I would avoid Marble Falls. They just cancelled the music festival up in Burnet. Lots of traffic headed from that area back to Austin.

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I would avoid Marble Falls. They just cancelled the music festival up in Burnet. Lots of traffic headed from that area back to Austin.

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Oh no, we're sticking with our usually route. Just hoping some of this clears out soon. We still have to make it through Dripping Springs and Austin by the airport.

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From Horseshoe Bay Resort. We had guests from all over the world. Lots of scientists here. Learned a lot!

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Do you work for the resort?

I worked there 2018 to Stupid Covid Over reaction 2020

chickencoupe16 said:

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Great viewing in Johnson County! Had thought about traveling for better weather but decided the chance it and hit big!

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Total eclipse, Joshua, TX

We were in east central Kimble County. Cloudy as heck leading up to totality then clouds broke about 2 minutes prior and we got to see the whole thing. Very cool experience.

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In Houston, it was like a rainy winter day.

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Cloudy skies cleared up just in time in Fannin County! Simply amazing. The word awesome in actually applicable in this case. Great memory with my family.

Yes, I joined the team here in June 2022. Was with Omni for a long time before Covid....

Our place near Terrell Texas

putu said:

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Yes, I joined the team here in June 2022. Was with Omni for a long time before Covid....

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I was responsible for all HS, College, Culinary, and trade school recruiting; as well as hiring events to staff the resort for non-technical positions

From Broken Bow, OK. Better pictures on my camera that need to be downloaded when back home. It was absolutely stunning.

Grainy iphone pic from Indianapolis. It was pretty spectacular.

4 hrs from 35&6 to College Station. Normally. 1hr20mins.

Right! Clouds cleared out just in time! We were a couple miles north of Bremond off 14.

We drove up from Houston this morning. Minimal traffic, game day traffic is worse. A couple brief slow downs on 6. Skipped Hearne and took OSR to 46 to Frankin and up to Bremond. ZERO traffic. I saw no hoardes of people. And ZERO traffic when we left near the totality zone. I didn't hit traffic until South of CS on 6.

One of the coolest things I've ever seen! I didn't understand what all the hype was about, but now I do.

It was a clear sky in the Ozarks. It was awesome.

It helped confirm my belief even more that their truly is a God and his awesome power.

I said on this thread several pages ago that it wasn't worth traveling for. I disagree with myself now, especially if it was just a convenient drive.

I have friends that drove up from Channelview to stay in my camper and watch it. Totally worth the 3 hour drive for them ir even maybe a domestic flight. I get it now.

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It was a clear sky in the Ozarks. It was awesome.

It helped confirm my belief even more that their truly is a God and his awesome power.

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I know there's a God, but really enjoy it when he shows off a little.

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I said on this thread several pages ago that it wasn't worth traveling for. I disagree with myself now, especially if it was just a convenient drive.

I have friends that drove up from Channelview to stay in my camper and watch it. Totally worth the 3 hour drive for them ir even maybe a domestic flight. I get it now.

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That is what I was saying!

I'm super disappointed that life (14U Baseball tournament) got in the way. I was going to pull the kid from school for the 14-15 hours (normal traffic) one way to drive down to see it. He and I had already watched in 2017 but my wife had to work then. We could have done it but with our baseball finishing Sunday night at 7 pm and the dubious cloud cover we made the choice to skip.

All the pictures and excitement is making me wish I'd managed to find a way down there. 20 more years! Next time for sure.

You don't have to wait long...

August 2, 2027
Gibraltar, Tunisia, Cairo, and Luxor

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agsalaska said:

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I said on this thread several pages ago that it wasn't worth traveling for. I disagree with myself now, especially if it was just a convenient drive.

I have friends that drove up from Channelview to stay in my camper and watch it. Totally worth the 3 hour drive for them ir even maybe a domestic flight. I get it now.

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That is what I was saying!

I'm super disappointed that life (14U Baseball tournament) got in the way. I was going to pull the kid from school for the 14-15 hours (normal traffic) one way to drive down to see it. He and I had already watched in 2017 but my wife had to work then. We could have done it but with our baseball finishing Sunday night at 7 pm and the dubious cloud cover we made the choice to skip.

All the pictures and excitement is making me wish I'd managed to find a way down there. 20 more years! Next time for sure.

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Ok so 12u and we live in Belton/Temple playing in Houston at Scrapyards. Had a rain delay and the final started last night at 9:20.

We win, which is awesome, and leave The Woodlands as a team right at 11pm last night. All of our boys were laying out in pastures/backyards/driveways watching the eclipse today after getting home after 2am.

What a weekend to be a 12 year old from Belton. Go to the big city, beat a bunch of Houston teams at their place in the AAA/majors, got to Main Event, go to a different outdoor bar on Saturday, stay at a hotel WITH AN ELVATOR, and win the final.

To be 12 again.

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I said on this thread several pages ago that it wasn't worth traveling for. I disagree with myself now, especially if it was just a convenient drive.

I have friends that drove up from Channelview to stay in my camper and watch it. Totally worth the 3 hour drive for them ir even maybe a domestic flight. I get it now.

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I totally agree. I could probably gush about it for days. Truly spectacular. Pictures and descriptions can't prepare you for the experience.

The eclipse itself is amazing, but everything else makes it an event. The bugs/frogs started making music. Birds started freaking out. Suddenly as dark as night. Stars coming out. Temperature starts dropping. It's no wonder people in old times took it as a sign.

God is amazing.

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agsalaska said:

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I said on this thread several pages ago that it wasn't worth traveling for. I disagree with myself now, especially if it was just a convenient drive.

I have friends that drove up from Channelview to stay in my camper and watch it. Totally worth the 3 hour drive for them ir even maybe a domestic flight. I get it now.

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I totally agree. I could probably gush about it for days. Truly spectacular. Pictures and descriptions can't prepare you for the experience.

The eclipse itself is amazing, but everything else makes it an event. The bugs/frogs started making music. Birds started freaking out. Suddenly as dark as night. Stars coming out. Temperature starts dropping. It's no wonder people in old times took it as a sign.

God is amazing.

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I have looked for a while for a good production on how historical civilizations reacted to it. I would imagine that some understood it or at least expected it to happen while others had their entire world blown up by four minutes of darkness.

Start that particular rabbit hole with "The Eclipse of Thales".

Will do that this week.

We were in Germantown, Ohio and amazingly, the clouds broke and we got to experience 2 minutes and 42 seconds of totality at 3:09 p.m. We also saw the two solar flares during totality that were close to each other. However, they were at 7 o'clock and not 5 o'clock as this picture shows. Very glad we made the 5 hour drive north.

These were taken in Junction. The solar flares were all over the place.

Buchanan Dam:

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Right! Clouds cleared out just in time! We were a couple miles north of Bremond off 14.

We drove up from Houston this morning. Minimal traffic, game day traffic is worse. A couple brief slow downs on 6. Skipped Hearne and took OSR to 46 to Frankin and up to Bremond. ZERO traffic. I saw no hoardes of people. And ZERO traffic when we left near the totality zone. I didn't hit traffic until South of CS on 6.

One of the coolest things I've ever seen! I didn't understand what all the hype was about, but now I do.

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Glad that worked. Somewhere on 14 was my initial plan when i left this am, but the that hearne traffic looked rough. I went straight up 45 to Fairfield, topped off the gas, cursed the clouds, and then went another 10 miles up to the rest stop and it was perfect.

Took us just over 7 hours to make it back to College Station from Junction. Normally it takes about 5 with bathroom breaks.

Left just after totality. Johnson City was by far the worst as it took an hour to go 10 miles. After that there were slow spots but nothing as bad as Johnson City.

Long day but based on the clouds we saw in fredricksburg and beyond we made the right choice to stay in Junction for the viewing.

I'd post our pictures but they aren't as good as what others have been posting!

Put me in the camp of "Now I get it". Just amazing.

I still dont get it.

I mean, I love nature, and thought it was cool to witness a full eclipse. But other than it getting dark for a minute, nothing else really happened. It was neat to see something rare, but it was more the novelty of it, rather than anything different around me occurring. Everyone in my neighborhood seemed to carry on the same way.

Reading some of these descriptions make me think I saw a different eclipse.

Personally, I would not have traveled any distance to go see it but I'm glad was fortunate enough to have it cross our place so we could be a part of it. I was not overcome with emotion and did have any faith based revelations but I'm also a science dude so it was more of a "yep, science still works." Kinda thing. It was neat, we all enjoyed it. Honestly for me, the most sobering realization was that barring any life changing events taking me out of Texas, I'll have been dead for over 20 years by the next time one like it comes through, so it think was a worthwhile thing to see.

Wish i could have been out in a pasture not hearing humans, but it did not happen. Could not hear when birds and crickets stopped and started up again while it happened.

A total eclipse will clip NE Texas in 2045, so I hope you'll still be around then!

BrazosDog02 said:

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Personally, I would not have traveled any distance to go see it but I'm glad was fortunate enough to have it cross our place so we could be a part of it. I was not overcome with emotion and did have any faith based revelations but I'm also a science dude so it was more of a "yep, science still works." Kinda thing. It was neat, we all enjoyed it. Honestly for me, the most sobering realization was that barring any life changing events taking me out of Texas, I'll have been dead for over 20 years by the next time one like it comes through, so it think was a worthwhile thing to see.

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I'd agree with that. It was neat to see, and Im glad I got to. But that was about the extent of it for me.