Si j'en disais plus, ce ne serait plus une surprise ! Et puis, c'est toi l’hôtesse du trek ...
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If I said more, it would not be a surprise! And then, you're the hostess of the trek ...



(A word on SNURK & Friends place maybe ?)

acpartsman,

Merci de donner des nouvelles !

Et oui, souvent les médias mainstream en profitent pour 'faire le buzz'. Avec je crois, nos gouvernements qui ont peur de ne pas donner l'alerte quand il faut. Ce qui me fait un peu penser à l'histoire de Pierre et le Loup.

C'est pour ça que je préfère demander aux gens sur place. Comme j'ai expliqué plus tôt, mon petit frère habite à 30Km d'un des volcans les plus dangereux du monde. Il ya plus de 10 ans qu'il habite là-bas, une seule fois, ils étaient vraiment près à quitter la maison, avec la voiture prête et tout ce qu'il faut pour les enfants. Alors que deux à trois fois par an, il y a des alertes qui remontent jusqu'à la France. Et, même si c'est un peu bête, ça fait stresser tant qu'on ne sait pas ce qu'il en est vraiment.

Bref ! Merci d'avoir donné des nouvelles.
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Thank you for giving news!

And yes, often mainstream media take the opportunity to 'make the buzz'. With I believe, our governments are afraid of not giving the alert when it is necessary. Which makes me think about the story of Peter and the Wolf.

That's why I prefer to ask people there. As I explained earlier, my little brother lives 30km from one of the most dangerous volcanoes in the world. More than 10 years ago, he lived there, only once, they were really ready to leave the house, with the car ready and everything for the kids. While two or three times a year, there are alerts that go back to France. And, even if it's a little silly, it's stressing until you know what it really is.

In short! Thank you for giving news.

Good to hear that both Base Campers based on the eastern seaboard are well enough to speak.
Inasmuch as I would hesitate to call a weather forecast gone bad ’fake news’
- I have the recent Fox News piece of comparing Denmark to Venezuela example for genuine fake news
I shall say that ’the Norwegians’ yr.no have remarkably accurate forecasts as far as Denmark is concerned.
At one point they had beginning of percipitation predicted wrongly by just 2 minutes!

Good Afternoon Base Campers!
Business
SNURK and friends got no new members since I last checked
– but, hey, two permanent members as I believe Kevin Grabher and BobMcGee are
is over and above what Base Camp is used to attract to the host team of a trek.
So I’m pretty satisfied in this regard.
Still let it be no secret that we should like more crunchers to join for the remainder of September
– especially during the last week of September when SNURK and friends participates in a challenge.

Chit-chat
Today I went to Copenhagen to listen to an interesting debate about what will happen in Sweden
after the general election there last Sunday that panned out giving each group of parties (left/right)
an equal number of seats with the paria immigration critical party Sverigesdemokraterna in the middle.
Nobody wants to play with them, so forming a governmnent is very difficult.
Tomorrow will be a visit – in Copenhagen as well – to Dieselhouse
to see - and listen to - what was the worlds biggest diesel engine for a good number of years.
They fire her up once a month, and my friend says it will make my favorite Peterbilt (square nosed)
sound like a lawn mower motor.
After that I’ll get a tour of the Parliament based at Christiansborg which celebrates its 100 year anniversary.
So expect posts to be few and far between. Once again

You missed my point and apparently my first post. From day 1 the Norwegians showed the hurricane hitting the NC coast, turning south then heading west and dying. I'm 200+ miles from the coast. It was never a chance of us getting anything but rain and even then nothing unusual. The US media on the other hand had everyone in a panic saying it was going to be a direct hit for my area while Florence was still in the Bermuda area. So as usual when the weatherman gives these kinds of predictions, people flock to the store and clear the shelves as if they're going to be unable to leave home for 2 weeks. No storm of any kind ahs hit my area in my lifetime that kept people barricaded in their homes for more than 2 or 3 days. And you can bet those times also meant they had no power, so what good did most of what they bought do them? None as most of what people buy requires power to prepare.
The US weather service does nothing more than speculate. If it's winter and it's cloudy they'll say chance of snow even if it's 50 degrees outside. On more than one occasion I've heard them predict sunny/warm, rain, snow, sleet and freezing rain all in the same sentence. The recent video of the Weather Channel reporter faking the severity of Florence just goes to prove that every facet of the American media is out of control. Freedom of the press doesn't give them the right to tell what they know are lies or to make up news when there isn't any.

Thanks NixChix, some people like yourself get it . My post was mainly in response to BaldeD's post.