Solar Eclipse April 8, 2024

[AKAK]

I'm upset that I'm not making the effort to get farther north or west. I looked at the schedule of eclipses to see when it would be closer.........I'll be dead.

Quick heads up. You need to outlive me. I'm not doing anymore dead member posts.

 

[Thump]

So, from Columbus what is that about 98% of it?

Yes

 

[DubCoffman62]

Will Uranus be visible?

Black holes are invisible

 

[Mike80]

Black holes are invisible

Tell that to my ex-wife

 

[AKAK]

Ah.... Yeah

Niagara Falls declares state of emergency ahead of April 8 total eclipse as 1M expected

Niagara Falls, Canada, has declared a state of emergency ahead of the April 8 total eclipse as 1 million people are expected to flood the area.

nypost.com

 

[ExpatAkronite]

Ah.... Yeah

Niagara Falls declares state of emergency ahead of April 8 total eclipse as 1M expected

Niagara Falls, Canada, has declared a state of emergency ahead of the April 8 total eclipse as 1 million people are expected to flood the area.

nypost.com

OR did something similar 4 years ago. The roads in the area with totality are mostly state and county roads and they were worried about emergency vehicles not being able to get through. Of course the population density around Niagra pretty much eclipses :) the whole population of OR!

 

[Tomateaux Quinoa Gumbeaux]

Has anyone here been to the city of Niagara, NY?

Looks like a state of emergency could be declared there every day.

 

[CincyInterloper]

Supposedly the difference between 100% and 98 or 99% is night and day. It's about 4-5 hours away for me......plus all the traffic. I want to swing it, but it doesn't work.

Witnessing a total eclipse is a fundamentally different experience than a partial eclipse, even at 99.9%, and well worth the effort to see. I was in KY for the 2017 eclipse. The traffic coming home sucked, but if you can handle a typical Saturday in Columbus during football season, this should be no problem. You can fit a lot of people into a strip 200 miles wide and 2000 miles long. I plan to watch it from my brother-in-law's house in Oxford OH. I just hope the sky is clear.

 

[Tomateaux Quinoa Gumbeaux]

Got the glasses. Going to drive up Sunday to Arkansas somewhere around hot springs or Little Rock (taking back roads as much as possible) and find a place.

Don’t really care about doing it at the “best place” hell I’ll just park in a Walmart parking lot and get out my car if it comes down to it.

 

[ScriptOhio]

I live in Gahanna; and the eclipse just.......

 

[Fungo Squiggly]

I live in Gahanna; and the eclipse just.......

At one point, the totality line was passing directly through the parking lot of my office. I wouldn’t have gotten totality from my office, but the shops at the other end would have.

 

[NJ-Buckeye]

Since the world is ending tomorrow.. wanted to say O-H
and f^%k scUM

 

[buckeyebri]

I O…… F those cheaters

 

[TDunk]

Since the world is ending tomorrow.. wanted to say O-H
and f^%k scUM

see you tomorrow

 

[Zurp]

Witnessing a total eclipse is a fundamentally different experience than a partial eclipse, even at 99.9%, and well worth the effort to see. I was in KY for the 2017 eclipse. The traffic coming home sucked, but if you can handle a typical Saturday in Columbus during football season, this should be no problem. You can fit a lot of people into a strip 200 miles wide and 2000 miles long. I plan to watch it from my brother-in-law's house in Oxford OH. I just hope the sky is clear.

I went to Paducah, KY for the eclipse, too. The only traffic we saw was in/around Cincinnati, and I think that was because they closed the 71/75 bridge. Though, now that I think of it, we got to Paducah the day before and left the day after. Maybe all these estimates saying how bad the traffic is going to be are based on people arriving and leaving today.
I am getting a kick out of the "oh no! Traffic!!! RUN!!!" folks. Is it really going to be worse than after a Buckeye game? Or after a Browns game? I'm going to bet "no".