Any Chrons Folk in the Eclipse Path?

[Alex The G and T]

T minus 3 hrs. Dense fog beginning to lift. Dense smoke from wildfires continuous for the last four days. The sun, when seen has beeen a dirty orange-reddish blob. An Orange eclipse. Well that oughta be unique.

Mom's report from Central Oregon: Roads closed by gridlock, Stores crowded, shelves bare. Fuel stations running dry.

 

[Cathbad]

99% Zone, Mostly Sunny. It's a hassle to go outside, though. Might pass.

 

[Cathbad]

Mom's report from Central Oregon: Roads closed by gridlock, Stores crowded, shelves bare. Fuel stations running dry.

WTH??

 

[Alex The G and T]

A Million eclipse fans rolling into, mostly very small, towns in the Path of Totality. And that report was from Friday, when Mom bugged out.

 

[Cathbad]

Ah.

 

[mosaix]

In '99 I watched the UK eclipse reflected in a bucket of water. I was doubtful at first but it worked like a dream.

 

[Extollager]

A little haze today, here in Vanishing Rural America (east central North Dakota), but not a problem for telescopic viewing as long as you don't mind a slight misty effect. Time to check for the beginning.

...Yep, thar she blows!

 

[Harpo]

In '99 I watched the UK eclipse reflected in a bucket of water. I was doubtful at first but it worked like a dream.

I stood under a big tree and looked down at the shadow - thousands of crescent suns all around me.

 

[Danny McG]

 

[Extollager]

The moon just occulted the most noticeable sunspot.

 

[Extollager]

...There went another sunspot.

 

[Extollager]

With about 40% of the sun eclipsed now, there's a perceptible dimming of sunlight on the ground.

 

[EJDeBrun]

oh look. a white circle covered by a dark circle. can we all get back to work now?

 

[Cathbad]

oh look. a white circle covered by a dark circle. can we all get back to work now?

You must be Management...

 

[EJDeBrun]

You must be Management...

More like, tired of seeing all the dumb people staring at the damned thing without the right glasses and then telling me to stare at it without glasses.

AND ALL THE TRAFFIC. No space invaders? No reason to make everyone's commute longer!

 

[Parson]

We are under a thick blanket of clouds, so no eclipse viewing for us. But around 1:00 pm it was so dark that cars were driving with their lights on.

 

[Danny McG]

Watching this live on the news - mid Kentucky and a crowd around a barn in a field. Awestruck young girl reporting and gazing up
"We have now reached the moment of eclipse totality"
At that point some mong in the crowd behind her raised a big light to his shoulder and started moving it around to film everyone. Ruined it for them all!

 

[elvet]

That was interesting. At the height of the coverage in my area, the quality of light changed. It looked closer to 6 PM rather than the 2:30 PM that it was. Everything was still very bright. I thought it would be darker.

 

[Extollager]

Air temperature cooled a bit. The quality of light was interesting during the period of maximum coverage here; it wasn't really that much like morning or evening. At least subjectively, it did seem like a dimming of bright light.

 

[Extollager]

And that's it! The moon has just passed completely past the sun, as seen from east central North Dakota. Clouds have been rolling in, but I think I may have seen the last bit of moon before the sun was 100% visible again.