Anyone planning to see the total solar eclipse? (August 21)

[gotbeer]

12 hours ago, Vegas Halo Fan said:

I'm guessing that a lot of the crowds are going to be in the south and the midwest, since totality passes near several major metropolitan areas, i. e., Omaha, Kansas City, St. Louis, Nashville, Atlanta and Charleston.

Maybe we got it all wrong.  And the eclipse is really a death ray and will cut the nation in half? 

[Lou]

So, just how many people have gone blind from looking at an eclipse ?

I recall hearing about zero of them. 

Edited August 21, 2017 by Lou

[Angel Dog and Beer]

Overcast here, but managed to see just a bit of it through the clouds. This was a life-changing event. I will never look at our world the same. 

[Chuck]

Here's a few shots from my office in Seattle. 

The smallest one is when it reached the max here at 92% totality. 

[Chuck]

The moment we reached totality in Salem. #LiveOnK2 pic.twitter.com/tk7MkLH27Y

— Joe Douglass (@KATUJoe) August 21, 2017

[red321]

Overcast here. Was still pretty cool but we had that filtered through coastal clouds look. Totality was cool...but a bit underwhelming all things considered. Because of clouds wasn't able to get the photos I wanted. But I did rock the wedding ceremony I performed. 

[Vegas Halo Fan]

What little bit that we would have seen was totally obscured. It has been overcast and raining all morning, which almost never happens here. I noticed that it is a little darker than it normally is this time of day, but that's about it.

I was watching CBS News this morning. They had a reporter at Grand Teton National Park just outside Jackson Hole, WY. While he was on the air, it got darker and darker, and finally you couldn't see him at all.

[Lou]

I just saw it for 35 minutes.

Actually, I took a nap. 

[Chuck]

A friend of mine took this in Oregon. 

Pretty cool.

[Vegas Halo Fan]

[Vegas Halo Fan]

Another one.

[Tank]

4 hours ago, gotbeer said:

Maybe we got it all wrong.  And the eclipse is really a death ray and will cut the nation in half? 

you've been watching too many james bond movies from the 60s and 70s.

[Tank]

1 hour ago, Vegas Halo Fan said:

What little bit that we would have seen was totally obscured. It has been overcast and raining all morning, which almost never happens here. I noticed that it is a little darker than it normally is this time of day, but that's about it.

I was watching CBS News this morning. They had a reporter at Grand Teton National Park just outside Jackson Hole, WY. While he was on the air, it got darker and darker, and finally you couldn't see him at all.

was it jose mota?

Edited August 21, 2017 by Tank

[Vegas Halo Fan]

This is cool.

2017 Solar Eclipse: Moment of totality from plane

[Tank]

4 minutes ago, Vegas Halo Fan said:

This is cool.

2017 Solar Eclipse: Moment of totality from plane

pretty nice. supposedly animals would begin their nighttime routines as things went dark. that could have been interesting to see for some of them. maybe. i dunno.

[yk9001]

2 minutes ago, Tank said:

pretty nice. supposedly animals would begin their nighttime routines as things went dark. that could have been interesting to see for some of them. maybe. i dunno.

There aren't that many therapy pets on airplanes.

[Amazing Larry]

58 minutes ago, Tank said:

pretty nice. supposedly animals would begin their nighttime routines as things went dark. that could have been interesting to see for some of them. maybe. i dunno.

My buddy in Missouri showed me a video of him in his backyard during the eclipse. You could hear all the crickets starting to chirp as if it was night time.

[Tank]

1 hour ago, LHalo said:

My buddy in Missouri showed me a video of him in his backyard during the eclipse. You could hear all the crickets starting to chirp as if it was night time.

you sure the chirping wasn't from ian kinsler about the umpiring?

[cez]

i just pulled off to the side of the road in BFN, Oregon. It was pretty okay. 

Left at about 8:30 am, and traffic wasn't an issue at all. 

Learned for Mr. Tyson-Degrasse today that there's a full solar eclipse on earth every 2 years. That's pretty neat. 

[red321]

Gnats did start showing up as it started to grow darker and then disappeared when the sun came back

[Chuck]

The Total Eclipse of the Bart

[ten ocho recon scout]

On 8/21/2017 at 8:29 AM, gotbeer said:

Maybe we got it all wrong.  And the eclipse is really a death ray and will cut the nation in half? 

It will be the "INO states of america" and "the other states"

Hashtag poor nate

[ten ocho recon scout]

On 8/21/2017 at 1:10 PM, Vegas Halo Fan said:

This is cool.

2017 Solar Eclipse: Moment of totality from plane

Damn, that is pretty cool.