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Re: “Gotta run. We have a 2½ hour drive to do.”A long day. 2½ hours up, 6½ hours back. Everybody left at once. Imagine a 135 miles of stop-and-go traffic.

Most traffic jams improve over time, with a few cars leaving the highway at every exit. This time, almost nobody had Vermont or New Hampshire as their destinations, so it started bad and stayed that way for the whole drive - until WE finally left the highway 15 miles from home.

Time to hit the sack. I'm tired.






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Re: Tomorrow's Eclipse
By: De_Composed
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Mon, 08 Apr 24 1:59 PM
Msg. 52062 of 58566

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Re: “Sounds like a great adventure!”
I was up until well after midnight taking note of cloud predictions.

See below. They're encroaching on Vermont from the West, but gradually, blowing southerly. By adjusting our destination eastward a mere 25 miles, we gain another hour of sunlight. The target now is a mid-sized town named Newport, VT that is in totality but misses its absolute center by 10 miles. Going further north or west than Newport would give us a better eclipse location but would either take us out of the country or increase the chance of the whole thing being blocked by clouds. The forecast for Newport is flat out "Sunny" at the time of totality.

Gotta run. We have a 2½ hour drive to do.



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