(04-08-2024 06:20 PM)Oldyeller Wrote:  Funny story. Had a meeting with a farmer today at his farm and it happened to be as the eclipse was just beginning. He was unaware of the eclipse. Kinda seemed unaware of what an eclipse was. Before I left to join my wife for the show the farmer and about 15 farm hands had welding masks on watching the eclipse going nuts. Funny as crap watching about 15 Mexicans sharing 5 masks. Needless to say the meeting was unproductive.

That’s awesome

If you’ve never experienced totality it’s really amazing. 2045 eclipse passes through Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia but Troy will be only campus in totality.

I was near the center of totality in my parents hometown and got 4:13 the 2025 if I don’t move I live near center in 2045 and it will be 6:06 at center.

This was taken by a person at the school my wife works at in Little Rock.

Barely got a chance to see it.

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I was in Columbia SC for the last one had have been sharing a kiler pic from totality on that one, but stayed in today..

From space:

(04-09-2024 12:04 AM)MUther Wrote:  From space:

*Allegedly



I kid.

Some great pics here. JSinLR, that one's close to perfect.

bcp_jmu, I'm in northwest NJ. Looks like we were a little farther from the path than Chicago, so the numbers check out.

(04-08-2024 10:02 PM)JSinLR Wrote:  This was taken by a person at the school my wife works at in Little Rock.

Very nice

This one was taken from Jonesboro.

(04-08-2024 06:20 PM)Oldyeller Wrote:  Funny story. Had a meeting with a farmer today at his farm and it happened to be as the eclipse was just beginning. He was unaware of the eclipse. Kinda seemed unaware of what an eclipse was. Before I left to join my wife for the show the farmer and about 15 farm hands had welding masks on watching the eclipse going nuts. Funny as crap watching about 15 Mexicans sharing 5 masks. Needless to say the meeting was unproductive.

In 2017 when we had an eclipse I used my welding mask. Works very well.

(04-09-2024 09:28 AM)PrideoftheStAte Wrote:  This one was taken from Jonesboro.

Now that is awesome...

The vapor trail crossing the moon is neat!

(04-09-2024 09:37 AM)OsageJ Wrote:  The vapor trail crossing the moon is neat!

Don't you mean the chem trail?
(I'm kidding!)

I was watching the local news coverage yesterday, and a guy used a piece of mylar balloon...guess he knew something I didn't cuz I'm not sure I'd wanna risk it..

Not mine. Friend in Dallas shot this and many others. Pretty spectacular event.


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Saw a new story on our local NBC affiliate that a small, basically ghost town in Illinois called Cairo, but said Kay-ro had totality. The quality inn there usually charges $80 a night and is mostly empty. They charged $500 the night before the eclipse and sold out. All the shops gave out glasses and marked everything way up. They only had the one hotel in the town and 2 dinky sit down restaurants. Must have been a nice windfall for the area. They should take the money and run.

Here's that story:

(04-09-2024 01:30 PM)MUther Wrote:  Saw a new story on our local NBC affiliate that a small, basically ghost town in Indiana called Cairo, but said Kay-ro had totality. The quality inn there usually charges $80 a night and is mostly empty. They charged $500 the night before the eclipse and sold out. All the shops gave out glasses and marked everything way up. They only had the one hotel in the town and 2 dinky sit down restaurants. Must have been a nice windfall for the area. They should take the money and run.

Here's that story:

It's Illinois, not Indiana, and yes, that is the correct pronunciation.
Cairo is the very Southern tip of Illinois where the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers merge. Since its small, there's probably not many hotel rooms, so the demand is more than the supply. Here in Little Rock or other places like Dallas and Indianapolis, there's a lot more hotel rooms, so prices aren't as crazy. Most places around her had rooms at $250-$300. Did see some at $400.

(04-09-2024 03:20 PM)GoBigRed26 Wrote:  

(04-09-2024 01:30 PM)MUther Wrote:  Saw a new story on our local NBC affiliate that a small, basically ghost town in Indiana called Cairo, but said Kay-ro had totality. The quality inn there usually charges $80 a night and is mostly empty. They charged $500 the night before the eclipse and sold out. All the shops gave out glasses and marked everything way up. They only had the one hotel in the town and 2 dinky sit down restaurants. Must have been a nice windfall for the area. They should take the money and run.

Here's that story:

It's Illinois, not Indiana, and yes, that is the correct pronunciation.
Cairo is the very Southern tip of Illinois where the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers merge. Since its small, there's probably not many hotel rooms, so the demand is more than the supply. Here in Little Rock or other places like Dallas and Indianapolis, there's a lot more hotel rooms, so prices aren't as crazy. Most places around her had rooms at $250-$300. Did see some at $400.

Yeah, I said it was the ONLY hotel in the town and I said how to pronounce it, but thanks for clarifying. As far as the state, I just went from what I remembered and then looked up the video for people to see. There are a 1000 podunk towns that were in the path, that was just the one I saw a report on. The price gouging was what made it interesting, not the location.

Beautiful, hot sunshiny day on Saturday. Sunday the fog rolled in and by Monday morning the clouds and fog were as thick as soup. It hadn't been that cloudy/foggy for any single day since I've been here in Corpus.
Just figures, right?
Clouds cleared a sliver of a path, for about 10 minutes, as the eclipse was waning. Got a bit of a glimpse then.

I've seen others in my time so I wasn't completely disappointed at not seeing this one but, man, I would have loved to; even at 90%.

Oh, and today it's hot, humid, and sunny.

(04-09-2024 04:03 PM)MUther Wrote:  

(04-09-2024 03:20 PM)GoBigRed26 Wrote:  

(04-09-2024 01:30 PM)MUther Wrote:  Saw a new story on our local NBC affiliate that a small, basically ghost town in Indiana called Cairo, but said Kay-ro had totality. The quality inn there usually charges $80 a night and is mostly empty. They charged $500 the night before the eclipse and sold out. All the shops gave out glasses and marked everything way up. They only had the one hotel in the town and 2 dinky sit down restaurants. Must have been a nice windfall for the area. They should take the money and run.

Here's that story:

It's Illinois, not Indiana, and yes, that is the correct pronunciation.
Cairo is the very Southern tip of Illinois where the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers merge. Since its small, there's probably not many hotel rooms, so the demand is more than the supply. Here in Little Rock or other places like Dallas and Indianapolis, there's a lot more hotel rooms, so prices aren't as crazy. Most places around her had rooms at $250-$300. Did see some at $400.

Yeah, I said it was the ONLY hotel in the town and I said how to pronounce it, but thanks for clarifying. As far as the state, I just went from what I remembered and then looked up the video for people to see. There are a 1000 podunk towns that were in the path, that was just the one I saw a report on. The price gouging was what made it interesting, not the location.

Price gouging is typically used when taking advantage of a natural disaster and is illegal. If increasing the cost of a hotel room during a high tourism event is price gouging, then the NFL commits price gouging every year during the Suoer Bowl.