Anyone Have Eclipse Day Plans? Golf? Hideout in a Bunker?

[snapfade]

I'm not sure what to prepare for.  Alien invasion, massive earthquakes, the Rapture, total grid shutdown. Fortunately we are not in the path of totality, so just business as usual. What are you guys doing?

[boogielicious]

If I make plans, it will be cloudy. So I’m not making plans. Then I can say “oh look, an eclipse!”

[billchao]

I have no special plans, I’ll just be working. Didn’t even get glasses. I might remember it’s happening when it gets dark tomorrow around 2:00.

[4zim]

In the path of totality. With the number of workers we’re expecting, I’m having to spend the day working in the emergency response just in case. 

[iacas]

2 hours ago, snapfade said:

I'm not sure what to prepare for.  Alien invasion, massive earthquakes, the Rapture, total grid shutdown. Fortunately we are not in the path of totality, so just business as usual. What are you guys doing?

I'm… going to do roughly the same thing I did seven years ago or whenever that was that we had the last one (not totality). I'll look at it through some glasses when it's time, probably from a golf course.

I'm not even in Erie right now, despite Erie being on the path of totality.

[ChetlovesMer]

3 Things: 

1. I had no idea that there were that many eclipses every year. I guess the Earth has 1-3 total eclipses every year, but for any given location on the Earth there's only one total eclipse every 300 years or so. There's a man flying in to Cleveland for his 31st total eclipse. It is believed he isn't even the world record holder in having viewed that many eclipses. I guess there's a group of three men who travel the globe every year to see a total eclipse, they've seen over 40. I had no idea this was a thing. 
2. I saw one before when I was in 2nd grade I think. We made pin-hole viewers as a class project. 
3. Westerville isn't quite in the path of totality, but it's pretty close. So, my kids and I will head outside about 10 minutes before, bring our eclipse gasses and take a look. I think it comes by here around 3:10 PM. I'll be working, but I'll take a break to go take a look. BTW - My kids get the day off of school for the eclipse.... 

Edited April 7, 2024 by ChetlovesMer

[4zim]

2 hours ago, 4zim said:

In the path of totality. With the number of workers we’re expecting, I’m having to spend the day working in the emergency response just in case. 

*visitors. Not workers. 

[Divot Master]

Hoping to wrap ski season tomorrow at Cannon Mtn. (Franconia, NH), and then watch the eclipse from the parking lot. Golf season can start Tuesday.

[saevel25]

A friend and myself are going to drive over to the western part of Ohio to avoid the cloud cover the is going to hit NE Ohio. 

[CarlSpackler]

I took the day off. We're going to ride the bike up to Piqua Harley Davidson for their watch party.

[ChetlovesMer]

9 hours ago, saevel25 said:

A friend and myself are going to drive over to the western part of Ohio to avoid the cloud cover the is going to hit NE Ohio. 

Trying to predict Ohio weather is like trying to predict where my drive is going to land. 🤷‍♂️

[Clemsonfan]

We were in the path of totality 7 years ago and to in the experience in the middle of Lake Greenwood! I love experiences like this and it was truly amazing t see the change and hear the bird calls. We are 84% today, I think, and really looking forward to it. Will view it from work today. Our schools are out because it will cross during dismissal.

[ChetlovesMer]

4 minutes ago, Clemsonfan said:

We were in the path of totality 7 years ago and to in the experience in the middle of Lake Greenwood! I love experiences like this and it was truly amazing t see the change and hear the bird calls. We are 84% today, I think, and really looking forward to it. Will view it from work today. Our schools are out because it will cross during dismissal.

Sounds like you have a great attitude. 

Secondly, our schools are out here too, pick-up would be right during the eclipse. ... Some schools are doing half-days.

[Clemsonfan]

34 minutes ago, ChetlovesMer said:

Sounds like you have a great attitude. 

Secondly, our schools are out here too, pick-up would be right during the eclipse. ... Some schools are doing half-days.

Total eclipses are pretty rare. They are usually visible at the poles, and this is only the 2nd one in the 21st century in the USA, and the next one won’t be for 20 years. It would always be worth it to me to stop and watch. I am almost 60 and had only seen partial eclipses until 2017. To see 1 in in totality, and another at 80%+ in 7 years is amazing!

 

[ChetlovesMer]

39 minutes ago, Clemsonfan said:

Total eclipses are pretty rare. They are usually visible at the poles, and this is only the 2nd one in the 21st century in the USA, and the next one won’t be for 20 years. It would always be worth it to me to stop and watch. I am almost 60 and had only seen partial eclipses until 2017. To see 1 in in totality, and another at 80%+ in 7 years is amazing!

 

I saw a total eclipse in the 1979. 

BTW - According to the NASA webpage on this. My house will be in total eclipse for 26 seconds today. ... Yay! 

[WillieT]

Pretty much regular day here for us (eastern NC) - schools will be in the middle of dismissal, we’ll be armed with our official Sonic blackout glasses….much like @Clemsonfan, I’ve seen a few eclipses, most recently the one in ‘17.   

[DaveP043]

Northern Virginia is in about the 80% band.  I'll be on a golf course as a Rules Official for a local PGA chapter tournament.

[GolfLug]

They cancelled my daughter's school day out of 'safety concerns'. Ridiculous. What's the BFD?? And then all the loonies and shamans and the 'end of worlders' are out there with there little stick and drums praying and singing profusely for forgiveness and a path towards the light. SMH.

Just a little random astral co-incidence, where all you gotta be mindful about is to not do something super dumb like stare directly at the sun without a welding shield or something. Same as like, ya' know.. everyday.