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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Wednesday, March 27, 2024 - 2:32 pm 
Be sure to see it if you can. We had one come through our WA town a few years back, and it was thrilling.
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Mak1
Member
08-11-2002
| Thursday, March 28, 2024 - 1:22 am
I am in the path and am excited to see it! Our little town and surrounding little towns are expecting a big influx of people for the event. Accommodations are full and it will be a big party, even if it rains.
I was alive for the last total solar eclipse in Maine which was in 1963. I remember the rectangular piece of smoke-colored glass for viewing. The sad thing is that I don't remember actually seeing the eclipse though I must have. That special glass fascinated me, lol!
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Tntitanfan
Member
08-02-2001
| Thursday, March 28, 2024 - 12:02 pm
It just barely brushes the ultimate NW 10 square yards of TN!
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Thursday, March 28, 2024 - 12:38 pm
Not even close.. So Cal Coast.
I have not seen a total solar in person , but partials and total lunar.
One thing I loved was more than seeing the eclipse through the special glasses was how the sunlight filtered through a big bush and there were dozens of little eclipse shapes on the sidewalk. I was with a patient at a cancer center and he had gotten the eclipse glasses and just sharing it with someone so interested, plus others walking by, was special.
My first liner was in the fifties in Detroit. I told my dad to wake me up at 3am and he did and I had been dead asleep as only a kid could be and it was cold out and it looked like a big orange red balloon, and I was probably less than gracious to my Dad, who probably had to get up early to go to work.
My younger brother didn't ask to wake up.
I always go outside for lunar eclipses here and sometimes others come out.
But for sure if you are in the path.. go look, but unlike a certain past president, use the glasses or smoked glass. Protect your eyes.
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Juju2bigdog
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10-27-2000
| Thursday, March 28, 2024 - 2:21 pm
Yes, I found the mini-eclipses on the pavement to be the most fascinating thing too. Retail outlets all over on the eclipse path should be selling the glasses. They were on the end caps at the checkout lines at our local Kroger affiliate.
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Heckagirl631
Member
09-08-2010
| Friday, March 29, 2024 - 9:38 am
Will only be a partial eclipse here, as was the last one, though I got eclipse glasses for me and my late husband. Can't find them now, of course. Won't need them here. My brother and his husband plan to fly somewhere can see totallity, before coming here for a visit. My son, and several of his cousins drove to Chattanooga to see totallity for the last one. He said the clouds messed it up a little. He said they did see it get dark. On the local news today, they said local eyewear stores will give out free eclipse glasses while supplies last.
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Mak1
Member
08-11-2002
| Friday, March 29, 2024 - 12:54 pm
I bought my eclipse glasses in December. Several places have been selling them locally, and now some are being given away. We had a partial solar eclipse in 2017 and watched it with a viewer dh and I made out of a box.
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Mack
Member
07-22-2002
| Wednesday, August 28, 2024 - 4:38 pm
Anybody still get the local daily or weekend newspaper delivered? I’m thinking it has been 15 +/- years since we’ve gotten the newspaper delivered. It really wasn’t a disconnect with the local newspaper or its political slant. For years, actually decades, we used the local paper for news, ads, and the Sunday issue with the included TV guide. The Internet has changed that so much I can’t even list them. Plus modern satellite and cable providers all have extensive guides.
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Dipo
Member
04-22-2002
| Wednesday, August 28, 2024 - 4:45 pm
I get it everyday, don't like reading the info online. But it is starting to get so expensive I may have to give it up and just go digital and print the TV schedule, crossword puzzle and other things I want.
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-30-2000
| Wednesday, August 28, 2024 - 6:41 pm
I did until the cost became ridiculous, about 2 years ago. I didn't think I could adjust to reading it online, but I did. So I still have a subscription, it's just digital only.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-06-2000
| Wednesday, August 28, 2024 - 7:25 pm
I stopped getting the newspaper years ago when they fired all the longtime drivers who would park and run around our complex tossing the papers by from doors.
They started throwing by garage doors, which face our internal streets but cannot be viewed from inside or out front, and they got really erratic with delivery time which meant you might go out several times with no paper, then it could be stolen, or just not arrive.
I subscribed online after that but viewing was awkward and I finally just stopped. I get news on tv and internet, read the only comic I still followed online.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-26-2000
| Wednesday, August 28, 2024 - 10:24 pm
What comic strip is that, Sea? I guess I don't follow any anymore. We quit local paper delivery about four years ago, when the price went to over $100 for a severely diminished edition, like from 30 pages to 6.
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Jimmer
Board Administrator
08-29-2000
| Thursday, August 29, 2024 - 10:02 am
We stopped getting ours a few years ago. It wasn’t even the expense. It was just the volume. So much paper it was unbelievable. We ended up having piles of it.
Rather oddly though (given that we live in Toronto), we get the Sunday New York Times. My youngest daughter has a degree in journalism and she was interested in reading it and so we have a subscription for it.
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Mak1
Member
08-11-2002
| Thursday, August 29, 2024 - 5:20 pm
No. We stopped delivery when we used to go south for the winter and found we didn't miss it so canceled it. I look at the headlines and read the free obituaries online. If there's a story of interest to me, I read it free somewhere else online. I do buy our local weekly newspaper.
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Grooch
Member
06-16-2006
| Thursday, August 29, 2024 - 6:13 pm
When the paper costs more than your electric, water and garbage bills combined, no, I can't afford to subscribe.
But there is a local, weekly paper that I would subscribe to, but it would be delivered to my post office box, so it's easier to just stop at the gas station to pick one up.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-06-2000
| Thursday, August 29, 2024 - 7:07 pm
I did still take delivery when I started driving cancer patients and also got People magazine and another tabloid that was dirt cheap.
And I would leave them in waiting rooms where they were snapped up quickly.
I really don't miss it. We used to have great columnists but by the time I stopped subscribing they were all gone.
I had lived my whole life with a paper I the house, except when I was in the dorm or apartment at Berkeley. My parents, then with my husband, and on my own, always had a paper.
My dad got the Wall Street Journal and the local paper, or two of them .
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Mack
Member
07-22-2002
| Friday, August 30, 2024 - 9:18 am
I don’t know what the situation is now but when we lived n Northern Virginia we used to get the paper. We also had mandatory recycling that included glass, plastic, cardboard, and newspaper. To enforce that there were “garbage police” who would check out your regular garbage and write a ticket for not recycling. Anyhow just before we moved a local TV station did a report on recycling. The glass and the plastic weren’t a problem but the cardboard and newspaper had virtually no secondary market or at least not a big enough demand to keep up with the collection. They literally had acres and acres of it to the point they actually were sending it to the garbage dump with regular garbage. I have recently read that even glass and plastic recycling is a growing issue because the Chinese are not buying as much of it.
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-21-2001
| Monday, September 02, 2024 - 5:32 pm
We stopped our local weekly paper during Covid as a result of a particular columnist who not only made women stereotypes in the kitchen but also called it the Chinese flu. A letter was written with our cancelation, and I've not regretted it a single day.
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