(August 21, 2017 at 2:06 pm)Brian37 Wrote: I get the fascination with the eclipse, but some people are fucking stupid paying what they have to have a hotel room. Just watching a story at a stadium where some idiots paid 10K and guess what, it is cloudy in any case.
I would have seen a partial eclipse outside my house, but it is cloudy. This is the fucking problem with America, not the differences in price of anything, but the outrageous gap. I get a little inequity, but 700 for a hotel room? 10K for a stadium seat for what? And many in this path still got screwed by bad weather.
I booked mine on Hotels.com four or five months ago for $68.00 at a Super 6. We stayed in Columbia, MO and worked our way down to Ashland, which is was very close to the center line. We went to a playground on a public school yard with a handful of other strangers scattered about. The weather wasn't perfect but right before the eclipse some high cirrus clouds disappeared with the rapid drop in temperature. It was a very memorable experience even if the sky was not completely transparent! Saw the Sun's corona clearly with solar prominences all around.
