Snow cancellation?
 

Massive snowstorm hitting the area this afternoon, pretty much every school is canceled (including my college and the school I'm scheduled to work at this afternoon).

Left a message asking for someone to call me to confirm the games were off, but I doubt that will happen. Can I assume that since school is canceled and the roads are/will be treacherous that there will be no games?

Best person to call is your assignor.

Gotta love the Arbiter in situations like this!

My doubleheader is cancelled tonight & I got the email directly to my phone yesterday afternoon.

+1
I absolutely love modern technology for this reason. Woke up to a text message saying my kids' school is cancelled today.

Never assume a game is canceled. As someone else said, call your assigner but around here the rule is that if you do not get a cancellation notification via Arbiter or by the assigner, you are to show up. Granted most schools here cancel the games if school is canceled but with the season nearing an end and thus little time for make up games, some still play if conditions allow.

If it is canceled you will be paid (assuming you weren't notified) YMMV

Try calling the visiting school to see if the game is cancelled.

Yep -- and / or check the schools' web-sites, and athletic schedules.

A first for me here. I was just called to confirm that the game was still on tonight. This is the only school in my area that does not have a policy that all activities are automatically cancelled when school is closed.

Oh well - good for me! Short drive and dinner waiting when I get home!!:)

We had a little rain here....ice didn't materialize. My game was already rescheduled for Saturday.

Different areas have different policies. Here, it's up to the A.D. to contact the officials of postponements, but sometimes, the A.D.s contact the assignor, who then contacts us. Typically, there's no rule that says you can't call and check for yourself.

By the way, most frequently, these games are postponed, not cancelled. Big difference.

For me it may as well be a cancellation. Like always, they rescheduled on a date I'm already working.

My games just got canceled because of bad weather. Mind you I live in Houston and we are getting an arctic blast, temps are suppose to drop into the 20's.

I originally from NYC, like a co-worker of mine just said, are they playing basketball outside? Unbelievable.

Are you getting actual precipitation to go with the cold? Or are they canceling simply because it's too cold?

It stop raining hours ago, just plain cold. They said due to bad weather.

911 ...
 

We've been encouraged to call the police department. They're probably going to send a officer, for security, to the site, so they should know if the game is on, or off. Pesonally, I've never done this. The police have more importnat calls to take, especially during a snowstorm.

I once traveled twenty miles to a game during a snowstorm. Didn't get a call from my assigner, or the school. Couldn't get in touch with the school, my partner, or my assigner (olden days before cell phones). Took me over an hour to get to the game. The game was cancelled, but nobody contacted the cheerleadng coach, or the police officer, who I met in the parking lot. The officer confirmed the cancellation over his radio.

Were these the days when one placed a note in a bottle & sent it off to sea OR when birds carried the letter? :-)

We Also Had The Telegraph ...
 

We had these things called land line telephones. Some had rotary dials.

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[QUOTE=BillyMac;724802]We had these things called land line telephones. Some had rotary dials.

Oh okay, I saw those on tv once before! lol

Back in the days when the TV remote had two legs, two arms, and had to be fed three times a day.

This is OT but there are times I miss half a program looking for the remote when I could walk over to the TV and turn it but...............

Can't You Get Electrocuted ???
 

What? No way? You can do that? You are allowed to actually touch the monitor? Isn't that dangerous? I just checked my televison's instruction booklet and it doesn't say anything about doing such a thing. It does say that if you're going to touch the monitor to unplug the television. Maybe it's in the Spanish, or French, instruction booklet? I wish I could remember more of my high school French.

I got an email from one of my assignors just a few minutes ago. All games for that conference tonight are cancelled, which means my night just became a lot more open. I don't think it'll be my last assignment cancelled tonight. I'm in suburban Chicago and they're talking almost 2 feet of snow.

And now for something completely different
 

Similar to you, in the DC area our schools are closed and games cancelled when we get .0002 feet of snow. :rolleyes:

Good luck!

Grab a shovel.

Wish they'd cancel Congress when that happens.

My neighbor shovels. I don't get it -- they have money and could easily afford a snowblower. What takes them a few backbreaking hours is completely finished by me in about 30 minutes or so.

Just did my driveway and carved out the mailboxes so the mailman doesn't give birth to a canary if he has to stretch his arm more than 2 inches out the car window.

I lost a JV/V girls date last night, a JV Boys (three whistle) game tonight, and I'm pretty sure I'm going to lose my JC Women's game tomorrow night. What a crappy week for the STL area!

I just hope I get to keep the rest of my games later on this week!

Lost a GJV/GV combo tonight. Not much snow, just cold. ( Supposed to hit -20 overnight).

Thats a good thing, isnt it?

Well, unless you were counting on those to make your minimum requirement for post-season.

LOL. Nah, I've got more than the minimum.

Enjoy the night off!! Not missing my 1A assignment at all...

No way...I'm like Rich...a snowblower is the way to go

You also, T. Guess I get to watch Detroit 1-8-7 live tonight instead of on TIVO. :D

+1

Have had two dates cancelled now...tonight and tomorrow night. Though it's not all bad tomorrow got cancelled...it was a long drive.

I'm sure the police departments are thrilled with such calls. No, they ain't busy. Just eatin' doughnuts. :rolleyes:

No food if you missed the channel. Or ripped through them.

This Just In......
 

The storm passed mostly to our north west......we just got rain. Good luck to all you unlucky folks. :(

Schools are open.

Game on tonight! Game on tonight!

Last night's cancellation already rescheduled for Sat!


Oh yeah - your Federal Govt is open too. :rolleyes:

Or if you're anal like me, you do both...

No point...I did my driveway twice in 45 minutes last night...by the time I was done with the second time you couldn't even tell I had done anything.

I mentioned before that, last week, I drove 40 miles to a game, only to find it had been postponed. We weren't notified.

It was moved to tomorrow night, and I got the assignment again, with the same partner.

It just got postponed again.

Some schools will go to great lengths to avoid having you as the official. ;)

Man, that's cold! ;)

My wife is like this. To me, if I get 90% of it, I'm happy.

This morning will be a mess. I'm about to try to move the mountain of snow we have out front.

Wednesday's an off day for HS sports in this area. Good thing.

I've lost last night and tonight.:mad:

Same here & off tomorrow :mad:

I was already off for tonight and tomorrow. Have a game Friday and one Tuesday and then the season is done. :mad:

Post-season, no?

Tuesday is a post-season game.

They get it in early out your way huh? 3 weeks left here...
Good luck Tuesday & I hope you get the "next round" call!!

Not eligible beyond district level. I need to do a field clinic here in FL. First game was Nov 9th here. Softball/baseball already under way.

Gotcha, have fun with THAT! :D

Had the same crew last Friday and it went great. Nice thing is the district tournament is hosted by the school that is 4 miles away. Pay is slightly higher at $68 including the travel fee.

Obviously my game last night was canceled and moved to tomorrow. We will see if that goes over as the game is scheduled for 5:30 instead of the 7:00 or 7:30 usual start time.

Peace

Jeff we're supposed to get more snow, I think...except this time it'll be two inches instead of two feet

That's what I told my partner. All three games of mine that were postponed were with the same guy. I think they fear our tandem.

Yea 26 Year Gap, It's also 80* down there today!!:cool:

After 50+ Northern New England winters, I am entitled to enjoy it, too.:D

Which school district? I have games tomorrow, Friday and Saturday and haven't heard a peep about cancellations. It wouldn't surprise me if Friday got canceled considering it is supposed to snow that day. :eek:

And Quit Gloating ...
 

Will both of you please shut up.

Here's a photo of my backyard. Don't know where these odd birds came from. Never seen them before. Usually we just see chickadees, blue jays, and cardinals.

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Just had tomorrow cancelled. Three nights in a row cancelled because of this blizzard. Not all bad though, would have had a long drive tonight, and a long-ish one tomorrow. Can't say I don't mind saving the gas.

My games for tomorrow were canceled. Looks like Friday will be a wash but Saturday is still on.

Tomorrow was canceled? Are you watching Groundhog Day?

Good luck to all you guys losing games. Hope you get some makeups......

Last year's snow-mageddon in the DC area cost me ~15 games I never got back - and your situation is much worse.

Be safe all.

My rescheduled game from Tuesday is canceled tomorrow as well. Oh well, I am not surprised.

Peace

I lost two earlier in January. I've lost Tuesday and Thursday already this week. Friday's game is at a school in the middle of the biggest city around, so hopefully they end up playing.

Wait, didn't you say that yesterday?

It's Déjà Vous All Over Again ...
 

Visiting school has canceled and the home school has a 2 hour delay tonight. Sounds like we'll cancel since the visiting school will probably not send any buses out. I'll end up calling the school in a couple of hours.

My kid's school didn't delay (2 hours) until 7AM -- by then my daughter was up. She could've used the extra sleep. Drifts on rural roads -- I wonder if they will cancel in the end -- apparently people are snowed in.

I'm OK with it. I'm enjoying this mid-season break.

I was just notified of my 3rd cancellation this week. All have been re-scheduled on dates where I'm unavailable. It's a bummer considering we only have a couple of weeks left until the end of the season.

My Friday games have just been canned as well. I'll have to tide myself over on the four Jr High games I have on Saturday.

Holding out hope that Friday's games are still on. The school has been closed the last two days so I haven't been able to get a hold of anyone to find out.

I have had 3 Boys JV/Varsity double headers and 1 Varsity Boys game posponed this week (So far). I have had 4 previous dates posponed due to bad weather. I hope my Varsity girls game on Friday gets played.

Just got a call from my assignor asking if I could get to tomorrow night's GV/BV games for a 4:30 Start time instead of 6:30. It is a 1hr, 50min. commute. When I asked why, I was told that there is supposed to be an ice storm there later in the evening and they wanted to get the game in before it hits. So it is OK for me to potentially get stuck in the storm while commuting, without any travel pay, so the teams can get their game and get to their local homes?:(

I brought this to the attention of the assignor. His only response was "I don't have anyone to replace you, I would consider it a favor to Me if you will re-accept the game." Districts start in 10 days, I hope He remembers the favor. :rolleyes:

I Hope He Doesn't Bother My Birdfeeder ...
 

Here's another photo of my backyard. We do have black bears here in town. This one must be an albino.

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Hotel room may be in order.

One thing is for sure, if you dont do him this solid, he will remember that!

Capital "H" in he? You really do suck around your assignor, don't you? :D

He'd damnwell better remember the people that help him out when he's stuck. If he doesn't, he ain't gonna that that help from them in the future. And that's strictly on him, no one else.

True that.

In this association negative memorys last longer than positive ones. :rolleyes:

Just got my Saturday games whacked and lost six tournament games next week. Ouch. :(

You're having my last year. I feel for you.

As I recall, one of our problems with so many cancellations last yr came down to then trying to squeeze the remainder of the season into a few short weeks just before playoff time. Man were we getting busy! Assignor was going nuts!! Couldn't happen though, so they lopped off the end of the season and moved everyone into playoffs.

My daughter didn't have school today, but my game went on as scheduled. I just got home (I stopped for a sandwich on the way).

That's actually a feature of all human memory, where the amygdala regulates memories according to their emotional connections.

Maybe more than you wanted to know... ;)

But i lost my games on tuesday, there were no precipitation and the sun was actually out. They pulled the plug to early, might of been that it was Magnolia West vs Stratford. My games for today got cancelled as well.

Texas, well Houston anyways, is not built for this kind of weather.

Are you doing baseball??

Actually not, I googled amygdala and added to my repertoire of little used knowledge.:)