Eclipse near sandusky, Ohio

[Art M]

The eclipse just started where I live. Full eclipse in 1 hour. Full will last about 4 minutes.

Art Mirtes

[John kuehn]

It’s gotten a lot of hype down here in Texas but not as much traffic as expected on the highways. Some places that are supposed to be gathering places so far not getting filled up but maybe it might be in other places. As of this time the totality is supposed to be about 15 minutes and last about 3.5 minutes here close to Waco Texas out in the country with a few clouds.
Life goes on.

[John kuehn]

We just saw the total eclipse and now it’s lighting up. Took about 3 minutes. It’s a neat and amazing view. It’s now 1:40 CST as I’m writing this. One of the local stations covering it said it was a fast 4 min and it was! And a few months for the buildup. Life goes on.

Here’s a photo our daughter took from her back porch about 1 mile from here. Of course lots of pics will be taken.

[George House]

Glad you enjoyed it John. This was my disappointing
“”totality”” in south central Texas. Wanted to do a little acetylene lighting but heavy cloud cover..No temp drop. No turkeys gobbling. No turtles mating

[TRDxB2]

We just saw the total eclipse and now it’s lighting up. Took about 3 minutes. It’s a neat and amazing view. It’s now 1:40 CST as I’m writing this. One of the local stations covering it said it was a fast 4 min and it was! And a few months for the buildup. Life goes on.

Didn't Henry initially say "Anybody can see an eclipse in any color that they want so long as it's black"

[John kuehn]

Nothing much else going on here in the country other than the porch light coming on and then going off a few minutes later.

Attached is a photo taken in 1997 of my 1919 Roadster taken at a friends house. He was a gas pump and sign collector who wanted a picture on my Model T parked next to his gas pump with the missing globe. It’s of the comet Hale Bopp that was easily seen at dusk for a while in 1997.

[schwabd1]

I’m southwest of Toledo, in the band of totality. That was a neat experience, especially seeing stars at 3:11 in the afternoon. Did anyone else notice the closer the moon came to covering the sun the sunlight seemed to be more directly focused, kind of like you had a spotlight shining on you…… it was kind of weird! We only got 2 minutes of totality…. Something I’ve never seen before, and something I won’t see again unless I want to travel. I picked up my 94 year old dad and took him to our place out in the “sticks”. All the roads are set up in square miles…. There were a couple “city cars” parked on each mile to get an unobstructed view.

[JohnM]

Here in Berryman Mo, it was about 99 percent coverage. Similar to late evening or dusk. In 2017 we were in the shadow, that was very cool!

[Oldav8tor]

My wife and I set out at 9 AM for the three and a half hour drive to Findlay, Ohio, which was in line for nearly 4 minutes of totality. Nearly six hours later, I pulled into a community college parking lot just south of Toledo with only ten minutes to go before totality. The totality period was much shorter than it would be in Findlay but at least we saw it. The drive getting there was a drive from Hell.

Findlay is a straight shot down I-75 from Detroit. We had driven south to pick up I-94 in Port Huron then joined I-75 in Detroit. A little ways south of the city the traffic first slowed and then almost stopped. We inched along for awhile, then took an exit and drove over to Telegraph road (M-24) hoping it was better.....it wasn't. After crawling our way around Monroe, MI, I started taking whatever country road I could find that pointed south. My worry about how to kill time waiting for the eclipse seemed ridiculous in hindsight.

Unfortunately, after the eclipse our troubles weren't over. Now the traffic jam was in the reverse direction. Every road going north was clogged with traffic. As I told my wife, "I'll never do that again!"

Southbound traffic on I-75 near Monroe

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[Humblej]

I drove down to Dundee Michigan on US 23 Sunday and stayed overnight, then headed south to Perrysburg Ohio early Monday morning. No traffic heading down, got a nice viewing spot in an old limestone quarry now a nature preserve with 3 hours to spare. Great group of people there, mostly from Michigan, everyone polite and friendly, someone was handing out moon pies and sun chips, some Univ of Mich students were throwing around a football, a real friendly happy gathering, not the sort of thing I see much anymore. The drive back to Michigan was a nightmare after the eclipse, but expected it and took it all in stride. Definitely worth the trouble, hope I can catch the next one.

[mbowen]

I drove down to Dundee Michigan on US 23 Sunday and stayed overnight, then headed south to Perrysburg Ohio early Monday morning. No traffic heading down, got a nice viewing spot in an old limestone quarry now a nature preserve with 3 hours to spare. Great group of people there, mostly from Michigan, everyone polite and friendly, someone was handing out moon pies and sun chips, some Univ of Mich students were throwing around a football, a real friendly happy gathering, not the sort of thing I see much anymore. The drive back to Michigan was a nightmare after the eclipse, but expected it and took it all in stride. Defiantly worth the trouble, hope I can catch the next one.

So you drove by Brighton and didn’t stop and say hi?

[Jones in Aiken SC]

Well I missed this year's total eclipse but here are some pictures I took in August 2017 of the total eclipse in Ridge Spring, South Carolina. There sure was far more hype this year about the eclipse than there was in 2017. Having experienced one, I can say that a total eclipse is truly worthy of the word "awesome."

[Dollisdad]

Being in Cleveland we had the perfect location. The wife and I sat out on the deck and watched the light slowly dim and felt the temperature fall. Then at the moment of total eclipse it got very dark and no birds singing and the stars were out. Took off the glasses and the sight was truly amazing. And all we had to do was walk out the back door.

[NealW]

I grew up in NW Ohio, and we initially though about going back to watch it at my brother's house in Waterville, OH (near Toledo). We instead decided to go to Arkansas (from Kansas) figuring that we would have a better chance of seeing it than in often cloudy Ohio, plus a shorter drive. Thankfully they did have clear enough skies there to see it, as well as we did in Clarksville, AR, where we decided to watch it.

My brother was able to just go in from his backyard after the event. Unfortunately we had a 5 hour drive home, lengthened by about 1/2 hour due to heavy traffic on westbound I-40 afterwards; made worse by road construction on the highway in OK.

After we got home I decided to look at the totality map to see how close it was to my childhood home in Swanton, OH. It turns out that the edge of totality was just across the street from that house!

Lord willing, we will still be around in 21 years when the next total eclipse goes completely across the US again in 2045. At least then we will only need drive about 30 minutes to get a decent look at it.

[varmint]

We left New Orleans last week and drove to TX. The clouds opened up and we had 4:25 of totality. Some how we ended up right on the center line at Garner State Park in the mountains. Here are two pics, during the eclipse and during totality of the sign. The birds acted up, saw Venus, saw a solar flare.

[Ken Lefeber]

I saw it from my campsite in Casey, Illinois. Stayed 2 nights so I didn't have to deal with traffic.