Total Eclipse of the Sun - August 21st

[devildeac]

if I can hang until 2024, I'll have one directly over my back yard.

And hopefully you'll hang longer than some unc banners...

Or, we must all hang together or most assuredly we will all hang separately...

[Indoor66]

2045 my friend, 2045.

2078 has one coming right through the Triangle.

Some lucky folks in southern IL are in the path of totality for this eclipse and will also see totality in another eclipse in 2024!

You will have to prop me up for that one.😂😎

[PackMan97]

You will have to prop me up for that one.😂😎

...or maybe just thaw you out?

[jimsumner]

2078 will go right over my house. Alexa, mark that on my calendar.

[Mtn.Devil.91.92.01.10.15]

2078 will go right over my house. Alexa, mark that on my calendar.

"Purchasing a colander..."

Drive safe everyone.

[PackMan97]

Took six hours to drive what should have been a four hour drive. Saw four accidents. Be safe.

BTW - adaptive cruise control rocks my socks off

[CameronBornAndBred]

Took six hours to drive what should have been a four hour drive. Saw four accidents. Be safe.

BTW - adaptive cruise control rocks my socks off

Our drive to Charleston (Summerville, actually) was pretty smooth. It was congested, but not nearly like I expected. I am betting tomorrow will be worse, so I am happy we elected to make a long weekend of it. TONS of people here, it is crazy how busy just normal places like Target and grocery stores are.

[Neals384]

We are in John day Oregon. Expecting clear skies and 2 min 4 sec totality. No trouble getting here - took the back way highway 395

[Mtn.Devil.91.92.01.10.15]

Today's the big day!

[elvis14]

I'm laughing at those who are telling folks not to drive with glasses that block out 99.999% of the light! You quite litterally can see nothing BUT the sun when you wear these glasses. Only an idiot would try and drive with them on.

Just to be good neighbors, should we post a warning on Inside Carolina? Yeah, I want the to lose every game in every sport for ever and ever but I want the tears from their athletic supporters (and yes, both meanings of that term apply here) to be from the losses not from car accidents from driving while blind.

[Mtn.Devil.91.92.01.10.15]

I-26 coming into Asheville was a complete cluster at 8am.

[Tom B.]

Carbondale, Illinois (home to Southern Illinois University) is at the crossroads of today's eclipse and the one in 2017. And they're pretty stoked about it.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.2bab91f8120c

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Also, with Bonnie Tyler's "Total Eclipse of the Heart" getting a lot of play today, it seemed like a good time to resurface one of the greatest music video parodies ever. (And a reminder of just how bizarre the actual "Total Eclipse of the Heart" video was.)

[Indoor66]

Maybe most appropriate: We'll Sing in the Sunshine from 1964.

[devildeac]

Reporting from Raleigh where we're supposed to have 93%:

Looked at 200 and 215 through approved ISO glasses. Pretty cool. Patients haven't minded. Yet.

[luburch]

We hit 91/92% in Indy just now. Thought it was going to be slightly darker.

[devildeac]

We hit 91/92% in Indy just now. Thought it was going to be slightly darker.

Hope you're drinking a Sun King brew to celebrate.

I did, too. It's an eerie kind of darkness. One of our employees saw a solar flare about 30 minutes ago.

[duke79]

Just hit the peak here in Massachusetts - about 65% blockage, I believe. The light outside definitely darkened a little (nice day here) and I went outside my office and looked up with the eclipse sunglasses. Quite cool...sun looked to be about 80% covered and I tried the pinhole with two pieces of paper. It worked but the reflection on the second piece of paper was quite small.

[luburch]

Hope you're drinking a Sun King brew to celebrate.

I did, too. It's an eerie kind of darkness. One of our employees saw a solar flare about 30 minutes ago.

Would have loved to been enjoying a Sunlight Cream Ale, but apparently that is frowned upon at the office.

[DUKIECB]

Wasn't in totality where I live but is was pretty nonetheless.
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[Mtn.Devil.91.92.01.10.15]

Was truly magical to see the sun blotted out... By a cloud.

Nature wins again