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re: Small Towns Brace for Total Solar Eclipse
Posted on 8/29/23 at 2:39 pm to Codythetiger
Posted on 8/29/23 at 2:39 pm to Codythetiger
Am I crazy because I don't really care about eclipses and other celestial events? I mean if it went overhead I would take a look but I can't see myself travelling to see it.
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Posted on 8/29/23 at 2:39 pm to WB Davis
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bracing for damage
Posted on 8/29/23 at 2:39 pm to Codythetiger
In 2017, one of the commentators on ESPN, Jemele Hill, said that the solar eclipse was racist because only white people cared.
Posted on 8/29/23 at 2:49 pm to XenScott
quote:Its worth it.
Am I crazy because I don't really care about eclipses and other celestial events? I mean if it went overhead I would take a look but I can't see myself travelling to see it.
Posted on 8/29/23 at 2:54 pm to Codythetiger
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Little rock has very little hotels left
Why?
Posted on 8/29/23 at 2:55 pm to tigeroarz1
I'm on the 95%/100% line. That's as close as I'm getting.
Posted on 8/29/23 at 2:57 pm to XenScott
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Am I crazy because I don't really care about eclipses and other celestial events? I mean if it went overhead I would take a look but I can't see myself travelling to see it.
I was close to the last one 6 years ago, but not in the path of totality. I looked up when the next close one would be happening and began planning to get myself and my family in the path of totality that day.
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This post was edited on 8/29/23 at 3:01 pm
Posted on 8/29/23 at 2:59 pm to Clyde Tipton
Posted on 8/29/23 at 3:37 pm to WB Davis
My in laws live in a small town ( 1 street light in the county) that is smack in the middle of the path. They are working on a plan but fear it's too late. They had a rep from another town that suffered under the last eclipse in to give them guidance. When you have one hotel one grocery store and a couple restaurants....it doesn't take many extra people to create chaos
Posted on 8/29/23 at 3:41 pm to OlGrandad
Grandma drove us all the way to Georgia to view the 1970's total solar eclipse.
My big memory is that migratory birds went nuts and flew in circles.
And it was a long frigging time for a kid to ride in a car for such a short event.
My big memory is that migratory birds went nuts and flew in circles.
And it was a long frigging time for a kid to ride in a car for such a short event.
Posted on 8/29/23 at 3:42 pm to WB Davis
I live in the path so I could just see it from home, but my deer lease is also on the path and I imagine a better spot to see it from than a major city. Will likely plan on the lease but let the weather make the final call.
Posted on 8/29/23 at 3:45 pm to AlonsoWDC
quote:maybe because of the subject of this thread?
Little rock has very little hotels left
Why?
Posted on 8/29/23 at 3:54 pm to WB Davis
Got my room booked about 6 months ago in Hot Springs.
Posted on 8/29/23 at 3:55 pm to CocomoLSU
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How could this do anything to these small towns other than boost the local economies by more people (i.e. tourists) being there and gassing up, eating, buying shite, etc.
Climate change and racism
Posted on 8/29/23 at 3:56 pm to WB Davis
My brother's inlaws have a big ranch outside Fredericksburg ,Texas and he has been worried about the influx of people for the last 2 years.
Posted on 8/29/23 at 3:59 pm to WB Davis
Drove to Tennessee for the last one and it is definitely worth it if you can get in the path of totality.
My friends and co-workers who stayed in Huntsville where it was about 95% say it is not worth it at that point.
My friends and co-workers who stayed in Huntsville where it was about 95% say it is not worth it at that point.
Posted on 8/29/23 at 4:04 pm to Codythetiger
Can we just drive down and sit in your driveway?
Real question- how is it if you are outside the path of totality? Partial eclipse?
Real question- how is it if you are outside the path of totality? Partial eclipse?
Posted on 8/29/23 at 4:04 pm to WB Davis
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"People are going to be coming here from all over the world," Jim Sweat, captain of the Richland County Sheriff's Office, told the group of leaders. "They're going to leave Richland County and they don't care what's happened."
What a freaking defeatist attitude.
You know what comes with tourism??? MONEY. Find ways to get them to spend it.
You see the amount of people at the Glastonbury Music Festival in the UK? They worried about crowds?
Hell no. They want you to come and bring money.
Posted on 8/29/23 at 4:11 pm to WB Davis
I experienced the hellish mayhem of traffic after the last one.
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