August total solar elcipse

[MajBach]

Once in a lifetime event to plan for. Applies to other regions as well.

https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/solar/2017-august-21

Salem, OR huh? Hey Jer...how many tents will your yard hold?

 

[dcarver]

Once in a lifetime event to plan for. Applies to other regions as well.
https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/solar/2017-august-21

Salem, OR huh? Hey Jer...how many tents will your yard hold?

Or, how many wide bodies can your roof hold?

 

[Panman]

Good discussion here on this topic;

https://www.fjrforum.com/forum//index.php/topic/169741-eclipse-2017/?hl=%2Btotal+%2Beclipse&do=findComment&comment=1365101

Madras is six hours from my place, seven counting fuel.

Actually think about it.

 

[SacramentoMike]

I've been looking forward to this thing for years--literally. But thinking about it and doing something about it are not the same thing, it turns out. More than a year ago I started trying to find a room for this thing and I couldn't. Most were booked, and some wouldn't accept a reservation that far out.

But I do have a spot lined up now in a fully-booked-up campsite along the centerline in Idanha, OR, thanks to the forum and a generous offer to share from a member. But I got a warning about places like where I'll be and places like Madras, which is not too far east of where I'll be. It's going to be packed. Not just the hotels, motels and campgrounds, but the roads. In those parts, the roads are not real thoroughfares, and the traffic in and out could be a nightmare, both before and after totality. People come from far away to see these things, and central or eastern Oregon has about the best chance of clear skies available anywhere in August.

We'll arrive the day before, spend two nights, and leave the day after, and I hope even that gives us enough time built in for the delays that are certain. Madras is on 97, and that's pretty much a 2-lane road most of the way N or S. Just leave yourself a cushion of time, cuz you don't want to see a partial eclipse from the middle of a traffic jam!

 

[Spud]

We're expecting over 500,000 visitors in the Idaho Falls area, it's been a big deal here. Half the town has rented out their houses. Farmers are setting up camping sites in fields. It's gonna be a ZOO

 

[Fred W]

Well I hear you went to Saratoga, and your horse, naturally, wonThen you flew your Learjet up to Nova Scotia, to see the total eclipse of the sun

Well, you're where you should be all the time.

And when you're not, you're with some underworld spy, or the wife of a close friend.

I think Carly was singing about July 30th, 1963, when the total eclipse didn't dip down into the US. So the unnamed person who was "So Vain" (suspected to be Warren Beatty) had to fly up to Canada for the best viewing.

Not having a Lear, I'll be watching the partial from home, right after we get home from NERDS!.

 

[MajBach]

Good discussion here on this topic;
https://www.fjrforum.com/forum//index.php/topic/169741-eclipse-2017/?hl=%2Btotal+%2Beclipse&do=findComment&comment=1365101

Madras is six hours from my place, seven counting fuel.

Actually think about it.

Indeed! And a good discussion going on there. Couldn't be bothered doing a search beforehand to check for redundancy.