Solar Eclipse

[k9ophile]

I saw on Facebook where someone is upset because it will occur on a school day. She suggested they change it. As someone who lives in the predicted path, there is a possibility that the Interstate in the path will be car-to-car for miles. I think they should re-route it as long as the date is going to change.

 

[southernlady]

We will be in about the 95% area. Had we stayed in our house, we could have seen totality with a simple drive to Greenville SC (about 40 mins southwest of where we lived). Staying at the house would have had 98% totality.

Apparently the dimwit on FB doesn't understand how Mother Nature just does things at her convenience not ours!

 

[bearmom]

Yah, move it a little north so I don't have to shell out for a bnb and drive for hours in what is sure to be bs traffic. I prefer Sunday. Interestingly, I was alive in 79 when the path was further north (through WA) and was in school mid day, and the admin decided we couldn't watch it under any circumstances, and even closed the blinds so we couldn't see it get dark out. They should have used it as a teaching opportunity, and had us make pinhole boxes to watch safely, or at the very least watch on TV.

I'm still pissed that they robbed us of what could be a once in a lifetime event - I was pretty sure I wouldn't live past 50 to see the next nearby eclipse, lol.

 

[k9ophile]

I remember seeing a close-to-total when I was a kid. It was a pretty big deal. Other kids had to do the pinhole box, but my dad had a welder's mask. Ours was the most popular yard in the neighborhood.

Interestingly enough, school will be canceled because of concerns about the safety of the children. I'm not quite sure what danger it poses, but many hotels around here are sold out. That also means the restaurants will be packed. Sounds like a good day to stay home and put some steaks on the Barbie.

 

[bearmom]

The hotels are nuts. We had one booked on the coast in Lincoln city a year and a half before the eclipse, and several months ago (when they finally realized there was something going on), they canceled our reservation and gave us the opportunity to rebook for an extra grand per night, lol. NO. Everything was booked by then, but we decided to stay at a huge air bnb with friends close to Portland and get a few nights of great food and shenanigans in and just drive into the path of totality on the big day. Still a little grumpy about the Lincoln city place, but hopefully the coast will be clouded in and I'll be glad to be inland. We will be driving into the center of the path with an estimated one million+ others.

 

[k9ophile]

I'm pretty sure there is price gouging going on here. What ******** in Lincoln!

 

[JackieOnLine]

We had one booked on the coast in Lincoln city a year and a half before the eclipse, and several months ago (when they finally realized there was something going on), they canceled our reservation and gave us the opportunity to rebook for an extra grand per night

rat *******s!

 

[JackieOnLine]

who watched? I saw it on the internet and on TV and I went outside a few times for the partial here: I used a piece of cardboard with a hole in it to aim the sun at the East Wall of the house. huh, that worked.

when outside I was all, huh, it IS cooler and a bit dim.

that's me, dim but cool.

 

[k9ophile]

I sat on my shaded porch and watched it get dimmer. Too lazy to do the pinhole thing and no glasses, but it was amusing to see lightening bugs in the middle of it. The locusts serenaded us, too.

 

[southernlady]

Pretty cool looking here. We managed to see 92-93% totality. It got darker but not dark. Managed to score some ISO approved glasses so we did watch a bit at a time.

 

[bearmom]

We watched in Sublimity Oregon, and had a few minutes of totality. I was se weird, that even the tiniest dot of unobscured sun cast so much light, and the moment that speck of sun was also covered, it was so dark, and cold, and QUIET. There were hoops and hollers at first, but the birds all went silent. I took a few crappy pics of the total part, and one looks a little like Sauron's eye.

 

[DianaCox]

We got 63% - but it got overcast smack dab in the middle of it, so it was hit or miss whether I could see it with glasses our next door neighbor gave me at the last minute. I couldn't tell much of a difference because it was overcast in any case.

Compare to the week - because yesterday was also overcast:

So it's hard to tell what was clouds and what was eclipse.