Start looking for a boondocking site: eclipse (Aug 21 2017)

Y2K, the people in the know were all saying there wasn't going to be a big crash. It was the particularly ignorant members of the public that screamed the sky was falling. (DH is a programmer and explained how the computers had been dealing with third-millenium dates for literally decades, the example he gave was 30-year mortgages.) For the eclipse, the emergency-preparedness people and law enforcement are worried. We are only going a couple of hundred miles, in a motor home, and in separate vehicles so if the traffic is as bad as expected, DH can head home afterwards in the car and leave me to bring the MH home at my leisure. (He has to be at work Tuesday morning.) I also plan to bring along my ham radio equipment for emergency communication if needed.