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Eclipse 2024

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jericho

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What’s everyone doing for the big event? I’m currently in Lake Placid, going to watch at the speed skating oval. 100% totality for like 3 minutes. It’s packed up here. Just remember, don’t look directly at it like our former president. Or do, I don’t care.
 
they say their are thousands coming to Maine to watch it in places like Jackman and Houlton. I hope they don't expect much in either town but Jackman will be a real treat for city slickers :) I know around me the paper eclipse glasses cannot be found. I have some auto darkening welding helmets not sure if they will darken when looking at sun?
 
Well, Arkansas’s governor is declaring a state of emergency for the eclipse, so that’s what the yee-haws are doing today.
 
Planning a short drive down into Ohio to see it.

But the Mid-West is being the mid west. Normally we have cloudy weekends, but right now in SE MI it's nice and clear. Tomorrow chance of rain....
 
1500 years ago the superstitious rubes thought earthquakes and eclipses were a warning from an angry god. Thank goodness we know better today.
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St. Clown said:
Well, Arkansas’s governor is declaring a state of emergency for the eclipse, so that’s what the yee-haws are doing today.
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Celebrate the total eclipse of the sun by watching Total Eclipse of the Heart (try the literal version)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fsgWUq0fdKk
 
80% totality at my work. We all plan to go out and watch with our protective glasses / shoe boxes / what have you.

Can miss Brother Sun going down on Sister Moon.

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Driving for three hours round-trip to Evansville, IN for three minutes of totality. May get lazy and hack off 30 seconds of totality to stay in Henderson, KY, no doubt the fentanyl capital of our state. Might try some of that and just end my life because God plans to once the eclipse is no more. Mostly sunny forecast a couple days ago has now become partly cloudy. Won’t claim to know the cloud cover difference between those two, but either way, I’m staring directly at it, like my god does.
 
Stuck working, but at least I'll be outside. Hoping to get some photos of it, but I probably should have picked up the cheap filters/glasses aheadcof time.

Worst case, I'll just take a photo of it reflecting off my work iPad screen like I did in 2017.
 
rufus said:
Don't care, no interest.

I'm going for a bike ride.
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FWIW, my family was directly under the 2017 one, and they really thought it was incredibly spectacular. Maybe if you have no real chance to see totality, I can blow it off- but even then, we had a good part of 2017 here, and it was really interesting- the shadows were really eerie.
 
Also, I'm all for sh*tting on Satah Huckabee Sanders, but this might be the first smart thing she's done for her state. By pre-emtively declaring the disaster, she's jumping to the head of the line for any federal relief funds IF any are issues to areas that may be overran by tourists causing economic hardships.

It's the 180 from what DeSantis did when he refused federal funds when a hurricane went through while also whining that the government refused to help. They can't until the emergency declaration asking for help.
 
MichVandal said:
FWIW, my family was directly under the 2017 one, and they really thought it was incredibly spectacular. Maybe if you have no real chance to see totality, I can blow it off- but even then, we had a good part of 2017 here, and it was really interesting- the shadows were really eerie.
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It was life-changing. Not a cloud in the sky for the 2017 eclipse, so it was perfect viewing for 90 seconds…
 
St. Clown said:
Well, Arkansas’s governor is declaring a state of emergency for the eclipse, so that’s what the yee-haws are doing today.
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So is Niagara Falls. By doing so, it enables the processes to ensure added emergency services. With so many people descending these areas, this is going to be needed just from a practicality standpoint.
 
Russell Jaslow said:
So is Niagara Falls. By doing so, it enables the processes to ensure added emergency services. With so many people descending these areas, this is going to be needed just from a practicality standpoint.
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I heard the Buffalo area is running out of hotel rooms and doesn't actually know what to do with all of the people coming.
 
Indianapolis for us.

so far so good. 50% chance of clouds.

im ok with the state of emergency stuff. You have no idea whether your town will be overwhelmed by people traveling and they're just not setup for it. There are tons of people here.

it probably also unlocks state funding.
 
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