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RPI & Union @ Clarkson & SLU (2/8, 2/9)

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FreshFish said:
It varied from state to state. Illinois was 21 and Wisconsin was 18 which meant many of my peers in senior year in high school made regular road trips across the border. Massachusetts was 18 when I was in college there.

Congress passed the "National Minimum Drinking Age Act" in 1984, according to Wikipedia. While Congress lacked the Constitutional authority to regulate the drinking age directly (Bill of Rights 10th Amendment); they skirted their lack of direct authority by inserting a provision in the Federal Aid Highway Act that said that any state that had a drinking age less than 21 would lose 10% of its Federal apportionment of highway funds for every year under 21.

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Thanks for the info. I had not realized that a lot of states had lowered the age from 21. It was 18 already in NY when I turned 18 in 1966, and I am pretty sure that it was 21 at the time in the surrounding states.


Edit: More info http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._history_of_alcohol_minimum_purchase_age_by_state.
 
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Re: RPI & Union @ Clarkson & SLU (2/8, 2/9)

Watertown Daily Times says the K-12 schools up there are closed. Granted for the threat of snow, instead of just staying open for a half day or so.
 
Re: RPI & Union @ Clarkson & SLU (2/8, 2/9)

Mike Griffin sent an e-mail reporting that, for the first time in all the years he has been going to the North Country with RPI basketball teams (which is a lot of years), they had to change travel plans on account of the weather. They customarily leave Troy on Friday morning, but this time they left at 8:30 Thursday night.

They were scheduled to stay at the Best Western in Canton Friday night, but that hotel was unable to accommodate them on Thursday. So they were going to stay in Ogdensburg instead.

Hope the hockey team managed to avoid similar disruptions to its travel schedule.
 
Re: RPI & Union @ Clarkson & SLU (2/8, 2/9)

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Watertown Daily Times says the K-12 schools up there are closed. Granted for the threat of snow, instead of just staying open for a half day or so.
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You know it must be bad when any school up there closes. In 1994, SUNY Potsdam cancelled all day & night classes for the first time in 100+ years due to a big winter storm. The "Storm of the Century" in 1993 probably would have cancelled classes if it wasn't on a Saturday.
 
Re: RPI & Union @ Clarkson & SLU (2/8, 2/9)

aweise said:
You know it must be bad when any school up there closes. In 1994, SUNY Potsdam cancelled all day & night classes for the first time in 100+ years due to a big winter storm. The "Storm of the Century" in 1993 probably would have cancelled classes if it wasn't on a Saturday.
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Well it looks like it happened again ... All classes at SUNY Potsdam are now closed :p
 
Re: RPI & Union @ Clarkson & SLU (2/8, 2/9)

aweise said:
You know it must be bad when any school up there closes. In 1994, SUNY Potsdam cancelled all day & night classes for the first time in 100+ years due to a big winter storm. The "Storm of the Century" in 1993 probably would have cancelled classes if it wasn't on a Saturday.
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The "Storm of the Century" was on Saturday, as mentioned; it was so bad, the Clarkson-SLU playoff game was postponed by a day. Even driving the 7 miles to the game on Sunday was difficult; good thing Clarkson won ;)
 
drshoen said:
The "Storm of the Century" was on Saturday, as mentioned; it was so bad, the Clarkson-SLU playoff game was postponed by a day. Even driving the 7 miles to the game on Sunday was difficult; good thing Clarkson won ;)
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RPI played Colgate that year. Saturdays game was also postponed. The series went the distance, so game 3 was on Monday night. RPI won, but had no energy left for their next game on Friday and were blown out.
 
Re: RPI & Union @ Clarkson & SLU (2/8, 2/9)

aweise said:
You know it must be bad when any school up there closes. In 1994, SUNY Potsdam cancelled all day & night classes for the first time in 100+ years due to a big winter storm. The "Storm of the Century" in 1993 probably would have cancelled classes if it wasn't on a Saturday.
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In the late 60's, they (or was it CCT?) closed when it was -49 out.
 
Re: RPI & Union @ Clarkson & SLU (2/8, 2/9)

RPI fan 4 life said:
RPI played Colgate that year. Saturdays game was also postponed. The series went the distance, so game 3 was on Monday night. RPI won, but had no energy left for their next game on Friday and were blown out.
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We got snowed in staying in Troy. We could not get back to the Jersey shore and actually had an easier time getting up to BML in the Adirondacks. We had scheduled a packed office for Monday supposedly after the Colgate series-but we had to cancel and reschedule all the patinets because we stayed in Troy for the last game of the series due to the postponement of the Saturday game.
 
Re: RPI & Union @ Clarkson & SLU (2/8, 2/9)

DrDemento said:
We were up there for '98. Everyone lost power-some for weeks. Our little Hamlet of BML was only out for a couple days-i do not understand why we were spared that time. I have a 35Kw generator up there running Liquid Propane. We had a 500 gallon tank about 80% filled and at full tilt use about 5 gallons per hour. Jenny and I took turns shutting it down so that it would not run out of fuel in the 80 hours that it would last. But after 3 days we had used up only about 200 gallons and were refilled. In the 30+ years we have owned up there we have seen just about everything and anything. Huge snowfalls, microburst winds (I think they had something call a Duracho once), temps down to -30 and lower, etc. We once drove over to the Stillwater Inn for dinner near the Stillwater Reservoir and they reported a temp of lower than -40 (that is as far as their thermometer would go). No wonder the bear all hibernate starting around November!
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Update on this information-it was February 18th 1979 for that record temp at Stillwater Reservoir Inn and it dropped to -52F which was duplicated a few miles away in Old Forge.
 
Re: RPI & Union @ Clarkson & SLU (2/8, 2/9)

Laliberte in a slump point wise Neal no goals lately Haggerty pressing sounds like it's time to reunite the NHL line for this weekend.
 
Re: RPI & Union @ Clarkson & SLU (2/8, 2/9)

Just want to mention that they are shutting down RPI. All classes after 4 PM are cancelled. Don't know if the women's game is affected.

EDIT: made a mistake. The school is open, just the classes are cancelled. So I'm sure that the game is probably still on.
 
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Re: RPI & Union @ Clarkson & SLU (2/8, 2/9)

Saints#1 said:
Well it looks like it happened again ... All classes at SUNY Potsdam are now closed :p
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I just checked, and according to Accuweather, they are only expecting about 5 inches of snow in Potsdam and 6.5 in Canton. Is that correct?
 
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