Nearly 150 years later, one thing hasn’t changed: the threat of clouds blocking the view.
The last time a total solar eclipse passed through this Texas town, horses and buggies filled the streets and cotton fetched 9 cents a pound.Overcast skies are forecast for Monday’s cosmic wonder across Texas, which is already packing in eclipse chasers to the delight of small-town businesses.— from Mexico’s Pacific coast to Texas and 14 other states all the way to Maine and the eastern fringes of Canada. The best U.S. forecast: northern New England.
She’s praying the weather will cooperate, as are the owners of all the shops clustered around the historic courthouse in the center of town, made of red sandstone and pink granite. They’re bracing for a few hundred thousand visitors for Monday’s 4 minutes, 20 seconds of totality, close to the maximum of 4 minutes, 28 seconds elsewhere on the path.
“We were really hopeful, but now, with this weather, it is kind of a bummer,” Kenyon said. “We will just have to wait and see."A banner in the museum’s front window, displaying newspaper headlines from the July 29, 1878, eclipse, detailed the cloudy skies all morning. But just before the moon lined up between the sun and Earth that afternoon, the sky cleared.
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