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Re: Where are you going to watch the (Total) Solar Eclipse on August 21?
« Reply #61 on: August 17, 2017, 02:42:44 PM »
We'll have extra at the DO ;)

At this rate you're going to have a bigger crowd than I will
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Re: Where are you going to watch the (Total) Solar Eclipse on August 21?
« Reply #62 on: August 17, 2017, 02:44:02 PM »
At this rate you're going to have a bigger crowd than I will

LOL. A crowd of friends is fine by me; strangers, not so much.
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Re: Where are you going to watch the (Total) Solar Eclipse on August 21?
« Reply #63 on: August 17, 2017, 02:44:34 PM »
XNA has space. What time is it supposed to be there

We're driving up to the KS/MO/NE border area.
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Re: Where are you going to watch the (Total) Solar Eclipse on August 21?
« Reply #64 on: August 17, 2017, 02:51:56 PM »
We're driving up to the KS/MO/NE border area.
Any chance I'm back in ORD same day?

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Re: Where are you going to watch the (Total) Solar Eclipse on August 21?
« Reply #67 on: August 17, 2017, 02:58:36 PM »
UA

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Re: Where are you going to watch the (Total) Solar Eclipse on August 21?
« Reply #68 on: August 17, 2017, 02:58:51 PM »
Any chance I'm back in ORD same day?

Very highly doubt it.
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Re: Where are you going to watch the (Total) Solar Eclipse on August 21?
« Reply #70 on: August 17, 2017, 03:22:27 PM »
I'll just throw this out here,
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Re: Where are you going to watch the (Total) Solar Eclipse on August 21?
« Reply #71 on: August 17, 2017, 03:49:43 PM »
Is there any good collection of flights expected to be in path of totality at the right time? AA 1972 looks like a candidate to me, any thoughts?

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Re: Where are you going to watch the (Total) Solar Eclipse on August 21?
« Reply #72 on: August 17, 2017, 04:37:13 PM »
Is there any good collection of flights expected to be in path of totality at the right time? AA 1972 looks like a candidate to me, any thoughts?

It passes through about 20 minutes early. The pilot will slow down to catch it....right?

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Re: Where are you going to watch the (Total) Solar Eclipse on August 21?
« Reply #73 on: August 18, 2017, 12:07:46 AM »
What traffic predictions do you guys have for driving up on Sunday from NYC to either Chattanooga, Columbia, SC or Smokey Mountains? Usually it is roughly 12 hours, you think it will be heavy traffic driving up on Sunday?!!

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Re: Where are you going to watch the (Total) Solar Eclipse on August 21?
« Reply #74 on: August 18, 2017, 02:40:37 AM »


. Even the ones who do buy them are doing it for ideology or status.



range anxiety is and will remain a huge roadblock to widespread success. Rapid charging is just not rapid enough, and having fill stations that swap out batteries is pretty impractical (so far).
In CA both of those statements are outdated. The status is the same status as buying a Beemer, it any luxury car. I know plenty of people who drive electric cars with no practical or technical difficulties.
The rest of the country will catch up.

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Re: Where are you going to watch the (Total) Solar Eclipse on August 21?
« Reply #75 on: August 18, 2017, 09:09:43 AM »
What traffic predictions do you guys have for driving up on Sunday from NYC to either Chattanooga, Columbia, SC or Smokey Mountains? Usually it is roughly 12 hours, you think it will be heavy traffic driving up on Sunday?!!
Always extra traffic on Sundays along I81

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Re: Where are you going to watch the (Total) Solar Eclipse on August 21?
« Reply #77 on: August 18, 2017, 10:08:32 AM »
The traffic nightmares are starting already.

http://www.king5.com/news/eclipse/eclipse-traffic-already-hits-central-oregon_/465125665

A relative in OR told me that gas stations were already out of gas and store shelves were empty yesterday at noon.

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Re: Where are you going to watch the (Total) Solar Eclipse on August 21?
« Reply #78 on: August 18, 2017, 10:24:41 AM »
So do you make a bracha on the eclipse? And at what point, totality?
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Re: Where are you going to watch the (Total) Solar Eclipse on August 21?
« Reply #79 on: August 18, 2017, 10:27:37 AM »
A relative in OR told me that gas stations were already out of gas and store shelves were empty yesterday at noon.
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