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Ya.....cancelled hotels in Quincy IL and Louisville KY.....Missouri looked awful and I really didn't want to contend with southeast traffic.....I've got an ambitious/aggressive schedule that has fail written all over it but it won't be dull and will be an all time great tale.....wishing everybody the best of luck and looking forward to all the posts.....I'll post to if I have cell in BF Nebraska....lol

Glad I didn't pick there.....lol..... https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.businessinsider.com/solar-eclipse-car-traffic-travel-delay-maps-2017-8

Final preps under way.....leave for Tewksbury MA tomorrow afternoon to stay with sister and she'll take me in to Logan early Sunday......nervous AF

I also have these maps downloaded and accessible without internet.....

That is tremendous.....I put Google maps on my iPad and am downloading maps - actually areas I window out - for use without internet/cell service.....supposedly it behaves just like google maps - that is you can zoom in and out and it will adjust the detail like normal.....I was nervous to be in BF Nebraska and not have cell

Also I think it is the point of max eclipse or whatever.....past that point totality gets shorter as it moves east

IDK marginally better......I guess......hoping

With 1million of your closest friends.....lolz.....meanwhile P&C forecast for NE got better

I'll be coming from Omaha leaving probably early early Monday morning and sticking to back roads......my target is northwest of Grand Island - Ravenna......theres a 9 hole golf course that was selling admission onto the property for $11.....I just booked it not knowing if I would go there but since I have to pull the trigger on my hotel reservations I am thinking this is gonna be my target......I have three reservations - Omaha, Quincy, and Louisville.....probably cancel Quincy and Louisville....

Oh wait.....you're targeting MO.....I meant better in NE.....

I thought it looked better.......

I subscribed.....it was 99 cents for 4 weeks....whatever

Pay site

lol I was looking at that earlier......here is the 12z GFS valid same time......

Right now I'm planning on NE.......central NE.....it looks dicey but ATM Monday looks Mostly Sunny sandwiched between convection on Sunday evening and Monday evening....playing with fire.....I'll be driving to Omaha from Madison all day Sunday....

Meanwhile....Fayette MO still looks good.....decisions decisions.....

Looking good.....please hold up.....

I really want my Ravenna NE golf course viewing thing to work out......seems like the best location I've found based on Google Earth views......

Also.....if it wasn't so far wouldn't you rather be behind the spill over rather than trying to out pace it and risk the chance its faster than expected.....thats part of the reason I like Nebraska.....but I also have an Omaha hotel reservation.....

Ya....I have until late tomorrow to make the call otherwise I'm on the hook for the reservations.....honestly I can't believe I got the rates I did but they are a few hours outside the totality zone.....still thinking Nebraska is my final target.....once the decision is made its an all in thing.....no regrets.....can't wait

Ya seems reasonable.....you can get 300 miles out of Dodge that way and probably be fine.....where are you headed?

Ya thanks for reminding me of that......I was also thinking that those cloud cover maps at longer lead times diffuse or creap more.....sort of like those spaghetti plots go bonkers the farther you go out in time as the uncertainty just explodes......anyway my totally uneducated take......its also annoying how those cloud cover shades are basically zero clouds to 100% clouds with no realistic transition in between.....they're like the NAM clown snowfall maps...lol

Question.....if you are driving in those last few hours to your target will you bring extra gas tanks full of gas? Legit question.....or is that dumb in low population areas like NE and WY.....

Its beginning..... http://komonews.com/news/local/traffic-backups-already-forming-in-oregon-4-days-before-eclipse

Those two minutes are only on the totality path......if you stay in Denber, at 93% you may sense a dimming and if you have the glasses you will definitely see something great but if you are only a short drive or so from the totality path you need to find a way to get there......I hear it is other worldly and this is why I am trekking 1500 miles into the middle of the nations heartland in Nebraska to see it.....I have a tight time schedule and I am unsure about a lot of things.....the logistics are insane.....but I will try to get there.....dude you are like only 4 hours away from the path in WY or NE.....GO!!!