teams it was suppose to benefit, still couldn't get out to work on their robots. What a mess that was. That blizzard happened the last week of the build season.
Every team has it's own set of challenges. For some, it's the weather.

Lucky.

Last year, we had to cancel our FLL tournament due to a blizzard.

--Petey

[cadman2k5]

Still at meeting in NJ... we got 6-7 inches of snow... but were still rockin.

[Kevin Kolodziej]

I'm not sure how much we actually got here in Milwaukee (they predicted 10-15 inches), but the drifts in some places (like on top of and around my car) are at least 24 inches. The city was pretty much locked down this morning, so of course our meeting was cancelled. Its bright and sunny out right now though! Maybe I should go grab my shovel and start digging....

Kev

[tiffany34990]

good luck guys w/ the snow-- the only snow we saw is in the pit--aka metal shavings which obv. don't look like snow

[Robotics Dude]

i know here in suffolk county it was declared a state of emergency. There is about 6-7 inches on the ground

[Pi Is Exactly 3]

Our super. is kind of a snow-day-nazi (like the soup nazi, but with snowdays) so nothing is ever really canceled. We don't have meetings on sundays but if the snow affects things on monday, then that may be cancelled. I doubt that'll happen though.

[Sscamatt]

Our meeting ended at 1pm, but that's because we got kicked out of the school, not because of the snow. Now no meeting until Wednesday because of midterms.

[geeknerd99]

We have 2 inches on the ground here in Blacksburg, and our super. panicked and closed down everything... we already missed Thurs., Fri, and today's 10 hour meeting...

And there isn't even icing...

Yay! Sleding! Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[tkwetzel]

Originally Posted by KTorak

I hope the snow stops (It's ironic for a HS student to wish for that). If this keeps out, we won't finish our robot on time. We've already lost a few days due to snow.

Maybe a good selling point when asking a school to start a team: FIRST students don't want snow days, they want to continue school so they can work on their robot.

Anyways...update: now there is easily over 12" of snow and it is still falling. Special things that I did: found out that with the current amount of tread on my tires and many other factors, my car will not reach any speed over 5 mph in the snow, if I press the gas, the tires just start spinning, so I did have a little fun in the parking lot with that. Me and some friends went to Walmart and got a snow tube and rope and snow-tubed behind a minivan. Lots of fun stuff, I love it...and as for tomorrow, I'll be on the slopes all day snowboarding!

[Alex Cormier]

yay 20 inches of snow by the end of tomrrow total for this weekend! i hate the cold but i like the way snow looks other then that i hate snow! go away

[Aaron Lussier]

Just finished shoveling, 8-10 inches all ready and its not supposed to stop till sometime tomorrow... ugg.

[av11d]

We had to cut short our meeting today by about 3 hours. We ran the meeting 9-1 instead of 9-4. In retrospect, I would have shortened the meeting to 9-12. It was really blizzarding by one here in NJ. Hopefully the roads will be clear by our Tuesday meeting.