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Milwaukees Best Light
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We are still going. Will be a fun camping trip and maybe the skys part just for us. If nothing else, it will hopefully weed out a bunch of day trip folks and will make traffic less.
chico
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Glad we made the road trip to Nashville several years ago to see it then, was just spectacular - I'm driving to Austin for this one, rain or shine.
maroon barchetta
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I'm going to see my brother in Wimberley regardless.
Jock 07
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Milwaukees Best Light said:

We are still going. Will be a fun camping trip and maybe the skys part just for us. If nothing else, it will hopefully weed out a bunch of day trip folks and will make traffic less.

This is actually what happened for me in 2017 when I drove from Omaha to Grand Isle. Was cloudy pretty much the entire drive over and then all of the sudden about 5 or 10 minutes before it was supposed to hit the sky opened up enough to see everything. The clouds that were in the sky actually made for a really cool 360 sunset.
AggieMom24
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Something to consider is the eclipse itself changes the weather. When we were in Fredericksburg for the fall one, it was crazy how the clouds flattened out and dissipated - which makes sense without the heat from the sun.
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Suck it Dallas.

Martin Q. Blank
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Cromagnum said:

Suck it Dallas.


I'm pretty sure the entire state will be overcast.
Ag_07
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Cromagnum said:

Suck it Dallas.




P.H. Dexippus
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RIP Bill Paxton and PSH.
Sazerac
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Colleague flew in from the Netherlands with his wife this week. Renting RV and headed west of San Antonio Saturday.

Did similar in 2017.

Crazy to me
Scruffy
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I just realized I'll be in a plane flying DFW to IND about to land at the time of totality in Indianapolis..... I didn't think about the eclipse, nor would I want an earlier flight.
jja79
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Friend with a ranch in Coryell County told me yesterday he saw a number of Michigan plates yesterday.

I told him to send me pictures if he doesn't go blind monday.
Greendale 87
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Not sure I get the eclipse hate posts. Yea, maybe it's cloudy…..if in company of folks you love who cares.

At least for me, the family trips we took that were most memorable and we still talk about had a disaster or two.

Hell - I wouldn't remember the Disney trip twenty years ago if not for my wife puking on a ride and getting Disney-issued scrubs to wear the rest of the day……trip ruined? No - a vivid memory that still brings a smile.

Cloudy and being stuck in traffic on eclipse day is the same thing.
maroon barchetta
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Greendale 87 said:

Not sure I get the eclipse hate posts. Yea, maybe it's cloudy…..if in company of folks you love who cares.

At least for me, the family trips we took that were most memorable and we still talk about had a disaster or two.

Hell - I wouldn't remember the Disney trip twenty years ago if not for my wife puking on a ride and getting Disney-issued scrubs to wear the rest of the day……trip ruined? No - a vivid memory that still brings a smile.

Cloudy and being stuck in traffic on eclipse day is the same thing.


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Texaggie7nine
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You thought a Sharknado was bad. Wait till you experience an Eclipsenado
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Sazerac
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Sazerac said:

Colleague flew in from the Netherlands with his wife this week. Renting RV and headed west of San Antonio Saturday.

Did similar in 2017.

Crazy to me


Meet up with them today. Said their plane from Amsterdam was loaded with eclipse chasers
BudFox7
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The traffic fear mongers are wrong so far. I'm sure Monday won't be pleasant but Friday traffic is nothing abnormal.
Captain Winky
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They sound like my B of a sister, "Oh you like something which I don't? Well, you're stupid for liking that thing."
MAROON
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Someone just told my wife that "Llano is out of gas".

Surely that is bull ****e
one MEEN Ag
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MAROON said:

Someone just told my wife that "Llano is out of gas".

Surely that is bull ****e


"Yeah fill up well before there." -Buc-ee's management.
Jock 07
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BudFox7 said:

The traffic fear mongers are wrong so far. I'm sure Monday won't be pleasant but Friday traffic is nothing abnormal.

If it's like 2017 it's not until after the eclipse when the real traffic hits.
redag06
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Normal Friday traffic all the way out to Luling.

As for gas……this is why I have a 36 gallon tank. 650+ miles per tank
wessimo
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Normal traffic on I-10 / hwy 90 out to Utopia
Texaggie7nine
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Shaping out to be a great day


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Cromagnum
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As soon as I saw the eclipse was gonna be in April around here, I knew it was a lock for thunderstorm day.
redaszag99
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Traffic is backed for miles going into Brenham on 290 because it is down to 1 lane for construction
MAROON
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Normal traffic between Houston and Austin. And of course no gas shortages
maroon barchetta
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Slow on 21 between bastrop and San Marcos.
TXAG 05
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BudFox7 said:

The traffic fear mongers are wrong so far. I'm sure Monday won't be pleasant but Friday traffic is nothing abnormal.


It's like saying the traffic isn't bad in college Station on Wednesday before a football game.
H-town ag
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Running errands around H-Town today ... CityCentre and Bunkerhill. Traffic was really high. Looked like a lot of people from out of town and did not know where they were going. Parking lot near HEB was the fullest that I have ever seen.
94chem
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H-town ag said:

Running errands around H-Town today ... CityCentre and Bunkerhill. Traffic was really high. Looked like a lot of people from out of town and did not know where they were going. Parking lot near HEB was the fullest that I have ever seen.


If they're in Houston, they clearly don't.
94chem,
That, sir, was the greatest post in the history of TexAgs. I salute you. -- Dough
MAROON
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In horseshoe bay - there is literally no traffic on the main drag here.
BMX Bandit
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Update:

Very dark outside right now.

No traffic in heights. Everyone must be at HEB watching
 
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