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Great Eclipse of 2017

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by MileHigh, Jul 22, 2017.

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  1. doctorquant

    doctorquant Well-Known Member

    I've long jonesed on the chance to do the Midnight Sun game ...
     
    doctorquant, Aug 21, 2017
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  2. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    This is pretty funny:

     
    YankeeFan, Aug 21, 2017
    #230
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  3. exmediahack

    exmediahack Well-Known Member

    I got home in the middle of this and watched it passively with the teenagers. I was flipped coverage and saw Shepard running around the studio.

    "This has to be good," I said in the living room.

    After three minutes, we were so amused by him. The kids even put their phones down and watched.

    He started out cynical on the coverage but even by the end, be thought it was a pretty cool event.
     
    exmediahack, Aug 21, 2017
    #231
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  4. Vombatus

    Vombatus Well-Known Member

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    Vombatus, Aug 21, 2017
    #232
  5. dixiehack

    dixiehack Well-Known Member

    Over 24k expected to fly out of Nashville tomorrow, which is Thanksgiving-weekend level traffic.
     
    dixiehack, Aug 21, 2017
    #233
  6. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    There is no dark side of Chris Christie really; matter of fact, it's all dark.
     
    Starman, Aug 21, 2017
    #234
  7. MileHigh

    MileHigh Moderator Staff Member

    2004. It was great.
     
    MileHigh, Aug 21, 2017
    #235
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  8. Donny in his element

    Donny in his element Well-Known Member

    They play baseball indoors in St. Petersburg. It sucks.
     
    Donny in his element, Aug 22, 2017
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  9. MileHigh

    MileHigh Moderator Staff Member

    Our plan was to go into western Nebraska this morning after getting ahead of traffic by going up to South Dakota to check out Mount Rushmore and Badlands on Saturday.

    But clouds were forecast during the eclipse for where we were going to head, so we adjusted and went to where my sister and her family had a spot with an extra opening in Douglas, Wyoming, about 45 minutes east of Casper.

    We took off about 3 a.m., got there about 7 a.m. with zero traffic. Got set up and watched the show with her family. And my other sister and her family came up with my parents.

    So we had a big group with five kids ages 3-9 who were all mesmerized by it. My friends were photographing with high-end equipment and I had a telescope set up. The kids dug looking into the telescope and watching as the moon ate up the sun.

    We all got together about 10 minutes before totality and watched as we went to totality for 2:22.

    It. Was. Awesome.

    For all but one of us, it was our first time in a total solar eclipse, and up until going to totality, it was cool and all, but man, when it was all gone and you could look up without glasses -- it's hard to describe. But if you've never done it, yes, there's a huge difference between 99 percent totality and 100 percent totality.

    There were about 100 people around us with binoculars, telescopes and eclipse glasses. Lots of cheering as it went to totality and a louder cheer when it ended.

    Took us nearly nine hours to get home (just a 225-mile drive), but it was worth every second and every mile driven.
     
    MileHigh, Aug 22, 2017
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  10. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    You don't have to tell me. I worked there.
     
    YankeeFan, Aug 22, 2017
    #238
  11. Donny in his element

    Donny in his element Well-Known Member

    Great to hear, @MileHigh. Meanwhile, I can't shake the disappointment of missing totality entirely due to cloud cover. My kids' daycare, 10 minutes away, had a break in the clouds. Everywhere within minutes east and south got lucky. Then those clouds dumped three inches of rain within the next hour and a half, and another 3+ has fallen this evening as I type. Ugh.
     
    Donny in his element, Aug 22, 2017
    #239
  12. MileHigh

    MileHigh Moderator Staff Member

    Bummer. So close. Weather is always the X factor with the solar eclipse. We had to adjust on the fly. And quickly.

    We were in a Walmart on Sunday night in Rapid City trying to plot our course of action -- and getting very frustrated when one group wanted to go one way -- as in way off course where we were -- and another a different course.

    We got very, very lucky. And as we sat in the parking lot of I-25 today, more than once one of us said that it could not have worked out any better had we scripted it more than a year ago -- not when you're dealing with four families with kids involved (a total of 15 people). An ideal experience.
     
    MileHigh, Aug 22, 2017
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