Will you get to see the the Total Eclipse on April 8?

I'm not surprised so many adults, especially urban people that rarely venture beyond that people world, not only on this board but generally elsewhere, sadly, hardly understand why so many others are so interested in this exceptional rare event in anyone's lifetime. That shows in how in personal confusion, they seem to be able to only make jokes about it just like before the 2017 event. Many have no doubt witnessed partial solar eclipse and indeed such are a yawn. So probably ignorantly obviously expect a total eclipse is similar or like a dark cloud passing in front of the sun overhead.
 
I have seen so many, it's just a 15 minute distraction, it gets cold, dew develops and evaporates in 15 minutes. It's no big deal.
Physicist and their Bull Shit can Climb and inflate. But it's just bullshit. The Moon is there. It's also in a way causing Tides that are
a real PITA in the north of the World. My thought is developer its place, cause it's a detour for Comets and Asteroids.

I think the important thing is to experience how quickly the earth (the exact area you are standing in gets cold and how fast it happens}
The rest is just Orbits and their gravity hole speeds that they have to follow. It may be 85 F. and 4 minutes later dew is forming on your
lawn, a drop of 15 plus degrees like in less than you decide to light a Cig in. If you are in totality, check before to see what the dew point is
tomorrow and enjoy knowing you are not a dumb sob.
 
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Tomorrows a Total Eclipse across the heartland of the USA. It will rapidly chill and possibly Dew will develop. Thas all folks.
If you are driving turn on your head lights so people can see your Dumb ass. U are not important. It's a 15-minute blink.
 
What to Look for During a Total Solar Eclipse: Mabel Loomis Todd’s Poetic 19th-Century Guide to Totality, with Help from Emily Dickinson

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Total eclipse of 1878, one of Étienne Léopold Trouvelot’s groundbreaking astronomical drawings
 
Total eclipse path crosses from Mexico into Texas about 10am CDT or noon PDT or 9am EDT. Will take about 3 hours to transit into Canada. All the major networks start special programs an hour before. I an OTA person, don't have cable TV, but it does show the Fox Weather channel on top of it all day.

Will be interested in watching how these TV networks present it because unless one is live within an area of totality, I have some doubts whether even broadcasting quality cameras on the totality can bring into homes anything close to the actual live experience. Expect some will have special camera setups zoomed into the sun's corona. There are already plenty of such Youtube videos from past eclipses so other than the novelty of it being live, is not something people would actually spend more than a few minutes looking at on the tube. Far more interesting to this person would be cameras and audio on people's teary faces and actions in large event crowds plus images from high hilly points showing darkening landscapes approaching in the distance.

From the early morning look at cloud weather, it appears many people along the path may have occluded or marginal views:

https://www.windy.com/-Clouds-clouds?clouds,36.271,-91.569,6

This image shows cloud cover forecast at the above at 10am CDT:

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David777 said:
I'm not surprised so many adults, especially urban people that rarely venture beyond that people world, not only on this board but generally elsewhere, sadly, hardly understand why so many others are so interested in this exceptional rare event in anyone's lifetime. That shows in how in personal confusion, they seem to be able to only make jokes about it just like before the 2017 event. Many have no doubt witnessed partial solar eclipse and indeed such are a yawn. So probably ignorantly obviously expect a total eclipse is similar or like a dark cloud passing in front of the sun overhead.
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Wow. Just wow. This post is very insulting - and quite surprising that it came from you.

What makes you think urban/suburban people don't venture beyond a "people world"? I regularly venture beyond the people world - What speaks to one person on an emotional level doesn't necessarily speak to others. Doesn't make any of us right or wrong, no more than does preferring chocolate to vanilla.

In any event, this will be a partial eclipse in my corner of the world as in yours, which you agreed is indeed a yawn. Will I go outside to check it out? Sure.

Will I travel hundreds of miles and pay hundreds to thousands of dollars in massively raised lodging fees to view this very short event in person? No.
 
I live between Dayton and Columbus, Ohio. The eclipse should start in Dayton right now (1:55) and be in Columbus a little later. I think 3:15 should be the total eclipse here. wish I had the special glasses, but I don't, so I'm sitting in the house watching the ground outside the window, hoping to see it get dark and feel the temperature drop per @papa tiger.
 
NewlySenior said:
We'll get around 99.5% totality here. Is anyone else finding the hysterical media coverage a little over the top? They've been predicting everything from power outages to car crashes to pets going insane. Did we slide 400 years into the superstitious past without me noticing?
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I haven't heard anyone mentioning power outages :rolleyes: but I guess there will be car accidents if drivers are either (1) wearing those eclipse glasses or (2) looking up instead of at the road. Gosh. I'll admit I did wonder how animals will act... but those like farm animals that do certain things at certain times of day. It would most likely confuse them, I'd think. Not sure about pets... but I'm thinking they'll adjust just fine. :giggle:
 

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