And so the eclipse traffic begins

[filsonhand]

You should wear that more often

I do look a lot more purdy in it

 

[Sgt Nambu]

That's awesome guys! In '79 I was at work and we just walked out for the duration.
I did step out and saw it today. It got dark, it got light!

 

[The Heretic]

Lol. Nope more like welding hood shameless selfie
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I looked for mine, but did not dig thru boxes and did not find it. I wore polarized sunglasses and glanced at the sun for less than a second. Oh no - I am blind! What am I typing! ;-)

It was interesting.

 

[v0lcom13sn0w]

everyone should go home now

 

[The Heretic]

So now look at I-5, 99W and 99E coming north. Piling up northbound. The herd is heading north. I give them half an hour to an hour to get into PDX and then it will be some level of a mess inbound/northbound.

 

[The Heretic]

everyone should go home now

They seem to be

 

[mrblond]

im right here in keizer! it was definately a total eclipse. very cool taking the glasses off during totality

yeah it was I might not be remembering right, but I remember there being an eclipse back in the mid/late 70s

 

[Joe13]

Photos from my wife and kid in different places:

 

[Mygrainman]

We just went to the local community college(the prestigious Lower Columbia College...my alma matter). they had a neat little presentation and handed out free glasses so we didn't have to split two pair between the four of us. They also had a couple filtered telescopes set up.
Then we watched from the parking lot with eclipse themed music playing on the stereo..
Bonny Tyler: total eclipse of the hear, Soundgarden: blackhole sun, and of course Pink Floyd: Eclipse.
My daughter, badly sprained ankle and all, decided to climb on top of the jeep for a better view. Good times.


Ya I know, I need to wash the Jeep...

 

[Sgt Nambu]

1979, mrblond!

Guy on TV in Madras said people were hitting the road half way through totality! Google showed the green roads red within five minutes of the end of totality!

We've gone from the total eclipse of the sun to the total eclipse of the roads!

 

[The Heretic]

Well, there goes that; shot to heck for another 99 years...

There will be another in about 6 years

 

[P7M13]

I'm blind!

 

[11Charlie]

There will be another in about 6 years

From what I have heard it won't be a totallity one.

 

[bbbass]

That was fabulous! I started watching from the yard about 9:30am with both cutting goggles and welding helmet... loved how the air temp didn't change but skin got cooler. Shadows disappeared and twilight happened. Took my headgear and goggles off and the neighborhood looked neat with all the streetlights coming on.

Now I'm watching the road show on TV and enjoying a Henry Wienhard... it must be 5pm somewhere. LOL

 

[The Heretic]

1979, mrblond!

Guy on TV in Madras said people were hitting the road half way through totality! Google showed the green roads red within five minutes of the end of totality!

We've gone from the total eclipse of the sun to the total eclipse of the roads!

Yup - Madras are, south and north is red now. Almost everything going north is red - although there are some roads like river road that they are missing while I can see some are taking detours like they have no clue where the road goes. Not bad off the main roads - yet, but all the regular main routes northbound are red. They are getting into Tualatin now, only a matter of time for PDX.

I don't see much if anything coming in from the coast. Maybe people out there are just sticking around and enjoying the beach for a while?

 

[USMC-03]

There will be another in about 6 years

True, but we'll have to travel a bit farther...

 

[The Heretic]

From what I have heard it won't be a totallity one.

It will be annular - there will be a ring of the sun around the moon because the moon will be further away so seem smaller, so not complete like today - but still pretty cool. I live just north of the totality zone so it wasn't perfectly total for me.

 

[P7M13]

Photos from my wife and kid in different places:

Thanks for posting your photos @Joe13 . I really liked the way the light changed and the "flickering" of the penumbra.
I didn't remember the light from the last one I saw in '72.

 

[Tully Mars]

Wife texted to say I'm the hero of the med center where she works-I sent one of my welding hoods with her this morning. All the nurses are taking turns watching it now. I've got the DiL and her kids out on the porch with another hood and cutting glasses.

 

[bbbass]

I had cutting glasses under the hood... was perfect, stared as long as I wanted. Wife even came out for a bit. My daughter in Bentonville just passed totality a minute ago.