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That's in the county live in, and they are really making a big deal out of it. The greatest point of eclipse totality.....by a half a second or so......is here, and they are really exploiting it. Even the local Mennonites are getting in on it, and when you see them selling crap on the side of the road, you know it's a big deal. It's actually a little embarrassing to see what's going on, with people advertising parking for the eclipse, at $20-$25 a car. I've already made a couple of the locals mad by telling them that I hoped it rained and they didn't have a damn soul show up. I'm all for free enterprise, but I'm not for watching people get ripped off.

I'll work around here on the farm, watch it get dark, then watch it get light again, and life will go on as usual.

People will need the weather to cooperate and it may not in some areas.

We'll see how today and tomorrow morning goes but at this point all th news outlets are wondering where all the people are on the roads and towns in the path.

Stupid bastids all!!

Hows the crowd in Ola, we've considered going thru there in the morning?

With the influx of women to the rural areas, when it goes dark it'll be a good time to GTBTP!

There's less traffic here than a normal summer weekend, almost eerie.

Went up to Potland area yesterday and took my wife on the Paddle Steamer Dinner Cruise thru the
Columbia River Gorge...

No real back ups on the way up there.... guess many out of staters are already up there...

There was a lot of 5th wheels and Winnebagos heading north with CA plates to...

Hotel/Motel Parking lots were awfully full...as were rest areas etc...

Did make the mistake of taking the wife on the Old River Gorge Highway, old US 30...

Jammed with plenty of Californians sight seeing...

Plenty of foreign idiots also, Chinese, Muslims, Mexicans etc...

along with the Antifa looking types...unemployed, no hygiene etc...

The seem to have NO problem stopping in the middle of the road, even if they are blocking 50 cars behind them.

Wish I had an M 60 Tank when I went thru Multnomah Falls....there would have been plenty of scrap
metal with CA plates on them...

The gas shortage scare was all BS

Did find spots where Joe California thought parking his 5th wheel and his Jeep Rubicon he was towing behind it,
to park it on the I 5 break down lane, was legal.. I mean heck, they are in Oregon and what does Oregon matter?
Californians are special and can do whatever they want....after all, Oregon is a third world country isn't it?

Not all were like that... but they do have an overabundance of A Holes...

but on the other hand, we have Potland Crowds....

We went through town about an hour ago. Traffic is light but watch for bicycles. There are places renting out camping places and a few campers are around but so far nothing more than during hunting season.

So basically a 'normal' Summer weekend in Portlandia.

And yet in just a few more hours, the entire country will be involuntarily plunged into an even more comprehensive inky darkness, an event we call night time.

Just got back from a trip up to Sagehen reservoir. There are lots of people camped north of here. There aren't too many on the road but it's not a pleasant trip due to dust and the washboardy road. Once you hit the nat forest there are lots of places to pull over to watch the eclipse. There are some high clouds right now.

Be funny as hell when it's raining or heavily clouded and there really ain't nothing to see all these stupid bastards driving and traveling that far.

I experience an eclipse every night after the sun sets. Its a predictable and natural phenomenom - not even affected by climate change - well maybe. What's all the fuss over?

How sweet. You despise and insult everyone who doesn't think just like you do. That shows a very narrow mind.

Traffic and dust is a concern where we were going to go near Crane Creek Res. for the full two minutes.
It lasts 25 seconds here at the house, but a ten miles north keeps us on the pavement, gives us 1 1/2 minutes, and no tourists dust to deal with, so that is what I think we will do.

I'm hoping for mass suicide from all the dirt bag hippies, worshipping this event.

We'll see.

We have brunch planned here on the mountain. Few people, no vehicles other than a neighbor dropping by on his/her ATV. Supposed to be a 91% shot. Bagels, cream cheese and smoked lake caught Kokanee and Bloody Mary's.

We live on a cut-off road into Yamhill Valley. About 15 minutes (normally) from us is the northern edge of totality. While traffic isn't bad, it's certainly higher than normal and all going the opposite direction than usual.

We're at friends place in Ola. They live on a hill overlooking the highway. There has been a steady stream of traffic since daybreak. There is public land starting 8 or 10 miles north and I think a lot of them are heading there. There's no place to pull off around here. It turns to gravel about 2 miles north of here and I suspect it will get pretty dusty.
The worst part will be after lunch when all these people head back to Boise at the same time. We're not leaving until tomorrow.