Crankshaft by Tom Batiuk and Dan Davis for April 07, 2024

Everyone is going to smell like wet dogs.

And…there it is. The ripping off of a 1963 “Peanuts” arc where Linus’s plans to safely view the solar eclipse are ruined by inclement weather is now complete. Hope everyone enjoyed it. Coming up next: either a visit to Montoni’s Pizza or Lillian the Lizard at the Ohioana book convention, I’ll wager.

Worst George Shearing fan convention ever.

This is apparently actually going to happen where I live (Houston)

I hope they all demand their money back…

No problem if rain or overcast. Crank will just ask that it be rescheduled.

Some of the right-wing fundamentalists are thinking this is going to be the rapture… how I wish this comments platform would allow us to insert pictures and emojis…

Ed has at least 20 guests (I counted) that is about at least $500 he pulls inn but he is barely making a profit due to the porta potty rental, chairs; air mattresses and glasses

Ed plans…God laughs ;-)

I wonder what the increase will be in calls to ophthalmologists and cell phone, digital camera purchases on April 9th?

Sunglasses will not protect your eyes! You need level 14 or higher welder’s glass or eclipse glasses that are ISO 12312-2:2015 compliant. A case study of a woman who observed a partial eclipse without the appropriate safety measures showed that she had a crescent-shaped burn on her retina.

Cameras also need protection of a special filter. Pointing your camera at the sun for an extended period of time, like when you record a video, can damage the CCD or CMOS of your camera.

Be safe not sorry!

“The bad news is… Mort Winkerbean and his Bedside Manor band have teamed up with Dinkle’s church choir to perform Claude Barlow’s ‘Golden Showers’ up on the roof.”

Next time check the weather report, you old fossil!

Wow. Who saw THIS coming?!?

I was close – I called cloudy a few days ago.

And in the real world:

1) The actual eclipse isn’t until tomorrow.

2) What’s the actual weather report for central Ohio tomorrow?

Another “rain on the parade”!!!!!!

Same issue here. Everyone predicted sunny weather tomorrow. They just changed it to rain…all day long. Spring hasn’t arrived here. It has rained or sowed every day since March 1st.

and the proper temperature to boil a egg is ?

If it is raining, obviously it has been overcast and probably dark skies for quite a while. And everyone was sitting in chairs on Ed’s lawn patiently waiting for…nothing? Are they all relatives?

Well, why it’s unusual for an American to be wearing CFL merchandise, at least Jeff is supporting an winner. (Unlike an Indianapolis, or, Cleveland, NFL team.)

When you’ve seen one total eclipse, you’ve seen them all.

Hope that you got paid up front. There is some irony as a storm front IS coming through it would seem…..

It’s raining!

Called it when this whole arc started. Of course it rains. I guess nobody there ever heard of checking the weather forecast.

By the way, apparently Batiuk has never seen what a pair of eclipse glasses actually looks like. Those people all look like they’re wearing regular sunglasses.

Pretty much this same thing happened back at the 2017 solar eclipse. The town of St. Joseph, MO was smack dab in the path of totality, and one of the few decent cities in that path. People rented their houses for folks to stay, rented their yards and driveways for people to park campers and vans, and a lot of money changed hands — a much-needed economic boost to the town. Then, the morning of the eclipse, a steady downpour moved in. I was living and working in North Kansas City back then, and we all went out to watch the eclipse with our glasses. We saw most of it, but just a few minutes before totality the clouds from the edge of the storm covered the sun. Still was eerie to watch the darkness move in, the streetlights come on, the birds go to roost and the nocturnal insects start sounding off, all in the middle of the day.

Tomorrows weather in that end of Ohio is supposed to be cloudy

I’m afraid that’s going to happen to us here in Ohio.

well, of course

A day early and a Franklin short.

They are charging $800 a night at the big hotels in Erie. It wasn’t worth that to me.

Saw a comment on Twitter that some areas that expected huge crowds aren’t really seeing them, possibly because of all the reports of chaos and huge traffic jams. So people are staying away.

Hey, why doesn’t that “private viewing booth” on the left have the top cut open?

Did I call it yesterday or WHAT.

You know it’scoming.

Remember the most important words in customer service, Ed: No refunds.

I grew up in the Cleveland area. Never could see any type of eclipse.

Our forecast for Buffalo is cloudy for tomorrow, too.

People seem to forget that a total eclipse is a unique experience even if it’s cloudy out. The birds and bugs still go nuts, and while it’s dark where you are, you can still see where the sun shines in all directions outside the moon’s shadow. Yeah, a total eclipse on a clear day is incomparable, but even on a cloudy day it’s something you won’t see anywhere else.

Ed just now realized he lives in Ohio.

Tomorrow: everyone goes away. Then the rain stops, the clouds part and there’s no one looking at the eclipse.