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This year’s hurricane season is shaping to be another big one with a greater than 60% chance of a major hurricane hitting the U.S. coastline, according to a new forecast from top meteorologists...
Unusually warm waters in the western tropical Atlantic contributed to the forecast for an above-average season as hurricanes form more easily in warm conditions. Waters in other parts of the Atlantic remained cooler than average...
Here is the link.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/forecasters-warning-apos-hurricane-season-155004384.html---
For centuries, the secrets of the Freemasons were known only to members.
But that’s about to change after BBC staff were given unprecedented access to several Scottish lodges (the freemason term for chapters or branches) to create a brand new documentary.
The society evolved out of Scotland after stonemasons working on the country’s public buildings in the 1500s banded together — in a similar way to modern trade unions — in a bid to protect the secrets and interests of their trade...
For more: https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/real-life/secrets-freemasons-revealed-grand-lodge-12204518
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ORANGE COUNTY, Va. (WVIR) -
Archaeologists at James Madison's Montpelier are getting a glimpse into the property's past by using new technology that allows them to see things they’ve never before been able to see...
This technology - called lidar - allows archaeologists to see paths through the woods that date back to the 1700s. They say these trails were walked every day by slaves.
Lidar technology uses infrared light beams and works similarly to radar. You can see through the trees, and spot features like mill races, home sites, old roads, and foot paths.
"What lidar does is it allows us to produce a high-resolution terrain map of the landscape," says Reeves...
“What we’re able to do is capture some really subtle features on the landscape that nobody has known about since the 1820s when the enslaved community lived and worked on this plantation and really in a lot of ways what we’re able to capture is the footpaths, the road networks that were here during the Madison era, and then reconstruct those,” says Reeves.
The goal now is to restore these newfound trails...
For more: http://www.nbc29.com/story/37890379/montpelier-archaeologists-employ-new-technology-to-reveal-slave-experience---
Michael A. reports spending a lot of time covering the area around the Reef Club on South Hutchinson Island this week with very little luck other than sinkers, hooks and the like.
Thanks to Michael for the report and photo at the top of the post!
I went out for a walk this morning to see what I could see and completely struck out.
This week week the surf won't be any higher than two or three feet.
Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net
