I live in DFW and just drove home from work and holy shit the forecast has done nothing to slow down the flood of pilgrims. There is an insane amount of traffic on the roads already.
Something that can happen any day vs a potentially once in a lifetime experience…. Yeah I can totally see why someone would be equally excited about those.
Every time there's a solar eclipse, a blood moon, a super moon, or any other astronomical phenomenon, we never can see it here in Utah, it's always far too cloudy and too overcast to see anything. Same with this Monday's eclipse, though even if we could, we only would see a portion of it anyway.
Well we had partly cloudy skies Monday, but actually it cleared in time for the eclipse, but in Utah we only got to see about 45% of it, we weren't anywhere near the path of totality. The sunlight did seem cloudier (or shadier?) for a few minutes, but that was about it....
If it’s any consolation, the size difference of a super moon cannot be seen with the naked eye. Lensing effects from the atmosphere can make much more of a difference and they don’t depend on how far away it is.
Niagara falls in Canada already declared a state of emergency and Kingston is expecting to see 3x the normal population visit during the eclipse. It’s going to be absolutely nuts and I feel for anyone living in a city like that.
My experience wasn’t quite that bad, but still sucked. It took about 4.5 hours to get to my perfect spot. I left within an hour or two after the eclipse was over, and then it something like 8+ hours to get home due to excessive traffic.
It wouldn’t have changed my choice, but I would have appreciated a warning that post-eclipse traffic could/would be extreme because it wasn’t something I had even thought about. Figured it might be a little heavier, but wasn’t expecting that much.
So this time around, I’ve mentioned it to folks who are planning to travel to see it.
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