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June 21, 2017, 02:20 PM
jhe888
I have never seen a total eclipse and this one will be too far to drive to see. There is another in five or six years that will pass just north of me, and I plan to see it.
The fish is mute, expressionless. The fish doesn't think because the fish knows everything.
June 21, 2017, 02:28 PM
Skins2881
Planning vacation around it. Will be staying in Isle of Palms SC, directly in path of it. Condo is 5 minutes from location with longest total eclipse. If I get my shit together in time and get a ring by then will be asking GF to marry me during or right after eclipse.
Yep I'm a space nerd.
Jesse
Sic Semper Tyrannis
June 21, 2017, 02:35 PM
Jimbo54
I'll be able to drive down to see it and drive back in the same day. It sounds like all motels and hotels in the path are pretty close to being booked so I'm glad I don't have to rely on that.
Jim
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June 21, 2017, 03:44 PM
Todd Huffman
I took off work and will be going to the Smokey Mountains to see it. Hopefully Clingman's Dome or Fontana Dam. But it depends on several things. Shoot, I may take the boat to Fontana and just watch it from out on the water.
Here's to the sunny slopes of long ago.
June 21, 2017, 03:53 PM
bobtheelf
Nashville is right in the path. I'm looking forward to it!
June 21, 2017, 05:51 PM
pbramlett
I'm gonna fly to the upper Cumberland regional airport to watch it. Gonna take mom and dad to see it I think.
Regards,
P.
June 21, 2017, 06:36 PM
PCWyoming
It will pass through the (almost) center of Wyoming. Expecting LOTS of people for the 2 minute 30 second viewing.
PC
June 21, 2017, 06:39 PM
CaptainMike
I'm going to stay with friends on Lake Lanier in N GA that weekend, then plan to drive to wherever it looks like the weather will cooperate the best, Summer in the SE usually has a fair number of clouds built up by early afternoon.
MOO means NO! Be the comet!
June 21, 2017, 06:41 PM
rduckwor
Maybe it will quit raining here by then.
RMD
TL Davis: “The Second Amendment is special, not because it protects guns, but because its violation signals a government with the intention to oppress its people…” Remember: After the first one, the rest are free.
June 21, 2017, 10:08 PM
FN in MT
I look to be at about .9 magnitude or a bit better. Good enough! Looking forward to it.
June 21, 2017, 10:32 PM
2012BOSS302
Supposedly thousand of people are coming to Idaho for it, hotel rooms in the path skyrocketing.
Donald Trump is not a politician, he is a leader, politicians are a dime a dozen, leaders are priceless.
June 22, 2017, 05:36 AM
rduckwor
"You flew your Lear Jet up to Nova Scotia to see the total eclipse of the sun."
RMD
TL Davis: “The Second Amendment is special, not because it protects guns, but because its violation signals a government with the intention to oppress its people…” Remember: After the first one, the rest are free.
June 22, 2017, 08:31 AM
Jim Shugart
If you plan to look at a solar eclipse, make sure you have appropriate eye protection unless you want an image of it permanently burned onto your retinas. Plain sunglasses are not adequate.
I sent these to my family in middle TN and ordered some for us.
There's probably gonna be an upturn in eye doc's business starting on 22 August!
When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth. - George Bernard Shaw
June 22, 2017, 08:35 AM
RHINOWSO
Not too far away, we are planning to attempt to see it from the Nashville area.
June 22, 2017, 09:28 AM
houndawg
I live in the national hot spot for tbe eclipse. I'll be watching from my front yard.
June 22, 2017, 11:19 AM
Joe123
quote:
Originally posted by Jimbo54: I'll be able to drive down to see it and drive back in the same day. It sounds like all motels and hotels in the path are pretty close to being booked so I'm glad I don't have to rely on that.
Jim
What is usually a 40 minute drive is supposed to take 8 hours in Central Oregon and the highways will be closed the day of.
