Total Eclipse of the Sun will jam CG's!

We'll be finishing up a 5,000 mile, 3 week trip on the 19th or 20th so no way we're going to drive the 5-600 miles we'd need to go to see totality. Luckily 2024 will pass through the Western suburbs of Cleveland so I'll just take off early from work assuming it's a clear day (about 40% chance in April).

I'll have to find a shoe box and do the pin hole thing.

If you want to safely see the real actual eclipse size before the live event, take a look at the moon at nighttime anytime within the next few days.

Or spend $1 for a pair of solar glasses and look at the sun.

TNGW1500SE wrote:

fj12ryder wrote:

Sprink-Fitter wrote:
I guess I would've never guessed people actually travel to go see an eclipse.

Actually it's no wonder at all. If you consider what is really happening, it's well worth seeing. A full eclipse is not seen that often without doing some serious traveling.

I've always wondered at people who will travel to see some kind of sporting event. And pay big bucks for the privilege, i.e. Superbowl, Olympics, etc.

And they cheer for "their" players who are not even from the town they represent. Then they sit in the rain when they could stay home and watch it on TV. I enjoyed it when my son played high school football. The kids were all from our area and you knew them all. Once you get to the college or NFL level, the players are all bought and paid for and a bunch of them shouldn't be in college anyway. Society puts to much emphasis on how well someone can handle a ball.

.......or to (too) much emphasis on camping spot availability for a solar eclipse..:S

Just slip in to the campground during the eclipse - nobody will see you......dark or almost dark and/but they're all looking UP..:W

:C

I just locked in a dry camping spot for $35/night in Wyoming. If I actually manage to buy a motor home before the eclipse (like I am trying to), the price will go up to a whopping $65 for the one night before. I can live with that.

Expected visitors are going to overwhelm the little Wyoming towns. Glendo, right on the centerline of the path of totality, has a whopping 204 residents, and no grocery store or restaurant that I saw when we visited a couple of weeks ago. We live about 2-1/2 hours away but we are going up the night before even if we have to sleep in the car and pack food and drinks in our cooler. There is just too big a risk that traffic will be at a standstill. I-25 is only 2 lanes each way through all of Wyoming. Half a million visitors will bring it to a miserable crawl. I will also be bringing anti-mosquito bracelets!

Just one acronym: Y2K.