[AT] Did you see it Mattias?

David Bruce davidbruce at yadtel.net
Sat Mar 21 08:22:27 PDT 2015


Sometime in the early '90's we saw a total eclipse. I was in the office 
in Burlington, NC that day. Had I been home (about 90 miles west) or on 
the road visiting customers I would have missed that.

David
NW NC

On 3/21/2015 10:50 AM, charlie hill wrote:
> Glad you saw it Mattias.  We had a total eclipse here in 1969 but
> I was in school 100 miles west and seeing it from that location
> it was not at all spectacular.  I've regretted many times not going
> home that weekend.
>
> I started to ask you about the Northern Lights as it was rumored that we
> might see them here in NC but I didn't and I'm kind of glad of it because
> for them to get this far south means some serious solar radiation.  In the
> late 1800's they were seen in Cuba.  That is the same time that the
> telegraph
> wires fried in parts of the US as a result of the radiation.  No telling
> what would
> fry with all the electronic stuff we have now.
>
> Charlie
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mattias Kessén
> Sent: Friday, March 20, 2015 8:08 PM
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> Subject: Re: [AT] Did you see it Mattias?
>
> Hi.
>
> I actually did. The forecast predicted cloudy, rainy weather but when I
> came home from the vet there was a glimpse through the clouds so I ran out
> to the shop to get a welding helmet and back to the house so the youngest
> that's sick could watch. I really had luck seeing it and Gamleby is about
> the only place in southern Sweden that I've heard of that people did
> actually see it. Otherwise we had great weather the last two weeks so the
> snow plow is off and I've been to the forest almost every other day this
> week. I've would have gotten a few welding helmets and googles in the
> morning if it wasn't for the shitty weather and the fact that i had to go
> to the vet with the twins cats for castration but I got home for 30 minutes
> when they slept there so yes we saw it and the twins did leave their
> classroom to see it. The sun looked like a really thin moon and it got dark
> as if it was really bad winter weather which it actually was.
>
> Will meet my norwegian friend that often is at Svalbard for work at easter,
> don't know if he was there right now but there it was a total eclipse for
> three minutes.
>
> BTW the recent solar storms has made northern light visible this far south
> this week I haven't seen it but I've done that earlier and tonight will be
> no idea since it rained last time me and the dog relase some pressure.
>
> Med vänlig hälsning
>
> Mattias Kessén
>
> www.rodjagard.n.nu
>
> Sent from my not so smart phone.
> Den 21 mar 2015 00:37 skrev "charlie hill" <charliehill at embarqmail.com>:
>
>> Mattias, I'm just wondering if your old tractors had to run the headlights
>> because of the eclipse?
>>
>> Charlie
>>
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