CBC: How did the World Scout Jamboree go so wrong? | About That #WorldScoutJamboree #disaster #scouting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkets71o6qo

I'm guessing #SouthKorea is relieved that the scouts from the #WorldScoutJamboree now returning home, after the planning and weather disaster that was the event. https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20230812003551325?input=tw

Story of one #colorado teenager at the scout Jamboree suffering from heat illness, where the "first aid tent was closed at night" and kids were collapsing from the heat. #heatwave #disasters #SouthKorea #WorldScoutJamboree https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF0gxVe51dk

More #nightmares from the #WorldScoutJamboree in #SouthKorea https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCdlEyyIA18

After flooding, followed by heatwave & mosquitos, followed by a typhoon, the #WorldScoutJamboree should have Greta Thunberg headline their closing ceremony instead of K-Pop bands. #ClimateEmergency

38,000 scouts stuck inside on Thursday, LOL. "Minister of the Interior and Safety Lee Sang-min said the government is determined to prohibit any outdoor programs for the jamboree participants during Thursday." #WorldScoutJamboree https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20230809008600315?section=national/politics

At the World Scout Jamboree
It was chaos like never before seen
Heat and snakes abound
And Typhoon's sapped the ground
Promising an experience never to be forgotten!

#worldscoutjamboree #chaos #typhoon #scouting #limerick #poetry

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/world-scout-jamboree-south-korea-b2389389.html

Whew, #WorldScoutJamboree #scouts have all been #evacuated... #TyphoonKhanun (at this moment) forecast to have 60mph winds at the site, driving in directly from open ocean.

LOL #scout interview on the #WorldScoutJamboree: "It's good and bad, but mostly bad." "The organization is very very bad and it feels like they didn't really know that there were 50,00 people people coming and s***t everywhere and stuff like that" 😂 😱 #disaster https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cG6PBQIkwEQ

More on the massive #evacuation of the #WorldScoutJamboree in #SouthKorea -- quote at end saying there is a "silver lining" in all of this as it served as a valuable lesson for the young participants on the effects of climate change #wx #scouting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BgJDRVGxt0

Why South Korea's scout jamboree was destined to fail

https://www.dw.com/en/why-south-korea-s-scout-jamboree-was-destined-to-fail/a-66468921?maca=en-dipa_news_mstdn-34613-xml-mrss

#SouthKorea #extremeweather #TyphoonKhanun #WorldScoutJamboree

Yonhap News: " An overwhelming amount of public funds in South Korea spent for the 2023 World Scout Jamboree was used for operational and personnel expenses instead of for the setting up of infrastructure... (officials) went on dozens of lavish overseas trips throughout eight years under the guise of research for the jamboree. " #WorldScoutJamboree #disaster https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20230807008900325?section=national/national

An update from Scouts Canada regarding the Canadian Contingents situation at the #worldscoutjamboree #scouts https://www.scouts.ca/news-and-events/news/2023/08/update-from-the-25th-world-scout-jamboree

"At least 2,500 scouts had fallen sick as of Sunday.... Common ailments include bug bites, skin rashes and heat exhaustion. To make matters worse, a Covid-19 outbreak has been raging at the site since Thursday...." #SouthKorea #WorldScoutJamboree #pandemic #covis19 #heatwave #typhoon https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/2023/08/06/national/socialAffairs/jamboree-World-Scout-Jamboree-Saemangeum/20230806181815666.html

Apparently all of the #scouts from #Norway were also evacuated to US #military bases. "Some 700 scouts from the Scandinavian country took part in the event and they were to be relocated to a U.S. military base" #WorldScoutJamboree

More on #WorldScoutJamboree #evacuation: 36,000 scouts being moved. SK minister said " it would take six hours or more to evacuate the scouts from the campsite, which organizers said will no longer be used for any event after they leave." (apparently, the site is officially cursed, LOL) https://www.cbsnews.com/news/south-korea-world-scout-jamboree-typhoon-khanun-evacuations/

#SouthKorea is doing a full #evacuation of scouts from the site. per Guardian: "All participants at this year's World Scout Jamboree in South Korea will be evacuated from the event's campsite... more than 1,000 buses sent for evacuation" #scouting #WorldScoutJamboree https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2023/aug/07/south-korea-to-evacuate-scout-jamboree-as-typhoon-looms-video-report

#ICON and #GFS model now has #TyphoonKhanun as a direct hit on the #WorldScoutJamboree in #SouthKorea -- time to pull the plug... US, UK, Singapore already left (due to the #heatwave) #typhoons #cyclone #scouting #khanun

105F heat index at the #WorldScoutJamboree in #SouthKorea. #TyphoonKahnun has shifted its track and has high probability of high winds (60mph+ and torrential rainfall on Wednesday/Thursday). I do not envy the organizers who have to deal with logistics on this one; it seems like the dice are loaded against them :-(

#WorldScoutJamboree South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol "especially instructed officials to take special care against any incident, such as food poisoning, his chief press secretary, Kim Eun-hye, quoted him as saying in a written message to media." #heatwave #SouthKorea https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20230806002400320?section=national/politics