[txrefugee]

This was not a “once in a lifetime experience,” as the media nitwits proclaimed this eclipse. Texas, April 8, 2024, totality….but do not come. Stay off our lawns.

[Ancesthntr]

“Texas, April 8, 2024, totality….but do not come. Stay off our lawns.”

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By that time, I’ll have night vision gear...so even if it is 100% dark, I’ll be able to see whomever it is on my lawn. Heck, I’ll even attach the gear to my Garand, just to make the phrase authentic.

BTW, FReepers are welcome. Libs and Leftists are NOT.

[xp38]

It depends. This was the first one since 1979 to touch the lower 48. 38 years. I remember them saying the next one wouldn't happen until the next century but only if you used that lower 48 criteria. It seemed a long way off at the time. Now the next one is 7 years away and parts of your Texas will see totality. But if you use the whole world the next total solar eclipse will be July 2 2019 and it will cross South America. As you can see most of it will be on open ocean ending in the suburbs of Buenos Aires. If you get the bug you can chase eclipses all over. Pick a random spot on the earth and you can wait hundreds of years to fall under the shadow of the moon blocking the sun.

[Night Hides Not]

No doubt about it, we should have green lawns during the next eclipse...July or August? Forget it...lol

[Seruzawa]

Ha! They’ll be coming by the millions. All reeking of stale marijuana smoke and patchouli oil. Burger King and Taco Bell bags everywhere. Thousands of Chevy Volts and Teslas causing brown outs from Austin to Des Moines.

[KarlInOhio]

This was not a “once in a lifetime experience,” as the media nitwits proclaimed this eclipse. Texas, April 8, 2024, totality

For people in southern Illinois and parts of Missouri and Kentucky it will be twice in 7 years because the 2024 totality path crosses the 2017 path there.

http://www.eclipse2017.org/2017/graphics/http://www.eclipse2017.org/2017/overlap.htm

….but do not come. Stay off our lawns.

I've got my own lawn to watch the 2014 eclipse from, thank you very much. :-)

[JAKraig]

This was not a “once in a lifetime experience,” as the media nitwits proclaimed this eclipse. Texas, April 8, 2024, totality….but do not come. Stay off our lawns.

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This is the first eclipse near me in my life time of 7 decades. Perhaps there will be another before I croak but it was something to behold in totality. There really was’t much to see except for totality and that is spectacular. It goes from light to dark very quickly and two and half minutes later exactly the opposite occurs. The shadows moves incredibly fast. I had a drone fly up to 1500 feet and look straight down. You can see the movement but just barely, it is almost like flicking a switch. That experience and seeing the Suns corona for for the first time were worth all the extra effort I put into driving 4 hours to see it. If I ever do it again I will stay an extra night. The drive on the way home was horrendous. It took nearly 7 hours.