Eclipse 2017

What are your plans? What is the percent total where you live? Will you travel to a site of totality?

https://eclipse2017.nasa.gov/sites/defa ... index.html

I am in the path of totality.
So are my brothers, one in Alliance, NE, and the other in Casper, WY.
Our weather here is moderately pessimistic--40% probability of thunderstorms sometime that day.
All hotels, campsites, etc have been booked for months.
Relatives from Europe are coming for the show.
Small towns are trotting out their big tourism guns.
Wyoming is being overrun with rental motorhomes from California.
(My brother thinks their drivers licenses are given out by lottery.)

I live and work about 10 miles from St.Louis. We are on totalitys door step. I start work at 2pm so I will leave for work early and watch it from the parking lot...blah

Just warn me when a extinction level meteor is here, I want to save my dinosaur. This too shall pass. Jim

Bad thing the news media will have to explain the Eclipse to the public for the next week, unless N Korea, nukes us. no matter what happens, it will be Trump's fault.

We are in the 80% coverage area. I plan on staying home and watching it on television. I try to avoid very large crowds and normally schedule our vacations during he off seasons in order to avoid them.

ChicagoGranny wrote:What are your plans? What is the percent total where you live? Will you travel to a site of totality?

https://eclipse2017.nasa.gov/sites/defa ... index.html

We are near center line of totality

We are all staying home because it will be insane traffic here.

60.2 around 2ish

We are at about 86%. And like a few others, I'm just staying home.

Will be hard to notice if not 100%. Going to Gates Oregon to stay with a friend. Two minuets plus of totality. Another thing to cross off my bucket list! Walking with Polar Bears in September. Life is good!

"Then, with frightful velocity, the actual shadow of the moon is often seen approaching, a tangible darkness advancing almost like a wall, swift as imagination, silent as doom. The immensity of nature never comes quite so near as then, and strong must be the nerves not to quiver as this blue-black shadow rushes upon the spectator with incredible speed. A vast, palpable presence seems to overwhelm the world. The blue sky changes to gray or dull purple, speedily becoming more dusky, and a death-like trance seizes upon everything earthly...

Then out upon the darkness, gruesome but sublime, flashes the glory of the incomparable corona, a silvery, soft, unearthly light, with radiant streamers, stretching at times millions of uncomprehended miles into space, while the rosy, flame-like prominences skirt the black rim of the moon in ethereal splendor. It becomes curiously cold, dew frequently forms, and the chill is perhaps mental as well as physical."

Mabel Loomis Todd 1894

hobbs wrote:Will be hard to notice if not 100%. Going to Gates Oregon to stay with a friend. Two minuets plus of totality. Another thing to cross off my bucket list! Walking with Polar Bears in September. Life is good!

"Then, with frightful velocity, the actual shadow of the moon is often seen approaching, a tangible darkness advancing almost like a wall, swift as imagination, silent as doom. The immensity of nature never comes quite so near as then, and strong must be the nerves not to quiver as this blue-black shadow rushes upon the spectator with incredible speed. A vast, palpable presence seems to overwhelm the world. The blue sky changes to gray or dull purple, speedily becoming more dusky, and a death-like trance seizes upon everything earthly...

Then out upon the darkness, gruesome but sublime, flashes the glory of the incomparable corona, a silvery, soft, unearthly light, with radiant streamers, stretching at times millions of uncomprehended miles into space, while the rosy, flame-like prominences skirt the black rim of the moon in ethereal splendor. It becomes curiously cold, dew frequently forms, and the chill is perhaps mental as well as physical."

Mabel Loomis Todd 1894

Just hope it doesn't stop after the cover, Opp's there goes our global warming problem, we'll have to fake news something else. Jim

We are just a hair off the centerline.
We plan to watch from the yard.
One minute, 30 seconds, plus or minus.
No need to leave the compound . . .

I live in Western Kentucky only a few miles of the centerline of the eclipse path as it sweeps across the country. We are supposed t have 2 min. 40 sec of totality which is very close to the maximum anywhere along the path. I have secured some ISO safe eclipse glasses and expect to walk outside to see the approach and recession of the maximum. I won't try to follow the entire event . From start to finish it is estimated to last maybe 2 1/2 hours from the start of first edge to end of the departing edge. Our local motels are all booked ( and have boosted their rares enormously)

TheDuke

We have to drive 30 miles south to be in the center line of total eclipse. The little town we are heading to is rural, has a winery that is having an eclipse party. We are leaving home extra early to beat the traffic. I've had my eclipse glasses for almost a month already- the official made in the USA, Nasa approved vendor.

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ChicagoGranny wrote:What are your plans? What is the percent total where you live? Will you travel to a site of totality?

https://eclipse2017.nasa.gov/sites/defa ... index.html

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you seen one you seen them all

If that means I won't be running into you there then thank heaven for small miracles.

chunkyfrog wrote:Wyoming is being overrun with rental motorhomes from California.
(My brother thinks their drivers licenses are given out by lottery.)

HAH! they get 'em outta gumball machines.