Re: Last Night...

Mark Bohrer wrote:


No, last night there was a deluge in northern California.


Pity.
It reminded me of Maui in July 1991. I drove up Haleakala to try getting above the rain clouds for a total solar eclipse, but a ranger at the entrance told me if anything it was raining even harder at the top.
So I drove partway back, and found a young couple celebrating their tenth wedding anniversary. We drank champagne while it got real dark...
I felt only a little silly with two cameras mounted on tripods in the rain. I had fun anyway!
A good story! But, don't feel bad about not seeing "The Big One". Virtually nobody in Hawaii did. Even those on Mouna Kea got only a poor view.
I, OTOH, was in San Jose del Cabo - at the southern tip of the Baja ... with a couple hundred thousand of my closest friends... We were on the centerline and just a few miles from the point of greatest eclipse. We had a perfect view, for 6 min 48+ seconds! See www.main.furnfeather.net and then click on Eclipses, then 1991.
There is still the second biggest eclipse in our lifetimes (6 min. 38 sec) to come, in China, July 22, 2009. Well we see you there? 

Cheers!

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David Young,
Logan Lake, CANADA

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