Total Solar Eclipse August 21, 2017

Got your glasses ready all?

 

Welding helmet.

 

Yep. Hamburg Iowa is rockin.
T minus 90 min.

 

Just as it was to start here the clouds rolled in! It was clear all morning!

 

for those in the dark
https://www.nasa.gov/eclipselive/#NASA+TV+Public+Channel

 

They just showed it on tv.
I'm good.

 

I'm far enough out of the path I think we're only supposed to see 60% covered. If I' m in the shop working I'll probably forget about it. Think I'll go mow some lawn then when it starts to get dark I'll be " oh yeah ".

 

We go around 25% here in Cabo. Temp dropped five or so degrees for fifteen minutes, the went back to scorch.

-jim

 

Damn if this isn't like watching paint dry.

"Didja see it? It's a quarter now... go look at it."

It's like I'm surrounded by the worst sportscasters ever. I'd kill for some Jim Brockmore coverage of this event...

"There's a giant black hole in the sky... just like that time I saw my wife's......"

At least it would be more entertaining.

 

The new age hippy music is

 

I got a welding helmet that I promised to Britt about 15 years ago.

I'm your father, luke.

 

My eyes!!

The goggles do nothing!!

 

"Aren't you a little short for a Stormtrooper?"

 

The temps dropped 23 degrees.

 

Michelle just asked me how the cereal box thing worked, so I told her you make the hole, point it at the sun, then stare at the box - it appears in the milk at the right moment.

 

My kid made one and just came home to show me how to work it.

 

I'm sitting inside mollycoddling my 4 year old because all the damn grasshoppers and mosquitos were scaring her. F the eclipse. Just bring on Autumn!

I remember the one from 1979. That's enough for me.

 

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That was pretty cool. We got a total. It didn't get midnight dark, more like 8:30 dark, but all the bugs and frogs and stuff started making noise, it cooled way down, and there was a couple minutes that you could look at it without glasses.

Welding helmet was a bust. Mine's a cheapy and it wasn't dark enough to block out all of the aura so you couldn't see much detail. Luckily, I'd picked up some eclipse glasses for everyone at work.