buckeyefarmer
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Probably with the wife of a close friend"And you flew you Lear Jet up to Nova Scotia to view a total eclipse of the sun" *
*with apologies to Carly Simon.
2017 Total Solar Eclipse...
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cqaigy2
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I was there with my BIL and sister, we stayed at a friends house. That's a great video. We were so skinny back then.
dirt ditch
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Folks can download a free open source planetarium program called Stellarium. There are versions for Windows, MacOS, and Linux. Set the program to use your computer system time, enter latitude, longitude and elevation coordinates then fast forward to August 21st and watch the eclipse from start to finish or fast forward to find out exactly when it will start and end for you. I am just outside the 90% line on the linked map above. This is what Stellarium showed for me (zoomed in). Stellarium
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Larry Caldwell
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My home in Seneca, SC is in the direct path. I'm willing to rent it out for $1,000/night, 10 night minimum. Any takers?
Steve
Way under priced. Oregon State Parks auctioned off a dozen camp sites at Cove Palisades Park, right on the path of totality. They got $4,000 a camp site, which is nothing but a parking spot with an RV hookup.
Larry Caldwell
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Oregon eclipse weather report:
The expectation is for 2 million people to show up from Washington and California for the eclipse. That's almost half the population of the state of Oregon. Madras alone is expecting 200,000 people, in a town of 20,000.
Don't expect to find groceries that weekend. Don't expect to be able to get into a restaurant. Don't expect to be able to find a public bathroom, and sewage treatment plants will be overwhelmed. Roads will be so congested they will be impassable to emergency vehicles. People will die from medical emergencies that could be easily handled under normal condition.
Bring your FEMA emergency kit: food and water for 3 days, $500 in cash because the ATMs will be empty, sun screen, and any medications you need. Expect temperatures in the 90s by noon. Buy gasoline early, because the service stations will probably sell out and supply trucks won't be able to get through the congestion. The eclipse is Monday morning, and it is advisable to shelter in place until Tuesday.
The governor has activated the National Guard, which has facilities for dealing with displaced people.
I have a friend in Wyoming who says she has heard rumors of 3 million people coming, which is 3x the population of the state. That's doubtless an exaggeration. Where would they come from? Even so, plunking a million people in the desert with only urban survival skills would be a disaster.
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My home in Seneca, SC is in the direct path. I'm willing to rent it out for $1,000/night, 10 night minimum. Any takers?
Steve
Oops. I forgot to mention the $3,000/night surcharge for utilities (water, electricity, sewer). Sorry about that.
Steve
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Wow - Guess a few of us saw the 1979 full eclipse
I visited a friend attending University of Idaho to see it, and we all stood out in the common area by the dorms, silence grew as totality approached and just as it got the darkest,
some joker yells out a second floor window Happy - Doomsday and Everybody started laughing .
It was well worth it to experience the eclipse though- when the light goes away in just a few minutes There is (something) to it- that to this day i can't really put into words. Can see why it was such a big deal to the Mayans.
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dmccarty
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*with apologies to Carly Simon.
Whew. Glad you spelled "apologies" correctly this time. Otherwise a certain person, whose name must not be mentioned, will show up...
:laughing::laughing::laughing:Later,
Dan
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Whew. Glad you spelled "apologies" correctly this time. Otherwise a certain person, whose name must not be mentioned, will show up...
Later,
Dan
I heard that.
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k0ua
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Whew. Glad you spelled "apologies" correctly this time. Otherwise a certain person, whose name must not be mentioned, will show up...
Later,
Dan
It's all good. I try to not challenge the master much anymore, having been "burned" several times.. But I got him good once, and he knows it.. :laughing:
