Eclipse Hype ? WTF

[jetboatperformance]

I'm watching "Eclipse madness" people are driving, flying , renting lodging etc for this I just dont get it ? They are estimating 1.5 Billion generated from this event

 

[fat rat]

Build or fabricate it and they’ll come!!!

https://weather.com/atmosphere/reviews/news/2024-04-05-solar-eclipse-trips

 

[bilz]

Soon O'biden will have a mandatory vax for this. Be patient

 

[Maw]

Build or fabricate it and they’ll come!!!

https://weather.com/atmosphere/reviews/news/2024-04-05-solar-eclipse-trips

We sold out at the resort a year ago, 4 day minimum stay, non-refundable full payment at reservation time, "special" prices at the restaurant and store, . . .

 

[n2otoofast4u]

When this happened 4-5 years ago and we were in the totality direct path its was UNBELIEVABLE how many people flocked to this place. 100s of THOUSANDS of people were here! It was a fkn madhouse around here for almost 2 weeks.

 

[baja-chris]

Outside the roughly 125 mile wide path of totality its really nothing. But in the center of totality you can look directly at the sun through binoculars and telephoto lens without any protection and see the corona shooting out from behind the moon and it is spectacular, unlike anything you will ever see. That's why people go.
I went to Todos Santos Baja to see one in 1991, Curacao in 1998, Idaho in 2017. But I just cancelled my refundable travel plans for both Texas and Buffalo NY due to high probability of cloud cover which would ruin the experience. I booked two locations thinking one would be cloud free.

 

[RichL]

Were in the path. Wife and I each bought a $2 pair of glasses. We're ready.

 

[Cooter01]

My boss and manager took off two weeks for this event, I do not get the hype.

 

[Xtrmwakeboarder]

We are in the path of totality, but I don’t get the hype. My auditors at Deloitte flew out to their training center in Westlake for the week just to see it….

 

[rivermobster]

I've never been in a total. But...

I have a good friend that him and his dad go every time. He's sent me pic of it turning pitch black in the middle of it all.

The temp drops DRAMATICALLY. It gets Cold almost instantly!!!

Such a trip.

Makes you really think how dependent we are on the sunshine, for just about Everything we have.

Definitely an awesome experience to be in a total.

 

[Bobby V]

 

[n2otoofast4u]

Totality is wild! When it happened here everything went silent, no birds chirping, etc.

I believe for us it was late morning, this was taken from my cell phone.

 

[FlyByWire]

Is this where I have to eat special applesauce and then go to sleep with a purple triangle blanket over my face and torso..?

 

[Xtrmwakeboarder]

Is this where I have to eat special applesauce and then go to sleep with a purple triangle blanket over my face and torso..?

You’ll also be wearing Nikes

 

[PDQH2O]

I'm watching "Eclipse madness" people are driving, flying , renting lodging etc for this I just dont get it ? They are estimating 1.5 Billion generated from this event

You’ve hit the reason that there is so much hype around the eclipse: $$$. Kind of like the Olympics. Airfare, hotel, food and rental cars. The hysteria also spurs local sales. Everything is taxed, fee’d or otherwise marked up. If the eclipse were visible to everyone, there would be no fuss. Might not even get reported in the news. Insanity.

 

[jetboatperformance]

"And you flew your Lear Jet to Nova Scotia to see a total eclipse of the sun"

Carly Simon - You're So Vain - YouTube​

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Lyrics

… Well I hear you went up to Saratoga
And your horse naturally won
Then you flew your lear jet up to Nova Scotia
To see the total eclipse of the sun

 

[regor]

 

[Sandlord]

I was in Seattle for work and didn’t see the sun for 10 months.
I don’t see what the big deal is?

 

[OLDRAAT]

Predicting 95% coverage here in the Midsouth. Got several oldskool welding helmets to choose from.

 

[bowtiejunkie]

In the path here. News has been hyping it for awhile. Especially the traffic impact after the eclipse. My dad and step-mom are on a 30 trailer trailer road trip from California with two other couples. They booked their RV park res East of Dallas 1.5 years ago. Their all retired. I'm taking Monday off to spend the day with them. If the eclipse is a bust due to clouds, at least it'll be a good day hanging out drinking beer. Will be interesting if it's a traffic nightmare or not.

 

[FlyByWire]

You’ll also be wearing Nikes

Fuck thanks for the reminder. Had to order those.

 

[2Driver]

Page and Southen UT were like that during the last one

We four wheeled from Page up to Kodachrome then took a FS rd over toward Kanab.

Sat and waited. It got dusk, quiet and cold. Its actually weird to see short shadows and no sun. It was a good time, afterwards we four wheeled into Kanab for the night

 

[napanutt]

Looks good for Northern NH. Our kid is going to a friends in N. NH for totality. Where we are it’s like 96%. I’ve been told anything less than 100 is nothing.

 

[bonesfab]

My sister is in the 100% path in southern Illinois. She says it is a shit show around her.

 

[GOTTBoat]

One of the long range boats out of San Diego left a day early on their 15 day trip so they could get there in time for it.

 

[JUSTWANNARACE]

My sister is in the 100% path in southern Illinois. She says it is a shit show around her.

The last one we where in the 100% path. It was a shit show. My brother in law made a couple grand letting people tent cam in his field.


We packed up and camped at the river(boat access only) to get away from the mess! It was stupid the price people were paying to see it. Some Japanese people paid my buddies dad like $15k for him to take them up in his helicopter to see it.

 

[n2otoofast4u]

The last one we where in the 100% path. It was a shit show. My brother in law made a couple grand letting people tent cam in his field.


We packed up and camped at the river(boat access only) to get away from the mess! It was stupid the price people were paying to see it. Some Japanese people paid my buddies dad like $15k for him to take them up in his helicopter to see it.

That’s exactly my response above. It was a fkn shit show around here!

 

[JUSTWANNARACE]

The last one we where in the 100% path. It was a shit show. My brother in law made a couple grand letting people tent cam in his field.


We packed up and camped at the river(boat access only) to get away from the mess! It was stupid the price people were paying to see it. Some Japanese people paid my buddies dad like $15k for him to take them up in his helicopter to see it.

Only pic I can find on my phone.

Sky went dark, birds quit chirping, everything went silent. It was a pretty eerie feeling for about 15min. Was cool to see but nothing I would travel or pay to see nor travel for miles.

I had never seen so many drones in the sky it was crazy they were everywhere!

 

[JUSTWANNARACE]

That’s exactly my response above. It was a fkn shit show around here!

Yep shit show for sure.

 

[JUSTWANNARACE]

The wife just showed me that we still have these. One in the pack one not

 

[rrrr]

Does anyone have the over and under for the number of people standing on highways and looking into the sky being run over?

I wanna lay some money on it.

 

[Ziggy]

Is this where I have to eat special applesauce and then go to sleep with a purple triangle blanket over my face and torso..?

That is the comet tail diet, you are supposed to eat moonpies for the eclipse.

 

[Crazyhippy]

The wife talked me into going... Helps it is in Kentucky, and we will be stopping at my favorite distillery of all time.

Hotels are 3x or more normal, and I'm sure everything is going to be fucking packed. Welding hoods, and speshul glasses are already in the truck.

 

[Ouderkirk]

I'm watching "Eclipse madness" people are driving, flying , renting lodging etc for this I just dont get it ? They are estimating 1.5 Billion generated from this event

I live int he "path of totality" in Western NY. And yes they hype is beyond inexplicable. On May 11, 1994 the EXACT SAME path of totality occurred. I recall working in GE's Electronics Park, and went outside to catch the eclipse at the time. It was interesting, and there were a few who exited the building to catch it, but the majority of people never left their desks or workstations to take it in. None of the schools were closed, nor businesses closed, or anything else it was just another day, that, by the way there was a solar eclipse today.

It was interesting, but when it was over, I thought to myself " That's it? That's all there is? I felt a little disappointed because there wasn't some epic climax. It sort of just faded away just as faded in. It got twilight like and the streetlights came on, but that was pretty much it.

I had to depart Rochester, on Friday to make it to New Zealand, where I am now, because I couldn't get a flight out on Sunday or Monday

 

[Angler]

Punch in your zip, most will not a good view.

https://www.univision.com/especiales/noticias/infografias/2024/eclipse-solar-2024-en/

We're all going to die..

 

[Boat 405]

The temp drops DRAMATICALLY. It gets Cold almost instantly!!!

I saw the one last year in october. I was amazed how cold it got.

 

[TPC]

We went to the last full eclipse in St Anthony's Sand Dunes.
Farmers anticipated the crowds and blocked off access to their fields. Busses and tourists vehicles galore all over Rexville and St Anthonys and the dunes offered a one day parking pass.

NASA employees showed up and camped next to us. They did a planetarium show for the kids the night before and had some sorta special telescopes set up & free viewing "glasses" for the kids to use:
The temp drops from 90F to damn near freezing instantly, winds swirl and change directions, it's a fantastic experience.

Girls were dressed nice and tart makeup because a dune-ing couple asked them to be in their wedding on the dunes immediately after the Eclipse.
NASA lady set up some special kinda telescopes for the girls to look thru:

 

[Eliminator21vdrive]

Hype it up! The sheep are getting another distraction from what the scum are doing lol.

 

[rivrrts429]

Can you imagine what people hundreds of years ago thought was happening when they were in the path of totality?

That had to be a few minutes of chaos for them lol

 

[TPC]

Can you imagine what people hundreds of years ago thought was happening when they were in the path of totality?

That had to be a few minutes of chaos for them lol

Gas lighting chief claimed he did it on his command and he'll do it again and kill everyone if they don’t do what he says.

 

[DILLIGAF]

Just talked to an agent out in the Hill Country NW of San Antonio. Said their small town is completely overrun with people and traffic. It will be worse today and tomorrow. Didn't sound like she liked it at all.....lol

 

[4Waters]

Punch in your zip, most will not a good view.

https://www.univision.com/especiales/noticias/infografias/2024/eclipse-solar-2024-en/

We're all going to die..

About 50% for us, that's lunch time for us so with the light dimmer at 50% I should be able to get a good nap

 

[Romans9]

I’ll be working in a quarry that will experience total eclipse (Southeast Missouri). The machine I am working on is at the highest point in the quarry so should have a good view.

We knew nothing about the eclipse last fall and were traveling back from the Bar 10 Ranch and couldn’t figure out why the hotel prices tripled………

 

[rivermobster]

We went to the last full eclipse in St Anthonys Sand Dunes. We booked a year in advance before the town woke up and realized the hoards that will arrive, and they did.

Farmers anticipated the crowds and blocked off access to their fields. It proved to be a wise move. Busses and tourists vehicles galore all over Rexville and St Anthonys and the dunes offered a one day parking pass.

NASA employees showed up and camped next to us on their own dime. They did a planetarium show for the kids the night before and had some sorta special telescopes set up & free viewing "glasses" for the kids to use:

It was amazing. Glad we did it. Way more than we imagined.
The temp drops from 90F to damn near freezing instantly, winds swirl and change directions,, it's a fantastic experience.

Girls were dressed nice and tart makeup because a dune-ing couple asked them to be in their wedding on the dunes immediately after the Eclipse.
NASA lady set up some special kinda telescopes for the girls to look thru:
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Now how Fucking cool is that.

 

[Roosky01]

I was in the center of the path in 2017 on a project outside of St. Louis. I flew the wife in for a few days and we found some little podunk town to watch it. It was pretty damn neat to take in and I'm glad we had the experience.

I highly recommend it if you are close. Next one is quite a ways off...

1:16pm

 

[rmarion]

 

[rmarion]

 

[USMC2010]

I 100% didn't remember I have a kick ass telescope until Thursday . What I don't have is a solar filter . Given the cloud cover expected for tomorrow, I'll just use my glasses from the one a few months ago.

 

[sprintcvx]

My brother-in-law is outside of Dallas. He's cleaning up his property so he can charge for parking.

 

[rivermobster]

And just when you thought you've heard everything.......

New York inmates will be able to view solar eclipse after lawsuit settled with corrections department

Six New York inmates will be able to see the solar eclipse after reaching a settlement with the corrections department following a lawsuit claiming violation of religious rights.

www.foxnews.com