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Offline RICK STEFANICK

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Eclipse here in charleston
« on: August 21, 2017, 09:00:09 AM »
It's crazy down here in Charleston.1.5 million extra people here to view the eclipse. Most all businesses closing at 12:00 outside of downtown and all the bridges are closing for a short period of time. This has been very profitable for a lot of people selling .55 cent eclipse glasses for 8-10 bucks the last couple days since most businesses ran out due to the unexpected flood of people. They are selling everything from t-shirts to chewing gum logo'd up with eciiose graphics.
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Re: Eclipse here in charleston
« Reply #1 on: August 21, 2017, 09:03:19 AM »
Sucker born every minute.....
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Re: Eclipse here in charleston
« Reply #2 on: August 21, 2017, 10:35:08 AM »
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Re: Eclipse here in charleston
« Reply #3 on: August 21, 2017, 10:42:35 AM »
Anybody making a zillion bucks printing eclipse t-shirts? 

I am amazed I have not heard of somebody claiming copyright/trademark on eclipse 2017 and filing frivolous lawsuits for infringement.  Probably happening it just has not made the evening news yet!
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Re: Eclipse here in charleston
« Reply #4 on: August 21, 2017, 10:56:23 AM »
We did a fair amount for the Columbia Fireflies and Nashville Sounds baseball teams. Both in the 100% zone or very near it. One has a game during the eclipse (as does our local team). We didn't get rich of it, but shirts were printed that we wouldn't have done otherwise
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Re: Eclipse here in charleston
« Reply #5 on: August 21, 2017, 01:43:35 PM »
Not much to see here in the northeast, about a 63% eclipse, should be starting here shortly... I'll probably miss it.

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Re: Eclipse here in charleston
« Reply #6 on: August 21, 2017, 02:39:42 PM »
Watched the eclipse with my grandsons, I was real geeky and they pretended to enjoy for grandpa, good kids for sure.

Some time you just need to let your inner child out, I gotta get older, Thankfully I can still look at the world with/through the eyes of a child occasionally.

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Re: Eclipse here in charleston
« Reply #7 on: August 21, 2017, 02:47:34 PM »
Very cloudy here in Alabama and raining, so no eclipse show here just a bunch of disappointed people.
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Re: Eclipse here in charleston
« Reply #8 on: August 21, 2017, 03:49:13 PM »
We printed probably 8-10k shirts this past month for various events so we got a small part of the action....... Shop here got a little dark today but overall was pretty ummmmm underwhelming for us here LOL
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Re: Eclipse here in charleston
« Reply #9 on: August 21, 2017, 05:00:33 PM »
We were just outside the "path of totality" here (99.6% coverage), and got really lucky on the cloud cover. It was quite a sight to sort-of see.

It got dark here, but not like dusk-dark, more like regular daylight if you were wearing very clean, light-grey sunglasses. The air temp didnt change much, but the heat was waaay more tolerable as there wasnt anywhere near the amount of direct radiant heat on your skin. Its been super hot AND muggy here lately, so it felt great for a short period of time.

The coolest part of the whole thing was how the wildlife reacted. Theres a wooded area across the street, and several different species of owls started hooting and calling. Crickets began chirping, mosquitos started biting, and gnats started buzzing our faces. All at around 2:40!

Neat stuff! We should have this more often. Im writing my congressman.

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Re: Eclipse here in charleston
« Reply #10 on: August 21, 2017, 05:06:34 PM »
Our owners a total hippy so we took a moment and had voodoo donuts, glasses, and printed some "Dark Side of Oregon Tees" for the crew.

We also had a lot of people off today so they could watch it.

But like Danny said, a lot of hype for something underwhelming indeed :)

But employees are hyped on their tee, voodoo donuts, and getting paid to watch the eclipse so was pretty cool of the owner to arrange to stop production so everyone had an opportunity to see.
« Last Edit: August 21, 2017, 06:09:17 PM by zanegun08 »

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Re: Eclipse here in charleston
« Reply #11 on: August 22, 2017, 04:07:48 AM »
was in TN for the total. Definitely worth it as far as I am concerned.

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Re: Eclipse here in charleston
« Reply #12 on: August 22, 2017, 07:47:38 AM »
Theres a pic on CNN of watchers on Isle of Palms aka Charleston

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Re: Eclipse here in charleston
« Reply #13 on: August 22, 2017, 08:47:25 AM »
I'm in Jacksonville. We are about 4 hours from Charleston. We were supposed to have 91% block out but could not see anything. There was so much cloud coverage and it was pouring during the peak. My kids are BUMMED!
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Re: Eclipse here in charleston
« Reply #14 on: August 22, 2017, 09:25:25 AM »
We did one job, about 500 pcs.  We closed all day on Monday since the school wasn't going to let our kids watch it since they weren't old enough.  We went up to lake hartwell where my folks live and watched it there.  100% coverage.

Honestly, it was pretty freaking cool.  I wouldn't have booked a hotel or paid a ton of money for parking.