Just a sneeze south of totality ...this place is going to turn into a straight-up crazy town. Our town of 50k is expecting an influx of 500k-3mil...and they're ball park guessing based on hotel and campground reservations. Telling people to put an extra couple cans of gas in the car if they drive out to see the event and pack a couple of meals to eat in the car...plus porta potties along the interstate. Phone and net will be nonexistent with that much extra load. NASA has rented every campground in two national forests. Our tiny little town created an eclipse incident command lmao. Heavy traffic is having to pass more than two cars - our roads won't handle this gracefully. Anticipating a 30 minute drive taking 4-6 hours. Fun times...

I'm predicting heavy clouds over our area, especially just east of here where it is supposed to be 100% People are talking about a big influx of people, but we shall see.

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WOW....reading this makes me happy we're NOT in the path, I wonder how many residents " in the path " will plan mini vacations to avoid the World coming to visit.....lol

Air bnb comes to mind.

I just saw an article where st joe is the third best place in the country to see it. St joe is 30 miles north of me. For perspective st joe is supposed to see 2m 34sec of totality. I'm supposed to see 2m 2sec totality. 30 miles south of me is supposed to see 20 seconds totality.

We've been working on emergency plans etc for st joe. They don't have the infrastructure to support things.

It's going to be crazy. I'm not going anywhere near Joe town that entire weekend. My (and most other) employers are simply shutting down.

I wonder what it's going to do to platte

I was thinking of driving up.. sounds like a bad idea now... 🤔

Come on up.

Prolly shouldn't.. getting knee replaced on the 18th.. if we can delay the eclipse for a week I could.. 😟

I think 29 is going to be a parking lot. St. Joe is under a siege mentality right now. Most people are worried that the city is going to run out of food, gasoline, etc. It is expected that something like 500k people are going to be at Rosecrans airport alone. I'm lucky enough to live up in Savannah so I don't have to go to St. Joe that weekend.

TW - yeah, inadequate infrastructure is the issue here, too. Our area is listed in every top 5 list, despite the weather channel publishing that map where Idaho was missing entirely! I was kind of hoping that would put a damper on the tourism lol. "Okay, we can go to Oregon, or we can skip that strange void and go to Wyoming..."

Most of the totality path through idaho has basically ZERO light pollution, so the "dark skies" enthusiasts are out in force. Got plenty of dark skies right now...thanks a lot wildfire season. I don't want to think about how bad it's going to be when all of the city dwellers who aren't usually campers and don't acknowledge burn bans all pitch a WalMart pup tent in the forest and try to burn it down...

The single north-south interstate through the area will be converted to ALL lanes north only in the morning and ALL lanes south in the evening. If you need to go the other way, take the old highways...along with the jillion other people doing the same thing trying to get out of the interstate traffic. Our towers, grid, roads, stores and gas stations just don't have the ability to handle that many extra people...they're saying if you travel, plan to start the Wednesday before and be stuck until the Wednesday after.

Already had alerts about people hitching onto people's RVs and driving off...looks like folks' entrepreneurial spirit is already coming out. Even if you stay home, ALL of our police will be managing traffic chaos somewhere, and most of our residents will be out stuck on the road, so if you're an opportunistic criminal, there will be plenty of opportunity.

My cousins farm n Shoshoni in right on the path. Our place is 30 miles north of there. I think we are going to stay put.. they are expecting a million or more people flocking to Wyoming 🤦

All I know is that if I had land up there, I'd take that week off and be patrolling for tresspassers.

Actually I heard that a lot of folks are renting out camping spots on their property, because campgrounds have been booked for over a year. Making some $$$ on it.

Yup. Friend has 150 acres between here and st joe. Cha Ching.

It's not Mars it's (silent pause)..... Nibiru...


The Annunaki are coming back to get the gold we harvested.


Why else is a soft azz, flimsy as heck, heavier than the dickens, metal so valuable.

Um.... B'Cuz it's rarrrrre and Purty....?


Somebody watched Ancient Aliens tonight.

Looks like rain

Predicting partly cloudy here. The eclipsers are already showing up in town. Our house is up on a hill overlooking town. Great view of the madness to come! We gots food, beer, ice, and ammo. Gonna fire up the smoker and take in the festivities

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My in laws are driving to Eclipseville from missip' they think if they leave tomorrow, they will make it on time.
Good luck, and safe journey to all the travelers.

Take a picture for me!!!

Better stock up on milk, bread, and eggs. That's a lot of mouths to feed coming:p