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brewens

(13,660 posts) Sun Apr 7, 2024, 11:49 PM Apr 7

I think it was 1979 we had a total eclipse and I saw about the coolest show ever. I was at Washington State U.

with another journalism student covering it for our school paper. Our mission was supposed to be to hook up with the Edward R. Murrow School of Journalism students and see what they were doing or the KWSU guys to find out where they were filming. We missed them. They headed out to Steptoe Butte on the Palouse prairie.

We scrambled to find anyone that looked like they had anything going and found the astronomy students heading up to the top of one of the buildings to watch. We end up on the roof of the tallest building on campus and saw the dark coming at us over the rolling prairie from miles away! That was the ultimate. I'll never see a more awesome eclipse. I only get so excited about them, but I will be out walking when it happens.

https://parks.wa.gov/find-parks/state-parks/steptoe-butte-state-park-heritage-site

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I think it was 1979 we had a total eclipse and I saw about the coolest show ever. I was at Washington State U. (Original Post) brewens Apr 7 OP

omg your'e gonna make me cry gopiscrap Apr 8 #1

I lived in a small town in Montana for that one Attilatheblond Apr 8 #2

Besides the Totality, to see the shadow approaching! Wow. electric_blue68 Apr 8 #3

gopiscrap

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1. omg your'e gonna make me cry

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Mon Apr 8, 2024, 12:00 AM

Apr 8

that was so long ago. My fiance at the time were living at 500 Northeast Maiden Lane in our junior year. There were four of us in a 4 bedroom apartment and I remember going out to watch it with my fiance and room mates. Later that year (Dec) some one blew up Regents Hall and then in May of our senior year, Mt St Helens blew. It was an eventful 15 months. I loved my days in Pullman. We now live in Tacoma, but get back there very so often. What about you?

Attilatheblond

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2. I lived in a small town in Montana for that one

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Mon Apr 8, 2024, 02:42 AM

Apr 8

Being in the path of totality AND in a place with both stock animals and wildlife made the experience extraordinary.

electric_blue68

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3. Besides the Totality, to see the shadow approaching! Wow.

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Mon Apr 8, 2024, 05:03 AM

Apr 8

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