Eclipse Mania

[phatdaddy]

Just wondering what, if any, plans anyone has. I know some of you carolina guys are pretty close to 100%. We're at 83%. Our tides have been really drastic this last week. Around 2 feet, which is a lot for us in the summer. We went trout fishing saturday and the bite was outstanding.

My son got off a midnight shift at 7 this morning, so we're going to head out in an hour or two and be on the bay during the event 11-3, local time.

I'll report back this evening (if you can trust $2 glasses from books a million).

[BillTex]

[spareparts]

watched it thru my welding helmet today, about the time it started getting dark a huge front rolled in, major clouds and rain. A whole lot of tourist spent a bunch of money locally to watch clouds. It did get dark enough for the street lights to come on

[phatdaddy]

Same here, spare. We were able to see sun. Looked through the glasses, saw the moon block out 2/3's of sun, but did not get very dark. Then the afternoon t-storms moved in and it got dark.

The fishing was great again, brought home 3 keeper trout and a black snapper.

[chart]

Sat on the porch rocking away watching the rain drops giving the cats some attention.