You’re expecting over 2-feet of accumulation. That’s not even accounting for drifting. I’ll be surprised if you can make it out the door.
Delaware … Mostly rain, possibly some very wet “snow” Friday night. We might take the robot to a mentor house tonight just in case…
sigh I’d like to not be able to see my front yard because of all the snow.
I’m just currently in denial about missing a weekend of robotics. This is one of those storms where I’m hoping that the weather channel is wrong. Over 2 feet of snow is just ridiculous, something you’ll only find in New England (and probably Canada)
Only 2 feet! :rolleyes: 
In other words, Just a dusting.
I’m sorry, I forgot that you Northeasters are accustomed to digging tunnels through four feet of snow to get to school every winter. :rolleyes:
They may dig in the north east… up here in Minnesota, we just pull out the snow shoes and climb out the second story window 
In Ohio, we just cancel everything, from work to religious services, and stay home watching the news and weather people on TV freak out about this mystical white material falling from the sky.
It’s fun for the first ten minutes. Then you realize that they’re interrupting your favorite show.
And the Mid-Atlantic in 2010.
And 2003.
3 feet worth.
I remember 2003 because we lost 11 days of the build season due to the white stuff culminating in a blizzard over 5 days where couldn’t build and couldn’t ship.
But at least they pushed out the ship day in 2003 (and 2001) a couple of days. Now we have no excuse not to bag and tag.
You do if you can’t get to the robot. It’s an interesting situation now. While I don’t expect this storm to cause closures that last through ship date, there could be another storm this year, or in another year, which prevents teams from getting to their build site.
As far as I know, there’s no precedent for how FIRST will handle teams being unable to get to their work site to bag and tag their robot. In 2003 FedEx essentially forced their hand, since shipping was mandatory and donated, and they weren’t doing any pickups in the Northeast on ship day. Now it’s essentially a case-by-case basis depending on where the robot work is being done, if the particular school/build site allows access, etc. I’d hope FIRST has put some thought into how they will address this issue now if/when it comes up.
They have dealt with isolated special cases in the past, but never a large affected region.
*Siberia
We’ll I suppose that’s an argument of whether( or Weather…) or not your team should have had the foresight to bag your robot in advanced if you know about a oncoming storm on bag&tag day. Personally I loved it when they did push out ship date.
I forget what year it was, either 2010 or 2011(either way, a year with bag and tag/build season storms I think) and IIRC, FIRST increased the withholding allowance by a decent amount, rather than push back B&T.
Personally, I’m, concerned about the storm for a myriad of other reasons. Like many districts in NJ, we lost 6 school days from Hurricane Sandy, gained two days from the cancellation of the teacher’s convention, putting our balance of reserved snow days at 1 day. The problem is, rather than add on days at the end of the year(due to heat), they add them to the tail-end of Spring Break, something that (will/could) interfere for our competition schedule, and I’m sure could effect others.
As a Philadelphia team, we aren’t super worried about Finding our way through Nemo. But joking aside we are going to be working away from our school over the weekend, but we are transporting it just before the minimal snow hits.
Southwestern Ontario will likely be in the midst of the storm. NBD though, I’ll just ride my polar bear to the build site. Speaking of which… I happen to have access to the shop at my work, which is just down the road.
Maybe I’ll leave the polar bear behind and just bring the moose and a toboggan.
Don’t forget your toque.
Snow? What’s that?
This must mean an attack of the… Non-Engineering Mentor Association!
Well, our school now has a half-day tomorrow, and all extracurriculars are cancelled, including us :(. We’re hoping that the janitors are able to clean up the school parking lot quickly, so we can come in as early as possible on Saturday. We will stay as late as the school is open, and might extend our Sunday meeting to make up for last time as well. The up-ed our expected snowfall to 8’’-12’’. Stay safe everyone.
We already lost 4+ days due to 3ish winter storms. It’s these days when students should be kids & go out and play 