WAG Snow storm and meets

[gymnast17]

How are meets affected when there is a snow storm? I have a meet next week and there’s around 12-17 inches of snow the night before. Would the meet be cancelled, moved to a different weekend, or simply just be skipped?

 

[JBS]

There is no way to know until it happens.

 

[Coach Kate]

We had a meet get canceled due to snow 5 years ago. The hosts moved it to another weekend but our gym wasn't able to attend due to schedule conflicts, so we ended up doing an in house meet to get one more competition feel in before state.

 

[raenndrops]

We had a meet one year that went on, even though through the night before and all morning, it was snowing/ freezing rain. We had gotten a hotel in advance, and arrived before the weather hit.
The meet went on as planned, but a lot of families chose not to make the drive. By the last session, there were only 20 girls prepared to compete, and only 1 for our team. HC said I could head out early since there was just the one girl. We left, got on a big highway heading home, did a 535º spin across 4 lanes on black ice to the shoulder of the road gently into a snow bank. We had to get to 540º carefully, while staying out of the way of the traffic, especially since we were facing the wrong way. When it was completely clear across all lanes, we slowly and carefully did a 180º and continued on our drive home.
We went through several counties that were under Level 2 snow emergencies and one that was under a Level 3.

If the meet had been at our gym, we cancel if there is a Level 2 snow emergency in our county AND any other county nearby because all the teams we compete against are from other counties, and we don't want to put anyone in danger. If there is a Level 3 snow emergency in our county, that's an automatic cancellation.

 

[NutterButter]

I live in the Twin Cities and the ‘joke’ here is that youth sports continue no matter what. We’ve never had a meet cancelled due to weather but I have had numerous white knuckle drives to both meets and basketball tournaments.

 

[GymmieMom2011]

I've only ever seen a meet cancelled when a 'state of emergency' is called.

 

[coachinmi]

I'm in Michigan, and meets will typically never cancel due to weather. Meets are an incredibly expensive, time consuming, and often thankless endeavor. If a gym were to cancel a meet they were hosting they'd be out the money for facility rentals, equipment rentals, catering for judge/coach hospitality, etc because they would have to refund money to the participants. Postponing isn't really a viable option because there are meets almost every weekend between December and state meets, which begin in March here.

 

[Pfiga]

We had a similar question recently as there was a snow storm the night before through the morning. We were told it would only be cancelled if there is a statewide travel ban / state of emergency.

 

[NYGymfamily]

6 years of competitions in Upstate NY, never seen a meet get canceled or even postponed due to snow.

 

[LCsMom]

I would have said never about a week ago. But for the first time ever, there was a multi-day storm system sitting right on top of where the meet was, and even though most of the gyms that were going to compete were fairly local and the rest of us had rented hotels, they cancelled the sessions on Sunday (the day we were supposed to be there). It wasn't so much because of the competitors but because of the judges....but it was also an epic storm system. We just holed up in our rented space and waited until the roads were clear the next day to travel back home.