Just think of all the deer that are going to die in the next few weeks running into traffic blind as a bat!! Also, i guess we should just cancel our dove hunt. They will be dead to from flying into buildings!!
We were at 93% coverage here in New Bern. I sure expected it to get a lot darker than it did. Amazing how bright only 7% of the sun is! And dang it...I got all ammo-ed up and not a single zombie came out to be shot!
Pretty neat effect through the trees in our office parking lot in Washington.
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Yep, it has gotten cloudy now and is a lot darker than the eclipse. I figured at 95% here, it would be a lot darker than it was.
I know you're joking but I was sitting on porch watching my dove field. Those lil jokers went on a binge feed and were flying everywhere before and during. Kinda like they do after a hard rain.
Me too, if most adults were outside today in our area without any advance notice of the event, I bet 99% would not have noticed anything special. I sure didn't, and many people around me said the same thing.Honestly, I thought it was going to get much darker than it did... It was a let down
1970 I was 8 years old when the "eclipse of the century" passed south to north along the Eastern Seaboard of the United States. I was a huge astronomy nut / space junky back then what with manned rocket launches and such to tantalize a young man's adventurous mind,,,,,I made an eclipse viewer so I could see the eclipse of the sun (no fancy glasses that I know of back then),,,,,,I was in Wisconsin so didn't get the full eclipse like they did here in NC and elsewhere,,,,,,
47 years later my grandson is 8 years old,,,,and we watched the eclipse together,,,,,,he loved it,,,and I loved him loving it,,,,,,we talked about the why,,,we talked about how cool it was,,,and we discussed any questions/concerns he might have had,,,,,,
I know a lot of you poo-poo the idea of watching the eclipse,,,,but I looked forward to it and so did my grandson,,,,
I found it very cool, very satisfying that we were both 8 years old when we saw our first eclipse,,,,,we are already making plans for 2024 so his little brother (3 yrs old for this one) can see one,,,,,,