21AUG2017 Total Solar Eclipse...are you ready?

We have our glasses. My town is in the 99.6% totality. If I can get the day off, we will leave real early in the morning to travel about 30 minutes away to be in 100% totality. If I have to work, then I'll have to settle for 99.6%. I do plan on keeping my kids home from school for the occasion.

We're going to DH's hometown (Carbondale/Makanda IL), which has totality and is the longest point of the eclipse - I think like 2 minutes and 40 seconds of totality. NASA is going to be in the town, and the city is going to major expense to prepare for the influx. For comparison, it is a university town, and I think it is around 6000 people when there are no students, 26,000 with students -- and they are anticipating up to 100,000. We are staying with his brother (getting in Friday), planning to buy groceries and not go to any public places, and are doing an eclipse party at a friend's house. I ordered glasses off Amazon but haven't gotten them yet. Good reminder to check.

We REALLY hesitated to go because of the crowds the town is expecting, but it seemed stupid to us to miss it because we were letting other people make us avoid the town. We're just going to be prepared to avoid all main areas and extra time to drive anywhere.

I think we are going to stay home. There is going to be a lot if idiots out there.

We’re going to a minor league baseball game in Salem-Keizer, which is in the path of totality. It’ll be fun. We have a ton of backroads ways to get there from here, so we’re not too worried about trafffic.

I received the glasses I ordered, thanks to the thread here. We will be staying in downtown Salem so all we'll need to do on eclipse day is walk outside.

I just saw on the news that the parks in Salem will allow tent camping for eclipse viewing. Might do that. We actually have a plan A, B, And C. But C only had 99.6 totality.

We are right in the path and should experience 2 minutes and 28 seconds of totality. We've been discussing where to be. Our neighborhood has lots of mature trees so I wonder if that might impact our viewing. We might go somewhere more wide-open just to be sure we don't miss a thing!

The best places to view will be up North, and that area has a LOT of small towns. neat area, but be prepared for lots of people and not a lot of resources. That said, Union Station is planning a viewing party.

My office didn't even close when the Royals won the world series, plus the schools are frantically telling us how much planning they're doing around the event (so please don't pull your kid out). Therefore I may see what I can see *with glasses* from the roof of our parking garage, but other than that it's going to be a low key thing for us.

We're north of Seattle with 88% coverage. Good enough. It'll be pretty cool!

I'm in California, so no invasion here. But I boyfriend has an aunt who lives in a small town in Idaho and is expecting more people than it's ever held, she doesn't see how they will all fit. 

I live in WA so we will get a pretty good partial. I was going to order glasses, but they had some at our Fred Meyer so I picked up enough for the family. I think I may take the morning off work. My cousin is driving to Oregon by herself to camp in someone's field - one of the places that is selling spots to a whole bunch of people. She is going 2 days early to make sure she gets there and is taking all her camping supplies so she can be self sufficient. She has had a rough summer and is in need of an adventure....

I can't wait for it to be over. I'm tired of hearing about it.
I'm just a couple miles from 100% totality.

i'm in totality - and pretty darned excited about it

i have no idea how it'll be around here

i'd imagine there are lots of places people will flock to before my podunk town

gina

Ha ha, no. I should have ordered some glasses for myself and DD since she'll be home that day, but I've been preoccupied with other stuff and blew it. No one in town has any glasses anymore, oh well. I'm going to be watching BFF's 6yo grandkid (special needs) that afternoon too, but it's likely it will be cloudy here so we'll try to watch it on the NASA site online.

My sister lives very close to the path of totality, but she lives too far away to justify the trip just a week before school starts for DD. She said it's already nuts where she lives, and it's already even worse a few miles away. Besides I would never have been able to convince DH to drive for 15+ hours right into the chaos, LOL.