Who else is starting to get excited about the eclipse?
I live north of Dallas, which is supposed to be absolutely inundated with eclipse viewers on Monday, to the point where my county issued a warning to avoid I-35 at all costs, fill up our gas tanks before the visitors arrive, and expect cell phone outages.
My house is baaaaarely inside the path of totality. Like, barely. 200 yards behind my house is outside the boundary line. I'm supposed to be able to see about 25 seconds of totality. My daughter, whose house is not inside the path, is taking her kids out of school that day and coming to my house, then we're taking the back roads about five miles southeast. Doing that gains us about a minute and a half more of totality viewing.
I looked it up today, and this area hasn't seen a total eclipse since 1878. We won't see another one anywhere in the US until 2044, and we won't see one near DFW for another 300 years.
Thankfully, I ordered glasses a month ago, and I have those ready to go. I just hope it doesn't rain!
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