Tales of Totality: The Great American Eclipse, part IV

It's almost here...the first total solar eclipse to grace the mainland US in close to 40 years! While this is a big one for the USA--visible as a total solar eclipse in 16% of the countryand as a partial eclipse everywhere else--we know that not everyone is going to be able to make it to the path of totality. Even for those of us who've traveled to see this astronomical phenomenon in its full glory, chancy weather and the threat of clouds mean that nothing is a guarantee. To that end, the Physic...