The State of Ohio has put this alert memo out: Other states have called in the national guard (Oklahoma and Arkansas), and Oklahoma will have a “nuclear specialist team” on the ground in Broken Bow, OK the day of the eclipse. What exactly is expected to happen that day????? The areas putting out alerts are ares with 100% totality during the eclipse.
With TX having a large viewing area and my town is in that boundary we’ve had all kinds of growing hyperbolic warnings for the last few months. They’ve told us to prepare early and fill our gas tanks, have food on hand for two weeks, fill prescriptions and to plan on staying home and off the roads since the town will be full of tourists. Are we planning for the apocalypse or a few hour event?! Now they are saying planes will be impacted and our cell phones may not work. Part of me thinks it is the never let a crisis go crowd, grabbing power wherever and for whatever reason and like Covid, a lot of people are joining the hysteria. No one is talking about anything else. But just in case we plan to be home that weekend. There is nothing worse than living in a world of 2 lane roads with thousands of tourists everywhere.
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. This looks like a classic slight of hand distraction technique. I wonder what THEY (whomever that might be in this instance) hope we will ignore while fixating on the SCARY 4 WHOLE MINUTES OF DARKNESS!!!!!!!!!!!!! Most people wouldn't even notice the eclipse if it weren't advertised. The FAA issuing dire warnings and advisories is the best. Because airplanes can't fly in darkness. Ask any aerospace engineer. Oh wait, you can catch a red eye flight pretty much any night you choose. I bet two weeks after the solar eclipse no one will remember it. Probably the next day, if it takes that long. I'm with The Good Doctor. What do they have planned for us?
Are our government officials this stupid or do they think we are?
My little tourist town in Oregon had the same hype in 17 and everyone was freaking out.
The local resort I used to work at bought SO MUCH FOOD and tried to capitalize on the 100,000 people projected to decend on our town. They, and many local restaurants wound up loosing so much money and wasted products as people that came were already prepared and got out of town quickly.
I was so thankful I was able to arrange way ahead of time to have that day off! They were making employees CAMP at the property to make sure they were able to get to work!
Was it a test run for how people react? Probably. Did the media hype make it worse? Definitely. With the rapid slide decline of our nation and all of the wars and rumors of war I suspect they will attempt something sinister... I am staying home and doing what I can to prepare emotionally and physically for whatever happens in the days ahead. I think it is inevitable that hard times are headed our way, regardless of 4/8/24.
I am really wondering what all of the hype is about. We were close to the path of totality in MO in 2017, and somewhere around the St. Joseph area was a direct line. There were all kinds of effort to roll out the red carpet for tourism and visitors to the area, and some friends of ours who live on some acreage just outside of St. Joe advertised their land for campers and RVs and had a bunch of folks who took them up on it, and had a catered eclipse party that they threw and made $$ on the whole episode. Everyone was looking forward to it, not freaking out!?!
The southern edge of the totality of last full eclipse happened about 30 miles north of my home. I watched the whole thing from our back pasture. We got to about 98%. Pretty cool right around that point, but otherwise, difficult to even notice. And certainly there were tourists in the area, but nothing even remotely resembling an “emergency” and no state agencies were concerned. What could there be about a simple eclipse that’s causing government panic and show of force? Sounds deeply fishy to me.
I guess they figured out solar doesn't work during an eclipse! There have been warnings about "grid stress" which might actually be true because we are being forced to depend on all the green crap.
They are making it sound like an EMP? Sheesh don't we have enough stuff on our plates?
STOP with the "renewables" garbage and we'll be fine.
With TX having a large viewing area and my town is in that boundary we’ve had all kinds of growing hyperbolic warnings for the last few months. They’ve told us to prepare early and fill our gas tanks, have food on hand for two weeks, fill prescriptions and to plan on staying home and off the roads since the town will be full of tourists. Are we planning for the apocalypse or a few hour event?! Now they are saying planes will be impacted and our cell phones may not work. Part of me thinks it is the never let a crisis go crowd, grabbing power wherever and for whatever reason and like Covid, a lot of people are joining the hysteria. No one is talking about anything else. But just in case we plan to be home that weekend. There is nothing worse than living in a world of 2 lane roads with thousands of tourists everywhere.
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. This looks like a classic slight of hand distraction technique. I wonder what THEY (whomever that might be in this instance) hope we will ignore while fixating on the SCARY 4 WHOLE MINUTES OF DARKNESS!!!!!!!!!!!!! Most people wouldn't even notice the eclipse if it weren't advertised. The FAA issuing dire warnings and advisories is the best. Because airplanes can't fly in darkness. Ask any aerospace engineer. Oh wait, you can catch a red eye flight pretty much any night you choose. I bet two weeks after the solar eclipse no one will remember it. Probably the next day, if it takes that long. I'm with The Good Doctor. What do they have planned for us?
Are our government officials this stupid or do they think we are?
Could it be that some government officials have nothing better to do than write reports that nobody will read?
My little tourist town in Oregon had the same hype in 17 and everyone was freaking out.
The local resort I used to work at bought SO MUCH FOOD and tried to capitalize on the 100,000 people projected to decend on our town. They, and many local restaurants wound up loosing so much money and wasted products as people that came were already prepared and got out of town quickly.
I was so thankful I was able to arrange way ahead of time to have that day off! They were making employees CAMP at the property to make sure they were able to get to work!
Was it a test run for how people react? Probably. Did the media hype make it worse? Definitely. With the rapid slide decline of our nation and all of the wars and rumors of war I suspect they will attempt something sinister... I am staying home and doing what I can to prepare emotionally and physically for whatever happens in the days ahead. I think it is inevitable that hard times are headed our way, regardless of 4/8/24.
I am really wondering what all of the hype is about. We were close to the path of totality in MO in 2017, and somewhere around the St. Joseph area was a direct line. There were all kinds of effort to roll out the red carpet for tourism and visitors to the area, and some friends of ours who live on some acreage just outside of St. Joe advertised their land for campers and RVs and had a bunch of folks who took them up on it, and had a catered eclipse party that they threw and made $$ on the whole episode. Everyone was looking forward to it, not freaking out!?!
Ohio Meets Rowdy Roddy Piper.
THEY LIVE!
(guess I'm too influenced by John Carpenter, but seriously...)
The world has become a B-Movie
Good grief
The southern edge of the totality of last full eclipse happened about 30 miles north of my home. I watched the whole thing from our back pasture. We got to about 98%. Pretty cool right around that point, but otherwise, difficult to even notice. And certainly there were tourists in the area, but nothing even remotely resembling an “emergency” and no state agencies were concerned. What could there be about a simple eclipse that’s causing government panic and show of force? Sounds deeply fishy to me.
Dr Fun, I spent some schooling years in Ohio. Some hella history!!
Besides the rivers on fire (Dad's office at Sohio bldg gazed across this vista), the Mistake on the Lake (coldest damn stadium in USA)...
Kent State and Oberlin College (Police!! and student chocolate Buckeye boycott)...
i could go on & on, suffice it to say Boehner drop kicked Ohio, JD doesn't stand a chance to effect much US House change.
No disrespect to Ohioans.
I'm not any happier in Virginia.
I guess they figured out solar doesn't work during an eclipse! There have been warnings about "grid stress" which might actually be true because we are being forced to depend on all the green crap.
They are making it sound like an EMP? Sheesh don't we have enough stuff on our plates?
STOP with the "renewables" garbage and we'll be fine.
Knowing government, they get extra funding for 'emergencies'.
Maine and VT have done this too. You have echoed my thoughts. What’s coming? GPS/cyber was my guess.