I'm just happen (by sheer luck) to be camping next to the maker of this map here in Casper. Really nice guy.

Drove up yesterday morning with zero traffic issues. Monday might be a different story. Getting around Casper was also surprisingly easy.

A group of 5 FTers are here in Nashville having beers at Jackalope Brewpub.

How bad is the traffic in Nashville? I'm flying in tomorrow morning and hope to make it to the waterfront.

There is no traffic in Salem, OR this evening. Also no traffic all day on I5 both from Portland and Eugene.

Very few people camping at the fairgrounds, maybe 100 currently. Almost nobody camping in city parks.

Overall extremely anticlimactic. We'll see if tomorrow gets crazy, but I think the whole thing has been significantly overblown.

Yeah, weird how everything was sold out so far in advance. We'll see how tomorrow is but yeah.

Rather than go into Madras, we're thinking we may try to get into Smith Rock State Park instead. The gate opens at 5:45, but I imagine we'll leave Redmond by 3am.

Redmond is still very quiet and I agree - it's strange. I thought everything would be much busier than it is.

Even with everything sold out, there is a lot of space and roads for people to diffuse through. It's quite different than a few hundred thousand people all trying to get to one venue or stadium.

I swear it's even quieter than normal though. Maybe all the locals are hunkering down at home.

Yesterday looked normal to me.

it looks pretty traffic-y headed out of Portland on I-5 this morning soutbound toward SLE at least according to Google Maps traffic. not sure if that is normal for the area or not but my guess is "no"

Very little traffic from St.Louis to Farmington, MO: five minutes' delayed per Goggle. Twin Oaks Winery is a home run: a lake, $10 barbeque, full bar, plentiful parking and an excellent vibe.

JAC has a viewing party on the tarmac for those whose flights depart before 1pm

There are reports of Omaha businesses closing for the day. A winery between Omaha and Lincoln sold out on an eclipse party including wine, lunch, eclipse viewing glasses, and a wine glass all for $20. [I suspect they could have sold out at five times the price given what was included. This place was not quite in the totality region, but very close.]

Am watching it on CNN. They started w/ Oregon & right now it's happening in Casper, Wyoming. Going to keep it on as long as they're covering it. It's pretty cool.

Cheers.

ABC and CBS both have two hours of eclipse special coverage, but there's apparently nothing on NBC.

NBC does as well. Here's what the networks, etc, are doing throughout the day:

http://deadline.com/2017/08/news-out...st-1202152389/

Cheers.

BTW - one CNN correspondent was in St. Louis MO where it was raining. She was drenched. Some people left, but just before the full eclipse it stopped raining & the clouds parted & those who stayed got to see it. She was so excited, as much as those who stayed. She was like a kid in a candy shop. It just brought a big smile to my face to see her & the others cheering, clapping, being so excited.

May have to consider going to the one in 2024!

Cheers.

Amazing, very cool.

The band's first song after totality of course was Here Comes the Sun.

There are some big traffic jams in Oregon, along I-5 north and south of Salem.

Also in Nebraska, on the secondary road between Lincoln and Beatrice. This was predicted, but the problems predicted for I-80 seem not to have occurred.

Same here, rooftop party at Westin Nashville downtown.

If you go to Facebook and search my username bookswin you can see a picture 10 minutes before totality and then during.

Very neat experience.

Idaho Falls, KCMO, east central Wyoming, and much of Oregon (especially I-5 out of SLE, and Madras) look pretty special right now from a traffic perspective. I expect the worst is yet to come for the east coast viewing areas where totality recently ended.

Yeah, you can see the eclipse hot spots by looking at traffic maps. KC and up to St Joseph looks especially bad.

I would not want to be driving back to some of those airports to return a rental car and fly out today.

Still, TV coverage didn't show the mob scenes that I would have expected. Even carhenge wasn't close to standing room only. Maybe the worst would have been to pay $200 for a hot and humid seat on a rooftop bar in Nashville or someplace similar.

From what toomanybooks said, he & others had a great time on the rooftop of the Westin Nashville downtown ;) :p :D

The coverage I watched there were a lot of people watching in all area/cities. Were you expecting 100,000 at each location? It's not like a stadium.

Like St. Louis, in South Carolina at the beach the clouds were out & just before the eclipse, the clouds parted, the sun came out & they got to see the full eclipse. They were all quite excited.

On the Royal Caribbean cruise they had Bonnie Taylor singing her song, "Total Eclipse of the Heart". The song is #1 on itunes at the moment. “Guests on Oasis of the Seas will be treated to a full slate of eclipse-themed activities, including dance parties, trivia, enrichment lectures, interactive science fun for kids, and tasty cocktails and dishes with names like the Cosmic Cosmo, Planetary Punch and Moon Pie,” the cruise line said.

Cheers.

Traffic leaving Hopkinsville is inSANE going northbound. Fortunately I am in a bus headed southbound :)

Read an article that estimated: "between 1.85 and 7.4 million people will visit the path of totality on eclipse day".

Cheers.

Traffic getting to Carhenge was no issue. But heading out is a mess. I am glad I decided to stay tonight (and am driving to South Dakota tomorrow.)

Especially with the weekend, people would have arrived at staggered times, with many arriving early to avoid problems. At the end, many had obligations for the next day so that there would have been a rush to get to the airport or home.

I was in downtown Nashville today. I was ambitious and wanted to get a shot of downtown Nashville and its skyscrapers during totality. Right at totality, a large dark cloud obscured the sun, so no one in downtown Nashville saw it!

I should have headed east to Lebanon, TN instead!

Ouch!

After driving for 1.5 hours in the fog from Sidney to Scottsbluff at 5:30 am, the skies cleared at 8:30 am and not a single white puff for 5 hours. But, I did give up a minute of totality, only 1:35 of totality. No 360 degree sunset and the street light came on, but stress free. A sure thing was worth it along with the crowd of 8 people in the park and a dozen or so on the rooftops of downtown Scottsbluff. And I got a couple of really cool tee shirts.

No traffic or fuel problems. Another media frenzy.

I was at work just east of Nashville and it was amazing. The clouds might have gotten in the way a little downtown, but east of town, there was not a cloud in sight. My friends in the southern edge of the city had a great view as well. It was truly a spectacle that I will never forget. 360 degree sunset, dark at 1:30, etc. I was with my students at a high school and the sound of hundreds of normally jaded teenagers being simultaneously awestruck was very memorable.

That being said, it took me an hour to get home from work as the freeways heading north and south from downtown Nashville were jammed. Surface streets that are usually packed were pretty wide open though, so it wasn't as bad as it could have been.

the ~60-mi drive from BOI to Smiths Ferry ID took about an hour and a half ... it took about the same amount of time to get out of the parking area afterwards, and then close to four hours to get back to the hotel

but the event was outstandingly spectacular

Huh?

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/28717757-post299.html

Cheers.

where i was in northern virginia, i think right before we would have seen it, a cloud covered sun, then dark cloud, then poured rain briefly. fun times. made me realize if one is traveling, booking hotel, etc one needs to have a car to drive to actually good spot if necessary, good as in zero clouds anywhere etc.

Completely clear skies at Jackson Hole. The airport had perfect views of the eclipse, plus the mountains in the backgrounds. Flight activity was suspended for ~30 minutes during totality. Pictures

How do pilots fly during a solar eclipse? Instruments only?

How about car drivers? I assume the special eclipse glasses are too dark to permit safe driving, yet they wouldn't want to go around a turn in the road and suddenly be looking into the sun

Salem was perfect today. Skies were blue as could be. I was in a location with no obstructions and no large crowds. Surreal, and it wasn't even 12 hours ago.

There was a dark cloud from where we were standing, but it passed and cleared before totality. Might have been a thin haze. HPN-HRL had eclipse binoculars and could tell you better than I.

Took us over 7 hours to drive north afterward from Nashville to LEX, a little over 200 miles. I-65 was jammed north of Hopkinsville, which had near the max totality. At one point we got no more than 2 miles in an hour.

Must have been the worst traffic that stretch of road has ever experienced. The road construction barrels and barriers when no work was going on did not help.

Sorry to hear that. I saw on Google Maps the traffic backed up around Etown after 10 last night.

The traffic headed south of Nashville on 65 was bad all afternoon and early evening, but wasn't as bad. My 55 minute commute home makes me feel lucky.

Then you missed out. We experienced it East of Salem with about 300-400 people and it was an incredible experience. To hear the excitement and cheers made it even more amazing.

They are begging for volunteers for our 6:45 am Burbank flight. We can't do it because they can't even guarantee we'll get in tomorrow night! No other airlines or even alternate cities available. It's nuts here.