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Stay home and watch it on TV.
Haven’t the authorities up there ever heard of contraflow?
“Motorists were advised to stay in the their vehicles during traffic delays, and to not drive in wrong lanes of travel.”
This is what the Oregon government thinks of the average serf’s ability at cognitive thought, but then again just look to Portland today . .
This is gonna get interesting.
The region all of these people are trying to get to is remote, desolate, with little population, and virtually no services available (gas, food, lodgings, phones). I’ve been all through that region, and it’s all two-lane twisty roads and 100 miles to the next gas station.
I know some people who are going to Oregon for this. Apparently the near certainty that the skies will be cloudy isn’t deterring them. Better to go to Casper.
But they are liberals so logical thinking isn’t a strong suit.
Traffic in and around Portland is already gridlocked pretty much most every day, all day. No way I want to be shackled to bumper-to-bumper traffic for hours while people drive and strain out their car window for a better look. Just wait until the first image comes back of some dopey driver driving with eclipse glasses on. Oh, boy.
This is going to be bad north of Bend.
Roads and support are not built for the load they are going to see.
I live in the path of totality. I’ll be watching it from my deck.
Last night built a pin-hole solar observatory, which I'll finish and test today. Making a project out of it... Nice wood box (48x12x12), with mount for adjustable lens at one end, internally will have stand for iPhone to record, and two viewing ports. Doing a lot more for this so we can look at corona, sunspots, and other upcoming solar events (Mercury transit). Going to mount this on my motorized telescope mount (have a 10" telescope).
But the crowds, out in the middle of nowhere? Hopefully not. I did read last night that Wieser, Idaho, is anticipating 70,000 people presumably from Treasure Valley area. That's like a third of the population.
Hopefully someone is watching out for thieves just drooling over everyone leaving town for a few hours.
We are going to get over run in E TN, dreading the ER load from a bunch of flatlanders coming to the twisty mtn roads. Leaving for work 3 hrs early, in case I need to get out and walk the bottleneck.. or slap someone.
They also showed a store where people were lined up waiting for a shipment of eclipse glasses, like it was the latest IPhone or something.
Here in northern Colorado, it will be about 93%, that's fine with me, I'm not driving up to Casper on a highway full of idiots.
Why travel when all you need is your thumb to block the Sun.... : )
A sister of mine lives in Eastern Oregon, in Baker City, which is located less than one degree north of the center of the eclipse path.
Baker City is a small town but with few larger towns very close by, so, for months now people have been reserving hotel/motel rooms like crazy - some have been entire large groups of foreigners, as well as RV and camping spaces, home rentals and anything else they can get a hold of.
The number of visitors is likely to be at least five times the population of the town.
It’s nice to see people taking some time off from attacking White Nationalists, tearing down Monuments and attacking President Trump for telling the truth.
Friends are driving up to somewhere to see it.
I’ll be at home not caring a fig about it.
https://www.tripcheck.com/Pages/RCMap.asp?curRegion=14&mainNav=RoadConditions#
Nephew works at a gas station in Sandy and they have been pumping like crazy. Have run out of regular a few times already. For those outside of the PNW, this is our driest time of year. May have a marine layer on the Coast Monday, but rest of State looks to be clear. Possible problem in Central Oregon are fires in the Cascades and points east. May be up to 1/4M show up east of the mountains. Nephew ran into six from Australia already. Number from East Coast showing up, guess some want to be the first to see the eclipse. Believe some from Europe and Asia have arrived. Appears hundreds of thousands will be pouring into the Willamette Valley to watch. Bottom line: this is going to be nutz!
We’re in the “totally” path here in TN. Yesterday one of the town’s employees said that someone had called from out of state and wanted to rent/reserve a picnic table. He said he and his wife could sleep on top and the kids underneath on the ground.
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