2017 Total Eclipse, August 21st

[HARO50]

14 minutes ago, Gene Howe said:

We're way out from anything worth watching. Probably find the 100% on tv or You Tube. Or, maybe the radio.

I'm sure there will be a full blow-by-blow narrative on the boob tube. Sit back in your favourite chair, save the gas money, lodging and food expenses, eliminate the risk of eye damage, and avoid all that pain-in-the- you-know-what traffic! All you need is a couple of mugs of your favourite beverage and a dozen donuts! Well, a GROSS of donuts if you live on a mountaintop in Colorado.

John

[Grandpadave52]

1 hour ago, Gene Howe said:

We're way out from anything worth watching. Probably find the 100% on tv or You Tube. Or, maybe the radio.

Go outside about 10:34:18 PM....should give you about the effect.

[Al B]

5 hours ago, Gene Howe said:

We're way out from anything worth watching. Probably find the 100% on tv or You Tube. Or, maybe the radio.

Same here Gene 

[HandyDan]

I'm going to get the old welding helmet out.  Who knows whether he is watching the eclipse or sleeping?

 

 

 

[HARO50]

[Grandpadave52]

On 8/17/2017 at 11:56 PM, HandyDan said:

I'm going to get the old welding helmet out.

I'd planned to do the same also Dan...Heard yesterday it should have a #12 shade darkness or greater  lens. Anything less, could lead to possible eye damage.

I think both of mine are #9's or maybe 10's...I checked at Rural King yesterday and everything they normally stock in #12 & above was sold out.

[HandyDan]

48 minutes ago, Grandpadave52 said:

I'd planned to do the same also Dan...Heard yesterday it should have a #12 shade darkness or greater  lens. Anything less, could lead to possible eye damage.

I think both of mine are #9's or maybe 10's...I checked at Rural King yesterday and everything they normally stock in #12 & above was sold out.

 

Like I told my sister-in-law at lunch today,  you can look at it like you may look at the sun everyday.  Their precautions are for someone watching it in its entirety.  If you can weld a complete stick with a #10 lens surely you can take a look at the eclipse for a bit.  Sorry, I didn't mean to call you surely. 

[Grandpadave52]

2 minutes ago, HandyDan said:

Sorry, I didn't mean to call you surely. 

[Fred W. Hargis Jr]

I was watching the national weather map this morning and I think there are going to be some really disappointed folks that drove to some of the locations. Looked like the Pacific NW had about the best shot of being without clouds. There was another stoty about a gourp of Japanese citizens that reserved a whole resort near Portland just so they could fly here rot see the eclipse. The made the reservations in 2011......and here I have trouble planning dinner for tomorrow.

[Grandpadave52]

1 minute ago, Fred W. Hargis Jr said:

The made the reservations in 2011......and here I have trouble planning dinner for tomorrow.

I know that feeling Fred.

 

I heard a story last week on the radio about a couple who purchased several acres of land back in the mid 1970's within the Totality Zone somewhere in Oregon. He said it was going to be his 401k. Apparently he's renting out spots to camp/view the eclipse at some pretty good prices...

[Grandpadave52]

@Chips N Dust...how's it going out there Kelly?

Any signs of Scully or Muldor in the area?

Is the ice cream melting slower now?

[Chips N Dust]

Not yet. Did see a few weird ones dancing in a parking lot though. 

 

Right now, at 946 pst, the sun looks like pacman 

[Gene Howe]

 

[Grandpadave52]

Just slightly beginning here a bit ago. Unfortunately, one tiny t-storm cell in the entire state...guess where? Thunderheads have built so basically no view of sky period... T-storms should peak about the peak time of the eclipse here...maybe in 2024 when we'll be in the path of totality...assuming I'm still above ground then

 

The birds are hitting the feeders right now like there will be no tomorrow...maybe they know something???

[Chips N Dust]

Peak has past. Nothing really out of the normal

[Grandpadave52]

Peak has passed here too...some marble size hail for about 30 seconds...Oh wait you're talking about the eclipse...

[Gene Howe]

Totally missed it. Working on the mower in the garage. Oh well.

[kmealy]

Gonna wait 7 years for the next one that will be closer.   Drove I-71 south for about 120 miles yesterday,   Lots of traffic, I don't know how much was end of summer, get kids home for school vs. eclipse, but lots of backups.   At least one "Eclipse or Bust" painted on an RV.   Stopped at equipment dealer today and he was told by SawStop that deliveries would be delayed for at least a week because of traffic in Oregon.

[p_toad]

All this talk about the eclipse reminds me of the old SNL routine with Roseann Rosanna Danna and the eclipse.   Can't say more; you'll have to look it up if you don't recall. 

[Cal]

I stopped long enough yesterday to dig out my welding helmet and watch it.  While not in the path of totality, it was still a good show.  It took the sun down to just a sliver of a cressent.  It did drop the temps a few degrees.  Both of my young ones got good views of totality.

Hey, I like this stuff, what can I say?  It is cheap entertainment, not seen everyday, a teachable something or other if you have small kids, etc. etc.

Cal