Looking at the GFS, it looks to support the continued pattern of rainy and stormy over the central US. The eclipse is now falling within a reasonably predictable range of the medium range models. On a side note, a couple of my friends that are coming with are going to have 500mm and 750mm lenses and are amazing photographers. Of course if the weather looks crappy, than I plan on leaving Sunday to drive where I need to. Hopefully that will be enough time to get there even with traffic. My initial plan is to leave here about 830 and my destination is about 2 hours away. One of our local news stations posted a story about the eclipse this week and a lot of the responses were, "I'll just watch it from work/home since we're(Omaha) is so close to the path." Those people seem to be unaware of the huge difference between 96-98% and 100% totality.ĭependent on weather of course, I am planning on heading near the town of Wilber southwest of Lincoln where I scoped out a spot last weekend that is pretty flat and treeless so hopefully I can see the shadow racing towards me. Here at work, I've heard a few people talk about. Omaha has 500k people and I-80 west leads to the path, so I'm assuming it will be packed with traffic from people that are just making the 2 hour trip to the path, but I guess I don't know. I see Lincoln, NE and the small towns south/west of there are sold out, but Omaha has lots of availability. , Tennessee, United States of America&q-check-in=&q-check-out=&q-rooms=1&q-room-0-adults=2&q-room-0-children=0 Nashville, on the other hand, is nearly completely booked solid: City, Missouri, United States Of America&q-check-in=&q-check-out=&q-rooms=1&q-room-0-adults=2&q-room-0-children=0 Kansas City is similar to STL, slightly higher percentage of booked hotels: I-70 gets gridlocked during post-Thanksgiving just with returning Mizzou students, the eclipse is going to shut everything down between KC and STL. Looking at that, coupled with the widespread indifference about the event among friends and coworkers (very few are going or even seem to care much), makes the apocalyptic traffic scenario, at least in the Midwest, seem less and less likely. Louis, Missouri, United States of America&q-check-in=&q-check-out=&q-rooms=1&q-room-0-adults=2&q-room-0-children=0 Less than 2 weeks out, still tons of hotel availability in the STL metro, mostly along I-70 to the north and west to Wentzville:
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