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Bloomington expected 500,000 people.
Here's their big eclipse event at the IU Memorial Stadium.
Sorry about the weird angle. I didn't take the photo.
I love that they thought they could centralize/commoditize a natural event that only requires you to stop wherever you are and look up.
Most of Ellettsville was blocked off, but two places were charging $40 and $50 respectively for eclipse parking.
We drove down to Lawrenceburg for the weekend and drove back Monday morning to get into totality.
It was a nightmare coming from outside Cincy, once we passed the first tiny town in totality (brookeville,) it was empty. To my surprise. We stopped in Richmond and it was a ghost town.
Seems everyone outside just went to the closest place to them possible…strange.
Edit: parking was $20, apparently a steal! 😂
I'm in Terre Haute, which was in the path of totality. We went to a park south of town where there's a pioneer village and they were having a mini festival. It was a decent-sized crowd, but nothing massive. We were able to drive home pretty much right away.
Glad you could enjoy it close to home! Memory for a lifetime.
I was really proud of our little town of Lebanon. There was live music, roller skating, photo booths, inflatables, vendors & food trucks, movie night, and all sorts of other events all weekend. I would say that attendance was probably less than expected Sat & Sun, but Monday was pretty hoppin!
https://pixelfed.social/p/brianrlawson/682997746978889932
They missed that prediction by a margin didn’t they. lol