[ARCHIVED THREAD] - 2017 eclipse (Page 1 of 18)
Posted: 7/19/2017 10:39:26 PM EDT
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I'm getting worried. About a year ago I reserved the closest house I could afford for the weekend of the eclipse. Bend Oregon is the closest I could get without spending too much.
Everyone says Madras is the hot spot for the eclipse but it's going to be a shit show with everybody arriving and then trying to leave when the eclipse passes. I'm thinking, leave Bend at midnight and drive somewhere in the path of totality but NOT Madras. You guys got any thoughts? |
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You can go through Prineville and up toward Mitchell on 26 if you want to be in the area of totality. You're going to be on 2 lane roads with everyone else trying to get home. If you can swing it, spending the night of the eclipse in Redmond or Bend might not be a bad idea. I would think that with traffic, it'll be mid to late afternoon by the time you get back that far south anyway.
OSP is warning about record numbers of tourists with heavy traffic. I would suggest you have your car full of gas, and plenty of drinks and food/snacks with you. Top off the ice and gas every chance you get. Gas stations, restaurants, and convenience stores are all packed in that area this time of year anyway and you can expect it to be much much worse during the eclipse. As long as you know that there is going to be agonizing slow traffic on 2 lane roads, you can be mentally prepared for it. We're going to go out in our front yard for the eclipse and make sure we have gas and groceries ahead of time. Agencies here are warning people about extra traffic and asking you not to get out on the roads unneessarily. |
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You can go through Prineville and up toward Mitchell on 26 if you want to be in the area of totality. You're going to be on 2 lane roads with everyone else trying to get home. If you can swing it, spending the night of the eclipse in Redmond or Bend might not be a bad idea. I would think that with traffic, it'll be mid to late afternoon by the time you get back that far south |
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10 million people descending onto small town America, all at the same time. What could go wrong?
Roads clogged. Local grocery stores depleted of food, water, everything. Sanitary facilities overloaded. Anger, road rage, and opportunities for every kind of crime imaginable. Police, fire, and EMTs totally overwhelmed. A DIY Zombie Appocolapse. Yeah, great vacation plan. Sorry I can't make it. |
| All booked here at 5x the normal hotel rate. This area can't handle the existing auto traffic much less 5x the population. A main concern is FOOD. Crowds already showing up in restaurants, I see hoards of Chinese, a lot of strange Germanic language also. Pastures are renting @300$ for a tent set-up on a 20sqft area!! Money...that's what we want. |
| We're in the Seattle area, and we recently banned vacation time on Aug 21 and rescinded previously approved vacation time. Our CEO thinks people will be stupid and look directly at the sun and end-up with permeant eye damage. He's already said he wants everyone in the office and all blinds to be closed.z |
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I'm considering Oregon as well, as I don't think I'll be able to afford to drive to Wyoming or Nebraska (and pick up my buddy in Colorado on the way) like I had wanted to do.
Is there anywhere off the beaten path within the path of totality that might be good to go and camp out at if I leave a couple of days or more in advance, even if I have to load up my ruck and walk somewhere from wherever I park? I neither need nor can afford a hotel, and camping for days-on-end is not a big deal for me. What are the carry laws like for long guns and handguns for people without a CCW permit, especially out in the boonies? |
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Didn't realize this was a thing. |
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Ditto, when I was in elementary school there was an eclipse the school had a bunch of these special cardboard box things made so you could see the eclipse without looking directly at it and made a big deal about it. I took my turn and thought they went through all this for that? It's pretty neat but no way I would make a vacation out of it or even change my plans for the day. Different strokes Quoted:
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Didn't realize this was a thing. |
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You can use this site to see how much of the eclipse you will see at whatever location you plan on viewing: https://eclipsemega.movie/simulator
Get your viewing glasses now. |
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Op, fly to Kansas City or St. Louis on Southwest for like $200 and have the whole damn state to check shit out. here use google maps. http://xjubier.free.fr/en/site_pages/solar_eclipses/TSE_2017_GoogleMapFull.html |
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All booked here at 5x the normal hotel rate. This area can't handle the existing auto traffic much less 5x the population. A main concern is FOOD. Crowds already showing up in restaurants, I see hoards of Chinese, a lot of strange Germanic language also. Pastures are renting @300$ for a tent set-up on a 20sqft area!! Money...that's what we want. How far in advance of the 21st are the hotels all booked up? I have a place that I can stay from the 18th through the 22nd. If I were looking to stay overnight for one night in Boise on the 17th would I be SOL? |
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92% coverage here I believe. I may step outside the office for minute and check it out. Quoted:
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We're in the Seattle area, and we recently banned vacation time on Aug 21 and rescinded previously approved vacation time. Our CEO thinks people will be stupid and look directly at the sun and end-up with permeant eye damage. He's already said he wants everyone in the office and all blinds to be closed.z |
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Ditto, when I was in elementary school there was an eclipse the school had a bunch of these special cardboard box things made so you could see the eclipse without looking directly at it and made a big deal about it. I took my turn and thought they went through all this for that? It's pretty neat but no way I would make a vacation out of it or even change my plans for the day. Different strokes Quoted:
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Didn't realize this was a thing. |
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So are the cheap paper glasses that Amazon sells good enough? We have reservations at hotels in totality in both Nebraska and Tennessee, made in August of 2016. We'll decide where we're going two days before based on weather forecasts. Straight shot down 75, or out west on 80. Yes, we're all big science geeks. |