Posted on 07/31/2017 7:48:41 PM PDT by LibWhacker
I would be in favor of bring back HANGING and/or firing sqad to this country to stop FAKE anythings——coins drugs sAFETY THINGS ETC!!!!!——THESE ARE scunbags AND WE WOULD BE BETTER OFF WITHOUT THESE PEOPLE.
I photographed the last eclipse (2014?) with my new camera. The articulating screen on the camera back allowed me to view a stopped-down image (I suppose like eclipse glasses) as I aimed and focused the camera.
I’m at Ground Zero here on the central Oregon Coast. We are going to be slammed for nearly a week before and after with 50,000-100,000 visitors (how’s that for a precise estimate ;-) Our small town infrastructure will have to struggle mightily to be able to handle the throngs. A lot of locals are praying for rain or fog.
OMG.
Can you possibly go away for a few days to avoid the chaos?
Hotels and campgrounds are booked up to the gills, some hotels jacked up their prices to ridiculous levels ($1000 a night!).
Traffic is going to be a nightmare: Highway 101 is the only way in and out of some of our coastal towns. The laterals (Hwy.18 out of Lincoln City and Hwy. 20 from Newport to the valley) are only two lanes in many places.
Wow.
I am SO sorry for your plight.
Once a year, Fort Frederick has “Market Days” and the flatlanders come to gawk at the history of our primitive, hillbilly ways.
I live across from the road that leads to FT Frederick and traffic is a mess.
On a normal day, it’s hard enough to get out of the lane with a blind hill.
Your problem will be infinitely worse than that, though.
:(
I wish you torrents of rain and impenetrable cloud cover.
LOL, I learned in in elementary school, (over 50 years ago)that there are no safe glasses or a Safe way to look at a solar eclipse.
LOL - thank you :-)
Got it...Overhead work must be a pain.
lol...I read about one amateur astronomer who named his small observatory “Cloudbait Observatory” because every time he opens the dome shutters, clouds appear.
Mobile field work is always a challenge. It is almost always under less than favorable conditions. But when you have a whole road project shut down midday waiting for a piece of equipment, or material handling support in a batch plant, to be welded up you really can’t request to wait for better conditions. Especially if you are contracted and expected to keep it all up and running on demand. :)
Had a friend how worked at NASCO (sp) ship building in San Diego. He did overhead work for years on all kinds of ships, and said it about half killed him as he got older.
It’s for a younger man than I. lol, All the pains add up to not even being able to concentrate on your weld and get it right. neck, back, shoulders, blood drain from your arms and Etc.
LOL!
It’s just like that.
Couple times a year, someone screams “OMG the [whichever] meteor showers will greater than EVER BEFORE!!!” but I never see them.
Without fail, it will either pour rain, have cloud cover so thick you can practically touch it or we’ll have a sudden fog worthy of the Scottish moors.
If you use those filters, the solar eclipse would last all day. Have 2 brothers thsat have welded, skill runs in the family. My welds look crappy but they hold.
Really looking forward to this. I want to take a day off for it.
Shelter in place? Good practice...;)
Thats what I’ll use, with a second box so it will focus.
Good idea about the small head hole, though.
That’s what we used as kids to watch an eclipse. Probably not quite as refined as that example, but gave an interesting view without worrying about eye damage.
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