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500excf type r posted:Welcome back! Thanks dude!
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when totality hits nightmares fear factory will open up and the car will finally get those goddamn tourists
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Apr 3, 2024 01:19
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I already booked a motel and travel to Niagara Falls, but the cloud cover and the expected flood of people is making me reconsider
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Apr 3, 2024 01:52
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i am hearing conflicting reports. will the sun be getting swallowed by a wolf, or by a giant snake??
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Apr 3, 2024 03:10
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InediblePenguin posted:i am hearing conflicting reports. will the sun be getting swallowed by a wolf, or by a giant snake??  the annunaki are calling Nibiru to reveal itself
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Apr 3, 2024 03:17
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The lightegg will hatch, and when the shell has fallen away and only the hole remains another new god will have been birthed
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Apr 3, 2024 03:23
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mine too but for tornadoes, op
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Apr 3, 2024 03:27
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Klyith posted:lol the state of emergency is gonna be from all the riots by people who paid $500 a night for a cloudy eclipse This is great news
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Apr 3, 2024 03:28
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scrotality
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Apr 3, 2024 03:32
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I've been thinking for my target city in 95-100% totality, if it's projected to be cloudy, I should head southwest along the path to find a clearer spot, because if I head northeast, on some level I'm just getting ahead of the cloud cover, barely. Or is it like look at radar for the region and if there are any clear spots, head towards those hoping to intersect?
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Apr 3, 2024 04:24
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if there's significant cloud cover where you are in the hours before it arrives, the interstate and major state/county roads are gonna get mega jammed
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Apr 3, 2024 05:30
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InediblePenguin posted:i am hearing conflicting reports. will the sun be getting swallowed by a wolf, or by a giant snake?? I hate you
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Apr 3, 2024 05:32
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One of my coworkers is going to some eclipse festival in Texas. I guess they travel around the world to do it whenever there's a full eclipse. I told her about what it was like seeing one in 2017. Luckily my family was located in totality so I just spent some time with them. Eclipses are pretty fuckin cool. I just remember all the night bugs and the bats coming out when it got really dark. It was really a nice experience to share with my family.
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Apr 3, 2024 05:51
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I wonder if any vampires are going to get tricked in to coming out?
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Apr 3, 2024 11:59
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covidstomper58 posted:I've been thinking for my target city in 95-100% totality, if it's projected to be cloudy, I should head southwest along the path to find a clearer spot, because if I head northeast, on some level I'm just getting ahead of the cloud cover, barely. Not radar: radar doesn't see clouds. Just rain. You will want to look at the GOES satellite pics to look for areas with less cloud cover, then load up windy.com and look at the 4200m wind to see which direction the cloud-level wind is moving. Then drive to a hole that's not running away from you.
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Apr 3, 2024 13:38
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Mumpy Puffinz posted:I hate you i don't think about you at all
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Apr 3, 2024 14:21
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I was harsh in my last post about the Falls and I'm sorry. We were just there on Dec 23rd and went to Brasa Brazilian Steakhouse at he Hilton with some friends. Man that place went down hill quality wise. Some of the meats were a surprising combo of too salty but also bland. The buffet was ok, but lacking since the last time we went pre-pandemic. $350 for two people that had 2 cocktails and the buffet. gently caress that. Best time I ever had in the Falls was we got some hotel room deal at the Hilton and $25 credit at the casino. My 3rd pull of a Red White and Blue $0.25 slot machine won us $843. We had been here a total of 10 minutes but we cashed out and went back to the room as that money paid for everything and even a nice dinner out the next weekend. I see there are more Korean places opening up down there. Are they any good?
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Apr 3, 2024 15:05
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Klyith posted:lol the state of emergency is gonna be from all the riots by people who paid $500 a night for a cloudy eclipse
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Apr 3, 2024 15:38
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Path of Totality would be a good name for a STS9-type band
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Apr 3, 2024 15:41
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The 2017 happened when I was at work; and we all just went outside and let the phones ring. It was about 90% totality where we were. We had the glasses and we did the pinhole in paper thing. It was all of a few minutes. The neatest part was the temperature drop. For about 5 minutes the temp dropped by a good 10 degrees.
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Pretty much a worst-case weather forecast for the 8th. Almost the entire path is predicted to be under clouds. Best odds right now look like Buffalo and Indianapolis; everywhere else is hosed.
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Apr 4, 2024 13:19
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biznatchio posted:Pretty much a worst-case weather forecast for the 8th. Almost the entire path is predicted to be under clouds. Best odds right now look like Buffalo and Indianapolis; everywhere else is hosed. Burlington VT, not Buffalo NY
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biznatchio posted:Pretty much a worst-case weather forecast for the 8th. Almost the entire path is predicted to be under clouds. Best odds right now look like Buffalo and Indianapolis; everywhere else is hosed. The little town I'm going to is forecasted to be sunny and 78 op. Looks good to me.
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Apr 4, 2024 13:50
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60 and sunny in my neck of the woods for Monday. Don't come.
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Forecast for blue skies in New England but I am not going to believe it, for fear of jinxing it.
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Apr 4, 2024 13:56
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Yeah it'll probably change and be cloudy.
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Apr 4, 2024 13:57
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Klyith posted:Burlington VT, not Buffalo NY Yeah, that's where I am (Burlington, not Buffalo) and I'm cautiously excited, but also NOT looking forward to the population of the state increasing by 1/4,m or possibly even a 1/3! We're barely over 600,000 people, and the predictions are ALL over the place, but just from hotel/AirBnB bookings it's easily approaching 100,000, and then there will be a SLEW of people from southern New England and parts of NY attempting to drive up for the day. I plan to MAYBE go to a local park on the lakefront to watch, The one closest to me is in an ALL residential area, we're not in a place tourists will generally be, HOWEVER, it's not like they can't whip out Google Maps and find this park that's a bit further from the downtown/touristy area themselves. So if it looks like complete poo poo to drive even a couple of miles*, we'll walk to a closer park that's no on the lakefront, but has a nice hill with a clearing at the top we should be able to see the sun from. *We have two bikes, but one is sadly pretty broken, and I'm not sure we got time this weekend to try and drive around to get it fixed/find a spare part. Otherwise we'd just bike to the park. And this is the current weather, expected to keep doing this into Friday...the day the tourists who booked rooms are all driving/flying in:   Believe it or not, weather predictions still say likely sunny and warm (like mid 50's) Monday. The ground will be an ugly, wet, muddy piece of poo poo, but the skies should be clear. DrBouvenstein fucked around with this message at 15:50 on Apr 4, 2024 |
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I'm coming to the falls and I'm going to block out the sun with my big fat rear end
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Saalkin posted:I'm coming to the falls and I'm going to block out the sun with my big fat rear end Tell us something we didn't know
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Smugworth posted:Tell us something we didn't know You're going to enjoy every second of it
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Impossibly Perfect Sphere posted:We can see Uranus during an eclipse? scientists are excited about the possibility of discovering a new black hole, i hear edit: i am also in vt and am cautiously hopeful but the cloud situation could easily change
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Impossibly Perfect Sphere posted:We can see Uranus during an eclipse? It is not possible to see Uranus with the naked eye.
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redshirt posted:It is not possible to see Uranus with the naked eye. What about with a probe?
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I'm like 20 minutes from path of totality but the traffic there and back will be a pain far longer than 20 minutes. I'm so close I figure it can't be that much different at home.
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Khanstant posted:I'm like 20 minutes from path of totality but the traffic there and back will be a pain far longer than 20 minutes. I'm so close I figure it can't be that much different at home. incorrect the difference between totality and not is literal night and day. don't be a little baby and drive to see it. there is no such thing as partial totality
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Apr 4, 2024 17:00
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bradzilla posted:incorrect So is it like the difference between almost cuming and actually cuming? If you're in 98% totality are you just edging?
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Impossibly Perfect Sphere posted:So is it like the difference between almost cuming and actually cuming? yes. the sun is really, really loving bright. even 2% visibility will still cast sunlight almost to normal levels.
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It can't be stressed enough that it is indeed a DRAMATIC difference between 100% totality, and anything less. If you're close enough to get to 100%, you should make the effort if possible.
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redshirt posted:It can't be stressed enough that it is indeed a DRAMATIC difference between 100% totality, and anything less. If you're close enough to get to 100%, you should make the effort if possible. I thought Heroes was poo poo so I'm not going
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