Are welding glasses up to the challenge? Those I've got, as well as a full shield.

Flying to Wichita, Ks on Aug 19th meet up with a pilot then driving or flying up to Grand Isle, Ne for the show

Then back

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Are welding glasses up to the challenge? Those I've got, as well as a full shield.

Welding glasses are fine.

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DO !
Use specially made eclipse viewing glasses.
Observe the eclipse with a pinhole viewing box (download instructions now!)
Use number 14 welder's glass.
Use ONLY solar filters SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED for viewing the Sun!
Let your children see this spectacular event!

Link

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Welding glass is used to protect welders from eye damage. The potential damage does not come from hot sparks hitting the eye (although that is a possibility). Rather, the glass prevents the light from the very hot arc from burning an image of itself permanently onto the back of the eye.

Be careful that you use the right kind of glass! Welder's glass is numbered from 1 to 14 with 14 being the darkest. It is only number 14 glass that is dark enough for solar viewing! And NO STACKING! A pair of number 7's or a 10 and a 4 together DO NOT have the same protection as a single piece of number 14 (see unsafe methods for more details).

Check with the libraries in your area.

2 Million Free Eclipse Glasses Coming to US Libraries

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Public libraries across the United States will distribute more than 2 million pairs of free eclipse glasses to skywatchers for the total solar eclipse that will sweep over the country on Aug. 21, 2017. The glasses will be provided by a major outreach program initiated by the Space Science Institute (SSI).

Free guide on viewing the eclipse safely - including pinhole projector.
Free 2017 Solar Eclipse Guide

I predict Nashville will have to make it an unofficial holiday. Traffic will be deadlocked.

Here in Michigan it will only be 80%. I'll probably take a short break and watch it through some welding glass then back to work.

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Originally posted by Skull Leader:
@archerman

I have two extra pair from my order. They are yours if you want them. Looks like they are made by Celestron. Email me your address and I'll get them in the mail tomorrow.

Another reason this forum is great, I now have 2 pair of Solar Eclipse glasses.

Thanks again,

Skull Leader

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Originally posted by Oz_Shadow:
I predict Nashville will have to make it an unofficial holiday. Traffic will be deadlocked.

Here in Michigan it will only be 80%. I'll probably take a short break and watch it through some welding glass then back to work.

Not Nashville but here in Central KY they have cancelled school for that day.

1 minute 59 seconds of total eclipse here. Local EMS has been preparing for the invasion of people. Anyone wishing to view it from our place is welcome to come on up. Hopefully the weather will cooperate.

Jackson Hole is anticipating an eight hour traffic jam from that area into the parks. A lot of people just aren't going to be prepared for that. Hope they're gassed up and have plenty of water...

The most recent local official estimates for Orygun are "up to 1 MILLION" viewers on the road for this event.

Given state population is around 4 million, that's a sizable number trying to find a place to park in a totality path 70 miles wide across a largely sparsely inhabited region.

Gov.fed/state institutions all have stepped up emergency plans, and the governor's office has announced this is the largest potentially crisis event in State History.

Even before the central Oregon wildfires now blossoming daily, the National Guard was scheduled for deployment; all emergency services are upgrading their plans, and even the parks in Salem have been opened for 'free camping' to ease the burden elsewhere.

Example: tiny Madras, Oregon, population around 7000, smack near maximum totality path, is seriously expecting greater than 150,000 transients.

Has all the potential for Mad Max meets Steven King in Thunderdome.

Friends who were considering travel from PDX to our little bit of totality bliss, have reassessed their journey even the day prior, and decided to tough it out in the 98% zone.

Good site for data: https://www.greatamericaneclipse.com/oregon/

OK I just laughed my ass off at that.

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:
Jackson Hole is anticipating an eight hour traffic jam from that area into the parks. A lot of people just aren't going to be prepared for that. Hope they're gassed up and have plenty of water...

My brother lives in Denver and I was thinking about making the drive to his place followed by a Sunday drive up north to see totality.

He laughed and thinks it'll be a 2-3 day trip north from his place followed by 2-3 days back due to all the traffic.

I got a tent and sleeping bag.

We are right in the middle of the path.

All this hubub about the eclipse made me get the telescope out. Had a nice look at Saturn and Jupiter tonight on a very clear sky (not easy in Ohio).

I'm scheduled to try a jury trial that day. I joked with the prosecutor if I could get a mistrial out of it if the stenographer machine stopped working or the jury vanished or something. If it gets continued I'm thinking about returning to the motherland to see what riots St. Louis can stir up out of this.

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Originally posted by Floyd D. Barber:

Actually, she asked to reschedule the moon...

I'm gonna watch it at night so my eyes ain't ruint.

My plan is to leave AZ in my truck and head to where there isn't (supposed to be) cloud cover and/or a storm predicted.
I can sleep in the camper shell and will have plenty of goodies, (gas. food, water, portable toilet, etc.) to be able to just stop somewhere and get my eclipse fix.

The highway and street closures others have stated make me worried though.

WTF??!! It's a damn solar eclipse.

Are people really this bored/fragile.

Next thing I know people will be hoarding bread and milk!

RMD