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I was in MA, in kindergarten at the time. Our teachers had pinhole projectors for it, and I do remember being underwhelmed, though a little apprehensive/scared before it happened. Then it was kind of like "When's the eclipse coming?" "It's over." "what???"

Will be in Hastings, NE, hopefully in between shortwaves. Anyone from here targeting NE? The whole dang Denver metro area is COMPLETELY out of eclipse glasses and the ones I ordered from Amazon last week never came. Maybe some places along our trip route might have some, but feeling a bit out of luck there at this time. Everyplace I've tried has just sold out when I get there. Wish I could make some- a longtime ago I used to use 35mm film...

Booked perhaps the only room under $500 left within a couple hours of totality in central Nebraska... lucky that we'll be taking a family trip to Chicago at the time anyway, and a relatively small detour. There is NEVER traffic around where we're staying, but I expect there will be considerable traffic anyway. We'll have about 80 miles to drive the morning of, to get to a good place (targeting Hastings., will stay away from I-80 till it's done). Think I'll go find the Nebraska DeLorme atlas or something in case back roads are needed. Have not tornado chased, but I imagine it will be a similar kind of thing (though the only danger will be from the other cars!!) Looked like Omaha still had a few reasonable rooms left a couple days ago. More traffic issues there for sure.

Thinking the farther north and west you are, the less likely to encounter clouds and/or haze to decrease the drama. We'll be taking my daughter to college in OH and driving either from or to CO, so either I-80 in NE or I-70 in MO (totality covers its ENTIRE LENGTH in MO) are a good bet. It'll be around 1 PM CT... are PM thunderstorms a good bet in MO? NE tends to dry out a lot in August.

You should see it shortly.

We have an answer.

Just issued a severe thunderstorm warning for here, for 60 mph gusts and 1.25" hail. Starting to thunder a bit and my dog wants to climb into the bookcase. No wind or rain yet. I am sure it's because I watered my lawn extra this AM. We shall see....

Welcome! I would like some fog, please. Getting drier and hotter each day. Any thoughts on the start of the SW monsoon? Last year it was a bit of a "nonsoon". Us in the big squarish states could use some more moisture, soon.

Tornado warning now for Fort Morgan, CO for radar indicated rotation, two cells are merging just SW of town.

Line coming out of foothills moving way too fast, not enough time for warming after initial stratus/crud in the Denver metro area. Might end up being a bust- any time/energy for another round later? Figures, I actually got buckets over the roses, the cars in the garage and the glass patio table under the roof before I left this AM.

That one would be a gutter ball. I don't think I've seen one at quite that low a latitude. Need some bumpers on the lanes. Why does it look to me like the ridge wants to build right back on top of it?

I think my blood pressure just went down 15 points when I saw that picture. Incredible. I want to go have lunch on that rock.

I was on a small commercial flight about 30 miles north of Joplin when everything was going down last evening... worst turbulence I've ever experienced, though it was probably only high-end moderate/low-end severe. The flight attendants were starting to look at each other and stuff was starting to bounce around, then we were through it. My thoughts and prayers go out to everyone there... terrible.