The Eclipse

[khalpin]

So I was originally planning on going to the Rochester or the Buffalo area and staying with relatives on my wife's side, but the forecast is looking like it'll be mostly cloudy there.  Now I'm thinking of just waking up early Monday and heading to Plattsburgh to relive the Clifford Ball and catch the eclipse there.

The bigger question is why isn't Phish playing an outdoor show in Vermont on Monday afternoon?  Talk about a Harpua waiting to happen!!!!

[mistercharlie]

All I know is my house falls in the exact center of one of the 4 minutes and 37 seconds circles in Indy! I already told work that I'd be outside if they wanted me, but I wouldn't come if they called anyway. 

Pretty cool that I'll be able to sit on my back deck and watch the whole thing. I just wish our governor had closed the State Library so the wife would be home with me. He closed the Public libraries, but not the State Library.

[susep]

The forecast looks good up here for Monday, we'll drive a few hours North to catch totality.      

[Bobafett]

We came to a family lake house in northeast Arkansas.  Hoping for clear skies.

[rowjimmy]

I'll be on a work zoom call.

Guess I'll have to live until the next one.

[PIE-GUY]

I am in the path of totality. Should be amazing if the cloud cover gives way... let's see... nope... zero-point-zero chance of that! 

[emay]

Nice sunny clear day here but not really in the path. I'll try to take a look. 

[mistercharlie]

I am in the path of totality. Should be amazing if the cloud cover gives way... let's see... nope... zero-point-zero chance of that!

Yeah, I just got off a call with my San Antonio hotel and they said the same thing. Sucks for you folks. We have 99% clear skies in Indy today! I've got a bowl of Moon Rocks packed-up to partake during the event! 

[emay]

[rowjimmy]

There will be blood

[mistercharlie]

I know they say using you phone to take pics of the eclipse can damage it, so I'm using the wife's old phone and noticed a strange phenomenon!

The sun is partially eclipsed already. The pics don't look like it, but there is a smaller, reversed, sun beneath that does show the eclipse.

[mistercharlie]

This guy just had his life changed!

[Caravan2001]

was pretty cloudy in Portland but it w ashlar enough for a few minutes to see it.  We only had about 25% coverage but it was still cool.  We had one 3-4 months ago that was really good though.

[sunrisevt]

I drove up into the mountains to get fully in to the zone of totality (98% or so at my house). Birds and cars were quiet for about five minutes.

[Buffalo Budd]

We had 99.8% totality for a few minutes. Pretty cool as the darkness set in but when the light started coming back up and the birds started chirping like it was morning, it felt like I was coming off a bender.