SOLAR ECLIPSE!

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iris1929578 • 21 August 2017 at 1:19 PM

I love solar eclipses!

We get 57.5 percent coverage. How about you?

Talk about anything about the eclipse here!

I'm watching the livestream of the total eclipse.

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dusskfall • 21 August 2017 at 1:29 PM

we supposedly get 90% coverage.. but i can't find anything that says when it starts in Ohio..

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brad • 21 August 2017 at 1:34 PM

Getting 90% here.

@dusskfall Check this out. Will tell you the start, peak, and end times.
https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/map/2017-august-21

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dusskfall • 21 August 2017 at 1:40 PM

hmm. well supposedly it's already starting, but won't be at max for almost an hour. we have a fair amount of cloud cover though

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iris1929578 • 21 August 2017 at 1:42 PM

Look at the sun in Charleston, South Carolina.

(I'm watching livestream, total solar eclipse.)

IT LOOKS LIKE PAC-MAN lol

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dusskfall • 21 August 2017 at 1:48 PM

An Eclipse based creature would be interesting

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iris1929578 • 21 August 2017 at 1:53 PM

Oh you just gave me an idea

@dusskfall

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dusskfall • 21 August 2017 at 1:59 PM

I want to see when you are done if you are working on one. right now i have to go fetch my daughter from school

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Deleted • 21 August 2017 at 2:58 PM

@iris1929578 I just now fishined our eclipse we couldn't find any glasses so, I had to make a ceral box one and where we were it was about 90% covered

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dusskfall • 21 August 2017 at 3:05 PM

one of the kids at school let me look through their eclipse glasses, kind of cool.
now it's hailing. weird.

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iris1929578 • 21 August 2017 at 3:28 PM

@dusskfall

What the heck, hail? You could say I've never seen hail before.

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dusskfall • 21 August 2017 at 3:31 PM

@iris1929578

yeah. solar eclipse and then major rainstorm with hail. small pieces, maybe pea size. now it's cleared up a bit.

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raccoon • 21 August 2017 at 4:30 PM

@iris1929578

Got lucky and got full coverage at my house!! Was really really cool!!

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