Total eclipse Aug 21, 2017

[sparrowsong]

Exactly two years from today. It's going to be visible from pretty much the entire country. I geek out on stuff like this and am stupid excited. Might be a bucket item to mark off the list, if I can get to a location along the path of totality! I've experienced several partial eclipses, but never a total!

[pixy0stix]

Total eclipse of my heart!

[ttt]

Ooh it's going to be practically right over Atlanta!

Please repost this and remind me in two years ok?

[secretlyevil]

Aug 21, 2015 19:57:48 GMT -5 pixy0stix said:

Total eclipse of my heart!

phew! I'm glad I'm not the only one who started so singing that song.

[zelda25]

For once, we are in the prime viewing area; we're already geeking out over it. H has never seen a total; I haven't seen one since I was about 7 years old. CANNOT WAIT!

[blink]

Not even close to the prime viewing area. I kind of want to orchestrate a trip so we can be. If only solar eclipses worked just like they do in Heroes.

[aurora]

Awesome!

CEP GTG somewhere along the viewing line?

[arterr0]

An area just outside of my hometown is supposed to have the longest period of totality. The neighboring town is expecting an explosion in tourism that day. DH and I live about 1.5 hours south of there, and are planning to make the trip.

[chedifuen]

I've been waiting for this for years, I'm so excited! I'm very near the path of totality

[bernsteincat]

Aug 21, 2015 21:15:21 GMT -5 arterr0 said:

An area just outside of my hometown is supposed to have the longest period of totality. The neighboring town is expecting an explosion in tourism that day. DH and I live about 1.5 hours south of there, and are planning to make the trip.

We may be from the same place! I know this was so huge in my hometown when it was announced a year or so(?) ago and everyone was talking about how the hotels were already filled up with science people. I'm stoked that I'll be able to go to my relatives house and see it.

[arterr0]

Aug 21, 2015 22:15:37 GMT -5 bernsteincat said:

Aug 21, 2015 21:15:21 GMT -5 arterr0 said:

An area just outside of my hometown is supposed to have the longest period of totality. The neighboring town is expecting an explosion in tourism that day. DH and I live about 1.5 hours south of there, and are planning to make the trip.

We may be from the same place! I know this was so huge in my hometown when it was announced a year or so(?) ago and everyone was talking about how the hotels were already filled up with science people. I'm stoked that I'll be able to go to my relatives house and see it.

I'm technically from the county just west of the epicenter, but close enough.

[bernsteincat]

Aug 21, 2015 22:25:25 GMT -5 arterr0 said:

Aug 21, 2015 22:15:37 GMT -5 bernsteincat said:

We may be from the same place! I know this was so huge in my hometown when it was announced a year or so(?) ago and everyone was talking about how the hotels were already filled up with science people. I'm stoked that I'll be able to go to my relatives house and see it.

I'm technically from the county just west of the epicenter, but close enough.

I'm believing we've had this conversation before. Lol, sorry. My internet memory is shit.

[zelda25]

Aug 21, 2015 20:52:51 GMT -5 aurora said:

Awesome!

CEP GTG somewhere along the viewing line?

Come to Pooooorrrrtlaaaannnnd!

[pescalita]

That's the year we buy the RV...