(04-10-2024 02:34 PM)HCJag Wrote: The next solar eclipse in the US will be in 2045. 99.97% of totality in Mobile. See ya there.
I'd recommend taking a short drive to get to totality. Just the tiniest sliver of sun still produces a lot of light, plus with totality you can safely look at it with the naked eye.
(04-10-2024 02:34 PM)HCJag Wrote: The next solar eclipse in the US will be in 2045. 99.97% of totality in Mobile. See ya there.
I'd recommend taking a short drive to get to totality. Just the tiniest sliver of sun still produces a lot of light, plus with totality you can safely look at it with the naked eye.
I took a plane and then ended up driving 4 hours to Arkansas! If I can do that you can close the .03% distance to get to totality.
I've been able to see the 2017 and 2024 ones so far. Technically the next one in the continental US is 2044 (nicks a bit of Montana/North Dakota before going to Canada)... Altho there is an eclipse that hits northwestern alaska in 2033 :eyes:
(04-11-2024 10:33 AM)Blue_Trombone Wrote: I took a plane and then ended up driving 4 hours to Arkansas! If I can do that you can close the .03% distance to get to totality.
I've been able to see the 2017 and 2024 ones so far. Technically the next one in the continental US is 2044 (nicks a bit of Montana/North Dakota before going to Canada)... Altho there is an eclipse that hits northwestern alaska in 2033 :eyes:
Same, got to see the 2017 in totality as it passed just west of my house in NC. We just got back from an Arkansas trip to see it in totality again. Amazing.
DeGray Lake is a very nice state park, you Arkansans.
I went to upstate NY so I was in the path of totality, and while it was too cloudy to see the sun and moon, it got DARK (and I mean DARK) during those few minutes. It was basically night time for bit, but with no stars or streetlights, and then then a minute later was completely bright outside again. That was wild.
(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.
At one time of the richest towns in Illinois. It was a big time river port and then a major rail city. For a long time many transcontinental rail shipments arrived there and the rail cars were carried across the Mississippi River to go back on the rails and vice versa coming from the west. After a bridge was built that cut things back.
Once railroads quit having to stop so often to take on fuel and water, and fewer goods moved by barge it started going downhill. Mechanization of agriculture slashing the number of people for farm work coupled with mechanization of loading the barges and it's been in a death spiral, gone from 15,000 plus to under 2000 in 100 years.
Folks from NE Arkansas used to have to go through Cairo to go pretty much anywhere in the north, like having to go through Mobile to go to the Gulf for a vacation. Interstates getting expanded took that out of play mostly.
(04-10-2024 04:20 PM)Fanof49ASU Wrote: I’ll only be 81.
I'll be 89, in a nursing home with dementia (runs in the family), or no longer with you.
Be 79 then but dementia on both sides (paternal grandfather, my mother and a couple of her brothers) and hoping that something else gets me first if that's where I'm headed.
Little Rock will get just under six minutes totality for that one.
(04-11-2024 10:33 AM)Blue_Trombone Wrote: I took a plane and then ended up driving 4 hours to Arkansas! If I can do that you can close the .03% distance to get to totality.
I've been able to see the 2017 and 2024 ones so far. Technically the next one in the continental US is 2044 (nicks a bit of Montana/North Dakota before going to Canada)... Altho there is an eclipse that hits northwestern alaska in 2033 :eyes:
Same, got to see the 2017 in totality as it passed just west of my house in NC. We just got back from an Arkansas trip to see it in totality again. Amazing.
DeGray Lake is a very nice state park, you Arkansans.
DeGray is really nice and the lodge and amenities would supposedly be even nicer per legend but for one of the Parks and Tourism Commissioners owning lodging and tourism facilities across the lake and making sure it's not too nice.
No clue if there's any truth to the story but the lodge isn't as nice as some of the others but then the nicer ones were built later so they had a chance to learn from them. Mt Magazine is one of my favorites, wife and I have gone up there around Christmas last three years. Nice place to decompress and if you get really lucky it will be too cold to hike and just have to stay inside by the fireplace.
(04-10-2024 02:34 PM)HCJag Wrote: The next solar eclipse in the US will be in 2045. 99.97% of totality in Mobile. See ya there.
I'd recommend taking a short drive to get to totality. Just the tiniest sliver of sun still produces a lot of light, plus with totality you can safely look at it with the naked eye.
(04-11-2024 10:33 AM)Blue_Trombone Wrote: I took a plane and then ended up driving 4 hours to Arkansas! If I can do that you can close the .03% distance to get to totality.
I've been able to see the 2017 and 2024 ones so far. Technically the next one in the continental US is 2044 (nicks a bit of Montana/North Dakota before going to Canada)... Altho there is an eclipse that hits northwestern alaska in 2033 :eyes:
I saw the 2017 one at 95%. Totality this year was way more than 5% better. More like 5,000% better. Probably wont travel to see one before 2045, so hopefully, I'll still be alive and kicking at 64.
(04-11-2024 10:33 AM)Blue_Trombone Wrote: I took a plane and then ended up driving 4 hours to Arkansas! If I can do that you can close the .03% distance to get to totality.
I've been able to see the 2017 and 2024 ones so far. Technically the next one in the continental US is 2044 (nicks a bit of Montana/North Dakota before going to Canada)... Altho there is an eclipse that hits northwestern alaska in 2033 :eyes:
I saw the 2017 one at 95%. Totality this year was way more than 5% better. More like 5,000% better. Probably wont travel to see one before 2045, so hopefully, I'll still be alive and kicking at 64.
I saw the 2017 in Illinois in full totality. But for whatever reason, this one seemed much better.
(04-11-2024 10:33 AM)Blue_Trombone Wrote: I took a plane and then ended up driving 4 hours to Arkansas! If I can do that you can close the .03% distance to get to totality.
I've been able to see the 2017 and 2024 ones so far. Technically the next one in the continental US is 2044 (nicks a bit of Montana/North Dakota before going to Canada)... Altho there is an eclipse that hits northwestern alaska in 2033 :eyes:
I saw the 2017 one at 95%. Totality this year was way more than 5% better. More like 5,000% better. Probably wont travel to see one before 2045, so hopefully, I'll still be alive and kicking at 64.
I saw the 2017 in Illinois in full totality. But for whatever reason, this one seemed much better.
It actually wasn't totality. The 2017 eclipse was an annular one, meaning that there was a thin ring of the sun that wasn't completely covered by the moon (Ring of Fire.) You were in the path of most coverage, but it was about 98%. The 2023 eclipse was also annular, but had a larger ring of fire and maxed out around 90% coverage.
(04-11-2024 10:33 AM)Blue_Trombone Wrote: I took a plane and then ended up driving 4 hours to Arkansas! If I can do that you can close the .03% distance to get to totality.
I've been able to see the 2017 and 2024 ones so far. Technically the next one in the continental US is 2044 (nicks a bit of Montana/North Dakota before going to Canada)... Altho there is an eclipse that hits northwestern alaska in 2033 :eyes:
I saw the 2017 one at 95%. Totality this year was way more than 5% better. More like 5,000% better. Probably wont travel to see one before 2045, so hopefully, I'll still be alive and kicking at 64.
I saw the 2017 in Illinois in full totality. But for whatever reason, this one seemed much better.
It actually wasn't totality. The 2017 eclipse was an annular one, meaning that there was a thin ring of the sun that wasn't completely covered by the moon (Ring of Fire.) You were in the path of most coverage, but it was about 98%. The 2023 eclipse was also annular, but had a larger ring of fire and maxed out around 90% coverage.
Quote:The solar eclipse of August 21, 2017, dubbed the "Great American Eclipse" by some media,[1] was a total solar eclipse visible within a band that spanned the contiguous United States from the Pacific to the Atlantic coasts.
Maybe you mean where you were? But Western NC was in totality.
(04-11-2024 10:33 AM)Blue_Trombone Wrote: I took a plane and then ended up driving 4 hours to Arkansas! If I can do that you can close the .03% distance to get to totality.
I've been able to see the 2017 and 2024 ones so far. Technically the next one in the continental US is 2044 (nicks a bit of Montana/North Dakota before going to Canada)... Altho there is an eclipse that hits northwestern alaska in 2033 :eyes:
I saw the 2017 one at 95%. Totality this year was way more than 5% better. More like 5,000% better. Probably wont travel to see one before 2045, so hopefully, I'll still be alive and kicking at 64.
I saw the 2017 in Illinois in full totality. But for whatever reason, this one seemed much better.
It actually wasn't totality. The 2017 eclipse was an annular one, meaning that there was a thin ring of the sun that wasn't completely covered by the moon (Ring of Fire.) You were in the path of most coverage, but it was about 98%. The 2023 eclipse was also annular, but had a larger ring of fire and maxed out around 90% coverage.
Quote:The solar eclipse of August 21, 2017, dubbed the "Great American Eclipse" by some media,[1] was a total solar eclipse visible within a band that spanned the contiguous United States from the Pacific to the Atlantic coasts.
Maybe you mean where you were? But Western NC was in totality.
