Posted on 04/08/2021 2:54:13 PM PDT by LibWhacker
Wow, what's the probability that someone would have two total solar eclipses pass over his house in seven years???... You ever consider lottery tickets?
These solar eclipse stories make me think about global warming hype.
In 2017 the predictions of the times and location of the eclipse were spot on. I believe 2024 will probably be just as good. These predictions that come true show a real understanding of the system.
When the global warming crowd can, for example, predict that, “On August 17th, 2021 there will be a Category IV hurricane that will make landfall near Palm Bay, Florida”, and if they can do that consistently and it consistently comes true, it will demonstrate to me a real understanding of the climate.
But they have no understanding of the global climate and can’t do anywhere close to that prediction. Just how many times are these people going to predict the earth will end in 10 years if we don’t take drastic action?
You ever consider lottery tickets?
From an eclipse book we got in ‘91 we realized that if we lived, we’d have two eclipses at home. I can say that totality is totally awesome.
I saw the total solar eclipse of what was it, Aug 23rd 2017? I was at Salem Oregon, pretty much right in the center of the path.
It was spectacular - and weird.
The weird part was looking all around us and it looked like sunrise in every direction!
And it was weird seeing the stars during the day.
And there is an annular eclipse not sure exactly when basically going thru the exact same spot. 2023 I think.
We led a group of about 200 people at an eclipse party in South Carolina a couple years ago. Dead center of totality
A friend lives dead center in Ohio. We’ve already talked.
You were at the Winnipeg one too? Wow....memories. Our group of about 15 or so was a group of American and Canadians and I will never forget it. I thought I was nuts at the time but it was so so worth it. Even in freezing February. :)
yeah it sucked
Looks like it’s gonna pass almost directly over my place.
I saw the 2017 eclipse on Lake Murry, SC. It was an amazing sight.
I wonder if Ozzy Osbourne can be persuaded to show up again?
Plan now, people will have been booking hotel rooms along the centerline already.
I'm aleady parked for the 2024 eclipse. :)
Are you inviting any of your Freeper friends for the event? 8-)
My wife and I traveled from Arizona to Oregon for the 2017 eclipse. Stayed a night with my brother in Bend, then drove from Bend to Seneca (between Burns and John Day) the day before the event and camped out in the Malheur National Forest, up the gnarliest logging road I could drive in a Nissan Sentra. There were some clearcuts at the top of a ridge, and we had a very nice view of the total eclipse. Only one other person anywhere nearby.
I also saw a total eclipse in February 1979 in Oregon. I was very lucky to get to the only hole in the clouds for at least 50 miles in any direction, arriving no more than 10 minutes before the eclipse started. That was along the Columbia River, not far east of The Dalles.
I imagine we’ll see the 2024 eclipse somewhere along the track of totality, no idea yet where we’ll go.
The weird part was looking all around us and it looked like sunrise in every direction!
By all means if you get a chance get into the path of totality. You won’t forget it.
Have been fortunate enough to see two, the 2017 event in Baker City OR and on March 7, 1970, at Virginia Beach. Chased one in May 1984 but had to settle for two minutes of darkness under cloud, which was widespread (also near the VA-NC border). Would recommend south Texas for best probability of clear skies in April along that track. Pretty much a certainty that a long stretch of that track will be overcast, no telling what stretch yet of course, but chances are about the same from Arkansas to Quebec, no particular reason to choose any place along that stretch yet. The best idea is to have more than one target, and decide a week in advance, take a motel 150-200 miles from the center line, on your route to the target, and (this eclipse is well timed for a morning drive into position) get into place from there, and return there at your leisure in the heavy traffic you can expect. The reason for that plan is that the motel 150-200 miles out won’t likely be fully booked a couple of days before the eclipse. The motels near the totality line will be (probably a year before, and at highly inflated prices too). The other viable plan is to choose a sparsely populated area and camp out on federal land, organized campsites will all be booked too.
What’s the most surprising part of this experience? I found the sudden drop in lighting unexpected, about a minute before totality you feel like it’s just like sunset, then a few seconds before totality, the light drops to near darkness very quickly. If you’re in a crowd of people, there will be a large gasp of amazement at that point. The other end is the same in reverse except you’re expecting that.
By the way the actual interestion of the 2017 and 2024 eclipses happens just a bit west of Makanda, Ill.
August in Nebraska is usually hot & dry so I persuaded my older brother and my youngest son & family (all of us a day’s trip away) to view the eclipse from the family farm about 70 miles east of Grand Island. The farm is about two miles south of the path of totality. We gathered at the farm and within a few minutes of totality, the sky clouded over. We could see that the sky was clear all around, but all we got was darkness. Just at that time what appeared to be a commercial airliner approaching from the northeast turned and followed the path of totality.
Well, we are in an age of darkness.
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