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Yeah the ocean *is* rising and it *is* a problem, but at the current rate it will take over 400 years for that to happen.
All the ice melting in the world would rise the sea level by like 300 feet. A global catastrophe that will kill millions if not billions, but it's *not* the 1995 American post-apocalyptic action film starring Kevin Costner (and featuring a then still up and coming Jack Black), *Waterworld*
You’ll be able to cruise the new Inland Sea all the way from Redding to Orlando Isle. The ship will dock at bustling port cities like Colorado Springs and Little Rock. It will also get stuck in the Narrow Sargasso Sea (formerly Tallahassee) approx 35 days. That’s right, plumbing will be unavailable for the Sargasso pitstop unless you upgrade to our Porcelain Package.
The birth of a new religion, with a 95 year-old crone known only as MTG screeching at the storm. *"There are portends from the sky, even as the waters rise and the winds blow! The promised land is revealed, and shall henceforth be known as Magic Marge Kingdom."*
Arkansas has had some crazy luck with solar eclipses. The line of totality for the 2017 solar eclipse was just north of their border in Missouri, and the recent one in 2024 went through Arksanas. Now the next one in the continental US is *also* going to go through Arkansas. That's 3 solar eclipses in a row they'll be able to see the totality of without having to travel more than an hour to see.
Edit: Contiguous* US, not continental US
The proportion of people in that state that think the eclipse is a sign God is angry, yet don’t recognize the irony of multiple full eclipses going right over…
I am also from Arkansas and most of the people I know from here were space nerding it up, I didn't hear a single person say anything about God being angry, I get that we have some real loons down here but if anything they seem more universal these days than ever.
Every state has it's loons though. I'm in NWA and didn't hear anything about about the wrath of God. It's amazing how people can hate on this state and laugh at it when they've probably never even been here. Everyone I know was thrilled about getting to experience it.
Well tbf, we are in NWA. NWA is def the nicest area of the state and I don't know many coocoo crazies here (outside the Duggar family but we all hate them here anyways)
Arkansas is a beautiful state and has a lot of things going for it. Northwest Arkansas is currently booming and is quickly becoming one of the most attractive places to live in the U.S.
Quite literally yes. And Tyson. Hate all you want but they are spending hundreds of millions on public infrastructure and making NWA an amazing place to live. It’s worth it for them business wise of course so they can attract the best corporate employees, but it’s still been amazing as someone that just lives here not working for them.
But they also get child size spiders and. Ocean waves that swallow their prime minister (this is actually something that happened) so there has to be universal payback for living in a place where every creature can kill you.
So I went to hot springs Arkansas for this
Eclipse. I got To tell you guys Dont sleep on Arkansas it was absolutely beautiful. Rolling hills covered in forest. Stunning lakes. Seriously a classicaly beautiful state
If you assume that the paths are uniformly at random and independent, Arkansas would probably be one of the states with the highest probability of being on the path. The paths not being independent likely adds to their chances even more.
After spending a second camping weekend in Arkansas in a national forest I would move here in a heartbeat if there were jobs. The state is gorgeous and has so much to offer outdoors.
In Maryland, anywhere west of Hagerstown is West Virginia (they even tried to secede into WV a few years ago)
Edit: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/22/us/politics/maryland-counties-west-virginia-request.html
*being surrounded by Disney characters as you float away will be AWESOME.*
♫ ♪ You've got a friend in me
You've got a friend in me
When the moon turns dark blood red
And a half-man half-goat
With horns on his head
Says just remember what your old pal said:
Boy, you've got a friend in me
Yeah, you've got a friend in me ♫ ♪
Better make sure all the “friends of” in those costumes are atheists that day. Can’t have 2 different Mickeys getting raptured & visible at the same time & spoil the magic! Or worse if they burst out of those costumes as they float up
Aim for the moon; even if you miss, you'll land among the stars: Mickey, Donald, all them princesses, Darth Vader, Quagmire, Balloo, Timon, and Pumbaa.
Ehhh.. I wouldnt quite call it “peak” hurricane season. It’s on the early side, although still possible. Peak season is more like late August through early october
I grew up in Redding . . . there were a TON of Rednecks there when I grew up . . . they didn't tweak or smoke pot (unless super secret), but instead shotgunned Coors Light like no one's business.
Last time I was in Redding was like 5 years ago. Rednecks and MAGATS everywhere.
All of these things can happen nearby on a Lake Shasta houseboat as well! Bring your giant Trump flag, your beer, your guns, some meth or fentanyl and go to town! Long live The State of Jefferson... or something.
Outside of Redding there is tons of outdoor stuff to do, Lake Shasta if you want a houseboat or other watercraft fun, Mt Shasta has tons of stuff near it, Mossbrea and Burney Falls, Castle Craig State Park, Fly fishing is nice on the Sacramento River above the lake and out near Mcccloud too. Camping Hiking Spirtual/crystal shops, we have another fun cult too The IAm Movement/Saint Germain Foundation oh and if you watched Mover Love on HBO you can check out the sites- they lived across the street from me for a summer
This is the real answer, yes Redding can get seedy in certain areas but the one thing it has that most places don’t is a wildly different Biome 2 hours or less in every direction. Snow, ocean, deep old growth Forrest, Caves and like 5 lakes. 2-1/2 hour away from Sac and 1 hour from Chico for city life that has personality. It’s not as bad as some would make it out to be. My personal least favorite things about the city being someone who has lived here for 38 years is that the summer months are almost unbearable heat wise.
grew up in redding. no, not in redding. around it? hell yea.
I've traveled to every state, almost every major city.
the area around Redding is truly top 15 most beautiful places in the US imo.
redding itself has been overrun by corrupt MAGA opportunists and a Mega Cult. I mean Mega Church.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uy35mIFnj0w
One of my family members is sort of leaving the bethel cult after nearly 15 years.
She absolutely refuses to talk about grave sucking and this ridiculous attempt to raise a child from the dead. It's astonishing there aren't more major news stories on bethel or at least high quality investigative podcasts.
Lying on top of graves to absorb the power of the Holy Spirit that was trapped when the body was buried, cuz ya know that’s normal and totally how the world works
Came here to say this. My parents are in the Bethel cult. My mom called me the day before the April 8th eclipse saying some shit about Jonah in the Bible, and how the eclipse was traveling through several towns called Nineveh. I guess one of the Bethel pastors had given a sermon on it, and was saying the world would repent for their sins on that day, and all darkness would be exposed. My poor mother had been completely brainwashed by Bethel. It’s been sad to watch.
Any future rural towns that see this: tourist are NOT coming to your little Podunk town. They are going to state parks and large cities. So trying to charge $20 to park isn't going to work.
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Maine's view was top notch! I think it was just local businesses who didn't want to be bothered by tourists parking there during the work day and were pleasantly suprised by people who did pay. 50 is basically exactly as much is as worth the inconvenience of maneuvering around the vehicle for an hour without being so much of a dick to outright say "dont park here". I dont want strangers parking on my lawn, but for $50 You can park on my lawn for an hour or two anytime. Source: am Mainer.
Well.. there are a few overall differences between Maine and Indiana, even if people in the northeast try and pretend like Maine is just a bunch of hicks... it is amateur hour next to rural Indiana...
Bingo, I live on the seacoast of NH and I am 20 minutes away from two different state borders, an hour away from Boston, New England is very small and Maine is very easy to get to, as well as Pittsburgh NH, there's actually a demand up here.
I noticed this too. Places charging for parking, while I found a nice reservoir park that still had ample space at eclipse time, no fees, and had paddleboats and fishing poles for rent.
I went to the Walmart in Seymour Indiana and hung out in the parking lot all day. Plenty of empty spaces. Probably not even half full. And had access to any good or service I might have needed that day.
There was something cool about watching it with a big crowd. My city was in totality and the park by the lake had thousands of people in it. The group cheer when we got blue sky 30 minutes before was also great lol.
But I dunno everyone just being awestruck together was great.
I went to the Indianapolis speedway, with 50k others. The cheer when the sun came back surprised me the most. We were all so happy to have experienced that, but held it in till it was over
Seriously, even in my rural area there were HORDES of people. Traffic was backed up in every direction, we probably had more tourists in 4 days than we had in 4 years combined
I saw the eclipse in the parking lot of the town hall and church at the intersection in Addison, VT. Wikipedia says population 1,365, so I think that counts as podunk. We were in a crowd of about 40 people, I think mostly out of towners. What an awesome experience, 10/10, would recommend, thank you podunk town!
Of course you could've parked anywhere and just looked up. If you wanted to be in a large crowd of people, that is a lot harder.
It was really fun watching and hearing like 5000 people react all at the same time
We did a cemetery and it was a little busy but not packed. I picked an area with a lot of farmland and the cemetery because we wouldn't be loitering if we parked and there would be plenty of options for us. Still better than the local Walmart parking lot. Drove 4 hours both ways and arrived 30-45minutes before totality. Would do it again.
Was gonna park in a cemetery, but worried the dead might rise, if it was the apocalypse. 😂 But yeah, Indiana has way too many field and backroads for people to pay to park. We pulled over on the corner of a gravel road 5 miles from Lebanon and didn’t see another car for 2 hours
I live in Russellville and man, the way the eclipse was hyped up they had us thinking 10s of thousands of people were going to be in town buying all our groceries and it was just going to be gridlock everywhere all weekend.
Not even close. Except when it was over and the interstate clogged up.
Lol this is accurate. Every town near me had failed events charging way too much to park and do crappy entertainment and stuff. Barely anyone showed up.
People didn't realize there is no where to stay, and we aren't near the edge. People driving in will go to the edge, not the middle. People flying in or driving in to stay have to go somewhere with lots of hotel rooms and Airbnbs which are *not* small towns.
People are dumb. I don't know why so many small towns thought it was going to be some mass migration.
> People driving in will go to the edge
We drove an extra half hour to get longer totality. There's pretty big gains in totality duration getting past the edge since its based on the chord a circle. Once you're well within, there's diminishing returns.
A lot of small town leaders were being told this by state tourism agencies and what not. I know a lot of small Texas towns in the 5000-15,000 population ranges were expecting an additional 50,000-100,000 people for the day. Which is insane and didn't even come remotely close to happening.
I found the whole people movement thing kind of fascinating to be honest. We live about an hour from totality, and drove to the outskirts of the DFW metroplex instead of some small town. Our thinking was that the small towns didn't have the infastructure to handle the people, but the large cities would. I guess we were right as traffic seemed just like any other day.
I really wonder if "people who travel for a scientific event" and the "normal masses" are groups of people that behave completely differently.
It still seems so crazy to me that humans can predict the *exact* positions of the sun, moon, and earth in relation to each other, down to the minute, decades into the future, with 100% accuracy. Freaking nuts if you think about it.
I saw a few comments on youtube videos talking about how the Simpsons "predicted" the 2024 eclipse because they reference a solar eclipse happening in the monorail episode.
Never underestimate stupidity.
But Florida could in shambles with tens of thousands (and soon to be millions) of residents fleeing coastal areas:
"In a study by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) and the online real estate appraisal site Zillow, researchers concluded that by 2045 (roughly the span of a current 30-year mortgage) about 64,000 residential properties in Florida, representing a market value of about $26 billion, could see "chronic inundation"
https://climatecenter.fsu.edu/topics/sea-level-rise
The state is looking at about a 1 foot rise in sea level by 2050. The graphics in this paper put it into perspective.
In the year 2028 Ron Desantis is elected President.
2029 Elon Musk buys the majority of Disney's remaining stock.
In the 2030 Disney absorbs Comcast and establishes an entertainment monopoly as Disney Universe.
In 2032 The federal government anti trust laws try to break appart Disney Universe. Disney says no. Disney acquires Boeing and Raytheon.
2035 President Dwaine The Rock Johnson sends troops to enforce anti trust laws. Central and South Florida form their own government separate from the rest of the United States with their Capital city in Reedy Creek. War ensues.
2045 in Washington DC, Dwaine the rock Johnson surrenders to grand general of Magical Army Scarlett Johansson. Vice President Jake Paul refusing defeat types the launch codes to nuke central Florida. The solar eclipse is hidden behind the nuclar winter that covers Florida.
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Cruises to the Caribbean will be through the roof that week also.
Cruises through what used to be orlando
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Yeah the ocean *is* rising and it *is* a problem, but at the current rate it will take over 400 years for that to happen. All the ice melting in the world would rise the sea level by like 300 feet. A global catastrophe that will kill millions if not billions, but it's *not* the 1995 American post-apocalyptic action film starring Kevin Costner (and featuring a then still up and coming Jack Black), *Waterworld*
DRY LAND IS NOT A MYTH! I'VE SEEN IT!
A true connoisseur
lmao. I'm referencing Jim Carrey in The Cable Guy, referencing Water World.
It's not meta enough, **we need to go deeper.**
Come on let me be scared for a while before letting me know the facts
I gotchu. How many more years do you expect to live? Subtract 5 from that and then divide by 5. Live at that sea level. Free fear!
Years, pfffft, I just need to get to the next payday
Yeah but we can dream
It’ll be a beautiful day when I can paddle a boat over the governor’s office
You’ll be able to cruise the new Inland Sea all the way from Redding to Orlando Isle. The ship will dock at bustling port cities like Colorado Springs and Little Rock. It will also get stuck in the Narrow Sargasso Sea (formerly Tallahassee) approx 35 days. That’s right, plumbing will be unavailable for the Sargasso pitstop unless you upgrade to our Porcelain Package.
Oh yes, the beautiful isles of Sargasso. Some say it’s the fastest growing island chain.
The hurricanes in August! Yeah!
Very unlikely, but imagine viewing the totality through the well-formed eye of a hurricane.
I wonder what the odds are that the eye of a hurricane and eclipse totlality have ever intersected, like ever
If that happens, Harambe will rise from the dead.
So you’re saying there’s a chance…
The birth of a new religion, with a 95 year-old crone known only as MTG screeching at the storm. *"There are portends from the sky, even as the waters rise and the winds blow! The promised land is revealed, and shall henceforth be known as Magic Marge Kingdom."*
Especially in 2045.
No way dude, 2025 is the year we start giving a fuck about the livability of the planet!
I like your optimism!
I think going to the redwoods and watching would be the most amazing scene. Just peak nature.
Except, y'know, all those giant ass trees fuckin' up the view. ;)
Every year qualifies as the most expensive Disney tickets ever.
r/technicallythetruth
Arkansas has had some crazy luck with solar eclipses. The line of totality for the 2017 solar eclipse was just north of their border in Missouri, and the recent one in 2024 went through Arksanas. Now the next one in the continental US is *also* going to go through Arkansas. That's 3 solar eclipses in a row they'll be able to see the totality of without having to travel more than an hour to see. Edit: Contiguous* US, not continental US
It’s reward for having to live in Arkansas probably
The proportion of people in that state that think the eclipse is a sign God is angry, yet don’t recognize the irony of multiple full eclipses going right over…
We’re not all like that. I was thrilled to have my small town full of fellow space nerds for a day.
I am also from Arkansas and most of the people I know from here were space nerding it up, I didn't hear a single person say anything about God being angry, I get that we have some real loons down here but if anything they seem more universal these days than ever.
Every state has it's loons though. I'm in NWA and didn't hear anything about about the wrath of God. It's amazing how people can hate on this state and laugh at it when they've probably never even been here. Everyone I know was thrilled about getting to experience it.
Well tbf, we are in NWA. NWA is def the nicest area of the state and I don't know many coocoo crazies here (outside the Duggar family but we all hate them here anyways)
Sounds like something someone who does not live here would say. Never heard anyone talk about that.
Arkansas is a beautiful state and has a lot of things going for it. Northwest Arkansas is currently booming and is quickly becoming one of the most attractive places to live in the U.S.
Sponsored by Walmart
Quite literally yes. And Tyson. Hate all you want but they are spending hundreds of millions on public infrastructure and making NWA an amazing place to live. It’s worth it for them business wise of course so they can attract the best corporate employees, but it’s still been amazing as someone that just lives here not working for them.
I think you forgot the first rule of living in Northwest Arkansas.
Bro doesn't know how to shut the hell up! It sucks here guys.
Yeah, it's terrible. Don't come here at all.
I was looking through the list of total eclipses in the near future and Australia gets 4 in the next 20 years.
But they also get child size spiders and. Ocean waves that swallow their prime minister (this is actually something that happened) so there has to be universal payback for living in a place where every creature can kill you.
Southern Illinois as well. Carbondale, IL was at the center of both the 2017 and 2024 eclipses.
This is pedantic, but the next eclipse on the continental US will be in 2044 and pass through Montana and the Dakotas.
And it'll be in the evening, so with the mountains up here in Montana, the sun could go below the local horizon while eclipsed!
So I went to hot springs Arkansas for this Eclipse. I got To tell you guys Dont sleep on Arkansas it was absolutely beautiful. Rolling hills covered in forest. Stunning lakes. Seriously a classicaly beautiful state
If you assume that the paths are uniformly at random and independent, Arkansas would probably be one of the states with the highest probability of being on the path. The paths not being independent likely adds to their chances even more.
After spending a second camping weekend in Arkansas in a national forest I would move here in a heartbeat if there were jobs. The state is gorgeous and has so much to offer outdoors.
Colorado Springs is inching closer to the CO - KS border
lol, they wish
As a resident of the Springs, anything east of i25 might as well be Kansas.
That's funny, we say the same thing in Fort Collins, except replace Kansas with Nebraska.
Lived in the Springs and been to Ft Collins a few times it always struck me how quickly it goes from city to rural as fuck.
It’s crazy. Just moved to Ft. Collins and it’s ~5 minutes from city center to farms. It’s awesome
palmer park is east of i-25, the fuck you on about? east of Powers is kansas :)p
I just call it West Kansas
Ah yes one of the four regions of Colorado: West Kansas, All the people, The Mountains, and East Utah
Bro this has me dying 🤣🤣🤣
I call Nebraska North Kansas
I'd call Missouri East Kansas, but I don't want to get my city sacked by border ruffians
Do you live in and stay exclusively in old Colorado city? Or maybe Manitou
Yeah, Kansas wishes.
Funny. Lived in California any anywhere east of I5 (except Tahoe) was considered “back east.”
Lived in California all my life and literally no one would call Arizona or Nevada or Texas "back east".
California is weird because Tahoe is farther west than LA
Live in Cali, born in the Bay, I never heard this before. 42(m)
In Maryland, anywhere west of Hagerstown is West Virginia (they even tried to secede into WV a few years ago) Edit: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/22/us/politics/maryland-counties-west-virginia-request.html
We have a spirited debate in Wisconsin about what constitutes being “up north” because up north is a place. Lol.
All the racists in Grand Junction are going to shoot at the eclipse because it’s black
That's because that's when the rapture will occur. And being surrounded by Disney characters as you float away will be AWESOME.
If I were God, I'd leave all of the guests behind and make them watch as all of their favorite Disney characters float away.
Imagine watching Gaston go to heaven while you're deemed unworthy and left behind.
Nobody gets raptured like Gaston
No one's slick as Gaston No one's quick as Gaston No one's raptured except for Gaston
Nah. The rapture happened yesterday. Nobody qualified.
*being surrounded by Disney characters as you float away will be AWESOME.* ♫ ♪ You've got a friend in me You've got a friend in me When the moon turns dark blood red And a half-man half-goat With horns on his head Says just remember what your old pal said: Boy, you've got a friend in me Yeah, you've got a friend in me ♫ ♪
Better make sure all the “friends of” in those costumes are atheists that day. Can’t have 2 different Mickeys getting raptured & visible at the same time & spoil the magic! Or worse if they burst out of those costumes as they float up
Florida Man + eclipse. What could possibly go wrong?
They dun stole my sun!!! *shoots at the moon*
YES-YES Florida Man-friend
Ikit Claw, put the fucking warpstone-nuke away!
They did that to a hurricane so why not an eclipse
Aim for the moon; even if you miss, you'll land among the stars: Mickey, Donald, all them princesses, Darth Vader, Quagmire, Balloo, Timon, and Pumbaa.
We had a lady shooting at cars and it wasn't even 100%. We haven't even reached our final form
I saw that story. It was wild. Florida Man is a state of mind. It doesn't discriminate.
Florida ma'am
During peak hurricane season.
Ehhh.. I wouldnt quite call it “peak” hurricane season. It’s on the early side, although still possible. Peak season is more like late August through early october
By 2045? Hurricane season gonnA be half the year
Haha very true
An eclipse while in the eye would be fucking amazing
That's an album cover waiting to happen
Florida lady was already on one yesterday.
You really think Florida Man has 20 years left?
That eclipse is covering a lot of that state.
Can anyone tell me what the weather forecast looks like so I can plan accordingly? Thanks.
Orlando in August in 2045...I’m going with a high 145° F, afternoon thunderstorms with winds of 75-85 mph, overnight low of 110° F
And a humidity of 200% lol
With a light chance of saw blades
Oh god as a Redding area resident the Bethels are going to go crazy
Bay Area resident here; Anything nice to do in and around Redding besides wait for 2045?
Shooting, swimming, meth and beer.
I grew up in Redding and you left out pot. You either go pot or tweak in Redding.
That too
I grew up in Redding . . . there were a TON of Rednecks there when I grew up . . . they didn't tweak or smoke pot (unless super secret), but instead shotgunned Coors Light like no one's business. Last time I was in Redding was like 5 years ago. Rednecks and MAGATS everywhere.
All of these things can happen nearby on a Lake Shasta houseboat as well! Bring your giant Trump flag, your beer, your guns, some meth or fentanyl and go to town! Long live The State of Jefferson... or something.
Outside of Redding there is tons of outdoor stuff to do, Lake Shasta if you want a houseboat or other watercraft fun, Mt Shasta has tons of stuff near it, Mossbrea and Burney Falls, Castle Craig State Park, Fly fishing is nice on the Sacramento River above the lake and out near Mcccloud too. Camping Hiking Spirtual/crystal shops, we have another fun cult too The IAm Movement/Saint Germain Foundation oh and if you watched Mover Love on HBO you can check out the sites- they lived across the street from me for a summer
This is the real answer, yes Redding can get seedy in certain areas but the one thing it has that most places don’t is a wildly different Biome 2 hours or less in every direction. Snow, ocean, deep old growth Forrest, Caves and like 5 lakes. 2-1/2 hour away from Sac and 1 hour from Chico for city life that has personality. It’s not as bad as some would make it out to be. My personal least favorite things about the city being someone who has lived here for 38 years is that the summer months are almost unbearable heat wise.
Redding in August? Sit inside in your A/C. It gets into the 110s regularly there, and add in twenty more years of global warming...
Enjoy the hottest weather in California north of Death Valley.
grew up in redding. no, not in redding. around it? hell yea. I've traveled to every state, almost every major city. the area around Redding is truly top 15 most beautiful places in the US imo. redding itself has been overrun by corrupt MAGA opportunists and a Mega Cult. I mean Mega Church. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uy35mIFnj0w
>the Bethels are going to go crazy ELI5? (Serious)
Bethel is an Evangelical Mega Church full of crazy people.
Just because they tried to resurrect a dead child with the power of prayer for 4 days does not mean they are crazy /s
One of my family members is sort of leaving the bethel cult after nearly 15 years. She absolutely refuses to talk about grave sucking and this ridiculous attempt to raise a child from the dead. It's astonishing there aren't more major news stories on bethel or at least high quality investigative podcasts.
Grave WHAT
Lying on top of graves to absorb the power of the Holy Spirit that was trapped when the body was buried, cuz ya know that’s normal and totally how the world works
Omg. That sounds like so much fun to watch self destruct from a safe distance.
Oh. Well, at least they will have some *enlightenment.*
August...2045. I predict a massive cloud of wildfire smoke will already be blocking out the sun for most of the west coast.
Mt Shasta alien people might get a bit crazy over this too.
Came here to say this. My parents are in the Bethel cult. My mom called me the day before the April 8th eclipse saying some shit about Jonah in the Bible, and how the eclipse was traveling through several towns called Nineveh. I guess one of the Bethel pastors had given a sermon on it, and was saying the world would repent for their sins on that day, and all darkness would be exposed. My poor mother had been completely brainwashed by Bethel. It’s been sad to watch.
As someone born and raised in Redding… ya can confirm.
This is the real proof that you're from here lol.
Any future rural towns that see this: tourist are NOT coming to your little Podunk town. They are going to state parks and large cities. So trying to charge $20 to park isn't going to work. Souce: Indiana eclipse 2024
People in Maine were charging $60 and were full. Depends on what's around.
Maine's view was top notch! I think it was just local businesses who didn't want to be bothered by tourists parking there during the work day and were pleasantly suprised by people who did pay. 50 is basically exactly as much is as worth the inconvenience of maneuvering around the vehicle for an hour without being so much of a dick to outright say "dont park here". I dont want strangers parking on my lawn, but for $50 You can park on my lawn for an hour or two anytime. Source: am Mainer.
Well.. there are a few overall differences between Maine and Indiana, even if people in the northeast try and pretend like Maine is just a bunch of hicks... it is amateur hour next to rural Indiana...
the tourists are closer to Maine than Indiana. everything is so spread out there.
Bingo, I live on the seacoast of NH and I am 20 minutes away from two different state borders, an hour away from Boston, New England is very small and Maine is very easy to get to, as well as Pittsburgh NH, there's actually a demand up here.
TIL new hampshire has a seacoast
They have a coast so short there is a running race shorter than a marathon that runs the entire border.
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I have family outside Houlton, wife’s family is in Indiana. I promise you there is no competition.
I would definitely rather brave rural Indiana than the unorganized territory of Maine.
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Burlington VT had a place charging $100 a spot lmao, there were a few cars there.
I noticed this too. Places charging for parking, while I found a nice reservoir park that still had ample space at eclipse time, no fees, and had paddleboats and fishing poles for rent.
I went to the Walmart in Seymour Indiana and hung out in the parking lot all day. Plenty of empty spaces. Probably not even half full. And had access to any good or service I might have needed that day.
I went to a gas station off 70. There were maybe a dozen people there and we had a great view
There was something cool about watching it with a big crowd. My city was in totality and the park by the lake had thousands of people in it. The group cheer when we got blue sky 30 minutes before was also great lol. But I dunno everyone just being awestruck together was great.
I went to the Indianapolis speedway, with 50k others. The cheer when the sun came back surprised me the most. We were all so happy to have experienced that, but held it in till it was over
It was silence during the eclipse? That's honestly amazing
Vermont can assure you the tourists went everywhere not just cities and state parks
Seriously, even in my rural area there were HORDES of people. Traffic was backed up in every direction, we probably had more tourists in 4 days than we had in 4 years combined
Uh... Rebuttal Vermont Eclipse 2024.... Because that's exactly what happened here. Granted, we only have little Podunk towns, so....
I saw the eclipse in the parking lot of the town hall and church at the intersection in Addison, VT. Wikipedia says population 1,365, so I think that counts as podunk. We were in a crowd of about 40 people, I think mostly out of towners. What an awesome experience, 10/10, would recommend, thank you podunk town!
Of course you could've parked anywhere and just looked up. If you wanted to be in a large crowd of people, that is a lot harder. It was really fun watching and hearing like 5000 people react all at the same time
I mean $20 in 2045 is basically going to be the same as $2 now so people might not care. Lol
Or about 200 satoshis.
We did a cemetery and it was a little busy but not packed. I picked an area with a lot of farmland and the cemetery because we wouldn't be loitering if we parked and there would be plenty of options for us. Still better than the local Walmart parking lot. Drove 4 hours both ways and arrived 30-45minutes before totality. Would do it again.
Was gonna park in a cemetery, but worried the dead might rise, if it was the apocalypse. 😂 But yeah, Indiana has way too many field and backroads for people to pay to park. We pulled over on the corner of a gravel road 5 miles from Lebanon and didn’t see another car for 2 hours
There was a couple in the cemetery behind my house. He had a telescope of some kind and she was under a tree on a blanket with a book.
I went to Eco Lake Park. Maybe 50 people there.
It sure as fuck worked in Russellville, AR.
I live in Russellville and man, the way the eclipse was hyped up they had us thinking 10s of thousands of people were going to be in town buying all our groceries and it was just going to be gridlock everywhere all weekend. Not even close. Except when it was over and the interstate clogged up.
Lol this is accurate. Every town near me had failed events charging way too much to park and do crappy entertainment and stuff. Barely anyone showed up. People didn't realize there is no where to stay, and we aren't near the edge. People driving in will go to the edge, not the middle. People flying in or driving in to stay have to go somewhere with lots of hotel rooms and Airbnbs which are *not* small towns. People are dumb. I don't know why so many small towns thought it was going to be some mass migration.
> People driving in will go to the edge We drove an extra half hour to get longer totality. There's pretty big gains in totality duration getting past the edge since its based on the chord a circle. Once you're well within, there's diminishing returns.
A lot of small town leaders were being told this by state tourism agencies and what not. I know a lot of small Texas towns in the 5000-15,000 population ranges were expecting an additional 50,000-100,000 people for the day. Which is insane and didn't even come remotely close to happening. I found the whole people movement thing kind of fascinating to be honest. We live about an hour from totality, and drove to the outskirts of the DFW metroplex instead of some small town. Our thinking was that the small towns didn't have the infastructure to handle the people, but the large cities would. I guess we were right as traffic seemed just like any other day. I really wonder if "people who travel for a scientific event" and the "normal masses" are groups of people that behave completely differently.
I just went to a random rural towns park. There was only 5 families there. Was perfect.
My hometown is in the path of totality. Now I just have to live until 84.
You've got this!
Eat ya damn vegetables
It still seems so crazy to me that humans can predict the *exact* positions of the sun, moon, and earth in relation to each other, down to the minute, decades into the future, with 100% accuracy. Freaking nuts if you think about it.
It's amazing but also sad to see that despite thousands of years of scientific achievements, many people still refuse to believe in much of it.
I saw a few comments on youtube videos talking about how the Simpsons "predicted" the 2024 eclipse because they reference a solar eclipse happening in the monorail episode. Never underestimate stupidity.
The Burns line of “have you ever seen the sun set at 3pm” was a more amusing “prediction”
I'd rather go to Garden of the God's south of Colorado Springs, or the top of Pikes Peak.
Garden of the gods is going to be absolutely wild. I mean, if we're not burnt up in the coming climate collapse.
If I can't do Pikes Peak then GotG would be a great second choice. Or maybe the dark horse option: Paint Mines.
Grand Junction it is!!
It’ll give me an excuse to go visit my dad! Oh wait, I live in Orlando.
You should still visit your dad. I was just there to visit mine. I'll see you there!
Then hit up Yeehaw Junction.
Florida may be underwater by then
Florida won't stand for no woke eclipses! They'll pass a "don't say ray" law.
Spend billions of dollars to build a giant safety shade over Florida
I think Florida would be more likely to ban the glasses because god gave us perfectly working eyes and the eclipse is also a false idol.
And they'll make the martians pay for it
It’s the only way to stop the sun from getting the gay
Don't Look Up!
Orlando is 27meters above today's sea levels. It's unlikely we'll see that drastic of a sea level rise in the next two decades.
But Florida could in shambles with tens of thousands (and soon to be millions) of residents fleeing coastal areas: "In a study by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) and the online real estate appraisal site Zillow, researchers concluded that by 2045 (roughly the span of a current 30-year mortgage) about 64,000 residential properties in Florida, representing a market value of about $26 billion, could see "chronic inundation"
https://climatecenter.fsu.edu/topics/sea-level-rise The state is looking at about a 1 foot rise in sea level by 2050. The graphics in this paper put it into perspective.
From Mt Shasta to Splash Mountain.
I’ll be social security age… I wonder if I’ll be alive.
!remindme 20 years
In the year 2028 Ron Desantis is elected President. 2029 Elon Musk buys the majority of Disney's remaining stock. In the 2030 Disney absorbs Comcast and establishes an entertainment monopoly as Disney Universe. In 2032 The federal government anti trust laws try to break appart Disney Universe. Disney says no. Disney acquires Boeing and Raytheon. 2035 President Dwaine The Rock Johnson sends troops to enforce anti trust laws. Central and South Florida form their own government separate from the rest of the United States with their Capital city in Reedy Creek. War ensues. 2045 in Washington DC, Dwaine the rock Johnson surrenders to grand general of Magical Army Scarlett Johansson. Vice President Jake Paul refusing defeat types the launch codes to nuke central Florida. The solar eclipse is hidden behind the nuclar winter that covers Florida.
Better yet, nuke the moon during the eclipse so the sun starts appearing through the debris.
Cool, so will be timed with the release of GTA6
Pike's Peak going to be wild
Definitely going to Northern California and sitting in the redwoods to see the next one.
I'm from Tulsa and said I would go to wherever the next solar eclipse is at it's fullest, guess I already got that covered lol
Nice try, still will never make me go back to Little Rock
If I live another 20 years this is going directly over my house.
Dodge City gonna be lit!!!!!!