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🗓️ 22 March 2025
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0:00.0 | When you're on the road as a reporter, you're bound to pick up some local vernacular. |
0:04.5 | There's this word that a woman that we met in Greenland told us. It's called CELA, which means |
0:07.7 | weather, but it also means like you can't control the weather. You just have to adapt around it. |
0:12.2 | That, of course, is all things considered co-host, Juana Summers. Last month, she and a team |
0:17.8 | went to Greenland for a reporting trip and encountered a ton of SELA. |
0:22.7 | One thing to know about traveling in Greenland is that there are not roads between the major towns and cities. |
0:27.9 | So you've got to take these little small flights on Air Greenland to get from place to place. |
0:31.8 | One place they were trying to get to was a little town north of the Arctic Circle called Alulasat. |
0:37.1 | But the SELA had other ideas. They hit |
0:39.4 | days of high winds and icy tarmics. We were supposed to leave on a Thursday. No flight happens. |
0:46.8 | The next day we get up, we pack all our stuff, we get to the airport, we get on a plane, |
0:51.5 | plane gets diverted. We land in a completely different part of Greenland. We're there for like a half hour or something like that. Back on the plane. The cycle plays out over and over again. Finally, I think this is on Sunday. Pack up all our stuff. Leave the hotel. Get on the plane again. Plan gets diverted again to this place called ASEAT. So we're now here at the ASEAT airport in Greenland. |
1:12.9 | On our way, we're attempting again for the third time to fly to Alulisat. |
1:16.6 | We're going to see if we're going to make it the... |
1:17.9 | And finally, after about two hours of sitting there and wondering what's going to happen, |
1:22.5 | this announcement comes over the loudspeaker. |
1:27.2 | It is in either Greenlandic or Danish languages, I do not speak. |
1:32.0 | I didn't have to understand those languages to know what was happening because everybody |
1:35.2 | started cheering. |
1:37.9 | And we actually made it four days later. |
1:40.8 | Understand that. |
1:41.5 | It seems like we're going to make an attempt to fly to a Lilacad. |
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