This week we were arriving home at about 9:00 pm, it was fully dark at that time, and we found these two scenes right in our backyard.
The first is the view of a full moon, in the eastern sky, taken from our parking lot facing east.
The second is from the same spot, pivoting 180 degrees, facing west, across Troupe Road where there was night time burning of the trees and brush being cleared for the so-called Events Center.
And speaking of a full moon and other celestial matters, all here is in full speed ahead mode for the solar eclipse which will be seen here next Monday from 2:15-4:15 pm . If you google the eclipse's path you will see that Erie is right in the middle of it.
Schools are closing, as are some businesses, hotels are booked solid and, the best one I've heard so far, the medical community has a boat that will travel from Presque Isle State Park, across the bay directly to UPMC Hamot Hospital for serious medical needs. Although there will be a first aid type station on the peninsula, they figure they would never be able to get an ambulance off the expected crowded peninsula in a timely fashion...so they will bring any person in serious need right across the water, as Hamot is located right on the Bay.
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