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Seeing a solar eclipse in totality is a pretty cool thing, and chances don't come often for most.  So the wife, kids & I are making a ~3 hour drive to just a little north of Chattanooga, TN to catch it.  Staying Sunday night in Chattanooga, as it's a cool little city to visit.  Though we went there just a couple of years ago, we may check out Rock City again or do a little hiking on Lookout Mountain.  Neat place.

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We drove about 125 miles north to Arthur, Nebraska to a friend's ranch in the totality zone.  I shot this during the peak of the eclipse:  

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Don't move and you are getting the full eclipse in 2024

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I was lucky to be in the Zone of Totality. As the moon began to cover the sun, the temperature dropped noticeably and the wind picked up.. Next it became very quiet as the birds stopped chirping,

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I bought 5 pair of glasses, only a partial eclipse here though.  Oregon is a long way to travel, 16 hours, I'll be staying in San Diego.

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1 hour ago, No Mulligans said:

I bought 5 pair of glasses, only a partial eclipse here though.  Oregon is a long way to travel, 16 hours, I'll be staying in San Diego.

Exactly, I'm a 16 hour drive from Path of Totality as well. 3 hours, that's a no brainer, I wouldn't eventthink about not doing it. 16, more dubious. And it looks like it's going to thunderstorm in the area closest to me.

 

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Meh.

I'll watch a few video clips when it's over. That'll be fine.

I saw one as a kid. Something like a near full eclipse where I lived in about the same place I live now. 1994, maybe? I think I was in high school. Springtime, I think.

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1 minute ago, iacas said:

Meh.

I'll watch a few video clips when it's over. That'll be fine.

I saw one as a kid. Something like a near full eclipse where I lived in about the same place I live now. 1994, maybe? I think I was in high school. Springtime, I think.

Don't move and you are getting the full eclipse in 2024

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Will be driving across the border from Vancouver BC to Salem Oregan 

Just hoping the traffic isn't too bad 


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24 minutes ago, Wally Fairway said:

Don't move and you are getting the full eclipse in 2024

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Yeah, I think I told the wife earlier today that I thought it was 2022, but that's pretty close. That's about as close as you can get to being right on the central line. Looking forward to it. This one, in 2017, not as much. It's pretty far south.

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That's pretty awesome that the solar eclipse in 2020 will be passing so close to us in Ohio. I am about 1.5 hours away from the centerline :) 

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7 hours ago, Wally Fairway said:

Don't move and you are getting the full eclipse in 2024

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What did Buffalo do to deserve that?

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On 8/16/2017 at 6:30 AM, jamo said:

What did Buffalo do to deserve that?

Ha, probably gonna be a cloudy day.

Sadly, I'm not going to make the drive down. Too far. Too cloudy. Too congested. If I were on the west coast, different story, cloud cover much less over there. Will have to settle for a partial eclipse at home. 

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In all honesty...I've done nothing for the solar eclipse.  If it happens...it happens.

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On 8/15/2017 at 8:35 PM, dchoye said:

Will be driving across the border from Vancouver BC to Salem Oregan 

Just hoping the traffic isn't too bad 

Yeah its already bad. My boss is going down today, from north Seattle, and they are talking 25mile backups in some spots. 

On 8/15/2017 at 10:13 PM, pulledabill said:

Since I'm right in its path here in Salem OR, I will be working from home and hiding out from the chaos.  Expecting an extra 1,000,000 peeps in OR.  

Yeah they are predicting a lot of cellular outages too right? I also hear evey hotel within an hour drive of oregon hotspots are completely sold out. I'll stick with my 92% coverage here. Good enough for me. I'll be at my course working though, so it'll be interesting. 

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I might have to wait 2 minutes and 30 seconds to read my putt...

"My ball is on top of a rock in the hazard, do I get some sort of relief?"

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Put the lenses over my smartphone lens. No go. Need better equipment. 

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Someone brought in "authorized" sun glasses and we have all peeked at the action a bit.  Only going to be around 80% but it is cool enough to take a gander.  Not cool enough to drive to Kentucky.

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