OT. Solar Eclipse on 10/14/23

[Dean Hoffman]

[hubops]

Be sure to use proper eye protection ! ... not like some idiots :

John T.

[Dean Hoffman]

Boxers or all star rasslers staring each other down before a match.

[Snag]

We're in the direct path of the 2024 eclipse . People are already making reservations ... I could probably rent camp sites for a few hundred bucks . I do know all the local tourist lodgings are getting a premium price .

[trader_4]

Problem is the unknown weather. I'm planning on heading up to NY state, near Vermont. But I think I will just wing it depending on the weather. Probably leave like 5AM from NJ, eclipse is like 3PM. For the one few years ago drove down to about an hour away the day before, got a motel there at the last minute and saw it in SC at a little hole in the wall bar, it was great. This one is a lot closer. If anyone wants advice, if you're going to get lodging, I would get it for the night after too. Leaving took hours of bumper to bumper, very slow traffic, that was the worse part.

[Ed P]

If the weather is bad, they should just postpone it to the next day.

[Skid Marks]

No, eclipse postponement would cause climate change. Sheesh!

[Jim Joyce]

Which eclipse map are the two of you using? I ask because what I'm seeing shows the eclipse shadow tracing a southeasterly arc from central Oregon through San Antonio, TX. The NJ/NY area must be a thousand miles away. Google says 1650 miles, as the crow flies. There can't be much to see from way up there.

[Scott Lurndal]

They'll see a total solar eclipse there, April 8, 2024.

[Snag]

North central Arkansas is also in the total eclipse path . Last I heard like 90% of the available lodging in the town near us is already booked . The locals are looking at a great kickoff to the 2024 tourist season ... and this is a tourist destination , our local economy is probably 60%-80% tourist money .

[micky]

Yeah, but who wants to fly with a dirty old crow.

(thanks to one of the Marx brothers.)

They want to get good seats.

[rbowman]

Depending on the weather maybe you can OD on maple syrup and get a little jack wax.

[rbowman]

Love them tourons...

[Jim Joyce]

Duh, thanks. I missed that. I thought they were talking about this weekend, but now that I look I see that they're talking about next year.

[Skid Marks]

Twice a day the Sun is eclipsed by the horizon. Last night we had a total horizon eclipse and man did it get dark.

[hubops]

When the west comes between the east and the sun.

John T.

[trader_4]

That was my bad. I was talking about the one coming in April and it's a total eclipse.