Every time there is an eclipse we get predictions of insane proportion.
I like the Liberty Daily, but they often link nutty stuff. And here is fruitcake thinking at it’s finest:
Just so you know, many oversize and hazardous containers are prohibited from traveling during dark conditions. An eclipse produces dark conditions. The state of Texas isn’t trying to start a supply chain disruption and a one day slow down isn’t a disaster.
Just pure BS from BS purveyors.
UPDATE:
More from the same source, Liberty Daily. When everything else fails, try religion. Invoking the bible puts fear in some…
This Is the Eclipse “Conspiracy Theory” That the Mainstream Media Doesn’t Want to Talk About
UPDATE 2:
And more tin foil moonbattery…
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There doesn’t even need to be a full-day slowdown. The trucks can stop for 4 minutes (totality) or an hour or so (partial darkness on both sides).
That would depend on the direction of travel. The path cuts a swath through much of the most populated parts of Texas, from San Antonio, through Austin, and on into the Dallas area.
Maybe Texas is overdoing it (haven’t read what thy put out), but if you have restricted travel for dark periods it is reasonable to restrict the travel for dark periods caused by the eclipse.
I would think those restrictions are not statewide.
OK, looked it up. The restriction is not statewide but only in the effected counties in the eclipse path.
There is another reason they are restricting them the entire day – they expect a million + people to show up from out of state creating massive traffic jams. Wide loads would make that even worse.
In any event it’s not something to do with Satan.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/texas-says-no-oversized-loads-are-allowed-to-travel-on-the-day-of-eclipse-heres-what-we-know/ar-BB1kTacp
We had an eclipse in 2017 here IIRC the year.
I don’t recall massive traffic shutting down the State of NC then.
am I missing some thing? Is it different this time?
Total eclipse. Next one in 2044. Before 2017 it was 1979. So they are fairly rare on a wide scale.
The 2017 eclipse passed over South Carolina, but only the fare west area of NC if I have it right.
The 2017 eclipse produce similar fanfare IMO. The big difference is the population of the path of 2017 and this next one. 2017 was through mostly sparsely populated area’s, such that traffic wasn’t an issue.
Note:
The eclipse has come and gone, and last I heard, Texas didn’t even invade Oklahoma or Louisiana. Didn’t secede either.
When I look outside the sun is shining, the earth seems normal for one that has come to and end.
So, I was driving back from the island and sort of forgot about the eclipse. While stopped for gas around Burlington, my son sent me a pinhole pic of our (Charlotte, NC area) partial eclipse, a couple hundred nice little eclipses.
He used a piece of pegboard from the garage 🙂 Worked right well.