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Stay dry as possible, Brother Eric.
Living in the mountains brings with it a higher rate of environmental encounters. Lots of city-dwellers and flatlanders who moved to the North Carolina mountains have discovered that fact. The real mountain people know to expect trouble and are prepared for it.
 Just look at a map. Find Grenoble, south of Lyon. Many people (even the french) do believe we are a moutainous town. But we live in plains. We even are the flatest town in France !! (due to icecap 10000 years ago that flatten the ground).
The moutains are 10 miles around us (we are surrounded; bring in supply and arty....oups, getting mad). So basically we are in/out of moutain; a bit particular.
The advantage is for the ski-lovers in winter: a 20mn ride in car is enough to reach the ski-resort. Or to have a walk in summer.
And in fact, all city-dwellers (at least that is the feeling that i have about french people, i can't really talk about others country) expect to be safe of everything....except maybe traffic jam.
Edit: i must add something that made me laugh a few years ago.
I was coming back from Army service in february by train;while waiting at railway station for my girl friend (not my actual wife) i had the opportunity to look at people from Paris ( Si Rominet me lit, il aura la confirmation que les "parigots" font bien rire les "provinciaux" ); they were coming for the ski season. And too many of them where dressed in ski-dressing, when all the local people were dressed "normal"; probably the used to think the ski moutains were at 5mn walk from the train . When thinking of it, i can't stop laughing.
Grenoble?! My sister and I grew up with a French family that was in the peace corps with us in Colombia at the same time. They were from Grenoble-we visited them and that area in the 80s. Beautiful countryside. I recall taking the cable car to the top of the mountains during out visit there.
Historically, wasn't Grenoble a hot bed of partisan activity in WWII, IIRC?
Anyways, stay dry!
If ever you remenber of the moutains of Vercor: it was a place were the french resistant try to make a stronghold in july 1944; the normandy breakout didn't had occur at this time, and the Provence landing didn't occured either. For something like 1 or 2 months (can't remenber exactly) there was a "free republic of Vercor". Then in july, the SS and Fallschirmjager assaulted the place. There was many resistant casualties, and more sad, civilians.
At this time, my grandfather, wich was leaving in Vercors before the war, was a POW in a camp, in a detachement of the renown Kolnitz (damn, can't remenber exactly righ now) named an "Obercommando" because he tried 3 time to escape; a stroy i had already told here on the forum.
Vercors moutains are...oh, probably 5 mn ride by car from Grenoble.
In fact, imagine a Y; Grenoble is at the crosspoint; the 3 valleys are between 5 and 10 miles wide. At the crosspoint, Grenoble use all the place. It is a 400.000 inhabitant area.
The cable car....hmmm, i suppose the thing we call "the egg of Grenoble", going upp above the Isere river, and climbing to the "Bastille" on Mount Rachet.
No, it is not the renown parisian Bastille of 1789; in fact anything of fortification style could be call a bastille.
Does it remind you good time ? 
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