Adam Curran
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The Upcoming U.S. Eclipse Just Got Even Stranger!
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Pat Flood (@rebarcock) passed away 9/21/25. Pat played a huge role in encouraging the devolopmemt of this site and donated the very first dollar to get it started. Check the thread at the top of the board for the obituary and please feel free to pay your respects there. I am going to get all the content from that thread over to his family so they can see how many people really cared for Pat outside of what they ever knew. Pat loved to tell stories and always wanted everyone else to tell stories. I think a great way we can honor Pat is to tell a story in his thread (also pinned at the top of the board).
The Upcoming U.S. Eclipse Just Got Even Stranger!
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It's weirder than that!
The last one we had, Ky had the best viewing spot and tons of people from around the world flooded in. They made over 300 arrest for sex crimes. Prostitutes and traffickers were flooding the area with Poon. KSP and local police were catching sex crimes left and right for a couple days.
Almost all the hotels in Central Texas are booked up already. I heard airports have very few parking spaces left for the private jets. Upwards of a million people coming into Texas to see it. Schools are closing for the day...probably more educational than if they were in school. We have our glasses --- it's party time.
People's republic of Vermont are already screaming that Hotels are scalping, $1,000+ rooms for a night in Burlington, and not the Hilton
Are they going to push the illegals out to make room and more $$ on the jet-setters? I suspect the hotels in Texas and elsewhere are doing the same.
When I had season tickets at Texas Tech, as soon as the schedule came out, many of us were on the computer/phone reserving rooms before the scalping occurred. Pissed off the hotels. So, now they are made aware of the schedule in advance to raise their rates. $165/night rooms raised to $299 +/night for football, graduation or other events. Some even require a two night minimum. The free breakfast wasn't worth the extra costs.
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