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Is anyone travelling to view the upcoming full totality eclipse? If everything works out, we may do a loop and end up down near Mena, AR. Hoping for clear skies to get some nice pics!!
Biden's most truthful quote ever came during his first press conference, 03/25/21.
Drum roll please...... "I don't know, to be clear." and THAT is one promise he's kept!!!
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Take a canoe down the current river, Eminence, MO, and kill two birds with one stone.
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I'm living in the path, I'm already there.
"To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical." -- Thomas Jefferson
We are all Rhodesians now.
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We have a spot lined up at some winery in Texas to park the camper.
The middle boy has not seen a total eclipse. Neither has the baby but it isn’t like he is going to remember this one.
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Everyone is making a big deal about it here. I hope it rains that day.
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Everyone is making a big deal about it here. I hope it rains that day. Me too!!! We are in the middle of it and we REALLY need the rain bad.
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"Come, shall we go and kill us venison?
And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools,
Being native burghers of this desert city,
Should in their own confines with forked heads
Have their round haunches gored."
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Went through it out west a few years ago and was on the Columbia river fishing. We were just north of totality and will say as one of the biggest detractors of all the hype it was pretty cool to see. The birds were so screwed up that they thought it was roosting time and flocked to the river by the tens of thousands and fell out of the sky like they were struck by lightning. When it went dark the temperature dropped a bunch and you needed a jacket until the sun came back out.
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We are getting plenty of rain here so hoping for a clear sky in northern Maine. We watched the last eclipse seven years ago from a mountain top in Wyoming. It was definitely worth the hike!
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I have been told we are in a pretty good spot for it but that stuff is of zero interest here.
Conduct is the best proof of character.
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It's a omen
Bad JuJu gonna happen.
Haints an all come out the woods an such.
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men.
In it is contentment
In it is death and all you seek
(Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)
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Mena?
Couldn’t find a more redneck place to go? I try not to slow down when going through Mena. There’s a couple of red lights. Best to run them. Especially at night.
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I wouldn’t drive 2 miles to see it. Things like this don’t do anything for me!
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It's on a Monday
Some of us will be working
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I'll be outside if it's not raining. Gonna be right on top of me.
Would prefer a July or August time frame, but I wasn't consulted beforehand.
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"It's a terrible thing when governments send their young men to kill each other." Charles Byrne,WW2 Vet.
On the day Desert Storm began.
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I'll be outside if it's not raining. Gonna be right on top of me.
Would prefer a July or August time frame, but I wasn't consulted beforehand.
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"It's a terrible thing when governments send their young men to kill each other." Charles Byrne,WW2 Vet.
On the day Desert Storm began.
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Coming from the north side of Cincinnati, we're nearly at the edge of totality. If we drive 20 miles to the west, we'll be there. From there, it's just a matter of how much totality we want to see. At the minimum, you get maybe a minute or so. If we drive so we're dead under the center, it's more like 4:00.
Our plan is to leave at 0600 the day of the event and travel roughly NNE through Oxford, Ohio and keep on the back roads. Somewhere, the traffic will start to pile up, and we'll stop and get out the lawn furniture.
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We had a total eclipse here in the southeast several years ago. Things get crazy. People come from hundreds of miles away to see the eclipse. A strip mall that was in the path of totality was charging $50 PER PERSON to park there for an hour or two. For mom, dad, and the two kids, $200.
Plus there were terrible traffic jams in the areas of total eclipse.
We got 99.2 percent at my house so we just stayed here and enjoyed the show. We had a big eclipse party at my big log cabin, with relatives driving up from Atlanta etc. We all loved it. We watched the moon slowly cover the sun.
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I didn't think it would be a big deal but my wife really wanted to see the one a few years ago. I'd seen a couple where I was in 90-95% and didn't think 100% would be that much different. I was wrong, 100% coverage only lasts 2-3 minutes but it was far different than the 95% coverage I'd seen in the past. We had to drive about 2 hours from home and made a day trip of it. We got into Sparta TN about 2 hours early and went to a Walmart to pick up some stuff we needed.
The parking lot was full of people from hundreds of miles away, so we just decided to stay there. I don't think the locals knew what was going on, but it turned into a big party much like tailgating for a big SEC college football game. The folks at Walmart loved it because they were selling out of drinks, ice, food and folding chairs. The manager came around and greeted everyone personally.
I have grandkids who want to see this one. We have rooms reserved in Owensboro KY for Sunday and Monday nights. We will have to drive about an hour north into Indiana to get in the area of totality on Monday.
Most people don't really want the truth.
They just want constant reassurance that what they believe is the truth.
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Haha, someone wants to rent our duckclub house, I guess it's ground zero.
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Someone will get bad weather
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