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]
INDIANAPOLIS (AP)
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I’ve been warning my own people.
I cover the Carolina’s. The road is dangerous enough as it is. I beg of people to not be on the Interstates and byways traveling at speed during this time.
Pick a place and just stay there. I should not have to explain why. It is dangerous enough without space events.
Bring your lunch to work and stay off the roads with all the rubber neckers.
I was once on the SE Expressway in Boston during a lunar eclipse (a rather common occurrence). Cars slowing down, people pulling over and getting out of the car, etc. It was a nightmare.
Eclipses bore me other than the one where Einstein was proven right. Light bends in a gravity well and all the resulting relativity stuff. Beyond that.... Pfffft. BFD. Get some blackout curtains.
https://www.space.com/37018-solar-eclipse-proved-einstein-relativity-right.html
Of course, a lunar eclipse is observable from anywhere, so what you had there was just a response to the moment by whoever happened to be on the road.
In this case, you’ve got a potential mass migration building to a crescendo. I plan to be part of it! One thing that slays me is this talk of stadiums, etc. . What’s the point of that? Carbondale is the focal point of the hype, so .... avoid Carbondale! The path of totality is 70 miles side and extends all the way across the country. If you’re within twenty miles of the center line, and have a clear sky (!) ... you’re golden.
We live in the near middle of the band...our city has told us to expect 75K-125K extra people. (Population is @380K normally) Bugging in from Thursday to Tuesday
Well the sun is eclipsed by the earth every day, right? Close maybe, and in fact we do make a pretty big deal about it!
“There is a mighty host in the sun”
How well I remember learning how the earth rotates on its axis.
Made my day.
Here in my town in Maryland, the sun will be covered to the tune of about 83 percent at around 2:40 pm.
I made an effort as a college studemt to see the total eclipse of March 1970 visible from Nantucket. Unfortunately, we were a mile or so back in the line to get on the last ferry, so we enjoyed the company of a large number of other disappointees observing a 99% eclipse on an outpost of Cape Cod.
Just not the same as a total. Not in the same category. That's why I have my fingers crossed for the weather this time around!
Yes. I was actually quite surprised at the reaction.
And...it made me late for a gig. And I am NEVER late for a gig.
I hope you have a WONDERFUL time observing a REAL rare phenomenon. :-)
Corydon gets the “close but no cigar” award.
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