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So yippee Hanna made landfall and in the hardly populated ranch lands north of us. We are still in the lower parts of the TS windfields. Still expecting a major rain event for the next couple of days.
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Hanna finally reached us at around 4:00pm. Just a light shower with gust upto about 20mph. So far nothing serious! :fl
I'm hoping the power stays on though. It is being wonky and I have had to reset computers and internet about 10+ times since the winds picked up:( after noon. My backup power inverter would still need to be connected up at that point.
 
I am thinking I am now going to figure out what the highest rated inverter I can just have permanently have attached to the Wrangler is. So i can run a hot plate/breville oven, full size fridge and recharging stations off off no matter where I am. Plus my internet needs :gig so I will hop on the Jeep forums tomorrow and figure out the tech specs on my JK. Even now the power is acting wonky. It probably will be near the same price as a small generator however not nearly as portable. I am just hoping there is an easy oversized overkill affordable option. I can probably find it now on extremeterrain.com already.

How did you guys do @RebelChief ?

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Sky view distraction for the nights *after this storm*:

https://www.planetary.org/explore/projects/lightsail-solar-sailing/lightsail-mission-control.html

And...

https://www.n2yo.com/passes/?s=44420

Unfortunately I too can not see them.right now not have I had the Joy of seeing Neowise yet, either..... FWIW the ISS will cross overhead in just over an hour tonight & the n2yo site has a widget in the upper right corner that links to your cells GPS site for updated reference to see it too.
I have the ISS Favorited for when it will cross overhead at high angles usually for 5-6 minutes at a time. You never know what spark you might light in a child's imagination. Oh and as always before I get stumbling drunk my profession. :gig

https://spotthestation.nasa.gov/
 
I have the ISS Favorited for when it will cross overhead at high angles usually for 5-6 minutes at a time. You never know what spark you might light in a child's imagination. Oh and as always before I get stumbling drunk :gig
That's great.
As of this posting it will fly over my GPS site in 1hr & <5minutes from now.
 
That's great.
As of this posting it will fly over my GPS site in 1hr & <5minutes from now.
Can you kidnap a child and legally force them to watch with you? Seems way late for a solar reflection by the naked eye. If you have optics for viewing sure.....
If you capture any good images I would love to see the result of your Trinity River Basin astronomy here.
 
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Can you kidnap a child and legally force them to watch with you? Seems way late for a solar reflection by the naked eye. If you have optics for viewing sure.....
If you capture any good images I would love to see the result of your Trinity River Basin astronomy here.
Kids asleep. Just enough high altitude clouds to make "light pollution" too big a hurdle to leap to see the solar sail 2. But, not the ISS - IF I were to stay up.

So here's a cheater of a couple screenshots with a cute free app showing planets and constellations.... Above our roof looking Southeast (Mars in upper left of image & our neighbors translucent bathroom window in lowerr right just above red horizon line)
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and south west (Jupiter & Saturn directly above their actual twinkling orbs just above our roof line).
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"Good night @AllenK RGV & sleep as relaxed as possible!" -cheers
 

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