Eclipse damage: Doctors can't help

gazettetimes.com ^ | August 7, 2017 | JENNIFER MOODY

[PROCON]

That cardboard box method is what we kids used mid-1960’s.

[Jamestown1630]

I think that’s pretty typical, when someone does something routine to exhaustion, for many hours.

Last week a fellow told us about picking and packing pears for a long time, and going to sleep and dreaming about pears, pears, pears.

He said that he has eaten very few pears, since that picking time :-)

[Arthur McGowan]

I saw eclipses in 1970 and 1972. I had friends who stayed in D.C. “It’s 92%” they said. So “it wasn’t worth the trip.”

I told them the difference between 99% and totality was like night and day.

In 1970, we were on the beach. As totality approached, the breeze and the waves stopped.

[Sir_Ed]

Interesting, thanks!

[Sir_Ed]

You’re going to have a wonderful time watching that eclipse!

Grants Pass will only get an eclipse in the 90% range, I think.

There’s a few Freepers who live on the Oregon coast!

See ya’,

Ed

[steve86]

Thank you.

[steve86]

I’m still in the process of determining which logging road(s) I’m going to be on between the Cascades and the Blues. Will have both a 4WD and a dirtbike and plenty of supplies. Incidentally, just got back from Newport and north where I took a 12 YO who had never seen the ocean. Beautiful!

[steve86]

Correct that to: Cascades, Blues, and Wallowas.

[ThePatriotsFlag]

Wow, thank you for that post. Off to find a proper box! :-)

[Larry Lucido]

Little early birdy did WHAT?????

[Salamander]

Asked me if I needed a ride?

;)

[Salamander]

I figured it was some kind of bizarre, mental ‘persistence of vision’.

Sure wish I had that box of fossils, still.

My mother ‘lost’ them after I moved out of the house.

Lots of shark teeth and such.

[Jamestown1630]

I think it is a ‘persistence’ - as a kid, it would happen to me if I’d been in the pool all day, or something like that.

(Is that the same place as Calvert Cliffs?)

[Salamander]

Yes!

I would love to go back there someday but they probably don’t allow collecting anymore.

A couple days ago we rode to the C&O canal and there are signs up everywhere, warning of dire consequence if you remove even so much as a rock.

[Salamander]

Found this photo online and I had *all* of those...and lots of them.

[NorthMountain]

I witnessed the total eclipse in Nova Scotia in 1972

Did you fly your Lear jet up to Nova Scotia?

[Jamestown1630]

My friends used to take their kids fossil-hunting there.

[Salamander]

I see what you did there.

[Salamander]

It is an amazing place.

[Jamestown1630]

It looks like you’re still allowed to collect on the beach, but not the cliffs:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvert_Cliffs_State_Park#Activities_and_amenities