[OPLINLIST] Eclipclaypse 2024!

[Jane Schaffner]

We plan on discussing at the board meeting tonight what our plan will be.
I do have a patron who is a founding member of the Astronomy Club in
Findlay who also attended the eclipse in Tennessee and did not have a good
experience trying to get home afterwards.

He shared that they should have just stayed an additional day as it took
5-6 extra hours for him to leave the day of.


Jane Schaffner, Director
McComb Public Library
113 S. Todd St.
McComb, OH 45858
419-293-2425


On Fri, Sep 15, 2023 at 4:03 PM Bob Gaydos via OPLINLIST <
oplinlist at lists.oplin.org> wrote:

> FWIW, my wife and I drove down to the zone of totality in Tennessee in
> 2017 and it was not at all crazy in my experience.  We viewed the event on
> the grounds of a smallish college campus and the hotel we stayed at the
> night before was very close by.  If the folks driving inbound that
> afternoon encountered crazy traffic, we did not hear about it, nor did we
> encounter anything more than typical late afternoon traffic when we headed
> toward home afterward.  I encountered far worse traffic driving home
> through Akron last night due to an accident.
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> Are these Chicken Little warnings originating from locations which
> experienced the 2017 eclipse?
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> *Bob Gaydos*
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> *From:* OPLINLIST *On Behalf Of *Kim Null via OPLINLIST
> *Sent:* Friday, September 15, 2023 2:03 PM
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> *Subject:* Re: [OPLINLIST] Eclipclaypse 2024! - St Marys
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> That's what we ended up deciding. I went to a safety planning meeting back
> in July with police, fire, Red Cross, Coast Guard, etc to talk about the
> logistics here in Lorain County.. it really opened my eyes to the extent of
> what we may be expecting.. I took this info to our Director and then she
> went to the Board and they made the decision to close us for the day so we
> did not add to the chaos.
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> On Fri, Sep 15, 2023 at 1:24 PM Morgan Paul via OPLINLIST <
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> The talk around here is to prepare to not be able to get anywhere.  They
> are warning us to have our gas tanks full before hand to realize we might
> not be able to get to a grocery store.
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> I hadn’t really thought about closing until recently.
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> I think we should close all day, just to be off the roads.
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> *From:* OPLINLIST <oplinlist-bounces at lists.oplin.org> *On Behalf Of *James
> Hill via OPLINLIST
> *Sent:* Friday, September 15, 2023 12:32 PM
> *To:* Oplinlist <oplinlist at lists.oplin.org>
> *Subject:* [OPLINLIST] Eclipclaypse 2024!
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> Happy Friday, all!
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> Looking ahead to April of 2024
> <https://publicsafety.ohio.gov/home/news-and-events/all-events/ohio-total-solar-eclipse#:~:text=On%20Monday%2C%20April%208%2C%202024,a%20rare%20and%20spectacular%20event.>
> and wondering what everyone has planned for the eclipse. Many of us are
> having flashbacks to 2017 and the great glasses debacle. We're trying to
> get ahead of that this time and have a boatload of sun blockers on order to
> hand out.
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> Chillicothe and southcentral Ohio are not in totality, but we're close
> enough that folks (me included) will want to drive west an hour to be in
> darkness. I'd like to give the entire staff the opportunity to go see
> this once in a lifetime event. We're planning programs and education for
> the weeks leading up to, but have nothing planned on the day of the
> eclipse.
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> Is anyone closing for the day? Half the day? Or in any other way curbing
> activities?
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> James
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