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The 75% Eclipse Came and Went and If No One Said Anything I Wouldn’t Have Noticed

Monday, 21 August 2017, 16:26 BFH Uncategorized 68

Sure hope it was a lot more awesome for the people who traveled 100s of miles.

(I’m sure it was.)

Now what am I gonna do with all this bread and milk?

68 Comments on The 75% Eclipse Came and Went and If No One Said Anything I Wouldn’t Have Noticed

  1. Haha! I thought the same thing…if I didn’t know about the eclipse I wouldn’t have noticed anything different. Here in CT the light was no different from a cloudy day.

  3. I’m in a 90% zone and it did get a little darker. It definitely cooled off, I needed a sweatshirt. You probably have to be in an area of totality to be impressed.

  6. Okay, I thought it was wonderful (but Shep Smith thought it was awful). We watched all the coverage from NASA as well until some Democrat congressman got through and started talking about how the right doesn’t believe in climate change. I had a moment where I was feeling really good and that asshole showed up. Can people just for one thing STFU??

  13. 69% eclipse here, and I am home with young kids so we made viewing boxes and had a nice afternoon outside. I thought the boxes would only show shadow but we got full color images of the sun getting mostly covered, the clouds around it, and even the branches of a tree overhead! It was pretty cool.

  16. I don’t know what percentage here in Seattle, but I did that colander thing. Nothing. It did get darker here, but the cool thing was being able to “see” the eclipse in the shadows a tree’s leaves made on the kitchen floor. I took pics.

  22. Seattle was 92%. Our valley was foggy until 20 minutes before it started and everything cleared out nicely. It definitely got darker, felt weird for the time of day and the temps dropped too. I have friends who were viewing it in Franklin, Kentucky and I was texting them the route as it travelled east…. totality in Madras, OR…totality in Jackson Hole WY….etc… it was a fun way to spend a morning not working.

  25. 100% and it did go pitch black and much colder. It only took a tiny sliver of the sun to show again for the lights to come back on. Best part, besides the total eclipse, was a lonesome howling of a dog a block over for better than an hour.

  26. ^^ We did that back when I was in grade school many (many) years ago. In our area the eclipse was not total, but was something over 75% as I recall.
    The pinhole boxes actually gave a surprisingly good view.
    Although we were cautioned not to, a few of us glanced briefly through dark film negatives. (Without the warning I doubt anyone would have tried it.)
    The whole thing was over in a matter of minutes but managed to leave quite an impression

  27. I live in an 80% zone and I don’t understand why the pinhole boxes are supposed to be any good. And yeah, besides a change of temperature here, who in the world noticed?

  30. 98% here. Set up a spotting scope from a bigger telescope and projected the image onto paper taped to a tall cardboard box.

    It was funky, it was fun, the light was fragile around corners of shadows. Amazing just how well 2% of the sun can light things up though. You’d think the thing was nuclear powered or something.

  31. 100% here in Nashville. The news was reporting that up to 1.4 million people were expected to travel here to watch. Mr. Vixen and I had an Eclipse Party with a couple close friends– great food and drink and viewing time. It was actually quite incredible to see. My son took a time lapse vid that was amazing. I was kind of “meh” about the whole thing leading up to today, but I gotta say, it was cool . The last time we had a total eclipse here was back in the 1400’s– I was too young to remember much about it. 😎

  37. Seriously, it could have been any normal day. No darkening, no temp drop.

    The Weather Channel had some nice close ups, but we had to mute the sound because their vapid vacuous on-location reporterettes just would not stop overemoting like 8 year olds.

    I did see an awful lot of people staring at the sun with no eclipse glasses, no sunglasses, just naked eyes.

    So I’m hoping for a DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS effect here.
    Half of D.C. waking up totally blind tomorrow would be a nice shortcut on Draining The Swamp.

  38. We drove down on Sat. Awesome here in MO. At about 90% plus, Venus “popped out.” DH got a great photo of the corona “diamomd ring” along with misc other photos. DH is EE and amateur astronomer and SIL is aeronautical/astro engineer, so it was a huge deal for them. Daughter dearest and I watched through our special glasses, the solarscope, and margaritas. Had a great experience.

  42. We rounded up all the animals and brought them in. It’s hard to tell which ones made a bigger mess – raccoons, deer, possums, skunks or coyotes.

    It was a big nothing burger in NE Ohio.

  43. My wife and I are on vacation outside of Seattle. It got colder and noticibly darker. About a minute after the peak a flock of geese took off with horns a-honking. That was funny.

    But you need to appreciate how hard it was for me to arrange this in honor of my wife’s 65th birthday. It wasn’t easy, I tell you.

  46. I drove a few miles south from where I am working to Columbia, IL.

    100% and I thought it was cool and I am glad I saw it. I was baking in the sun and just before totality it felt like just before sunset. The bugs started making noises like at night.

    I drove back up north right afterwards and there was a hazr across I-255 after the humidity condensed from the teperature dropped.

    I left work at 4pm to return to the hotel. I heard there is a 37 mile traffic jam on I-55 & I-255 south and east of STL.

  50. Add me to the list of Eclipse Deniers.
    Tstorm moved in about the same time.
    This was so meh I’m surprised Shep didn’t call Geraldo so they could make out in the dark.

    As for the glasses, maybe DEVO will re-form and start touring again.

  51. !00% here wsw of STL. Mrs. F4 and I and the 3 dogs watched in the back yard. The coolest thing were the cicadas started their late evening noise. Saw the same effect that AA saw under the trees. Very pretty.
    Seeing Venus at 13:15 was pretty neat.

  53. I was so excited, I got up at 5am. It was so dark out, I thought I’d missed it.

    Went for a walk about the time it was at max coverage. Couldn’t see it though, it was too dark out.

  54. Fort Hood, checking in: We had about 70% totality. It got noticeably darker and cooler out (not much, but you could tell).

    A couple people had some of those viewing glasses, and they got passed around the crowd. It was a fun little extended lunch break. I took a picture with my phone, through the goggles. Didn’t come out too well, but if you know what you’re looking at, you can see it.

  55. From my son’s Facebook page: “Here’s a cool tip: if you stare directly at the eclipse today for at least 15 minutes, you’ll develop much better hearing over the next few years.”

  57. Laid down for a ‘short’ nap around 11 (I was up all night) and next I knew, it was almost 3! Totally missed it, but probably wasn’t much here on the north side of Chicago anyway! Another comes in 7 yrs…hopeful?!?

  58. 91 – 94% with no real significant affects. The sky got a little dark, like looking through a filter and the temperature dropped. Lot of hype, but interesting.
    I do look forward to 2024 because the next American eclipse goes right by my home town.

  64. About 20 miles north of Blue Hill Nebraska….100 percent coverage and it got dusk dark….this is one photo, but I have one that might go viral if I can get the lady to sober up…..corn/bean field, 50 beers, county road, three 60 ,year olds that know better and still didn’t…..amazing!…..hold this out close to yer nose, But my buddy Andy decided that he could no longer pee with his shirt on…..I was driving so I had 3 beers over 4 hours and was still able to pee with my shirt on…..I do have a photo coming if Lisa didn’t kill it….here we are… https://webmail.ruraltel.net/index.php/mail/viewmessage/getattachment/folder/INBOX/uniqueId/3080/mimeType/aW1hZ2UvanBlZw==/filenameOriginal/af3c148307eb86dad47c94f4f2715690/attachmentId/1

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