Changes in ground conditions will be tweeted, as well as general advice on walking in the mountains.
Depending on ground conditions and the technology used, officials guess the workers will not be hauled above ground until November, or early December.
And then, five days before the race, New Approach was declared a certain runner - provided ground conditions are good or on the soft side of good.
The co-organiser of the Festival of British Eventing at Gatcombe Park, Captain Mark Phillips, said that the "unprecedented rainfall" over the last month had produced "exceptionally wet ground conditions".
Providing ground conditions do not become too testing and despite slight concerns over the four-and-a-half mile distance, Forest Gunner will take his place in a race watched by an estimated global audience of 500 million TV viewers.
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The actual number of troops, the timing, has to be determined by commanders on the ground based upon the conditions on the ground.
But this would not necessarily exclude the possibility that life or the remnants of past life persist below ground, where conditions could be more benign.
Right here on the flight line in crash landings, the helicopters landing in what are called brown-out conditions, meaning the dust on the desert floor rises up and engulfs the helicopter and it is very difficult for the pilot to see the ground in those conditions and very easy to mess up the landing.
Those figures were mostly proven bogus by reality, as plans with no knowledge of conditions on the ground failed when confronted with the wildly variable conditions of soil, weather and pests that farmers had spent a lifetime learning to cope with.
Forecasters say they expect 10-20cm (4-8in) of snow to fall during Monday in the "amber" areas - and even more on higher ground, with blizzard conditions in some areas.
True, laws on the books may be different from real conditions on the ground.
And the pace and slope will depend on conditions on the ground, but it will begin.
No conditions on the ground, no generals, and no wider political changes will stop that.
The pace of that drawdown, the scope of that drawdown, depends on conditions on the ground.
It will be gradual, and it will be based on conditions on the ground.
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And that the size and pace of the drawdown would depend on conditions on the ground.
He said such a move would be based on conditions on the ground at the time.
It is absolutely right that military commanders review plans when the conditions on the ground change.
Importantly, Mr Obama stated that the July 2011 date would take "into account conditions on the ground".
The first units would have to come out within 120 days, irrespective of conditions on the ground.
And he promised to withdraw U.S. forces from Iraq within 16 months, irrespective of conditions on the ground.
The pace of that drawdown will be determined by conditions on the ground.
Just as we have done in Iraq, we will execute this transition responsibly, taking into account conditions on the ground.
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Obama has repeatedly called for a timetable for troop withdrawal, while McCain supports a withdrawal based on conditions on the ground.
The pace of our troop reductions will be determined by conditions on the ground, and our support for Afghanistan will endure.
There, too, President Obama has publicly promised to begin reversing his mini-surge by next summer, again irrespective of conditions on the ground.
He said that any troop reduction will be made based on conditions on the ground and on the recommendations of U.S. military commanders.
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How does he know that, given that that -- the size of that withdrawal is supposed to be based on conditions on the ground?
However, no cover was provided and fox scent, in the form of faeces and urine, was scattered liberally around, mimicking conditions on the ground.
While data coming out of China is famously unreliable, the move by the PBOC dictates that conditions on the ground are cause for concern.
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