Author Topic: snow and bowling (Read 4017 times)

no300tj · « **on:** March 01, 2009, 11:47:55 PM »

This question is for all of you that get frequent snow. I'm in southwest Virginia and it never fails, someone sees a few snow flakes and all leagues are cancelled and the centers close. Yes they were calling for 2-4 inches overnight last night but at 5pm the temp was 37 and the snow on the ground was all gone. It didn't start snowing agiain until after 9 pm. We could have bowled and gotten home before the roads got slick. It just seems pathetic to me for everyone to react as if we can't do anything because of a little snow. By the way, I enjoy driving in the snow. When I was 16, I learned car control by driving in it. Where else can you slide around at 25 MPH.
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michelle · « **Reply #16 on:** March 02, 2009, 10:15:02 AM »

welcome to the litigious world in which we reside...if someone has an accident on their way to league, you can bet your bottom dollar that someone would seek to sue the center as well as name the league officers.

There are certainly areas of the country accumstomed to a little bit of snow. I do disagree with some of the snap decisions to take so much stuff offline so to speak, but if it is, say 37 as someone notes above, and the snow melts but the water does not evaporate before it can later freeze up, you run the risk of an idiot not reacting properly to the road condition and looking for someone to blame.

Locke · « **Reply #17 on:** March 02, 2009, 10:28:31 AM »

Minnesota here. Friday night we got 8-10 inches a couple weeks ago. I still had my youth league at 8:30am the next morning. It was pretty bad but we all made it fine... I love when I see like Vegas getting 2 inchs and the entire city shuts down.
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chitown · « **Reply #18 on:** March 02, 2009, 11:18:13 AM »

Being from Illinois we get a lot of snow. I've never had bowling cancled because of weather.

I find it kind of funny that they would cancle bowling because of 4" of snow. lol

Gazoo · « **Reply #19 on:** March 02, 2009, 11:42:58 AM »

Competitive leagues generally go unless it's a blizzard. Social leagues generally cancell if it's more than a couple of inches.
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toomanytenpins · « **Reply #20 on:** March 02, 2009, 12:50:52 PM »

im from chicago and i have all sympathy for you,we just put out troughs for wet shoes and runners for the bags . no snow days here.
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rvmark · « **Reply #21 on:** March 02, 2009, 01:23:04 PM »

In the last 4 years bowling in the Sioux Falls area I can't remember being canceled once, have driven in heavy snow several times and on the ice a few times (freezing rain last Thursday night and we bowled).

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ImBackInTheGame · « **Reply #22 on:** March 02, 2009, 02:04:14 PM »

Last Thursday we got 8 inches of snow. I left work early just to make sure I made it to League that night! I've never heard of league being cancelled due to snow around here in MN.

Juggernaut · « **Reply #23 on:** March 02, 2009, 02:42:14 PM »

It doesn't even take snow to cancel leagues around here. They cancelled them once due to heavy fog conditions.

The league secretary didn't want to drive in it and called the center and cancelled for the night. Most of the league showed up to the surprise of the center and was told league had been cancelled.

We had a new secretary the next week.
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Robadat · « **Reply #24 on:** March 02, 2009, 03:22:05 PM »

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We got about 8" here in the boroughs of NYC, I don't know if the Monday leagues were canceled. I bowl on Wednesday night, so I expect to bowl.

It'll be fun trying to get to my league via public transportation, which involves lugging 60lbs of gear of two buses, both directions. Nobody shovels in the neighborhood the center is in, either.

I know I'm bowling tonight in the Bronx. We got about 6 inches over night but the roads were pretty clear by the time I left work at 4 this afternoon.
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sdbowler · « **Reply #25 on:** March 02, 2009, 04:23:36 PM »

I remember a few times driving in a blizzard in Sioux Falls and still having league that night. From what I have seen in Albert Lea they don't call leagues off at all.
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BrianCRX90 · « **Reply #26 on:** March 02, 2009, 05:22:06 PM »

That's pretty sorry that Virgina would do that. When it does snow on the rare occasion in Fort Worth, TX, my alley never closes down but every work will shut down or tell their employees to go home and leagues will always be canceled and cannot make them up. Last time my work let everyone go home early on my league night nearly 1 year ago it took me 4 hours to get to the bowling alley and it is only 10 miles away. When every work gets off at the same time in the metroplex along with dumb drivers that like to drive 10 miles an hour and still get in accidents it causes problems. Not to mention there is only two ways to get out of my work and the way I needed to go had an accident and the police closed the road.

The good news if any is the alley was open and lots of lanes to practice on.

Hogsharley · « **Reply #27 on:** March 02, 2009, 06:13:26 PM »

I just called. League is on tonight despite a foot of snow!

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Smash49 · « **Reply #28 on:** March 02, 2009, 07:27:00 PM »

Her in Oklahoma the other night we had a thunderstorm. I looked around and said :where'd everybody go!" 1 league cancelled the last time we had ice and that was it.

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SleepOnIce · « **Reply #29 on:** March 02, 2009, 08:18:43 PM »

I wish they'd cancel for snow. People drag it everywhere and then walk in it with their shoes and get water on the approach during practice. Which either makes you stick really hard a few times, or you get the one guy who has to have the approaches cleaned and you miss half of practice.
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JohnP · « **Reply #30 on:** March 03, 2009, 09:10:17 AM »

SE Indiana here. If the bowling center is open (and it seldom closes unless we lose power or have a statewide ban on driving) the leagues bowl. Our leagues have a rule that anyone that feels it isn't safe to be on the roads can postbowl any time before the next week's league session. They are supposed to notify the center of their intention before the league session begins, but that rule isn't enforced. -- JohnP

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