greybeard
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Very cloudy here, but was able to see it thru the breaks in the clouds. Totality was indeed dark and I suppose because it had been so long since I saw a total solar eclipse, I had forgotten how brightly the daylight returned. Intended to watch from the back yard but about noon, we decided to drive the 1 mile up to a big parking lot, and sit on the tailgate. Why?
That parking lot includes the sponsor of the vendors.........Waffle Cone Ice Cream Parlor, that sells only Bluebell Ice Cream. I made good use of that option. First a strawberry malt and then a little later, a banana split. Damn the A1C-- full speed ahead!!
An hour after the eclipse was over tho, clear blue skies and bright sun returned.
Go figure..
We moseyed on over to a different city park that was supposed to have live entertainment this afternoon,, but that had been cancelled too.
Overall, for the City of Copperas Cove, (and many places in Central Texas) it was a financial bust. Here, they had spent a lot of $$ bringing in entertainment, trying to sell tent and RV camping spots out at Ogletree Gap, booking food trucks and other things, (eclipse glasses for$3 ea that many stores were giving away free) and by Thursday-Friday, it was obvious the weather was not going to cooperate. People went elsewhere and I'm glad of it.
And now, the city is probably gonna have to send crews all over, picking up the hundreds pairs of those glasses people chunked on the ground as soon as it was over. Saw them all over the ground at the city park.
That parking lot includes the sponsor of the vendors.........Waffle Cone Ice Cream Parlor, that sells only Bluebell Ice Cream. I made good use of that option. First a strawberry malt and then a little later, a banana split. Damn the A1C-- full speed ahead!!
An hour after the eclipse was over tho, clear blue skies and bright sun returned.
Go figure..
We moseyed on over to a different city park that was supposed to have live entertainment this afternoon,, but that had been cancelled too.
Overall, for the City of Copperas Cove, (and many places in Central Texas) it was a financial bust. Here, they had spent a lot of $$ bringing in entertainment, trying to sell tent and RV camping spots out at Ogletree Gap, booking food trucks and other things, (eclipse glasses for$3 ea that many stores were giving away free) and by Thursday-Friday, it was obvious the weather was not going to cooperate. People went elsewhere and I'm glad of it.
And now, the city is probably gonna have to send crews all over, picking up the hundreds pairs of those glasses people chunked on the ground as soon as it was over. Saw them all over the ground at the city park.