Eastern Railroad Discussion > Solar Eclipse Monday

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlk-0m2Udec

some pm friday info

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I have seen one already, however Ill be in Sandusky, Ohio Monday on the Chicago Line watching it for free.

Michael Fair
Royal Oak, MI

Do you notice that our governor is looking a lot like Ted Cruz these days?

Victor Baird

CSX2605 Wrote:
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> I live in Southwest Indiana.
> "Last week, Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb, of
> Indiana, signed Executive Order 24-05, a
> statewide disaster emergency declaration in
> advance of Monday’s expected total solar
> eclipse. Parts of Indiana lay in the eclipse’s
> path of totality. For that reason, Holcomb
> predicted “several hundred thousand visitors”
> to the state. If that happens, then the massive
> influx of people “may well stress and/or
> interfere with first responder and public safety
> communications and emergency response systems such
> that a technological or other emergency may
> occur,” Holcomb’s order read. Indiana’s
> membership in the Emergency Management Assistance
> Compact allows it to call on other member states
> for resources. Indiana has not seen a total solar
> eclipse since 1869 and will not see another until
> 2099. Thus, officials in The Hoosier State and
> elsewhere have begun preparations for a
> once-in-a-lifetime event. Richard Fienberg, of
> the American Astronomical Society’s Solar
> Eclipse Task Force, put that event in an
> understandable context. “Having a total solar
> eclipse pass through the U.S. is kind of like
> having 20 or 30 Super Bowls happening all at
> once,” Fienberg said. For instance, during the
> total eclipse, sky watchers might also catch an
> otherwise impossible daytime glimpse of
> the Pons-Brooks comet. As it approached the sun
> in July, the cryovolcanic comet spewed gas and ice
> that gave it the appearance of having horns, which
> led to the nickname “devil’s comet.” Total
> solar eclipses occur only rarely. And Monday’s
> eclipse might make visible a “devil’s comet”
> that passes Earth about once every 71 years".

The one eclipse thingy that I get a kick out is reference GREED. Some folks reserved rooms for around the time of the eclipse (including one travel agency) a few months before the eclipse only to find them canceled about a week before for no valid reason. One hotel/motel blamed it on their reservation system but could not save the rooms at the price they booked. Of course, you can figure out that as soon as some hotel/motels discovered the market price went up to multiples of normal rates, they ditched those reservations for higher paying customers. Now, I also wonder if some hotel/motels are not allowing cancellations if the weather doesn't cooperate. That, I wouldn't blame them for doing. 

Victor Baird



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wabash2800 Wrote:
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> Some folks reserved rooms for around the time of the eclipse (including one travel agency)
> a few months before the eclipse only to find them canceled about a week before for no valid reason.

Hopefully pre-paid reservations will be protected, but I did lose a pre-paid hotel reservation in Wisconsin one year on a Memorial Day weekend.

> Of course, you can figure out that as soon as some hotel/motels discovered the market price went
> up to multiples of normal rates, they ditched those reservations for higher paying customers.

That part I do not understand. Nearly every hotel I have stayed at has a "maximum room rate" posted. Not a rate that I would want to pay (usually hundreds of dollars in a room I paid less than $100 for) but some limit to how much could be charged. The stories of $800+ for a hotel room in PA shock me.

> Now, I also wonder if some hotel/motels are not allowing cancellations if the weather doesn't cooperate. That, I wouldn't blame them for doing. 

There should be some level of cooperation but as with casinos, the house always wins. "Sorry, we overbooked and have no room for you." the house wins. "Sorry, our cancellation policy requires 72 hour notice." the house wins. One might be able to fight the charge through their credit card or bank.

I didn't get 72 hour notice when the hotel in Wisconsin cancelled my pre-paid reservation.

Missed catching a train during totality by 25 minutes. It was very cool to be surrounded by a sunset horizon. Birds were flying around like it was evening and the chickens stayed next to the barn as in what the heck is going on here. LOL!  Trains kept on rolling. I did hear one comment on the scanner, "I hope you like the dark". Haha!

We're as far east as you can get in Ohio and had a bare hint of cirrus cover, very near totality and a lot of confused birds. OSU gave out two glasses per alum, so the three of us switched off looking up and taking pictures of the sun images scattered through shrubs. No one bothered us back this way. The local colleges and the two observatories had viewing parties. All in all, it was a good time.

Rebecca Morgan
Jacobsburg, OH

I ended up in Russellville arkansas, pulled off to get some gas a train passed. So I chased it for a little bit and found a nice beech to hang on--- totally loved it. --where trains also passed

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