[Back In The Saddle]

Originally Posted by Bad Zebra

No snow here in Central Florida...but had a weather related problem this week. There's a cold snap here. Overnight temp around 30 degrees. Local high school responds by turning the heater on in their gym...at 9 a.m. ...and leaves it on ALL DAY. The temperature inside the gym for JV game is hovering around 90 degrees. I ask the AD to turn it off. She claims that it can only be turned off by the school board's computers 15 miles away and that she has been on the phone twice already. By 4th quarter, looks like JV players are going to start dropping from heat stroke. Coaches are b#$%ing like crazy... I told her get something done or I'm cancelling the varsity game. Local custodian to the rescue...he hits the breaker switch and the heat stops.

We don't do cold real well here.

Can't imagine what would happen if it snowed.

Once upon a time basketball was a winter sport. I guess that was the reason my alma mater was wired the way it was. Fast forward 40 years and there's a summer team/officials camp there. The "C" gym is like 100° inside. There is exactly one set of double doors to the outside, and they're propped wide open. But it's 80° outside too. It seems that the scoreboard was wired on the breaker as the heater. You want one, you get the other.