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Old Apr 7, 2024 | 09:48 AM
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The scouts arrived yesterday and set up.

Edit: I walked up to the scouts, and their flag had Lebanon PA on it. Surprised to see someone from home out here.


 
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Old Apr 7, 2024 | 10:57 AM
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Just don’t be a stable genius and look at it with no eye protection. Haha.
 
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Old Apr 7, 2024 | 02:27 PM
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What's a scout? International Scouts?
 
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Old Apr 7, 2024 | 07:57 PM
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I didn’t know if I should have called them Boy Scouts, as there were girls there also. Do you call the girls Boy Scouts also?
 
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Old Apr 7, 2024 | 08:01 PM
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I didn’t know if I should have called them Boy Scouts, as there were girls there also. Do you call the girls Boy Scouts also?
LOL LOL LOL . I had no idea you meant Boy Scouts!
 
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Old Apr 8, 2024 | 01:26 PM
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I'm in Newark, NY where my DIL's cousins live. Eclipse was supposed to start at 2:10 but we can't see a thing, cloud cover

We are at her cousin's brew pub.
I am having a frosty beverage. And so we wait for the total eclipse at 3:21.
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Old Apr 8, 2024 | 03:38 PM
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Well that was pretty neat. Here’s pictures of my glasses.





 
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Old Apr 8, 2024 | 03:44 PM
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Old Apr 8, 2024 | 03:49 PM
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It was hard to take pictures holding a lens of the glasses over the iPad or compact camera.
 
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Old Apr 8, 2024 | 03:51 PM
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Not so lucky in Newark NY. Cloudy.




 
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Old Apr 8, 2024 | 06:34 PM
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Nice Kevin.

Traffic was bumper to bumper on I-86 East.
 
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The eclipse was a bust here. We were well away from the total eclipse band, but still were expecting to see about 75 percent coverage of the sun. Due to heavy cloud cover, this afternoon was just another dreary day. A friend about 20 miles away saw a few glimpses of the eclipse through the clouds, but we saw nothing. If we made a big trip and were staying in an expensive motel room tonight, I'd be upset with how the long anticipated day of the big eclipse played out.

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Old Apr 9, 2024 | 07:51 AM
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I was surprised how when just a sliver of the sun was showing, it was light out like on a cloudy day. It wasn’t until it was totally covered that it turned dark.

Where we are camping we have no electric and have to walk to the showers. But with 2 100 watt solar panels we were good with battery power. For 4 nights and 5 days, it was $20.00 total.



 
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The title of this thread is "Our trucks and the eclipse" and no one has shown us that. So here is one:


 
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