Q: What happens if it’s cloudy during the eclipse?A: Solar eclipse path of totality maps: check. Viewing location: settled upon and secured. Eclipse safety glasses: got ’em. Disaster plans: wait, disaster plans? Forecast: CLOUDY?!The Texanist has seen a lot in his many years on this earth—like the time he saw honky-tonker Dale Watson introduce the great Johnny “Whiskey River” Bush from the stage at Poodie’s Roadhouse, west of Austin, while at the very same time playing the “Westphalia Waltz” as a sort of soundtrack to a barroom brawl that had broken out between a father and son, for example—but he’s never witnessed a total solar eclipse. The last such celestial event to grace the skies over Texas occurred way back in 1878, and the next…
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