[FRIAM] well..so much for watching the ecipse in person

[Steven A Smith]

Merle -

I was fascinated to see the road signs in Pojoaque and south of Santa Fe 
stating: "Emergency Stopping only: Turn on your headlights during the 
eclipse"  about an hour before the beginning.  I *KNEW* that our 80% (or 
less) eclipse was not going to darken the landscape anymore than  cloud 
which the sky was already full of!

I stopped at Santo Domingo to watch the moon take a bite out of the sun 
during the various brief moments when a tiny hole in the cloud would 
open over and over to let me see...

My daughter who drove south of Portland (where she lives) and caught a 
GREAT constellation of 99% eclipse-ring shadows filtering through the 
leaves of a tree... it was beautiful!     I hope you got some good 
photos as well as once (or twice) in a lifetime experience!

- Steve

On 8/22/17 8:50 AM, Merle Lefkoff wrote:
> You wouldn't have seen much, even if the clouds parted.  I'm on my way 
> back from Oregon and totality, which is 1,000,000 times darker than 
> watching the eclipse at any percent of partial totality. Totality is 
> simply a completely different experience.  And yes, it was worth the trip!
>
> On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 7:50 AM, ┣glen┫ <gepropella at gmail.com 
> <mailto:gepropella at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Yeah, but even with the clouds, it will still be cool to see the
>     sky go dark in the middle of the day.
>
>     On 08/21/2017 07:48 AM, Gillian Densmore wrote:
>     > If this junk cloudy weather keeps up. Won't see a damn thing
>     other thank
>     > depressing clouds and a reminder the roof is leaking....again.
>     Oh clear
>     > skys they said....ahahahahahahahahahaha
>
>
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