And bonus, the Great Grandchildren will qualify for senior discounts by then.Reserving my hotel room now! I’m all about the early bird rates.
My older son and his wife came to our place from Grand Rapids on Sunday. Then my wife and other kids joined them and they all went to a park in Greenfield to picnic and watch the eclipse. We're near I-65, but my son being the intelligent man he is, he stuck to back roads and state highways. They experienced no traffic issues. Honestly, about half the time I go from Valparaiso to Indy I take 421 or 31 just to avoid I-65. I give up a little time, but also much aggravation. 421 particularly is a pleasant drive.More than 4 min of total eclipse at my house with perfect sunny skies. It was amazing! And I agree w/ above posters, the up to "99.9% part" was "ok", but when it hit 100%, that was something entirely different! We had relatives and friends over, and one had a telescope w/ a solar funnel, a countdown app, etc... That was really neat!
But it seems the traffic afterward was awful. My friends reported 6+ hours drive for what should've been 4, and that was with staying for dinner instead of leaving right afterward. It seems like all of Chicago came to Indianapolis to see the event. Another acquaintance reported 6 hours driving back from Lebanon to Chicago.
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Did you think you were in the OSUT thread?Almost supper time.
Don’t know if they can be downloaded or not but some great photos on the www. Bill Nye on the TV news said this wasn’t a true CME, he used another term that escapes me rite now. Still cool.Does anyone here have a good pic of the CME at the bottom of the eclipse? It was pretty big on the naked eye.
Solar Prominence, I believe.Don’t know if they can be downloaded or not but some great photos on the www. Bill Nye on the TV news said this wasn’t a true CME, he used another term that escapes me rite now. Still cool.
Been posted in either this thread or possibly in the Governor Holcomb Emergency thread (paraphrasing).Does anyone here have a good pic of the CME at the bottom of the eclipse? It was pretty big on the naked eye.
West Baden hotel. Before restoration I played basketball inside that rotunda in the late 70s. Larry Bird basketball camp had set up the goals inside the perimeter! Have a pic of me and the Bird showing that setup somewhere.
It was a pinnacle moment for the former Webster science teacher, who’d spent over a decade sharing his passion for all things celestial with 14- and 15-year olds, and telling them to meet him in 2024 for the total solar eclipse bound for Rochester.
Moriarty, now 68, never thought a bunch of them would actually show up at his Brighton home for the occasion. . . .
About 100 former students descended on his driveway Monday, with camping chairs, sun-shaped cookies and champagne in tow. Many wore nametags with their year of graduation.