Eclipse

[Umpire in Chief]

Do any of you have plans for the solar eclipse Monday?

I was already planning on a mini vacation to see my best friend from HS up in Maine @SunDevil#71 and returning home that Monday with my son, but my son has successfully twisted my arm and convinced me that we need to go to my mother's house in South Carolina where she will be in the 100% totality zone. ME is like 65%, Our house is 85%. So I'm leaving Maine at Zero-dark-thirty and driving 1100 miles to SC on Sunday. Here's a little map of our trip.

• 6 days
• 14 States + DC (Visiting my sister tomorrow just outside of DC) NC, VA, DC, MD, DE, NJ, NY, CT, MA, NH, ME, PA, WV, TN, SC
• Over 2300 miles (taking a slightly longer route from ME to SC, but avoiding many major cities)
• 37 hours of driving

But I'm looking forward to it and am hoping the weather holds out.

[Old Skool]

Trying to get the day off of work set up to attend Memphis Redbirds PCL/AAA game.  In a stroke of Sports Marketing genius they are throwing their 1st pitch at 11:52am as the eclipse starts & it will be at 94% peak at 1:22.  Seems like a better way to spend the day than going to work.

[KenBAZ]

UIC, have you calculated when your going to hit the East coast cities in the Northbound trip? I know from having worked on the road in the Northeast that it can make a huge difference in travel time.

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[stevis]

Headed to Columbia, SC on Saturday. 

[johnnyg08]

Heading to Missouri on Saturday. 

[Richvee]

heading to work Monday morning.

[Umpire in Chief]

17 hours ago, KenBAZ said:

UIC, have you calculated when your going to hit the East coast cities in the Northbound trip? I know from having worked on the road in the Northeast that it can make a huge difference in travel time.

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I'm staying with My sister in Arlington tonight and will leave her house at 5:00 am to avoid the DC & Balt traffic, but may hit Wilmington/Philly am traffic. 

[kylehutson]

I'm driving approximately 75 miles to go from my house at 99% totality to my in-laws at 100%. I've been excited for this for at least 7 years when I found out about it.

The sheriff said their county normally has about 5k residents (yeah, it's rural) but they're expecting over 35k visitors and to expect to not have any gas in the stations nor food at the restaurants.

[stevis]

I am here--I95 took about 2:30 more than it should have--but not too happy with the cloud forecast.

[Mudisfun]

Went to work... looked up. Overcast. 

Thank God for TV coverage!

[Ump29]

No plans. Saw a total eclipse in 1970's without leaving work.

[stevis]

Just stunning.  The sky goes almost twilight, then--it's just eerie.  You've got the tiniest amount of direct light you've ever seen.  Then--the last sliver goes, you can see the corona blazing, look around in the eerie light from just outside the shadow--sunsets all around, it looks like.  Beautiful.

Already plotting April 8, 2024.   Seriously--take this experience if you can at all get it.

[MLB umpire observer]

23 hours ago, stevis said:

Just stunning.  The sky goes almost twilight, then--it's just eerie.  You've got the tiniest amount of direct light you've ever seen.  Then--the last sliver goes, you can see the corona blazing, look around in the eerie light from just outside the shadow--sunsets all around, it looks like.  Beautiful.

Already plotting April 8, 2024.   Seriously--take this experience if you can at all get it.

I am in the path of totality for 2024 but early April weather in northeast Ohio I'll bet you it will be raining.

[kylehutson]

Saw this today. It's accurate. (courtesy http://xkcd.com/)

If you're interested in my own thoughts, I wrote them here.