Where exactly depends on if I'm working, chasing someone around town.

If it's clear here, I want to try that little trick with a colander to see the crescents on the ground.

We are only getting 80% coverage in western PA.

I had read about trees or a piece of lace. I hadn't read about a colander!

Thanks!!

And look at the pattern on the ground. Instead of little dots, you'll see whatever phase the eclipse is in!!!!! (Works with trees too!)

If the weather permits, I will take two sheets of copy paper (my personal image projector), a bottle of water, my phone and maybe a blanket and watch nature take its course...

I will be in Independence waiting for my grandgirl to wake up.

2.5 minutes of totality in my backyard!

convince my husband to jump in the car with me and drive to South Carolina from SE Pennsylvania, any idea where there might be any chance of finding an empty space in the path of totality?

I know, latecomers trying to hone in, but, I have been working very hard to convince myself it's not worth traveling so far for, but I just don't believe myself!

Sounds kind of confusing, view-wise: Max view @ 2:42 p.m. (in DC.) Weather here, 60 miles south of DC: sunny @ 10 A.M, 'isolated t'storms' 11-12, 'mostly sunny' @ 1 p.m, 'partly cloudy' @ 2:00 p.m, 'mostly sunny'@ 3:00 - 4 p.m., and SUNNY thereafter til sunset @ 7:50.

Live in Indiana now, but my job is still back there!

P.S. GREAT weather today!

I used to go sailing and crabbing on the Patuxent River.

and my neighbors catch crabs; many fish here (INCLUDING Osprey family!)

Well, not in my den. I'll be out on my lawn.

Might go over to one of the beaches. Not sure.

Can't imagine I'll actually get down there, but, if I did, a beach would be awesome.

Observing totality! Have my glasses ready. I may hang out with some neighbors, or may stay home if my fur babies are getting skittish. For sure am looking forward to seeing or hearing how the birds react. We are to have just over 2 minutes of totality where I am. Keeping fingers crossed for clear skies.

NE Georgia is nice. We are just south of Franklin in the zone...

I am about 1 hr southwest of Franklin. We are also well inside the zone.

And should be about right on the center of totality. Enjoy!

I plan to go out in front of my building with my approved glasses. There's supposed to be light rain tomorrow, but it'll still get dark and weird, considering it's the middle of the day. After reading this thread, I plan to take a colander, too!

And maybe filling a bucket with crawdads for dinner.

But try making it as a young person seeking a great job around here.
It's not like the trees need watering.

Damn

Love the OR coast. I live on the east side of the central Cascades in WA.

Between Wenatchee and Chelan

So you know my country. We have a lot of solitude at our place. Just what I need.

The other two are upstream on the Alsea River towards my turnoff, above the head of tide where ocean run cutthroat trout are starting to return for their annual feast on salmon eggs. Giant salmon will be coming up river as soon as it rains.

Too bad Panoramio is closing. You can paste the URLs into the Wayback Machine and see coordinates. I grabbed the images from the Panoramio layer in Google earth. Hope that doesn't just evaporate too.

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/10678451
https://web.archive.org/web/20161013011127/http://www.panoramio.com/photo/10678451

I have about 5,000 archaeology photos saved by number so I can still go "way back" to see the old pages.

Lucky you!

You're also not too far away from Newport where I stayed once for a week...wait, let me correct that, I stayed at the Rogue River Brewery and slept in a room in Newport.

beautiful.

Looking out the window at the thunder storm

because it's potentially a once in a lifetime event, all the glasses were sold out. Miraculously, the library near my house was holding an event where the first 75 participants would get a free pair. I decided I was too tired to sit through that.

The drive to the mountains (to see 100% totality) would have been a little under 2 hours. My area will only experience 97.5% coverage. The difference between night and day. But without the glasses, it doesn't matter. So I'll be in the house, working from home.

But you can go outside and watch the shadows. It will get dark, but it is a different type of dark than when the sun goes behind clouds. It will be like putting on a dark pair of sunglasses. I experienced one that was 85%-90%. Shadows from tree leaves will become crescents. If you have a colander or pegboard you can take that outside and make cool shadows with it.

Can only do so during the total phase if you are in that zone.

https://eclipse2017.nasa.gov/safety

here in Jamaica

that's too bad.
hey malaise what part of Jamaica are you located in?. That is my and my husbands favourite place.

We were going to see a partial eclipse. What was TS Harvey's clouds will block everything tomorrow

and have a patty for me!!!

Very little rain or wind - and it's cooler today

Clearing up

If NM didn't need the rain so badly after no monsoons this year, I'd be put out by it. As it is, I'll just watch online.

9am is peak here in WA.
Hope the next one in 2033 is more timely.

Thought it's around 10:30 am?

Right.
I don't know what I was thinking.

70% cloud cover, strong isolated thunderstorms. I will watch online.

while the barbecue sizzles. Cheers.

with my supervisor a half hour before it happens. A routine thing. I don't have glasses.

from the U of A.

We'll see about 98% totality here.

Should get a bit over two minutes of totality. I learned my lesson years ago. Anything less than totality is a disappointment. Few clouds forecast; today is totally clear like an early fall day.

with the kids. we are in the path of totality, somehow.

I have eclipse glasses. I will do the colander thing. I'm going to put a solar filter on my camera and cell phone. I wonder if we will any "shadowiness" at 60%? I know at 80% it does get darker.

The eclipse will be at 1 pm, which is a great time to observe changes. Forecast: clear skies. Can't rule out the sun briefly hiding behind a cloud.

No eclipse here

I have another 5 to go.

No trees and lots of lawn.

99.2% coverage. Soooooo, excited!



Correction... 99.4%

Watching the eclipse on television.

We are supposed to get between 81 and 82 % coverage, so no total eclipse viewing for us. But it will still make for some funky shadows and optical effects.

I witnessed the eclipse in May 1984 on the campus of University of South Alabama. It was not total but very close---97%. It was a really amazing experience and one I won't forget. The color of the sky, the odd shadows, the strange feeling of seeing the world go dark in such a dramatic manner is truly a memorable event. So yes, even though I won't witness a total eclipse, being present for any of it should be an interesting experience. Weather permitting---clouds, please stay away---I wanna be outside! 🌞

I'd like to go somewhere where it's total, but I'm hearing that the hotels in those areas are charging 5x their usual rates and the highways will be jammed. So I guess I'll get out my old welding goggles and stay home.

Most goggles are only a shade 5, not nearly enough protection for any extended viewing time.

watching the 99.93% total eclipse from my yard through a welding mask borrowed for the occasion.

Or maybe sitting in my office, about three feet from the beautiful sunny sunlighty sunlight of beautiful sunny Southern California.

us old people like to take naps don't cha no

Back to sun with homemade paper thingy. Going to pretend it was like the one when i was a kid and we made those boxes with hole.

...stuck in my cube...

I'll probably be out in a garden.

I might go up to Elbert County.

I was here in Georgia for the 1984 eclipse.

Hopefully I will not be in a windowless conference room when it happens.

every time the electricity would go out my dad would yell from the darkness, "Where was Moses when the lights went out?" In the dark of course.

We won't get much of it here.

Considered going 75 miles south where it will be 100%, but decided to enjoy what I could from here.

Fayetteville going from dentist to doctor appts.

I hope people don't go crazy and have tons of wrecks.

Checked in an hour ago. They have a HUGE field
next to the building.

Almost ground zero.
99.8%

I'm getting some pressure to travel a bit further into the path of totality, where some friends are having a viewing/bbq/party, but we've been so overwhelmed with eclipse tourists overloading our infrastructure that I will be at home. I didn't pick up any glasses, so I won't be looking AT it, but I'll be outside making sure the horses and the sheep don't freak out.

My office is outdoors 365 days a year.

I popped over to Harvard Square in 1970 since I didn't have a yacht (the only way to see it in Mass) and for the few minutes as the eclipse passed to the south, it got quite dark. It was an outdoor lunatic asylum that day, so I enjoyed it fully.

I'll be sitting under clouds in NM, where it will only be 75% or so. I suppose it will be dark, my headlamp has new batteries.

With my 91 year old Mother.
I'm glad she gets to experience the Eclipse.

I hope you and your mom enjoy.

Oh, well, just another day

That'll be cool. I may still toss on my welding mask and take a peek at it this afternoon.

Out here from New England to experience it.

look up!

2:45 or basically smack in the middle.

That must have been why the appointment was available on short notice.

I need some areas on my back checked out.

I will be snorkeling for scallops off Crystal River, Florida. And hopefully catching some trout or snapper to join them for supper.

Fingers crossed for clear skies.

I live about 6 miles outside the zone of totality. I plan to drive into it, weather permitting. I haven't decided where yet. I might head up to Batesburg, but it sounds like everyone and their brother is headed that way. So, I may just head over to Wagner. The period of totality is about 30 seconds shorter there, but the traffic might not be as dense. It's pretty rural out that way, and I'll probably just pull along side the road somewhere.

Madras) and find a likely spot w wife and daughters. We've done great-pre-eclipse prep w hikes, mead, and wreath-making and are ready!

sitting under 2 minutes 30 seconds of totality. Ready to leave early in the morning. Yippeeeee, an adventure. The weather was supposed to be cloudy with a 40% chance of rain but they have put that rain off until after 4PM. Excited. Packed snacks and food and water and TP etc already.

I live near Orlando, so not exactly close. I feel like I'm the only person in the country who doesn't really care about it.