Texas, indeed all the states along the path of totality, is in full blown eclipse-mania!
Here is the path, for those of you in the line, please comment after it happens and let us know your experience. It should be fun. We've had a few partial eclipses and while neither Houston nor the farm, will be in the path of totality, the farm will be at 95.7%.
Here is what it would look like at the exact location of the farm and below are our particulars:
In Houston, both of us will be at work when it happens, it will be at 94.06% of totality. So, not much difference between here and 45 miles closer to the path.
CLICK HERE to put in your zip code and find out what you'll get to see (or not see, ha).
We were driving last week and saw these freeway signs. Normally they tell about accidents or drive times but they changed them for today:
SOLAR ECLIPSE MONDAY DELAYS POSSIBLE
Yep, I think that's a given.
NO STOPPING ON HIGHWAY TO VIEW ECLIPSE
Seems kind of obvious but you know there will be cars lined up along the shoulder anyway.
But we have our glasses ready, I'll try from work, 2nd Man will try from the apartment. 2nd Family is going to try to get some outdoor pics when it happens, would be cool to see how dark it gets out there at the farm, though the weather may not cooperate for those of us around the area.
And remember,
DON'T LOOK DIRECTLY AT THE SUN!
Right now in my area it is really cloudy out and looks like it could rain. (9:05 AM)
ReplyDelete🥱 ... I have seen so many in my 80 years!
ReplyDeleteThe ole greed machine has kicked in to grift as much loot off the gullible public as "they" can get! I just don't buy into the hoopla ... It's all going to be televised anyway!
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It was cloudy about an hour before totality, but I got a few glimpses when the clouds periodically cleared a bit. Then about 30 minutes before totality, the clouds cleared and I was able to see the eclipse. Yay! Fantastic!
ReplyDeleteI had 94.8% totality, being an hour SW of Houston.
DeleteEastern Iowa - it got a bit darker, like a cloud passed in front of the sun, yet not like that. Hard to explain. Maybe more like wearing polarized but lighter tint sunglasses on a very sunny day? I was inside doing a bit of sewing and computer work, and looked up and it got darker inside like a very stormy cloudy day. I got to show DH the crescent shadows on the driveway from a tree. He'd never seen or heard of that before.
ReplyDeleteCool post didn't even know there was a total eclipse living in my cave down under
ReplyDeleteIt is over. We were going to have 88%, but clouds came over before that happened. If a person can walk and is not bound by a job or something, I cannot imagine anyone not stepping outdoors. I only spent $2 on a pair of glasses, so nothing much.
ReplyDeleteMy attempts at photos go up on the blog tomorrow morning. Both daughters in different locations got to experience it in totality but we had about 93% and light cloud cover too.
ReplyDeleteWe live in the St Louis area, but it didn't have totality so we drove to south-central Illinois. It was SPECTACULAR! There was no cloud cover, just wispy white fluff here and there. The totality lasted for 4 minutes. We saw the one in 2017, too, where we were in totality. I don't understand people who feel this is nothing to get excited about, and I'm not a kid. I'm 79 and still excited now that we're back home. If you get a chance to see a total eclipse some day, don't pass it up.
ReplyDeleteOver here in Central NH, we had 97.5% totality. Very cool, and as others mentioned, it was like a very dark cloud had just passed over for about three minutes. 75 miles north of us, they had totality and an influx of about 30,000 crazed drivers from away, trying to cram their way into our wee northern towns. No thanks. I'll bet they're all still in traffic jams on the roads leading south and back home.
ReplyDeleteNW PA we had 97% totality and I wasn't all that excited about it. BUT it was a once in a lifetime experience.
ReplyDeleteOnce it 1st started to get dark and temperature got cooler, the clouds cleared. Once it was all over; back to work I went potting and dividing up plants to repot.
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