...I care enough to buy a $1 pair of viewing glasses at local eye doc so that i can go in my backyard for 90 seconds and wear them avoiding all roads and public places like the plague until sometime after the 23rd!
We were heading down to Hood River that weekend for a wine dinner and could not find any lodging at all, except on air bnb for literally staying in someone's camper for $150/night or a house for $2000/nt. So, skipping the eclipse and going to spend the night in Yakima.
I'll be at Crooked River Ranch at my brother's house. It will be extremely crowded so I'm going down on the 16th and coming back on the 25th.
Lucky me, Charleston is the last city to get a taste. http://today.cofc.edu/2017/06/21/nasa-solar-eclipse-broadcast/ "NASA announced on Wednesday, June 21, that it will broadcast nationwide coverage of the historic solar eclipse later this summer live from the College of Charleston. The broadcast will be streamed on NASA TV, the NASA website, on the Stream video platform and on various public broadcasting stations across the United States beginning at 12 p.m. on Aug. 21, 2017. The NASA broadcast will be part of the College’s eclipse viewing celebration on Rivers Green behind Addlestone Library from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. that day. NASA will have correspondents and scientists stationed across the nation to provide live updates of the eclipse during the telecast. The NASA “headquarters” for the national broadcast will originate from Rivers Green. “The College is so thrilled to have NASA broadcasting from our campus during the upcoming total solar eclipse,” said College of Charleston President Glenn F. McConnell ’69. “This will be a once-in-a-lifetime event that our students, faculty, and staff will remember for the rest of their lives. To be able to share this moment with NASA specialists not only adds to the significance of the occasion, but deeply enriches the student experience we provide at the College.” https://www.greatamericaneclipse.com/south-carolina/ "After traversing the United States from Oregon in just 94 minutes, the Great American Eclipse of 2017 leaves the United States at South Carolina. After leaving the eastern coast, the Moon's shadow passes over most of the Atlantic before ending at sunset near Africa. But no other land mass, island or continent, is again touched by totality. The path of the total solar eclipse lies exclusively within the United States." 'Murica!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So you guys are for real with this shit? The sun goes behind the moon or the other way around and you can't even look at it and you are spending time talking about it?
On 30 June 1503, Christopher Columbus beached his two last caravels and was stranded in Jamaica. The indigenous people of the island welcomed Columbus and his crew and fed them, but Columbus' sailors cheated and stole from the natives. After six months, the natives halted the food supply.[3] Columbus had on board an almanac authored by Abraham Zacuto of astronomical tables covering the years 1475–1506.[4][5][6] Upon consulting the book, he noticed the date and the time of an upcoming lunar eclipse. He was able to use this information to his advantage. He requested a meeting for that day with the Cacique, the leader, and told him that his god was angry with the local people's treatment of Columbus and his men[citation needed]. Columbus said his god would provide a clear sign of his displeasure by making the rising full Moon appear "inflamed with wrath"[citation needed]. The lunar eclipse and the red Moon appeared on schedule, and the indigenous people were impressed and frightened. The son of Columbus, Ferdinand, wrote that the people: “ with great howling and lamentation they came running from every direction to the ships, laden with provisions, praying the Admiral to intercede by all means with God on their behalf; that he might not visit his wrath upon them ...[7] ” Columbus went into his cabin to "pray" and timed the eclipse with his hourglass, and shortly before the totality ended after 48 minutes, he told the frightened indigenous people that they were going to be forgiven.[3] When the Moon started to reappear from the shadow of the Earth, he told them that his god had pardoned them.[8] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_1504_lunar_eclipse
