No, if you're talking about the highway in Kanarraville we were parked there and it was cheek to jowl with cars. People were driving along looking for a place to pull over. But that was close to the designated viewing area and cars might have Bern much more scarce elsewhere on the road. I can't say because we arrived fairly early and stayed late. -- Joe ------------------------------ On Sat, May 26, 2012 9:23 AM MDT Brent Watson wrote:

The highway following the center line was empty.  Perhaps there was a car every 1/2 mile, but more like a car every mile.

________________________________ From: "erikhansen@thebluezone.net" <erikhansen@thebluezone.net> To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2012 8:08 AM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Transit "bennie" / Eclipse impact

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Looking at pictures of field looked like a few hundred cars with people among the cars. Did hear the reports that the highway following center line was packed. Walked my dog before the eclipse went by many large grassy parks, in Cedar City, with zero people.

I don't know how you'd get a good estimate by looking at pictures from

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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. 

(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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