Occupy Totality because 99% isn't good enough.
Posted on 08/02/2017 6:36:36 AM PDT by xp38
I like the song, but it has the worst guitar solo EVER!
Occupy Totality because 99% isn't good enough.
The highlighted counties show, roughly, the path along which people will have the best views of the Aug. 21 total solar eclipse. Counties shaded red voted for Trump; those in blue voted for Clinton.
Good on you!!!
I’d suggest leaving REALLY early. They’re expecting roads to be jammed with people heading into Idaho. I’m in Utah and think I-15 will be a nightmare.
Outside of SLC and up to Ogden, I doubt there can be much traffic. Going north from Reno will be open roads. Worst risk is extra police setting up radar traps to fleece travelers.
I’ll be in Casper WY — Trump country.
The April 8, 2024, eclipse also passes largely through states Trump carried, or parts of states which voted for Trump although the Hildabeast got the electoral votes of that state. Hopefully Trump will be in the final year of his second term at that point. The path of totality hits land at Mazatlan, passes through Austin and Dallas and Indianapolis and upstate NY and Gander, Nfld., before heading into the Atlantic Ocean.
No doubt Mueller is investigating to see how much Trump paid the Russians to ensure that the eclipse would pass almost entirely through Trump territory.
The exception being that it comes ashore in Loony Leftist Oregon.
You are dissing the astronomy nerds among us. I’ll be traveling several hundred miles to view it.
The experience is said to be surreal. There is an “eclipse wind” that apparently happens under the shadow, where convection is turned on its head.
Same here. Where are you viewing?
There is an eclipse wind and the temperature drops noticeably. There’s a period just before totality when the dimming sunlight takes on an odd flickering quality like an old fluorescent light, or at least it does to me, fluorescent lighting has always bothered me for that reason. Animal behavior is interesting, too, not just the roosters crowing and such, but the seeming “wtf” dead silence before they adapt. No wonder it scared primitives, it really is unworldly. It’s not easy to keep yourself from looking at it, so have some viewing glasses and make sure they’re not the counterfeit ones. If you can’t get any there’s always the old bucket of water trick, look at the reflection.
I have a cousin who lives in Charlotte, NC and we are planing on going to South Carolina, possibly to Lake Murry (he has a boat on a trailer).
Enjoy your trip. I just found the idea that the Trump people deserve an eclipse as a bad omen laughable. I don’t see solar eclipses as a bad thing. It would be nice to carefully see one with eye protection. They don’t happen often.
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