The Official Argue About Where Upstate NY Is Thread

[RShea]

We are still planning to spend the night in Ithaca Sunday but I am starting to think that we will be heading towards the Adirondacks instead of Rochester early Monday morning.

Does anyone have suggestions for a place to view that would allow us to get to Rochester Monday night without a heinous drive? I will be with my wife and toddler, I've already done the remote and rad for the 2017 eclipse and am looking for a nice place to spend the day with the family. We have an invite to join a group near Saranac Lake but I have a feeling that is going to get rowdy.

If the visitor counts are accurate for the Totality areas, there will be heavy traffic in most of the areas in the path. I'd probably not want to be on I-90 the NYS Truway during the Monday times before and after the eclipse times. How early and how late the traffic will be heavy is hard to say at this point.

[m2711c]

https://www.syracuse.com/news/2024/0...outputType=amp

[gravitylover]

Holy shit! I think we just had a significant earthquake

[gravitylover]

We did, a 4.8 5km NE of Lebanon NJ

[riser4]

Wakey Wakey. Quakey Quakey!

[riser4]

Not upstate, my BIL lives in Taipei. So he just went through that.

[gravitylover]

I guess that depends on where you've determined Upstate to be

[CallMeAl]

Looks like another downstate problem.

[Brownski]

It was felt in Albany. That’s pretty decisively upstate

[huckbucket]

https://www.syracuse.com/news/2024/0...outputType=amp

How on earth is it possible that the only region with zero cloud cover on the path of totality is ADK?

[m2711c]

we know how to git ‘er done…

[riser4]

How on earth is it possible that the only region with zero cloud cover on the path of totality is ADK?

It's opposite day!

[gravitylover]

we know how to git ‘er done…

Hahaha

[ENDOOO]

fort oswego would be a nice place to view and then you take rt 104 right to rochester…

https://parks.ny.gov/historic-sites/...o/details.aspx



or the parking lot of lock 6.



fact.

Building on this suggestion, an out of the way place to avoid oswego crowds: 104>104A>McNeil Road>McIntyre Road = the bluffs.

Pro: rudy's is open monday Con: upstates not known for sunny april days

[twomartinis]

Anybody got some snow pics to share?

yesterday:

It was felt in Albany. That’s pretty decisively upstate

wife said the house was shaking and the clattering doors were freaking her out. she asked me if I felt it - I said not from up on this wire rope thingy:



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[MakersTeleMark]

I am infatuated by peoples' obsession over clouds now. It is incredibly entertaining.

Small things, I know.

[twomartinis]

lots of people but I wouldn’t say it’s crowded



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[twomartinis]

vermillion lenses were the right call today



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[CallMeAl]

My wife's childhood bestie is the newly-elected mayor of the upper upstate town they grew up in. That town happened to be in the path of totality yesterday, so as mayors do, she organized a little get together in the local park for the 10,000 visitors who would otherwise have no reason to ever visit the place.

The forecast was allegedly for sunny skies and the turnout was good, but the weather became cloudy just before and during the eclipse.

Since then she has been inundated with hate mail...about the fucking weather. Everything from criticisms of the location (IE, it was sunnier at the park on the other side of town, WTF was she thinking when she planned this last month), to conspiracy accusations involving the mayor's office, the weatherman, and the chamber of commerce, to people just flat out writing in to tell her that her town is a shithole.

Luckily, she is finding nothing but humor in the comments.

[riser4]

People.

[Brownski]

way to represent 2M. I was stuck working yesterday so all I saw was the great dimming- still appropriately awed by the miracle of the universe, vastness of space, humbled by the power of nature etc... you all get it. how long did it take you to drive home?

[MakersTeleMark]

I wonder how many people blue tarped themselves to stay warm?

[twomartinis]

how long did it take you to drive home?

the 2-1/2 hour ride back to Albany took 6 hours. but we were on the ski club bus, which was operating at peak après, so all in all a fkna great time!

and yea: humbled by the power of nature... you hit the nail on the head right there!

[m2711c]

[MakersTeleMark]

I think the blue should be upstate, no?