Posted on 08/24/2017 2:10:17 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
When eclipse trips go bad.
Combined PING! and DANG!
ooohh, we were delayed an hour...how horrific!!!
Petty goes balistic.
Gretchen was stuck in traffic for an HOUR!!!! What a whimp, come to CA and experience traffic, an hour is half of one way of a commute for a lot here..
I live in Minneapolis. An hour is nothing on a daily basis.
We’ll “get ‘re better next time”
Ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha!!!! Hilarious!
Is there anyone more stupid than a “local district” decision-maker?
Caught in traffic for an hour! Pssshaw . . . try 15 hours coming back from Oregon!
Have you ever driven in Montana? Those people are not used to being in a car that is that is moving at speeds less than 90 mile per hour.
The Montana Department of Transportation controls the Sun and the Moon? THAT is rather impressive!
It took us 6 hours to drive back after a 3 hour drive up, from Savannah to Santee, SC.
Fortunately for us, we knew the back roads and avoided the long waits. Our problem was just slow drivers.
Did get an amazing view of the eclipse though.
I noticed that! “Temperatures soared into the 80s!”
I was in MO with a dew point of at least 75.
That’s humidity when your sweat beads have sweat beads.
Although I admit it’s not Houston or Florida.
We had some kin folks trying to escape a gulf coast hurricane that drove over 24 hrs to go about 250 miles.
OMG!!! A whole hour! My wife and I were stuck on the Great Smoky Mtn. Expressway on our way to the totality zone on Monday for about an hour...good thing we had cookies and bottled water with us, or we might not be here right now. Sissies.
“To make matters worse, temperatures soared into the 80s that day, there wasn’t a cloud in the sky to cut the blistering heat, and that stretch of interstate is bereft of trees or any shady pullouts.”
They must be kidding, in South Carolina we consider any day that ONLY “soared into the 80s” a cold front. We start to shiver at 78 degrees.
YUP; and that is for a 5 mile one way trip.
All of that aside, experiencing totality for the first time was worth every minute of delay on the road. I thought I knew what to expect, but WOW....it was an utterly indescribable experience. I think it is the only thing I've witnessed in my life that is truly impossible to explain unless you experience it for yourself. If you saw the partial eclipse you may wonder what all the fuss was about, but even 99% coverage is nothing compared to totality. The moment it occurs you are suddenly just teleported to a different plane of existence.
I'm not the "touchy-feely" type, but my description above is actually very restrained compared to the reality of what occurred. I feel now like someone who was abducted by aliens or something. Another person who has experienced the same thing understands completely what you are babbling on about, but everyone else just thinks you're nuts.
Especially if you believe in God, totality was just like ripping the curtain away between you and the awesome majesty of His creation. It is profound and soul-shaking. I never expected any of that and therefore didn't see coming the way it would affect me. I just thought it would be a really cool thing to see. No...no...no...no...It is WAY more than that.
If you ever get the chance to experience totality, beg, borrow, steal, hitchhike or whatever it takes to get there. It's worth whatever it takes. Oh, and if you think you've basically seen what it looks like from photos or videos, even the excellent ones from NASA, you are dead wrong. Even the best images, compared to the real experience, are like stick figure drawings compared to the Mona Lisa.
I know, I get that delay almost every other day on my 47 mile commute.
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