Posted on 03/26/2015 7:06:18 PM PDT by Star Traveler
As I write this blog, I realize that the event is more than three years away. But it’s going to be so huge that I thought I’d list some of the important details for our readership, the general public, and the media. Hey, it’s never too early for knowledge, right? Anyway, these are the facts.
1. This will be the first total solar eclipse in the continental U.S. in 38 years. The last one occurred February 26, 1979. Unfortunately, not many people saw it because it clipped just five states in the Northwest and the weather for the most part was bleak. Before that one, you have to go back to March 7, 1970.
(Excerpt) Read more at cs.astronomy.com ...
I was there at that one in 1979, at Goldendale, Washington. And even though it was about 50% cloudy, I manage to drive to some holes in the clouds and saw it standing in a farmer's field!
I'm already thinking about this one, anywhere from Nebraska to Kentucky, depending on weather. It will be an event of a lifetime, so don't miss it!
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Okay, my math is bad ... LOL ... about 2.5 years ... :-) ...
BUT, the hotels are still being hooked up ... kinda amazing.
Let me assure you this is nothing. It is a blocking of sun light— that is it. Zero effect on anything.
You’ve obviously never seen one.
Fact 26: The fish will bite like a STONE COLD ZOMBIE SCOURGE.
Just funnin ya star....but the fish will go off.
When I saw the total eclipse in 1979, I thought that would be the only one. But now it looks like I might have the chance for THREE of them ... all within just a few hours drive from where I live! That would be 1979, 2017 and 2024.
I was in Montana for the 1979 event. clouds permitted observing the approach to totality and just before totality - the clouds all parted and saw the total eclipse in clear sky. Wonderful
yes indeed
Atlanta gets 97%....yaaaay!
I hope you haven’t seen one without proper lenses. I use 6 pair of sunglasses on the last one and I could see it great. Actually nothing happened any more that a cloud would change your day.
One of the coolest things about an eclipse is the weird thing it does to the shadows leafy trees cast on the ground just before and after totality.
Ummm ... well it’s a darkening unlike any other that you’ve seen under other circumstances. It suddenly gets quiet ... the animals and birds know something different is going on. And seeing a huge shadow rushing up on you at about 1,800 MPH is a different experience.
Once you’ve gone through one, you know it’s unlike anything else you’ve seen and experienced.
In Goldendale, Washington Imcould see the shadow band to the south and see the sun was shining brightly off in the distance, while we were in this weird and dim twilight.
In Goldendale, Washington, I knew when totality was (of course) and then drove around the countryside, chasing holes in the sky for where I anticipated the sun to be (given how the clouds were moving) ... and I hit it right and got right in a big hole and saw the totality. I was off in a farmer’s field, where there were about 7 or 8 other people ... :-) ...
I never thought I would make it to this one ... :-) ...
26. It will mark the enshrinement of Barack Obama as Anti-Christ and begin the world-wide obligation of the worship of his image.
I am going into my basement with the shades shut and burrowing! The moon is my enemy, it does all kinds of bad reactions, especially when it’s full!
My Dad was an ER Doc…he hated the full moon…crazy people abound.
It literally makes me sick of a day or two.
I saw it outside Yakima WA. you can bet I’ll seek out a clear spot for this one. One of the coolest things I’ve seen in my whole life.
Think I’ll fly up to Nova Scotia.
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