I've already had 3 cancelations this season due to snow and ice.:(

Tournament this weekend where we had teams that had to travel some distance to get home leave early and the games were cancelled. Why you ask, well as it turns out the first blizzard of the year was occurring and the temperatures dropped to -45 celcius. I would not want to break down and get caught in those conditions.

For those of you who don't speak metric -45C = -49F

I had a game canceled due to a.......football game!
 

I love football. I don't officiate it, but it is my favorite sport. However, it wasn't this past Friday. A local school here made it to the state finals and they played on Friday. I had that schools varsity games, also playing on Friday. The coach canceled the games (girls and boys varsity) so the players could go see the football game! On a positive note, they won!

We would have to cancel the basketball game because several of our basketball players play football.

On the other hand, our football team was 1-10 so there was NO chance of that happening! :(

I've lost three games over last four days due to ICE STORM in the northeast.

Yeah, well with several hundred thousand people still without power and heat, sometimes a game is the least of your worries.....:eek: Good luck!

Actually, the email came from his assistant, Nick, who calls himself "The Big Kahuna". It gets old after a while, but I don't tease him about is because he's a deputy sheriff.

JEESE!! Did'nt mean to tic u off. I was just stateing a fact. Just got my power back yesterday.

SHeesh you all are lame. We get 2 feet of snow and don't close the schools. Make the little ba%78ds walk the three miles to school uphill too.:D

Gotta love Lake Effect Snow.

Backwards and barefoot? :rolleyes:

Backwards only if they are walking into the 50 mph wind off Lake Erie. We let them wear their galoshes.;)

Hey, I just realized that you are from Shishmaref! How goes the winter? I grew up on the Kenai Peninsula, and my dad worked for the FAA so he had to fly all over the state checking runways and emergency equipment. He would take my brother and I with him in the summers. So I've been to Shishmaref a couple of times - many years ago. Did they ever move the town, or is that still in the works?

Is that the user name for someone who officiates the game of shishma? :confused:

Sorry Mark, I am from Shishmaref, which is an Inupiaq Eskimo community of 650, 100 miles north of Nome. Only way to travel from village to village are by small commuter planes limited to 9 passengers so 1 coach and 8 players max.

I am the only certified official here (outside of Nome, which is not in our school district) but do a lot of training of officials within our District through video conferencing. Travel occasionally is limited by weather by our district has its own plane (no busses). I do not travel for regular season games, I work only games here at our school with a partner who is a "money ref". And no desire to get better.

Shishmaref will need to relocate in the future due to erosion issues. Here's a link to an news piece from Anchorage. KTUU.com | Alaska's news and information source | Big changes could come for little Shishmaref