Snow Snow Snow

TheJeanGenie

Just wondering whether they've ever shut down the college because of weather conditions? As in cancelled lectures etc considering a lot of people would live a good way out from the campus.

Raphael

One of mine was cancelled today, as the lecturer couldn't make it in

TheJeanGenie

The thought of trekking all the way in is killing me

rainbow kirby

It's never been completely cancelled in the entire time I've been in UCD, then again the last time there was snow this heavy was about 8 years ago.

The thought of coming in from Firhouse tomorrow is killing me, but I have a 100% attendance record since the start of 4th year and I don't want to lose it *just* yet!

pathway33

anyone know where lecturer trevor storey will be coming from tomorrow? wanna work out probability of him making it in.

I have to do a 100 mile round trip to get to my lecture tomorrow. am i mad?

rainbow kirby

pathway33 wrote: »

I have to do a 100 mile round trip to get to my lecture tomorrow. am i mad?

Yes.

pathway33

rainbow kirby wrote: »

Yes.

i'll pop my nose out the door at 4.30 and make a decision then

princess-sprkle

pathway33 wrote: »

anyone know where lecturer trevor storey will be coming from tomorrow? wanna work out probability of him making it in.

I have to do a 100 mile round trip to get to my lecture tomorrow. am i mad?

take a snow day and have some tea and biscuits!

Joneser

well my trip in is usually 75 mins, today it took 4 hours to get home,
if its anything like that in the morning im declaring it a snow day :P

Mr.Nice Guy

I have 5 in a row tomorrow so really not looking forward to going in the freezing cold and trying to survive on the scraps of food I'll be eating to keep me going.

One is a seminar though so I feel I need the marks.

I wish they cancelled everything! Reminds me of when I was in school and it was snowing and we were told to wait in the yard as the vice-principal had an announcement to make.

"The heatershhhhh not working boyshhhhh so you can all go home..."

"Wahey! Leg it!"

College sucks, eh?

Riamfada

Thought you might appreciate this, taken at about 8:30pm Tonight

TDOie

Grimes wrote: »

Thought you might appreciate this, taken at about 8:30pm Tonight

Looks Coolz.

graduate

Lore has it that UCD was closed for 3 days in the Great Snow of 1982. There were 3m drifts on the road behind the library, which wasn't re-opened for a further week. That was a proper snow, when temperatures were -19C at night and not only the UCD lake was frozen but also the canals.

pathway33

graduate wrote: »

Lore has it that UCD was closed for 3 days in the Great Snow of 1982. There were 3m drifts on the road behind the library, which wasn't re-opened for a further week. That was a proper snow, when temperatures were -19C at night and not only the UCD lake was frozen but also the canals.

where did they put the quacks?

Raphael

Over in Health Sci.

Badumtish

cHaTbOx

Raphael wrote: »

Over in Health Sci.

Badumtish

You have just gave me hours of fun:D

lemon_sherbert

Found out my first lecture was cancelled today... as I arrived at the door at 9 o clock

Library time, sigh.

rainbow kirby

And not a flake of snow down here! Silly!

Raphael

You're welcome

woop

Grimes wrote: »

Thought you might appreciate this, taken at about 8:30pm Tonight

what camera were those taken on?

Riamfada

woop wrote: »

what camera were those taken on?

Cannon 450D

gubbie

Anyone see the snow mob??

ucdperson

UCD closing at 5pm, which I think personally is ridiculous.

Thomas_S_Hunterson

Had a deadly snow fight today, the mob legging it through Newman was brilliant.

delta_bravo

ucdperson wrote: »

UCD closing at 5pm, which I think personally is ridiculous.

Im off today but what do you mean by closing? Many lectures go on till 6 and then theres night courses etc. So the whole place is shut at 5? Gates and everything?

Edit, see the email now. Is it that bad out there? Cos theres only about 2cm in templeogue and earlier in the week the snow melted fairly quick out in ucd

Thomas_S_Hunterson

Here's the email that was sent out:

Due to current weather conditions, all buildings at Belfield will close at 5:00pm today, Thursday 05 February 2009. All buildings will re-open under normal hours tomorrow, Friday 06 February 2009. Any updates will be posted on UCD Connect.

Local services desks can attend to any questions before 5:00pm today.

33% God

The view out my Kitchen window this morning



the view out my bedroom window this morning



The view out my bedroom window 5 minutes ago




I went in for a lecture only to find out that it was cancelled. The snow mob was fun though


Does all buildings closing at 5pm include the student bar?
If so there are going to be a lot of disappointed Coronas fans.

seraphimvc

i love snow!!!:D:D:D

dyl10

Sean_K wrote: »

the mob legging it through Newman was brilliant.

I'd love to see some of those scumbags reprimanded

shanegj

delta_bravo wrote: »

Is it that bad out there? Cos theres only about 2cm in templeogue and earlier in the week the snow melted fairly quick out in ucd

there is a person from my lab group who can't go home because its to bad, she has to go to her grandmothers instead

woop

yeh its bad took me an hour at 2 oclock to get to the beacon by car...........skipped 2 lectures left early cos I thought itd be bad later on

rainbow kirby

Got home in pretty much the normal time today, left at 1pm. Didn't fancy any more pain after it took me 4 hours to get home on Tuesday.

Leprachaun

Haha,the snowball mob was hilarious.

dyl10 wrote: »

I'd love to see some of those scumbags reprimanded

Prude?

imp

Leprachaun wrote: »

Prude?

In fairness some of them were actively targeting cyclists, which is just not on.

bnt

Talk about a Winter Wonderland, at least until it all turns to slush. This was the view up near Newstead today. (A bit sepia-tinted, I admit.)

SnowyNewstead.jpg

:cool:

dyl10

Leprachaun wrote: »

Prude?

I can't say I saw the funny side, when those dicks spent nearly a minute throwing snow into theatre M, knocking all the lecturers things off his table on to the floor, making the rest of the material for the lecture unusable and drenching my A4 pad full of notes and handouts

What comedians :rolleyes:

Seifer

Can anyone explain to me the logic of shutting the whole college down at 5?
Because all I can see it did was to cause everyone to go add to the horrendous transport situation at the worst time possible.
Took me an hour and 20 minutes to do what is normally a 30 minute drive at peak times and 15 minute drive off-peak.

Riamfada

Seifer wrote: »

Can anyone explain to me the logic of shutting the whole college down at 5?
Because all I can see it did was to cause everyone to go add to the horrendous transport situation at the worst time possible.
Took me an hour and 20 minutes to do what is normally a 30 minute drive at peak times and 15 minute drive off-peak.

Turning everyone in UCD onto the streets in heavy snow at 5pm has to be the worst health and saftey decision I have ever heard of in my life. Some foreign students I was with from Canada couldnt believe that they were being put out into the weather. I ended up going down a hill sideways in my car in Clonskeagh when I would have much rather waiting until after rush hour traffic to leave UCD. Can someone please explain why "due to the weather" they have to close UCD early? Why wernt services taking student cards of people causing trouble or just man the doors to prevent snow being brought in.

scop

I sometimes wonder whether UCD is really a University. Oh a few inches of snow: close the fooker down!

And to close it because of the snow mob...I mean how hard is it to control these dudes? I watched them from the library, and whilst they were a fairly big crowd hardly too big to control. I suspect drink had something to do with it: lectures cancelled=bar=snowballs.

I was supposed to be teaching a tutorial at 5, but now that class will have to merge, or more likely they'll just drift off.

Not to mention that some of us need to be in the library.

The_Minister

It was probably the staff wanting to make sure they got home tbh.

Donald-Duck

scop wrote: »

I sometimes wonder whether UCD is really a University. Oh a few inches of snow: close the fooker down!

And to close it because of the snow mob...I mean how hard is it to control these dudes? I watched them from the library, and whilst they were a fairly big crowd hardly too big to control. I suspect drink had something to do with it: lectures cancelled=bar=snowballs.

I was supposed to be teaching a tutorial at 5, but now that class will have to merge, or more likely they'll just drift off.

Not to mention that some of us need to be in the library.

Actually a lot of the other colleges were/are closed the last few days and have had much more things cancelled than UCD. I haven't had a single lecture cancelled all week

Seifer

The_Minister wrote: »

It was probably the staff wanting to make sure they got home tbh.

What staff? Any staff that were due to go home at 5 do so. Why send everyone else that was supposed to keep the place open home at the same time? They'd have an easier time getting home at their later quitting time.

delta_bravo

Grimes wrote: »

Turning everyone in UCD onto the streets in heavy snow at 5pm has to be the worst health and saftey decision I have ever heard of in my life. Some foreign students I was with from Canada couldnt believe that they were being put out into the weather. I ended up going down a hill sideways in my car in Clonskeagh when I would have much rather waiting until after rush hour traffic to leave UCD. Can someone please explain why "due to the weather" they have to close UCD early?

Could you not have waited in your car in the car park until the traffic abated if safety was an issue, there was no mention of gates closing at 5. And I would say the reason they decided to close at 5 was that there was too much of a risk of serious injury to a person on campus: It only takes one idiot to have a rake of drink in the bar and then slip on ice and blame the college for it happening. Better to be safe than sorry in this case.

Grimes wrote: »

Why wernt services taking student cards of people causing trouble or just man the doors to prevent snow being brought in. Why wernt services taking student cards of people causing trouble or just man the doors to prevent snow being brought in.

Perhaps the authorities were a bit too naive in thinking that a group of twentysomethings could control themselves when in the presence of semi frozen water? I wasnt in today but it sounds like it was anarchy in there today, people were throwing snowballs within the buildings and theatres i hear? Shows great respect for college and the cleaning staff that would have had to deal with the mess.

Tom65

What happened with this "snow mob"? Can some give details for those of us not there?


Living in Sweden, I'm now the proud owner of a smug "you think this is snow/cold? You haven't seen snow/cold" grin. A couple of inches and all hell breaks lose there. There's been snow on the ground here for about 3 weeks now. Sick of the stuff :P

Donald-Duck

Tom65 wrote: »

What happened with this "snow mob"? Can some give details for those of us not there?


Living in Sweden, I'm now the proud owner of a smug "you think this is snow/cold? You haven't seen snow/cold" grin. A couple of inches and all hell breaks lose there. There's been snow on the ground here for about 3 weeks now. Sick of the stuff :P

It was all out war on campus with snowballs, every man to himself outside.

Leprachaun

dyl10 wrote: »

I can't say I saw the funny side, when those dicks spent nearly a minute throwing snow into theatre M, knocking all the lecturers things off his table on to the floor, making the rest of the material for the lecture unusable and drenching my A4 pad full of notes and handouts

What comedians :rolleyes:

pwned

graduate

The gangs of thugs roaming around seem to have been the reason as much as anyone wanting to go home. Snow is hardly a new thing, a few services people at doors (perhaps with some doors being closed) is enough to stop people carrying snow into buildings. Some people may need to go home but the library and canteen should have identified people who live nearby who can keep the show on the road in these cases. If drunk people are likely to slip on the ice then close the bar.

spaczed

In fairness, I think that the 'snow mob' members who went through the arts block lobbing snow around were probably one of the reasons why UCD decided to close early. It is tough enough when college authorities and students have to negotiate the kind of weather we had today without the scumbags (well called dyl10) who decide the snow is a good enough excuse to wreck lectures for the students who actually want to learn something and target anyone who just wanted to walk on the concourse.

For anyone who wasn't around campus this afternoon, the so called snow mobs were groups of 20 or 30 guys (mostly) who lined themselves up either side of the concourse between Daedalus and Newman and hurled snowballs en masse at anyone who walked between them. Not only that, but when they say anyone with an umbrella or who tried to run by, someone would scream 'Umbrella' or 'Runner' and the target person referred to would get a hail of about 40 icy snowballs launched at them at the one time. I heard of at least one woman who had her umbrella broken by these goons. TBH shows the worst of mob mentality and attitudes of some people in UCD. :mad:

Fair enough when they were throwing snowballs at each other in front of engineering but deliberately targeting others for 'fun' was pretty shocking to be honest.

Riamfada

The student bar is the only thing open tonight. Coronas gig

chrissor

Aww, I was about to make a sarcastic comment about what a shame it would be if the Coronas were unable to play tonight.

The snow and the fights were good fun today, however a group of people knocking some poor girl off her bike was not.

Browney7

Weren't the gaurds called and everything??Heard it was an all out war:eek:

Sickened I missed all the commotion. Bloody tutorial.