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Old 08-20-2017, 06:12 AM   #41
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I'm at ground zero for E TN, so I'll just step outside in the back yard, daughter and GS are coming down today and will spend the night to avoid the traffic jams they are predicting for Monday. Wife says she's read of gas shortages yesterday, pictures of I-75 in GA being a parking lot, etc.

Guess I'm lucky (?) that I live where I live, I get to see it but I would not travel very far, if at all to see this. There will be so much news/social media coverage of the event, I'm pretty sure most pictures shown on TV will be much better than all the cell phone pics posted on FB, etc. LOL
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Old 08-20-2017, 07:34 AM   #42
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I guess I'll just watch the partial here (Buffalo, NY) and try to stay alive long enough to watch the next one in seven years. I'll be right in the bulls eye for that one and it's supposed to last much longer.
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Old 08-20-2017, 08:10 AM   #43
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Already saw one of these so I doubt ot

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Old 08-20-2017, 10:06 PM   #44
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Heading to Big Bear Lake in California instead. Will catch the partial eclipse on the way down.
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Old 08-20-2017, 10:56 PM   #45
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we are at Bear Lake Utah/Idaho....will experience 97% here...certainly not going to travel anywhere to sit in traffic for hours for a 3 1/2 minute event. 11:34 is peak here..will probably sit outside as we always do...cook something and have a peak at 11:33 for a minute and then continue my life..it's a moon getting in the way of the sun...yawn...clouds do it often never heard this insanity about that..
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Old 08-21-2017, 01:17 AM   #46
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Will view the 99% partial eclipse in our back yard. No way are we going to get in a five hour traffic jam to get closer!
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Old 08-21-2017, 03:09 PM   #47
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Have to rate this as one of the biggest overhyped events in my lifetime. Fortunately we live in THE PATH so all we had to do was take a pontoon trip out on Dale Hollow Lake and have a quiet lunch on a friends houseboat. Good food and drink and oh yall an eclipse. Think we were 99.9% and would have gone another 10 miles down the lake to get the 100. Anyway we ate, drank, told stories, and shared 3 pairs of glasses between 8 people.

Glad I didn't waste any more gas on this over hyped event. 10 years from now if you ask someone where were you when the sun went dark in the middle of the day and they will look at you like you have been smoking something.
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Old 08-21-2017, 04:28 PM   #48
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Here is one of the many pictures take from our chairs next to the TT. Weird to see all the SOLAR garden lights come on at 2:38 in the afternoon.

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Reminded me of when I lived in Florida and the weathermen called for armageden with an impending hurricane that never showed up. Good news was that the interstates in Ga were clear at 2 p.m. 285 and 75 north bound were all but empty

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Did I mention I'd love it if we had an eclipse everyday

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Old 08-21-2017, 06:13 PM   #51
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We viewed it in our back yard with neighbors. It was clear until a few minutes after the total eclipse.

All my motion lights came on while we were sitting in the dark.
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We didn't get the total eclipse, but is was about 90%. Watched it with my welding helmet.
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Old 08-21-2017, 07:46 PM   #53
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Seriously, what was the big deal?? Cool pics! OK I get that, but I've seen a whole lot more interesting natural pics during a good thunder storm. So it doesn't happen very often, but I think watching a meteor storm or an occasional comet is a whole lot "cooler". I just am surprised that so many took vacation time to travel somewhere just to watch this short natural world abnormality. Had we not been right in the path, I think we would have just caught a 30 minute summary on the weather channel.
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I agree I would take the Northern Lights or Perseid Meteor showers that we watched for many hours a few weeks ago from our campsite over two minutes of darkness.
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Reminded me of when I lived in Florida and the weathermen called for armageden with an impending hurricane that never showed up. Good news was that the interstates in Ga were clear at 2 p.m. 285 and 75 north bound were all but empty

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I85 between Greenville SC and Atlanta were bumper to bumper this evening - in BOTH directions.
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Think we were 99.9% and would have gone another 10 miles down the lake to get the 100.
If you only got 99.9% then you were not in the Path of Totality.
There is a big difference between 99,9% and a Total Eclipse,
For the 2.5 minutes we were able to view the Total Eclipse without our eclipse glasses was nothing short of incredible seeing the sun's corona glowing around the moon. We saw stars, we saw Venus, the temp dropped at least 10 degrees.It wasn't dark light nighttime but it was close. It was totally surreal.
You should have spent thew money on gas an gone the extra 10 miles.
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About a year ago or a little more, I saw a HUGE metor streak from East to West across our night sky. It did not last long but I will never forget that gigantic green trail of fire as we pulled into our drive. For me it was much more impressive than the event today. To neach his own,
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If you only got 99.9% then you were not in the Path of Totality.
There is a big difference between 99,9% and a Total Eclipse,
For the 2.5 minutes we were able to view the Total Eclipse without our eclipse glasses was nothing short of incredible seeing the sun's corona glowing around the moon. We saw stars, we saw Venus, the temp dropped at least 10 degrees.It wasn't dark light nighttime but it was close. It was totally surreal.
You should have spent thew money on gas an gone the extra 10 miles.
Sorry, but 99.9 was plenty for us and the total darkness didn't last 2 minutes. We got down to a very thin scratch at the top that was the equivalent to a line from 1 min till 12 and 1 min after 12. It got plenty dark if that's what was important to everyone. Any way you can sit around for years now and ogle at the pictures. Just not our cup of tea. Thinking about putting a timelapse camera out in the yard tomorrow and watching the grass grow. Its either that our watch the paint dry on our new deck. The northern lights, now that's something that's worth traveling to see. Heading back to Alaska next year and am looking forward to seeing them again.
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It was just another interesting event.

Now I wish we had some rain so we could watch the puddles dry up.
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