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xkcd #2915: Eclipse Clouds (imgs.xkcd.com)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The rare compound solar-lunar-nephelogical eclipse

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

All these people are going to be creating congestion in my city to look at dark clouds. Wow.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Niagara falls in Canada already declared a state of emergency and Kingston is expecting to see 3x the normal population visit during the eclipse. It's going to be absolutely nuts and I feel for anyone living in a city like that.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

I just left Niagara falls a few days ago and they are erecting barricades like they're prepping for Canada to invade lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's always a shit show. I drove to S Illinois in 2017. 6 hour drive in, 17 hour drive home I hated it. But worth it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

My experience wasn't quite that bad, but still sucked. It took about 4.5 hours to get to my perfect spot. I left within an hour or two after the eclipse was over, and then it something like 8+ hours to get home due to excessive traffic.

It wouldn't have changed my choice, but I would have appreciated a warning that post-eclipse traffic could/would be extreme because it wasn't something I had even thought about. Figured it might be a little heavier, but wasn't expecting that much.

So this time around, I've mentioned it to folks who are planning to travel to see it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Yeah, it's going to be a mess. I'm really not looking forward to Monday.