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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I suspect they will communicate a plan by Thursday one forecasts solidify a bit more. [quote=Anonymous]When will they typically announced if the meet will still go on or if it will be cancelled? Thursday? Or on day of?[/quote][/quote]

They can run Friday and Saturday.  Snow is looking to start on Saturday.  i imagine they will attempt to run Sunday but UMD will end up closing and they will not have a choice.  They will probably just tell everyone to listen for announcements. I don't know if this is an east coast snow or just local.  That would impact scratches.

But in the end, adults need to make decisions for their families - and for some reason parents are just terrible at that stuff.  You say, we will swim what we can and leave early to not risk it (and you gamble one way or another) or you say we will stay and if we get snowed in for a few days extra in a hotel room we are good with that which means we won't be swimming.

It is a swim meet.  There are other swim meets.  I think it will be tougher on the teams that are doing team travel to this meet.  Now you are risking other kids, liability, etc.  Personally if I were running a club and taking a bus, etc.  I would say hey, we have to switch this to parent travel and you have to make the right decision for your family.[/quote]

Sensible. I live in the Rockies and we deal with this from November until late March. We have scratched our kids from finals to avoid driving home in a blizzard at night. We have extended our hotel stay after the last day of finals when the weather looks sketchy. We have canceled meets at our pool when it’s not safe to expect families to drive through bad conditions.

A couple of years ago, we went to an outdoor meet in California where we knew that finals might be canceled due to lightning. The coaches told our kids to treat prelims like finals. The pool  managed to hold finals, but it was interrupted twice when we all had to clear the facility and sit in our cars for 10-20 min at a time. That was particularly miserable.

As you mentioned already, many times the decision is out of the hands of the meet director - the city or school closes the facility, so the meet is canceled. Don’t rely on anyone else to make the decision for you and your family. If you don’t want to go due to weather, don’t. If you want to leave early, tell the coaches and leave. [/quote]

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