Carol - Updates

In the latest report it says a été retrouvé, which is "has been found".

Ah, peleton is platoon.

The police quote says 'la voiture aurait été trouvé ' which means 'the car could have been found' so they're being understandably cautious in their words but given that they're launching a search in that area I would assume that they are reasonably confident that it's her car.

The weather is truly horrible here at the moment.

Honeyball at 10:00hrs today. second highlighted link.
From my school girl french ...They have found her car in a car park at the start of a known hiking route. From which they have a starting point for searching a hiking route around or too a place called Mieussy. The Gendarmarie can now begin a search in that area. Lets hope.

The military,firemen and something about mountain police? Are searching

Quickly and not word for word.
The car has been found in a car park at the start of a walking trail. The weather is too bad for a helicopter but police, fire brigade and military are searching on the ground.

Well done Jess I was slow off the mark.It would be something and seems entirely logical.

My French very poor but it seems to say her car was found this morning in a car park which is used by walkers and hikers and that police are now concentrating on searching around that area. Someone will do a better translation soon.

well it says that the car has been found but we have had false reports before.

La compagnie de gendarmerie de Bonneville, en charge des recherches, indique ce lundi que le véhicule de la retraitée «a été retrouvé ce matin sur un parking de la commune de Mieussy, au départ d'un sentier de randonnée».

The gendarmes in charge of the search indicated that the vehicle is found this Monday in a car park in Mieussy, at the beginning of a footpath

En raison de conditions météorologiques défavorables, «l'utilisation d'un hélicoptère est pour l'heure impossible», déclare la capitaine Lhenry. Des militaires, sapeurs-pompiers et le peloton de gendarmerie de haute-montagne sont déployés sur le terrain.

Because of the weather it is impossible to use a helicopter. Soldiers, firemen and policemen are deployed in the area

Please!

Can anyone translate please

Please let it be true.

Honeyball, it would appear that that story was posted today at 10:30 (French time, I presume) so recent, yes....

True? I hope so!

www.tdg.ch/geneve/faits-divers/voiture-britannique-disparue-retrouvee-mieussy/story/29933507

www.ledauphine.com/haute-savoie/2013/11/04/mieussy-la-voiture-de-carol-sheridan-aurait-ete-retrouvee

Hope the links work this time.

And another article here

http://www.tdg.ch/geneve/faits-divers/voiture-britannique-disparue-retrouvee-mieussy/story/29933507

Police are now concentrating their search in this area.

Just had an email from Visorando to say that this has been posted. Lovely message and wishes us bon courage...
www.visorando.com/forum-randonnee/disparu-carol-sheridan.html

Just seen this.
Does anyone know anymore about it?

http://www.ledauphine.com/haute-savoie/2013/11/04/mieussy-la-voiture-de-carol-sheridan-aurait-ete-retrouvee

If this is true and recent It would appear that her car has been found. Won't get my hopes up until there is done 'official confirmation'.

Did she use her landline when she phoned Kath, perhaps? Sorry if this has already been spoken of.

Her mobile was still taking messages, but couldn't tell when it ran out of charge as it registered 'call failed' when I tried to phone her on the Monday evening.

Clocks would have changed 2am Sunday

Her laptop kept crashing, but would work when she switched off and logged in again.

She posted exactly the same post on French Entree and her own Facebook page on 26 October at 12.47 our time. Was that before clocks changed?

But her phone would still be working so it doesn't explain her lack of contact with her family. If she phoned her sister Kath on Sunday her phone was clearly working then.
The laptop breaking down would explain her lack of activity on social media sites though.

Would the shops be open? The fact that she was thinking of taking the laptop suggests that it was still working. Do we know if she took her backpack out with her that afternoon or did she leave it at home, which would suggest that she wasn't planning to walk?

Thank you Grabagran, very helpful. So she was definitely looking for a new one- and had looked locally- and perhaps went down again to compare prices, etc, again.

Perhaps her computer finally gave up the ghost at the week-end, which is why she was not active - and then went to buy a new one on Monday, and somehow did not return.