2024 Solar Eclipse

[FarmerJamie]

Any of you in the path of the April 8th eclipse?

We are, and the local media is drumming up awareness. Lots of smaller towns are setting up party like events to bolster local businesses.

The Cleveland baseball team delayed the start of the home opener until the eclipse is completely over. But gates are opening at the original scheduled time.

I have already blocked off my work calendar so I don't schedule any meetings, nor get invited to one. Lolol

Our luck, we will get inches of snow and miss it.

 

[FarmerJamie]

Got eclipse glasses from the wife's eye doctor. We are set, now just hoping for the weather cooperating

 

[FarmerJamie]

Woke up to solid cloud cover. However, starting to see patches of blue sky.

 

[CrealCritter]

Saw this, thought there was a lot of truth here.

Jesus is Lord and Christ ✝️

 

[FarmerJamie]

This was an amazing, humbling, and joyful experience all around. The clouds thinned enough to have a marvelous viewing. We even got to witness the diamond ring effect.

The darkness was intense as totality passed over us.

So happy to share this with the wife as we sat in the front yard.

Hope some of you got to enjoy

 

[FarmerJamie]

A friend's photograph

 

[FarmerJamie]

I think Delta has a flight from Texas to Michigan that will be flying along the path of totality. Some marketing wonk deserves a bonus

 

[Finnie]

I am in the path.

 

[CrealCritter]

Saw this thought it was funny. But I thought the 2017 eclipse was more better.

Jesus is Lord and Christ ✝️

 

[Finnie]

Hope some of you got to enjoy

DH and I enjoyed it. We had 3.5 minutes of totality here. I’d say it got about as dark as dusk, like when the sun is set but you can still see to lock up the chickens.

Speaking of which, I was interested to see how they would act. I wondered if they would go to roost. But no, the switch from light to dark was too fast. They were just milling around in their run. I couldn’t see their pop door from where I was standing, so I don’t know if maybe they got locked out temporarily.

One thing that amazed DH and I was watching when the sun started to peek back out. It only took the tiniest sliver of sun to brighten everything up almost like full daylight. I guess we were expecting a gradual diminishing of the darkness.

There was applause and cheering from neighboring directions when totality hit. DH and I enjoyed it, but we both said we were glad we didn’t travel anywhere to see it.

iPhone camera makes the photo darker than it really was. I had no trouble seeing the chickens in their run, but you can’t really make them out in the photo. But you can see that the sky wasn’t all the way dark.