I was curious as anything as to how many people went out, but now I'm thinking ahead for 2017... 2,000 pair of eclipse glasses sold by one individual? There's a pile to be made off a total eclipse! On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Joe Bauman <josephmbauman@yahoo.com> wrote:
No, we're not missionaries -- Regarding head counts, I was responding to the comment questioning the Trib's crowd estimate and the comment that photographs didn't show that number. I was speaking as an ex-reporter, not a missionary, to the specific question about how many were there. That's an interesting question. Crowd estimates are usually done for any kind of public event. Thanks, Joe
________________________________ From: Chuck Hards <chuck.hards@gmail.com> To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Friday, May 25, 2012 2:56 PM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Transit "bennie" / Eclipse impact
Jeez. What does a headcount matter?
Are we missionaries, or hobbyists? On May 25, 2012 2:52 PM, "Joe Bauman" <josephmbauman@yahoo.com> wrote:
I don't know how you'd get a good estimate by looking at pictures from Kanarraville because the visitors were spread out over both sides of nine miles of highway according to the Tribune, plus thousands more in the special camping site that was set up. I heard that someone was walking around with a box of eclipse glasses and said he sold out all 2,000 in the first hour. All the T-shirts had been sold (except a few of an unexciting design) before first contact. I don't know that anybody made a good head count by driving along the road and estimating. After the eclipse we had dinner beside the road and the cars drove past for a long time. We had no trouble with traffic backups because we spent Sunday night in Cedar City and went home the next day. -- Joe
________________________________ From: "erikhansen@thebluezone.net" <erikhansen@thebluezone.net> To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Friday, May 25, 2012 1:20 PM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Transit "bennie" / Eclipse impact
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
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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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