Raise your hand if you're gonna watch the eclipse......

[marble falls]

70. Oregon, seven years ago, a town of 7500 became a town of 100,000 thousand. There are eclipses regularly ...

... total eclipses in any particular location are once in 500 year, there are eclipses about every seven years somewhere on this planet.

I only wish you get the honor of an eclipse in a small town in a rural community in a rural county in the middle of ranch lands.

Is your town set up for a 100,000 person influx? Texas thinks it will have a million person or more increase in population for a week over this. I'd gladly let you have that honor. People here will not be able to get to work, gas stations and stores restock will not be able to get through, campers will be parked on road side and on our streets and on private property, ambulances will not be able to move, the trip to Austin that takes and hour will now take six, the police have told us they triaging calls, appointments will be lost, criminal gangs of thieves and drug dealers will be here (like they do for SXSW in Austin). Why do you think this is such a wonderful thing? Because you don't have to deal with it. It's a pleasure for you that I deal with it, right?