The Great American Eclipse - Aug. 21, 2017

[BigPiney]

something about a bag of rocks

[Moliere]

Not to defend her, but there’s a decent storm (not a Utah storm but a Southern storm) that is going to roll through Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and probably other states about the time the eclipse hits and you have a huge amount of people in a small band.

[Omaha 680]

Not to defend her, but there’s a decent storm (not a Utah storm but a Southern storm) that is going to roll through Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and probably other states about the time the eclipse hits and you have a huge amount of people in a small band.

Many state declarations of emergency have become performative. Both parties do it. All the political incentives now push for a pre-declaration of emergency to avoid perception of inaction even if the claims would not be valid. Better for a politician to declare a state of emergency and have nothing of significance happen, than to declare a state of emergency after a major event occurs. In the former case you just waste a bit of money, which no one really cares about. All that being said, this one appears to be particularly silly and performative given that it's only $100k she is allocating and this event has been known for decades. Seems like a little planning even a few weeks ago could have avoided a declaration of emergency.

I am not going to travel to the path of totality. I do have a millennial playing a key role on one of my projects who has owed me work for 2-3 weeks that the client is pissed about not having. He has decided he is taking the day off to travel to upstate NY to see the totality. I hope he gets a face full of clouds.

[All-American]

I travelled to Wyoming for the 2017 eclipse. Millions of people suddenly wanted to be in their car at the precise moment totality ended. The drive home, which normally would have taken a little more than three hours, took us fifteen.

I get the emergency declarations.

[Pelado]

I travelled to Wyoming for the 2017 eclipse. Millions of people suddenly wanted to be in their car at the precise moment totality ended. The drive home, which normally would have taken a little more than three hours, took us fifteen.

I get the emergency declarations.

We drove north a bit, too, to be in the path of totality and I'm glad we did. We drove up there the night before the eclipse and stayed at a campground. We were concerned that the campground might be full but there only ended up being a handful of campers there. Driving south (back home) after the eclipse took a lot more time than driving north had. The route we took was not nearly as bad as others experienced.

I had previously planned a couple other viewing destinations but had been dissuaded by concerns from some who expected the traffic to be terrible on the way there. I think that ended up being very overblown.

[Scott R Nelson]

Today I will go outside about noon and check out the 35% that we're going to get in Idaho. I'll spend about two minutes doing that and my curiosity will be satisfied. I maybe spent five minutes last October checking out the partial from the annular eclipse.

I'm hoping that some news organization will show a map, when this is all over, showing who had clear skies at totality and who missed it due to clouds in the way.

[YOhio]

Hey all this talk about the eclipse makes me wonder why everyone is so excited just to get mooned? LOL! You can’t make this stuff up!

[All-American]

Today I will go outside about noon and check out the 35% that we're going to get in Idaho. I'll spend about two minutes doing that and my curiosity will be satisfied. I maybe spent five minutes last October checking out the partial from the annular eclipse.

I'm hoping that some news organization will show a map, when this is all over, showing who had clear skies at totality and who missed it due to clouds in the way.

I'm nowhere near totality. I doubt I'll even step outside.

[Moliere]

I travelled to Wyoming for the 2017 eclipse. Millions of people suddenly wanted to be in their car at the precise moment totality ended. The drive home, which normally would have taken a little more than three hours, took us fifteen.

I get the emergency declarations.

I'm a little worried about hte drive home. Totality should be done around 1:40pm but I've got a 20 mile drive back to Austin and then the drive back to Houston on SH290. I'm pretty sure a lot of the 6 million Houston residents came out this way so going back is going to be interesting. Thankfully there are two Bucees on the route back.

[Moliere]

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[Moliere]

Clouds are moving in so I’m hoping this thing hurries up.

[Bo Diddley]

Clouds are moving in so I’m hoping this thing hurries up.

I prefer some clouds during an eclipse so that you can look at the sun with the naked eye. We had one down in Nicaragua in 2005 that was like that.

[Scott R Nelson]

I prefer some clouds during an eclipse so that you can look at the sun with the naked eye. We had one down in Nicaragua in 2005 that was like that.

For a partial eclipse, yes. For totality, no. The big reward of a total eclipse is being able to look straight at the corona around the sun for the few minutes that totality lasts.

I dug out my eclipse glasses from 2017, my wife and I went out and looked at the sun with a small chunk out of it, and that's it for this year.

I haven't checked all of the TV stations, but at least CBS and ABC have "live" reporting from the various places along the route of totality. They're already done in Mazatlan, and they had around four minutes of it. I don't know why nobody shows how you can check the progress with two pieces of carboard, one with one or more holes punched into it. That would show up well on TV.

[All-American]

... I stepped outside.

No comparison to totality, but still pretty darn cool

[Moliere]

Clouds literally moved in 30 seconds before totality…however we got about 60 seconds of totality when a small break in the clouds happened. Rey cool to see and worth the trouble. Temps dropped and birds went silent. The corona was mesmerizing. I may chase the next one in 20 years.