Today is the 300th anniversary of the last time a total eclipse passed over Los Angeles, on May 22, 1724. There won't be another one for at least another thousand years, making a total drought of more than 1,300 years. That's a very long time to go without a total eclipse.
This would explain why there are still so many witches left alive there.
One thing that I could never stomach when visiting LA, all the damn vampires.
Wait, is Buffy dead?
John Scalzi recently noted that one day in mid-April he just stepped out into his back yard and watched the total eclipse. And then a couple weeks ago he stepped out into his yard again to watch auroras.
Ohio beats LA this year.
By the year 3000 no one in Los Angeles will know what a total solar eclipse is, and then when they do have one, they will panic and start a new religion.
It's too bad there were none during the Bad Olde Days of extreme air pollution: you wouldn't even have needed special glasses to look at the sun!
All nonsense aside, I've been privileged to live in Albuquerque where we have had two total (annular) eclipses over the last decade or so. When we traveled out of state for the last few "Eclipse Across America1' events ... it was cloudy. All. Day.
Is it, though?
I use eclipses as an excuse to travel around the world, in order to view them.
https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/list-total-solar.html
Just pick one that goes over some interesting place, and start booking flights and places to stay.
Bring back Governor Moonbeam!
He's the original space cadet
Total eclipses in Hawaii in last 300 years and the next one: 1850, 1991, 2106
I guess Hawaiians have had better luck despite being closer to the equator than Los Angeles.
Wow!
Now the Moon is pwning the libs?