Advice for Upcoming Flight for Eclipse
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Well, how was it for everyone who traveled far and wide?
We stayed home in Eugene and I guess I underestimated the difference between 98 and 100% - it never got DARK here, just twilight dark, but we were able to watch the entire process of the passage and moving crescents from the comfort of our front yard.
We stayed home in Eugene and I guess I underestimated the difference between 98 and 100% - it never got DARK here, just twilight dark, but we were able to watch the entire process of the passage and moving crescents from the comfort of our front yard.
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Well, how was it for everyone who traveled far and wide?
We stayed home in Eugene and I guess I underestimated the difference between 98 and 100% - it never got DARK here, just twilight dark, but we were able to watch the entire process of the passage and moving crescents from the comfort of our front yard.
We stayed home in Eugene and I guess I underestimated the difference between 98 and 100% - it never got DARK here, just twilight dark, but we were able to watch the entire process of the passage and moving crescents from the comfort of our front yard.
Definitely worth seeking out the last few percentage points to experience totality.
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Definitely worth the drive for us to get from 98% to 100%. There was no more traffic than usual, although everyone was out of their house/car/job/school lined up to watch. The weather near Columbia SC was perfect for it, I hear the coast was cloudy.
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To those of you in the 100% area - did it get dark, I mean really dark, nighttime dark where the crickets started chirping and the birds went to sleep and the temperatures dropped?
Maybe I was expecting too much, and I DID experience a total eclipse back on the east coast in the early 70's, back when there was no internet and no hype and we looked at it through a box with a hole in it...seriously..no dark glasses (although I did really love being able to look up at it today and see the crescents so clearly). But I really thought it would get darker.
Maybe I was expecting too much, and I DID experience a total eclipse back on the east coast in the early 70's, back when there was no internet and no hype and we looked at it through a box with a hole in it...seriously..no dark glasses (although I did really love being able to look up at it today and see the crescents so clearly). But I really thought it would get darker.
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To those of you in the 100% area - did it get dark, I mean really dark, nighttime dark where the crickets started chirping and the birds went to sleep and the temperatures dropped?
Maybe I was expecting too much, and I DID experience a total eclipse back on the east coast in the early 70's, back when there was no internet and no hype and we looked at it through a box with a hole in it...seriously..no dark glasses (although I did really love being able to look up at it today and see the crescents so clearly). But I really thought it would get darker.
Maybe I was expecting too much, and I DID experience a total eclipse back on the east coast in the early 70's, back when there was no internet and no hype and we looked at it through a box with a hole in it...seriously..no dark glasses (although I did really love being able to look up at it today and see the crescents so clearly). But I really thought it would get darker.
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We drove down from Portland to Woodburn, and I'm really glad we did. From what I saw of pictures in Portland, there was a marked difference (and there was a difference between what seemed to be 99% and the full totality). It was very cool, and a great atmosphere (even in the Woodburn park and ride where we were) with people cheering when it happened.
Traffic was not bad at all getting down to Woodburn from Portland, just slightly slower than normal. Getting back was slow until Wilsonville, but it still wasn't bad at all (and certainly not as predicted). The traffic map at and around Salem, however, looked pretty bad, so I'm glad we didn't venture down there.
Traffic was not bad at all getting down to Woodburn from Portland, just slightly slower than normal. Getting back was slow until Wilsonville, but it still wasn't bad at all (and certainly not as predicted). The traffic map at and around Salem, however, looked pretty bad, so I'm glad we didn't venture down there.
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To those of you in the 100% area - did it get dark, I mean really dark, nighttime dark where the crickets started chirping and the birds went to sleep and the temperatures dropped?
Maybe I was expecting too much, and I DID experience a total eclipse back on the east coast in the early 70's, back when there was no internet and no hype and we looked at it through a box with a hole in it...seriously..no dark glasses (although I did really love being able to look up at it today and see the crescents so clearly). But I really thought it would get darker.
Maybe I was expecting too much, and I DID experience a total eclipse back on the east coast in the early 70's, back when there was no internet and no hype and we looked at it through a box with a hole in it...seriously..no dark glasses (although I did really love being able to look up at it today and see the crescents so clearly). But I really thought it would get darker.
An awesome 1 1/2 minutes for me. Was definitely worth making the effort to drive 30 mikes or so. We camped with friends in a remote part of a national forest and didn't have any crowds around.
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in the coverage on the NASA website from Nebraska, you could hear the crickets start chirping though and the announcer "claimed" that if a rooster was present, he would have crowed when the sun re-emerged.
in reality this totality was quite short. the 2024 eclipse will peak at nearly 5 minutes of totality in contrast to today's max of 2m30sec -ish. a longer totality will have more of an influence on animal behavior. i am hoping to fly fish on the white river in AR during the totality of 2024 and see if it results in an insect hatch which will send the trout into a feeding frenzy.