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I realized that I am going to be in Hilton Head Island on Aug. 21 and the solar eclipse path of totality is about a couple hours drive away near Charleston or up I-95 near Santee. I read that Charleston is going to have about 1.5 minutes of the full eclipse, but about 40 minutes drive north of Charleston it will be nearly 2.5 minutes.
Do you think it is worth the extra drive, or do you think it I will be just stuck in traffic for hours like entering or leaving a football stadium or concert?
Hilton Head to Santee is 1 hr 41 minutes away (assuming traffic in HHI doesn't suck and it always does when I'm trying to get to I 95), there are areas of Orangeburg County even closer to HHI with totality.
I am going to drive from Raleigh NC to Columbia SC on the morning of the 21st and hope to get there in time. I have doubts but am going anyway. The only good part is I am staying in Columbia on the night of the 21st so I won't be trying to drive out along with everyone else. We are taking our grandson and he is excited to see it and he is only 14 so it should be fun anyway, Good luck.
Found out last night my 3 rovering sisters are on the West Coast/Near Portland wandering around for the purpose of viewing the solar eclipse ... very much that they AGAIN had planned a 'sister thing' which I stumbled onto. They live in Los Angeles, Houston and between DC & Baltimore....not exactly in the same area code as Portland.
If I get any photos from their now uncovered 'secret SISTER'S trip' .. I will post them on TUG.
Since I called my one sister TWICE in an hour ... and then called a 2nd sister ... when I called the third one, she answered. It was NOT VACATION GUILT that got them but really, I think since we have a 92yo aunt who lives within 2 miles of me ... their concern was "something happened to Auntie" so the 3rd one answered her cell phone.
Auntie is fine ... I took her out to lunch for her 92nd birthday to the Olive Garden on Sunday. Our waitress was wonderful and Olive Garden comps the birthday person with a free desert and the waitress also comp my desert (very much a surprise to Auntie & I). Auntie, as I have said before, is very much with it and walks well ... I just kept my hand on her & walk with her to prevent other people from bumping into her and to make sure the surface where she is walking is reasonably flat. And we do carry on a conversation during the entire time. Auntie has been following the Solar event news also. Her plan is to view it on TV as she does not want to harm her eyesight (she does do eye drops twice daily to stall her losing her sight - macro degeneration.)
My favorite line: "It’s not unusual for die-hard eclipse chasers to keep airplanes on standby, in case they have to make a last-minute run for it to escape clouds. With mobility as easy as it is in the U.S., though, we should be able to look at forecasts a day or two before, and move accordingly to try and get into a path location that promises to be cloud-free."
Our Charleston NBC station reported that over a million people are coming to Charleston for the eclipse. Flights are full and hotels sold out. Over two million expected to come in to the state of SC for the event. There is a 30% chance of rain and clouds are likely in Charleston. Cell phones may not respond well. And they recommend we disable automatic downloads during that time. I wish we were were heading out of the state but then I say that every August! So hot here right now!
South Carolina is where EVERYONE in the southeast is headed.........many to Charleston and many to Columbia SC,
and many just out in the countryside. Traffic is predicted to be insane.
Walmart parking lots seem to be oft-heard destinations of choice.
I believe for 1200 Marriott Destination Points you can get a Walmart Parking Lot Pass for up to four vehicles,
a picnic table and two sacks of Krystal burgers.
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Our house was sure dark for a while. We were at about 90% in Denver. We did use a cereal box viewer and two pieces of paper, so two viewing methods. Rick liked the paper, I liked the cereal box. It wasn't as significant as I hoped.
Absolutely beautiful here in Augusta. Gorgeous white clouds covered half the sky, but the sun was totally unobscured and what we saw was spectacular.
99% totality (we're only slightly outside the "zone") but going in and coming out (still just a sliver like a crescent) over the past 45 minutes were fantastic. I suppose the rest of the moon's "coming out" from the sun will be simply a reverse process, so I'll skip it since I'm at work.
We drove from the Charlotte area down to near Anderson, SC in the upstate region. Took over four hours to make what is normally a 2 hour or so drive. We picked a spot at a QT gas station right on Interstate 85. Unfortunately, a fairly large cumulus cloud started forming right over our location and threatened to remain throughout the eclipse, and it even started sprinkling a few drops of rain. So we packed up the camera and tripod and hurriedly moved about six miles northeast to the next exit where the skies were clear with about 30 minutes left before totality. Clouds started moving in there almost as soon as we arrived, so with less than twenty minutes remaining, we packed up again and moved five miles farther northeast to clear skies again. It was hectic for about a half hour, but we made it work. Photos shot with a Canon 7D Mark II camera with a 400mm zoom lens are below. It then took almost five and half hours to drive home.
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