It's a triple-eclipse!
Posted on 08/07/2017 6:01:01 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Edited on 08/08/2017 12:23:31 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
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Cashiers is a beautiful spot.
I drive out that way from WNC.
Not an area to pick for the eclipse.
We don’t speak of it.
I think the mall in Spartanburg will be fine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bKwRW0l-Qk
Cashiers and Highlands are getting into the territory where you’d be hitting the mob coming up from Atlanta, and it’s a twisty two lane mountain road, miserable in a traffic jam. I’ve thought about Bryson City, that’d be nice and four lanes at a minimum all the way up.
I-85 is overcrowded under normal conditions in my book. I’d leave early.
We’re going to be dead center in South Carolina. Driving 500 miles to get there.
Leaving Saturday for the Monday event, traffic will be heavy but hopefully OK. Return on Tuesday. Not really looking forward to that.
We are “hosting” the weekend for about 100 people. Got lots of space type games and stuff planned.
The ultimate in bad timing. Our son works at NASA and is on duty during the eclipse. He controls a satellite that monitors solar weather. The satellite orbits well past the moon so he’s going to be watching the sun real time while the moon eclipses it and won’t see a thing.
We have a major area for eclipse viewing now closed due to forest fires...and it’s unusually and brutally hot...likely more areas will be closed.
Many States Preparing For Historic Eclipse Like A Natural Disaster
Standard butt-covering, or is there anything else at issue that the public oughta know about...?
Good luck on I-85. It’s closest to Charlotte (2.4 Million metro) and Atlanta (5.7 million Metro) which are both out of totality.
I expect upward of 2 million in the Greenville, Anderson, Clemson corridor. Total gridlock.
We’re flying into Greenville (our winter home) a week early, stocking up on food, inviting the relatives from Atlanta, and watching Christy Henderson’s weather forcasts.
Yeah, I have to remind myself of that, which would, or will :-( certainly be a consolation with light cloud cover.
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