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Title: Eclipse Travel
Post by: myemmy on Apr 05, 2024, 04:41 PM
O.K who going to travel to view the eclipse on Monday.
Title: Re: Eclipse Travel
Post by: Old Timer on Apr 05, 2024, 06:22 PM
I’m going to bed.   
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Post by: 62 & Done on Apr 05, 2024, 07:24 PM
I would like to be fishing in the opposite direction people are swarming to. Trouble is it looks to be very breezy. We will see.
Title: Re: Eclipse Travel
Post by: trapper2000 on Apr 05, 2024, 09:10 PM
i'm traveling to see it ....from my house to my back yard  i'm in the totality band ..... got beer tonight and everything i need for a few days......this is going to be ground zero and a lot of people
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Post by: Doubles Shooter on Apr 05, 2024, 10:56 PM
Traveling 5 miles to my daughter's house. The grandkids want to have a picnic outside to celebrate.
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Post by: rgfixit on Apr 06, 2024, 02:58 AM
Yup. I’ll be traveling 15’ out my back door.
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Post by: trapper2000 on Apr 06, 2024, 04:41 AM
if you have never seen a total eclipse it's amazing and something you really want to see.............RG it's great this is right in our back doors
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Post by: 62 & Done on Apr 06, 2024, 12:34 PM
I'll be in my lawn chair in the middle of the parking lot at the Turning Stone  I know I should bring the boat up and head for the sunnies in Big Bay but the wife doesn't care for being on the water until it gets warmer     Shucks
Title: Re: Eclipse Travel
Post by: trapper2000 on Apr 06, 2024, 03:43 PM
trouble with that is the lights will come on when the eclipse starts
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Post by: taxid on Apr 06, 2024, 03:53 PM
Staying home. 98.5 % coverage which is good enough for me. I could drive south about an hour for 100 percent, but why would I want to deal with this?


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Title: Re: Eclipse Travel
Post by: Mac Attack on Apr 06, 2024, 04:40 PM
Probably be overcast
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Post by: rgfixit on Apr 06, 2024, 06:39 PM
Looks that way at the moment Max.
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Post by: Raquettedacker on Apr 06, 2024, 06:42 PM
Granted you won’t be able to see the whole eclipse but if it was overcast wouldn’t it be darker? 
Title: Re: Eclipse Travel
Post by: taxid on Apr 06, 2024, 08:37 PM
Granted you won’t be able to see the whole eclipse but if it was overcast wouldn’t it be darker?

Yep!
Title: Re: Eclipse Travel
Post by: trapper2000 on Apr 06, 2024, 08:57 PM
if you are in a totality area  it can't get any darker
Title: Re: Eclipse Travel
Post by: 62 & Done on Apr 07, 2024, 06:22 AM
trouble with that is the lights will come on when the eclipse starts

Hadn't thought of that trapp,  your right.   I'll have to find another lot with no lights. They're around.
Title: Re: Eclipse Travel
Post by: Mac Attack on Apr 07, 2024, 08:38 AM
Looks that way at the moment Max.


I think Dom has it figured out Boob.

 ;D
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Post by: fishinator on Apr 07, 2024, 05:51 PM
I live a couple hours north of the total zone. Just made a run to the store in the next town over. The south bound traffic is RIDICULOUS!! 
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Post by: trapper2000 on Apr 07, 2024, 08:12 PM
i live in the totality zone  and  the roads are pretty lonely so far
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Post by: reeleyz on Apr 08, 2024, 05:19 AM
I'm curious if the traffic lives up to the hype here in Oswego County.

I'll be driving 10 minutes down the road and watching it on the North Shore of Oneida lake. Yesterday would have been perfect. Oh Well.

Title: Re: Eclipse Travel
Post by: trapper2000 on Apr 08, 2024, 08:40 AM
i know oswego had people coming in last night  but i had no problem going to wal mart and having coffee
Title: Re: Eclipse Travel
Post by: filetandrelease on Apr 08, 2024, 10:34 AM

 Well I go to the dump on Monday mornings, it was closed do to the state of emergency  🤬
Title: Re: Eclipse Travel
Post by: trapper2000 on Apr 08, 2024, 10:43 AM
i just drove threw fulton and oswego and no problems at all
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Post by: lowaccord66 on Apr 08, 2024, 10:57 AM
Well I go to the dump on Monday mornings, it was closed do to the state of emergency  🤬

Bananas.
Title: Re: Eclipse Travel
Post by: filetandrelease on Apr 08, 2024, 11:24 AM
Bananas.
Also understood that 2 big hotels said there was a glitch so people got screwed and rented the rooms out at an inflated price to others
 1 was a choice and a Hampton  also heard our super 8 was  inflating so sad , this time of year they all ought to be happy being full up 🙄
Title: Re: Eclipse Travel
Post by: trapper2000 on Apr 08, 2024, 11:31 AM
don't know if this will help anyone

https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/central-ny/traffic/traffic-map (https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/central-ny/traffic/traffic-map)
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Post by: hunts2long on Apr 08, 2024, 12:06 PM
The state has a flashing sign below the house that reads "Last gas for 25 miles"!. I guess that is for the people from DOWNSTATE!...h2l
Title: Re: Eclipse Travel
Post by: trapper2000 on Apr 08, 2024, 12:09 PM
i been watching this traffic map  and i have a feeling when this is all over the state totally over reacted only slow spots showing is near sodas bay on 104  near construction areas and a small spot in buffalo
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Post by: Raquettedacker on Apr 08, 2024, 12:33 PM
Try getting up rt28 to old forge. Bumper to bumper ..
Title: Re: Eclipse Travel
Post by: Raquettedacker on Apr 08, 2024, 01:10 PM

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Title: Re: Eclipse Travel
Post by: trapper2000 on Apr 08, 2024, 01:24 PM
don't know dacker but i just dove to wal mart and it's like any other monday
Title: Re: Eclipse Travel
Post by: fishinator on Apr 08, 2024, 01:43 PM
It's absurd here in Indiana.  Never seen anything like it.
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Post by: Pequod1 on Apr 08, 2024, 01:55 PM
I think a lot of people drove out of the Rochester area once they saw it was going to be overcast and headed west where the clouds are breaking. If I was an eclipse fanatic, that’s what I would have done.
Title: Re: Eclipse Travel
Post by: fishinator on Apr 08, 2024, 01:56 PM
It's absurd here in Indiana.  Never seen anything like it.
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Post by: filetandrelease on Apr 08, 2024, 03:01 PM

 To cloudy here , but it got so quiet you could here a pin drop ,  it was over all squirrels and birds showed back up
 Wonder how the perch bite was during the eclipse
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Post by: Scott on Apr 08, 2024, 03:18 PM
Decent show here in Wisconsin. Birds went totally bananas singing afterwards pretty cool.
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Title: Re: Eclipse Travel
Post by: filetandrelease on Apr 08, 2024, 05:15 PM
 You could hear pin drop , 1/2 hr later birds and squirrels came back to the
feeders , to cloudy here
 Had to run to store
Here is a pic of interstate south bound
 Down to 45 mph ,

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Title: Re: Eclipse Travel
Post by: reeleyz on Apr 08, 2024, 05:31 PM
An eagle flew over us just before the total eclipse. I wish I got a pic of that. Some good sized groups of people on the North Shore.
Title: Re: Eclipse Travel
Post by: 62 & Done on Apr 08, 2024, 07:18 PM
I sat on the driving range at the turning stone and watched all but 5 minutes of the first half. A big dark cloud came over and the show was done. What lousy luck.
Title: Re: Eclipse Travel
Post by: taxid on Apr 08, 2024, 08:16 PM
An eagle flew over us just before the total eclipse. I wish I got a pic of that. Some good sized groups of people on the North Shore.

I had a tom turkey cross the property just before the eclipse. No hens with him.

The eclipse was anticlimactic for me. 98.5 totality allegedly but it didn't seem to get very dark.
Title: Re: Eclipse Travel
Post by: lowaccord66 on Apr 08, 2024, 09:30 PM
90ish percent in CT.  My daughter got home with her glasses right as it was peaking.  I took a look, pretty cool.  She was into it.
Title: Re: Eclipse Travel
Post by: mcully on Apr 09, 2024, 05:55 AM
To cloudy here , but it got so quiet you could here a pin drop ,  it was over all squirrels and birds showed back up
 Wonder how the perch bite was during the eclipse
friend said the perch bite got great during it fishing the south shore.
We hit Beak and Skiff and the bourbon was good both before, during and after. Cool watching the darkness come across the valley with a sunrise sky in the east rather than the setting in the west it should have been.
Title: Re: Eclipse Travel
Post by: SeanP on Apr 09, 2024, 08:28 AM
It was too cloudy in the SO Tier.  got a little darker for a few mins, birds and squirrels stayed on the feeders without reaction......

SeanP
Title: Re: Eclipse Travel
Post by: trapper2000 on Apr 09, 2024, 04:23 PM
we had a break in the clouds seen totality for about 3 seconds go as dark as midnight  and the peepers started 
Title: Re: Eclipse Travel
Post by: Deadeyez on Apr 09, 2024, 05:48 PM
An eagle flew over us just before the total eclipse. I wish I got a pic of that. Some good sized groups of people on the North Shore.
We had an eagle fly right over us about 50 feet above us as well at my house just before the total eclipse happened! I’m guessing it was the same eagle. It was headed from the lake and heading north.
Title: Re: Eclipse Travel
Post by: reeleyz on Apr 10, 2024, 05:02 AM
We had an eagle fly right over us about 50 feet above us as well at my house just before the total eclipse happened! I’m guessing it was the same eagle. It was headed from the lake and heading north.

Could be. This one was headed East but they cover ground in a hurry.