According to the map, this eclipse is going to pass right over my house here in nw ohio. People are renting out spots in their yards and fields for decent money. And they are getting it.
Apparently people coming from all over the globe to see this event, should i film it, lol. What if it's cloudy, or raining?

Be better to watch it on TV imo.
Seems kinda boring to me.
Schools closing, folks being told to stock up on fuel and essentials.
Sheeple panic easily
The day after it nobody will remember or care.

Our Chamber of Commerce thinks this thing is gold, they've been promoting it like crazy. We're in the thick of things for it. Smack dab on the red line in northeastern Maine.

I may take a few hours off work and drive the half an hour to see it if we get the right weather. Won't be another one this close in my lifetime. My sisters house is right on the edge, 13 seconds of total eclipse.

Watch out for man eating plants.

I'm more worried about the plant smoking men.

My boss was telling me today how he was reading that there were a bunch of people who believe this eclipse is ushering in the rapture. First I'd heard of that one.

We had a full eclipse here a few years ago. It's actually worth seeing with your own eyes. Not something you can just pay to have staged, or go see anytime like some exotic animals or famous places. Best place to be is somewhere with good vista, to appreciate how the sun becomes dimmer and then everything goes completely dark everywhere as far as your eyes can see abruptly in a matter of seconds, but probably not a rooftop because all the sickle-shaped shadows look weird, too and are also worth seeing (but we were on the roof of a tall building, and it was fine, too). Something like a hilltop with a few trees, maybe, but definitely somewhere with an unobstructed view, from where you can see far. Telescopes on lawns sound like wasting the opportunity.... much more stupid than filming a concert with your cellphone instead of watching. Here, we had a quiet sunny summer day, but when it got dark, strong wind started blowing, so it felt completely as if something huge had swooshed over us. You'll have the time to see the shape of the Sun changing in the minutes before the eclipse, but a smoked glass is enough for that, no need for fancy equipment. We used old 5" floppy disks.

I did take a few pictures

Great Photos

We are very close to the center line for the eclipse, maybe 2 miles off. Hopefully the weather will be good for it.

Keith

Yep I’m pretty close

Barely out of the path of totality, probably only a sliver of the sun will be exposed. Was in totality 7 yrs ago....Pretty surreal.

I need to drag out that trash can full of old 3 D glasses I collected in the 70's and advertise them as enhanced viewing glasses and drive north. It's like crossing the equator once you've done it I guess it isn't as exciting from then on. I do like all the commentary though especially the arm chair eye doctors on the tv.

The last one was ok. If I'm at home that day we are just in the edge of I'm at work nearly on the centerline. Maybe im weird but I don't see the big deal and can care less. It gets dark every night and will be over pretty quickly. Maybe im missing something? KY afield went cat fishing during the last one and the cats did start biting. Probably the best think I can think of to do

somewhere around here I have extra welding glass

I bought them so the kids could watch the eclipse at the library watch party years ago.

it is definitely something to see that you don't see every year or but maybe a handful of times a total eclipse in your life time.

The only "big deal" I can relate to it would be that it could be a memory spent with loved ones. Something you've missed a lot of.

That's the best point ever. Especially with it looking like I'm going home this week for a whooping 15hrs after subtracting 5 hrs of drive time from my long 20hrs off when I make the shift change switch from days to night. It would be a full 24 hrs but well one will be a 16 hr shift if 2 are I may not go home at all. But I did have 5 days in a roll off last week.

Watertown, NY is expecting around 100,000 people coming to watch the eclipse. Everyone in the area is trying to cash in, even fishing charter boats are offering to take you out on Lake Ontario or the St Lawrence River to watch it.

Passing over all the towns in the U.S. named Nineveh. Matthew 12:39.

Thx for the scripture j staton.

From our house we are about 50 miles from total but I may be on Ky Lake crappie fishing that day.

my place is dead center of the eclipse path . Hopefully it is a clear day.

They are neat to see but this will be the last for a long while, that's probably why all the fuss. Be sure to use REAL solar glasses or filters to view unless you want to lose your eyesight.

Don't forget there is a blood moon a week before Easter.

It is cool to see birds and chickens go to roost in the daytime.
My brother is going to Arkansas, renting campground spot, pontoon barge, and it could be cloudy.

Euphraties river is driving up.....

Locust plauge in Africa.....

There is a solar eclipse every day in most of the world when the earth blocks the sun. I sleep thru most of them.

Ummm, no there is not.

"Are there eclipses everyday?
Anywhere from four to seven times a year, our Earth, Moon and Sun line up just right to create the cosmic-scale shadow show known as an eclipse. The Moon's orbit around Earth is tilted relative to Earth's orbit around the Sun. This tilt is the reason why we have occasional eclipses instead of eclipses every month."

Lisa & I are looking forward to it. (NW PA)

I am just off the centerline in SW AR. It I was a weather forecaster, I would forecast 200% chance of rain that day

Rochester NY is expecting 300,000+ people! All the hotels are booked for the weekend leading up to it!

Very interesting isn't it

Those are some cool pictures. I would like to see that.

If you've never been in the middle of a total solar eclipse on a clear day, you have no idea what you are missing. I've seen two, one in about 1980 in Goldendale Washington, and the other a few years ago near Eugene Oregon. While you're watching that "silver ring" overhead, take a few seconds to take a 360 degree look at the horizon. It's worth driving aways to get in a good position if the weather is good.

I’m in the path of totality also. They are warning us of the impacts of the influx of visitors. Our schools are shutting down for two days, sawmills closing down, many businesses are closing for the day. Many people are renting out camping/parking spots in their pastures.

I'm thinking I might do a big yard sale in the days leading up to the eclipse. Of course now it will be rainy for sure.

They're expecting one big traffic jam here.

Close enough to totality that I'm not stepping foot off this place....What a crowd cluster it's going to be, Lol.

Exactly what my wife said today. Also I'm scheduled off work so will be at home with the family. May be a good time to watch the bees and see how they react or go fishing.

Providence Farm -

Glad your getting to spend time with your family. I used to work a lot of overtime as you do, especially while raising the kids.

Think I read somewhere it was 50/50 whether you might have to be on the job.

Enjoy!

I reckon if a feller had a secluded field he could rent it out to a bunch of Wiccans. I bet they'll really have a shindig with all the celestial events.

If I were renting, I'd stick them over with the rednecks, Lol.

LOL
Signs signs everywhere there's signs.
A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign.

So, is Max Yasgur’s farm in the path?

It's going almost directly over me. I'm excited to see it. Why not enjoy something cool from the cosmos. It doesn't happen often. I'm going to relax and enjoy.

Pretty close to dead center with me. Need a place to park? Come on over. I gotta big yard.

Careful now, your liable to have a bunch of Wiccan rednecks born next January if you ain't careful. lol

Told the neighbors today i might open up a lemonade stand, maybe sell some bratwurst, t-shirts. Who knows, it might be a good time to clean the garage out.

Nailed it

You won't be disappointed. Try to find an open piece of high ground to view it from, and during the few minutess of total eclipse take a quick 360 view of the horizon.
Pray for good weather.

The pray for good weather jogged my memory. We actually had a clown call into us at work a couple of weeks ago and asked us this " if it's cloudy on April 8th, are they going to postpone the eclipse until the 9th?"

Leading up to the last eclipse, we were camping next to some modern hippies from California. They were traveling with FIVE cats. Dude had a canoe with more gizmos on it than most bass boats.
A couple from way out of state came to see the eclipse, but it was foggy. The dingbat woman was driving and passed another car in the fog and hit a young fella from Scottsbluff, killing him and her husband. She lived of course.
I watched it from the SE corner of Nebraska with my Brother and his wife. The coolest thing to me was that coming out of the eclipse, the shadow leaving the earths surface was traveling 1500 miles an hour. That's the speed it takes to travel around the world in 24 hours. It was fast.
I'll watch the partial eclipse from here and it'll be maybe 75% eclipse.

Diane picked up free eclipse viewing glasses at the library. I will definitely try to see the eclipse, but it's not something I would drive to see, unless there was also a party or social gathering I wanted to attend, for it.

Keith

I was told today at the local po that wyandot county was expecting somewhere in the neighborhood of 70.000 out of state visitors for the dark day. Not sure how they know that but that's way more than i figured. Sounds like one better have a few days worth of supplies beforehand. This has all the makings of a cluster.

Here's a better map of the center line path of the eclipse.

https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/map/2024-april-8

It does not pass as close to us as another map showed, that had a thicker center line. It's not real far off though.

Keith

According to that, we're at 95%.

My Step brother is flying out to see it- crazy obsession