On a scale of 1-10, excitement level for the solar eclipse

Being in totality is the best, unique, cool experience, one could ever dream of...    eclipses are fine, but after experiencing totality here at home, i'm addicted.  Our washtub bass player is driving from Oregon to the middle east (Texas) to hopefully experience it again, my neighbor is debating driving from O to the other O, Ohio...     I can't afford it, but would love to do it again!!!   

If that. Looks like clouds n rain anyway. Of Course one of my friends is freaking out because he says the sun is out of place and things we're in the end times 

There was a devil comet last night

https://www.earth.com/news/severe-solar-storm-will-generate-auroras-as-f...

full moon + lunar eclipse last few days + solar storms, wow!

Drove through literal sheets of rain a couple of nights ago... flash flooding on some streets

If i could travel to a place where I could experience totality, excitement would be a 10. I went to a corner of Idaho near Jackson Hole in 2018 for the last one and we had a beautiful day and the experience was nothing short of spectacular.

My brother has a camp spot in a state park in Texas in the path of totality.  Maximum chance of clear skies.   Looked into going to join him thinking we could fly down to Austin a day or two before, rent a car, pop over, and then fly back.   Then I saw how utterly ridiculous airfare and car rentals would be.   Between the exorbitant prices and busy work schedule, had to pass.

Egypt 2026 will be over the top so book your reservations early. 

We're in the path of totality. They're expecting a complete clusterfuck, maybe 200,000 people coming to VT, up to 20k to my town alone. Lack of resources, public toilets, cell service outages, cars stopping on major roadways, etc. We're being told to work from home and not even try to be on the roads. Schools are closing early. All that aside, I'm really psyched for the eclipse itself. It'll be pretty rad.

I'm flying to Cleveland for it.  I'll also be attending the Cleveland Guardians Opening Day that day.  I'm meeting up with my three older brothers there, who are all rabid Indians/Guardians fans.  It was also mine and two of my brothers birthplace, so I'm looking forward to them pointing out the sites, as I was only 9 months old when we left.  I haven't been in Cleveland since seeing the GD at the Gund Arena in 1993.  We'll be in the path for full totality, so fingers crossed for good weather.  

level 2.0-2.2

Too cold/too early in the season to ride a big mushroom trip in a full raging garden during eclipse like 2017

EGYPT 2026:  That lineup will be epic!  Phil's Chair!

a 10...I'm near totality, just a short drive from it..

I was at a bufo ceremony near Huntsville last October for the solar eclipse.   Inhaled 75mg of freak smoke just as the eclipse was starting. beautiful clear sky. 

TOTALLY Total Totality pretty much describes that experience. That was a 10,  I'm excited for this one,  but I plan on being much more grounded this time around.....

Unless I hang with jaz  :))))))

About a 1. I'm not even close to where totality will fall, and this isn't the kind of thing I would travel for.

Just wanna get spring break in before the rapture, then I'm good.

10

next one in the US:

directly over my house 

21 years from now

totality on psychedelics is better than all the times I saw Jerry combined

I'm directly in the path and prob won't even look up from my work 

I'm not all Ra Ra, but I do have a passing interest 

Not in the path of totality here in OR. I'll prob. scare up those eclipse glasses and have a look at the sun with a bite out of it. Kinda meh compared to the last one.

Excitement level about 2.0 out of 10.

>>>>>I'm not all Ra Ra

Lol.

> totality on psychedelics is better than all the times I saw Jerry combined

That's a provocative comparison, but I'm not buying it.

Absolute ZERO

Hmm. Seeing Jerry on psychedelics is better than all the times (once) I saw totality combined

YMMV.

Eclipse will be in Ohio for the first time in 218 years. I'm putting on Dark Side of the Moon and walking out my front door. Cheers Zoners!

Since we're rating, this is the first time in my life I have called myself a 10.

g0 for it

I came up short of totality last time when I drove to Idaho- not good.

No where near it this time. Don't want to spend the dollars to travel and have clouds come in.

Thanks, Surf. Nice to see somebody appreciates my corny humor.

I've seen Jerry while I was on psychedelics, but not sure if i've seen Jerry when HE was on psychedelics....   

Sadly, I couldn't find my totality experience on Archive.org....

An open invite still exists from my previous thread. Piggott Arkansas up on Crowley's Ridge my old friend of 50 years (Deadhead)  has some acerage with fishing ponds.

It's just South of Missouri and just east of Missouri's boot hill. 

Doses will be available .

Over three minutes of totality. 

Email in profile.

Oh yeah 10/10! Have never experienced the totally.

Rain or sunshine it'll get dark If its bad weather I guess we'll see how the horses and chickens react.

>> Piggott Arkansas

Flying into Little Rock the night before...

hmmm?

I have family in Arkansas and they are getting  warnings for residents to stock up on gas and groceries and plan to stay put for a few days.

Expecting 1.5 million people along the I-40 corridor

They are concerned my paid for rental car won't be available upon arrival.

Good luck,  blackrock.

the last one was one of the best times ever experienced

weather seems to be an issue this time

could never match 2017

2018?

either way

jaz, sounds like you've got the best plan going

The plan is good , Jill but we'll see on that weather.

My friend lives an hour away from Johnny Cash's childhood home.  Saturday before the eclipse there is going to be a concert in the front yard. If it's anything like the Levon Helm jubilee in Marvel i went to last year it ought be alot of fun.

My “sun is not where it’s supposed to be” friend is going crazy with this eclipse “new path” says the sun is moving and they don’t want us to know 

Nice Judit !   Oreos............

Super excited. Likely my one chance to see totality in this lifetime. If there is a cloud free area anywhere from Cleveland to Buffalo, I'm making the drive from Baltimore Monday morning. 

I'm in the Denver airport after flying in from Seattle last night arriving about 12:30 a.m.  Caught about 5 hours of sleep on the floor in the terminal by my gate, better than I expected.  On to Cleveland in about an hour.  Hope to catch a few more z's on the last leg, before meeting up with my brothers.  
 

The Women's NCAA championship game is happening next door to our hotel later today.  We're skipping that (tickets start at about $1000 a pop), but will probably do some sightseeing before catching what will be a hugely watched game as all-time NCAA scoring leader (Men's and Women) Caitlyn Clark leads Iowa in her final college game against an undefeated South Carolina team looking for perfection and another title for coaching legend Dawn Staley.  
 

The eclipse is Monday, with the weather currently forecast for mostly sunny skies with highs in the mid 60s.  After the eclipse, we have tickets for the Cleveland Guardians home opener versus the Chicago White Sox.  Should be a fun and action packed 48 hours in Cleveland!

10+  very excited, I'm going to hang by the Erie Canal with crowds from all over that have come to witness totality.

I'll be taking the kids here as now they are being sent home ... on Lake Ontario 

^ That's a fun spot 

I'll be on the sterling side(McIntyre rd)... pretty straight backroads shot from my house so hopefully not much traffic 

Very cool, zoners. 10 for ten expectations tomorrow. Mostly sunny with clouds. Looking forward to the colors in the clouds.  Right now just me and the dog boondocking. Clears skies overhead yet I can see a line of thunderstorms in Illinois and Kentucky on the distant horizon from my point in Arkansas. I looked at The National Weather Map. A lot of The Southern and Mid -west states come together. 

Looking forward and hopefully clear skies everyone. 

What are we looking at , fishcane? Is that a tree root? Termite hill?

It's a natural land formation by Lake Ontario. 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimney_Bluffs_State_Park

Just interesting rock/ soil erosion formations along the lake

I was going to ask if that was Chimney Bluffs.....a couple of friends and I discovered that place in High School, we used to drive over there often.

It must be a bit different 35 years later...

Good spot for it, I hope it's clear enough there today for you guys.

We won't get much out here, but not a cloud in the sky...

     Enjoy the show everyone!!!

I actually won't be at the park, but another similar but lesser visited bluff a few miles north along the lake, McIntyre rd, Sterling Ny.  Yea we used to pull some epic all nighters here in my heavy psychedelic years

The renaissance fair in Sterling used to be pretty heady

I was reading that anyone who received a vaccine will die during this event.

If so, it's been fun, anyone un vaxed who can use my Billy Strings tix for Tampa this weekend.......................

what is a Guardian? The person you tell, you can't tell me what to do you're not my real parent.

Go Guardians! Enjoy Cleveland, Dave, a lot of stuff to do in the downtown area 

2017 full eclipse in Corvallis (with the late, great, but not forgotten, Walt (Aerohead)

Moving clouds overhead today, we'll see if the sun/moon is visible. In partial eclipse 2023 the clouds parted at the very moment it happened.

And remember A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - novel written by Mark Twain. Movie with Danny Kaye.

The big Eclipse EDM Fest in Texas in now under evacuation orders because of "large hail" and "tornadic activity."   At least they are allowing atendees to stay until the eclipse is over:

https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/texas-eclipse-festival-cancel...

Happening now in open and overcast sky in Eugene. Losing visibility. Still have glasses from last year and 2017.

my setlist:

Moonshadow>Eclipse>Darkness,Darkness>Here Comes Sunshine>Sun,Sun,Sun...

We're started here. SHOWTIME!!!!

Pretty much 0 visibility here...

We have great visibility, but only about 50% coverage of the sun's surface. My neighbor's 10 year daughter brought me a pair of NASA eclipse spex though, so I've got that going for me.

That was pretty wild. 

watched it on TV , had to be real, going back to the DARKSTAR STREAM!

Clouds occluded the 80% coverage here on the northern gulf coast but it got really dark.

Enjoyed that.

That was completely insane.

We got some nice pics. My daughter enjoyed playing with the camera trying to capture the fleeting moments 

as they passed. It was dark, middle of a Starless night dark. And Bible Black...

My daughter was most excited as she caught a fish during the eclipse thereby proving her teacher wrong who told her fish/animals stop feeding during an eclipse 

This is what my cheap unfiltered phone camera picked up. The lens couldn't handle the corona.

The darkness of totality was very impressive even though we had cloud cover in our area and could not see the sun. 

Clouds.

It got a little dark.

Yesterday was a 10 out of 10.

After a big breakfast.  My brothers and I booked an Uber driver who took us on a short tour of the West side of Cleveland.  We stopped to check out and get photos at the hospital myself and 2 of my 3 brothers were born at and at the house my family lived in from 1957-1965 in Rocky River.  It was a beautiful sun splashed afternoon, and it was fun seeing this charming, well-kept neighborhood with it's large family homes.  We bid our driver farewell after he dropped us off at a neighborhood pizza joint with a shrine to Frank Sinatra and the Ratpack displayed on it's walls.

We caught another car back into town, bypassing groups of people heading to the lake front to view the eclipse.  We got dropped off at the Science Center between the Browns football stadium and the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame.  It was a festive scene with bands playing, food trucks, and a large video screen broadcasting eclipse updates and live video from other locations in the path of totality.  
 

We donned our eclipse glasses as the moon gradually blocked out the sun.  It took a little more tha an hour to reach full eclipse.  It was super cool watching the skies grow darker, and feeling the temperature drop.  The lights on the Terminal Tower and the other downtown buildings were all lit up.  The 3 plus minutes we experienced total eclipse was awesome.  People were oohing and ahhing in wonderment and grinning like children at Christmas.  It was an unforgettable and exhilarating experience.

We walked up the hill and after downing some pints of local beers at a taproom, went into Progressive Field and to our seats flaw they were finishing the introductions for Opening Day.  As the National Anthem was concluding, a huge transport plane flew in low right over the stadium.  After the ceremonial first pitches were thrown by Corey Kluber and Mickey Brantley, the Guardians smothered the White Sox 4-0, leaving my brothers and the local crowd with a happy glow.  It was the cap on a perfect day.

We just dosed.

epic

^cell phone pic

That's a hell of a pic!