Glad I missed it, the more I hear the more I'm glad I didn't go with the "crowd". I did notice no traffic police on sunday noted many on monday. Traffic cones will be a fact for another year.
Heard 1,500 at Grand Canyon, SL Tribune reported 10,000??? at Kannaraville (photographs did not show that). How many at Bryce? Did they all take their Bryce Eclipse glasses and leave?
Leaving Salt Lake City on Sunday and stopping at the Flying J in Scipio (someone needed a potty break) the store and parking lot was packed. According to the cashier, everyone was headed to southern Utah for the eclipse. Driving back t hrough Parawan from Cedar Breaks around 9:00 p.m. , my group caught I-15 and headed to Cedar City for dinner. The stream of cars leaving Cedar City and headed north was a sight to be hold. Both lanes packed, almost bumper to bumper, white headlights heading toward us as far as could be seen . It was too dark to get a picture. The g u ess is a lot of people did a quick and dirty, drive down and back in one day.Â
(Which made the appalling "orange barrel polka" just outside of Nephi by UDOT that much more appalling. Traffic was reduced to one lane and the bottle neck was the most vile ever seen. It took us ONE HOUR to get through it. A number of cars and semis had just pulled off and went to sleep.)  _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy
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