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Well it appears that MOST of us survived the Eclipse at the start of the month.
Eclipse 2024 OK folks here is an early posting — The big event will be happening SOON. You MAY still be able to get last minute stuff and top up with fuel. I recall the eclipse in Casper WY 2017 and all the foolishness that happened that day with that large number of people visiting the area[s] We are a couple hundred miles away and we had thousands of extra people here and it was a mess! A couple of hour trip turned into 12-14 hours.
The FAA closed the airspace a bit before the eclipse and it reportedly stayed closed for awhile after and even then FAA only let a few planes leave and get clear maybe every 30 minutes or so. Anyway the following alert from the FAA seems tame – https://weatherboy.com/faa-issues-warning-for-air-travel…/
Be safe, STAY ALERT share your experiences with the rest of us.
Getting ready for the eclipse. [IF you are near the pathway]
By now you should have topped up your fuel tank in your vehicles. And any extra fuel cans. You may even want to get one of those hand fuel pumps from a big box store. I checked the price today and Wal-Mart had a bunch of them at $11.00 they also had a bunch of red gas cans available.
Walmart also had magna mount CB antenna for $15.88 they had CB radios for about $60.00 each. You can order CBs with side band [SSB] which will use the same antenna listed.
Those FRS/GMRS blister pack walkie talkies are available too. Many radios come with weather alert features.
Between the above radios IF you are just now getting into radios it will get you well on your way to gathering information and to be able to stay in touch with friends and family locally. Your standard AM/FM like you have in your vehicle will help a lot for you to know what is happening locally.
Tomorrow [Friday] will be your last chance before the weekend to get ready for the eclipse.
Please consider sharing with the rest of us YOUR lessons learned from this event and what you would do differently in the future.
Thanks!
Eclipse Preparation 2024
Getting ready for the eclipse
REPORTEDLY this is the official EMERGENCY check list that has been released in US SCHOOLS and Colleges for the upcoming April 8, 2024 eclipse.
Stocking up and preparation. Nothing stops what is coming.
2 days before the planned events top off your fuel tank in your vehicle!
Fill up your gas cans too [propane and normal fuel for your vehicles]
Pick up groceries for the week and pet food.
Go to your pharmacy and get whatever refills are due.
Get battery powered radio IF you don’t already have one AND batteries for it.
Check you flash lights / batteries
Prepare for phone services to be out
Make sure you have at least a case of water in each vehicle
Have paper maps for the area you are in / are traveling in
The above was sent to me by a friend. She thought that whole “Nothing stops what is coming” comment was funny— ODD not amusing— NOT everything is a Conspiracy nor a theory. It does no good to stir things up aka fear mongering.
Actually this is tame advice which we all should be doing ALL the time anyway. Wednesday or Thursday is a good time of week to tend to such things. I would add to have CASH on hand to cover planned activities for the week too.
Always top off your fuel supply on Wednesday or Thursday as when a bank gets closed by the FDIC it is normally on Thursday NIGHT and typically on the following Monday it will reopen under a new name. what this really means to normal folks is regardless of how much money you have in that bank, you will NOT be able to use it… no cash from the Atm and nobody will accept a check from you drawn on that bank. Go ahead and ask me how I know that :}
Side note a few years ago the path of the eclipse was within 250 miles of us.
AFTER the eclipse when everyone was trying to get home, a trip that normally would take 2 hours to make actually lasted over 14 hours! Most folks would have been better off just STAYING where they were for an extra day to let the crowd thin out. NOTHING actually went wrong, it was just the MASSIVE number of people trying to move at the same time. Folks were crapping on the side of the interstate aka eclipse parking lot.
Tailgate parties were also going on along the side of the interstate because traffic was just NOT moving! Once people made it to the cross roads of 2 interstate highways the traffic thinned out a lot BUT it was still slow going. [this information was collected from personal interviews and talking with people on HAM & CB radios during the event.
An example is anytown USA that has 4th of July fireworks organized. We NEVER go to those as there are just TOO many people there. I have talked with folks who have gone to those events for the ground shows. When the event is over it takes HOURS for all those people to clear out and traffic returns to semi normal. During this time of exodus even law enforcement and EMS have to respond to things on FOOT, as their vehicles could not get though the traffic! We often do ‘battle tracking’ on events such as this as it can sometimes be entertaining.
Point being that even IF everything goes according to plan, when you have hundreds [or even hundreds of thousands in the case of this eclipse] there WILL be delays in travel ect…
You too may be entertained listening to CB radio, FRS/GMRS radios, HAM radio and scanners during any gather of people.
Please share your thoughts with the rest of us.