Jesse J Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 So my highschool called a snow day today but instead of staying home just relaxing working on the jeep I have to go online because utah recently said no more snowdays just go online Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
89 MJ Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 Well that kinda sucks. Although, maybe not needing to have any more snow days built into the school schedule will mean that school years will be shorter in the future, because they won't need to plan for them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete M Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 the world is definitely different than when I was a kid. mostly for the better though. but yeah, I feel your pain on not getting a snow day. it was truly one of the best parts of being a kid! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
derf Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 18 minutes ago, Pete M said: the world is definitely different than when I was a kid. mostly for the better though. but yeah, I feel your pain on not getting a snow day. it was truly one of the best parts of being a kid! It was, until you had to make it up at the end of the school year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torq_Shep Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 So we are still without power in Texas... I went to work because I was asked to be on campus for a bit. Situation is starting to get a bit dire in some areas. Managed to get my pipes unfrozen, bought a power inverter to run my furnace... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjeff87 Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 I'm on my on-call rotation week at work this week. We will most likely officially close tomorrow, and maybe Friday too, because of the pending ice storm. I'll most likely be stuck here (alone) trying to keep the facility running (refrigeration system, boilers, emergency generator, etc). Everyone will be placed on what's now being called "liberal leave", meaning if you can telework, you have to work from home. Kinda hard for folks to VPN into their networks remotely when 500K people are out of power (and don't have backup generators). Most of the school districts around here are still on remote learning due to COVID anyway, so they've been schooling online almost a year now already. This won't be anything new for them, except not having power to run their PC's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torq_Shep Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 2 minutes ago, mjeff87 said: I'm on my on-call rotation week at work this week. We will most likely officially close tomorrow, and maybe Friday too, because of the pending ice storm. I'll most likely be stuck here (alone) trying to keep the facility running (refrigeration system, boilers, emergency generator, etc). Everyone will be placed on what's now being called "liberal leave", meaning if you can telework, you have to work from home. Kinda hard for folks to VPN into their networks remotely when 500K people are out of power (and don't have backup generators). Most of the school districts around here are still on remote learning due to COVID anyway, so they've been schooling online almost a year now already. This won't be anything new for them, except not having power to run their PC's. We had half a dozen busted cooling tower lines and a few domestic water lines burst in the lab... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
89 MJ Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 33 minutes ago, derf said: It was, until you had to make it up at the end of the school year. At my school district, we build them in to the yearly schedule, and if we don't use them, then we just have 2 extra days of school that year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
89 MJ Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 6 minutes ago, mjeff87 said: Most of the school districts around here are still on remote learning due to COVID anyway, so they've been schooling online almost a year now already. This won't be anything new for them, except not having power to run their PC's. We have only been doing a Hybrid model (2 days in, 3 days out of school) for 1 week now. We went 11 months (including summer) strictly virtual. It sucked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjeff87 Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 35 minutes ago, Torq_Shep said: We had half a dozen busted cooling tower lines and a few domestic water lines burst in the lab... Uuuugh. We had 2 sprinkler heads pop in the back offices last year due to extreme cold, basically trashed everything. My biggest worry is 170 tons of commmercial refrigeration keeping a couple million $$$ worth of inventory cold/frozen. It doesn't like dirty/irregular power (400 amps). We have a 1750KW CAT generator (big old honkin' V16 diesel) as backup power for the entire facility, including the refrig system.....I LOVE that thing. Just got the belly tank topped off this morning by the fuel contractor, it has a 3000 gallon belly tank. Took about 1000 gallons. I could give 2 craps about anything else, but my boss is freaky about keeping the servers up too, so I have those to worry about also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jesse J Posted February 17, 2021 Author Share Posted February 17, 2021 for real we had our first snow day last year and it was the best. I decied to just not go to half my classes today and build the foam for my bench seat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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