Totality in Texas…Weather Almost Ruined It

[@MagicRectangle60002]

The sun deserves a 3 minute break in the middle of the day sometimes. I think it deserves more then 1 every 18 months. Dudes working hard up there

[@Turbobrat_Motorsports]

Great job, Drew!! It was a great touch to add Los Alamos on the trip as well. Keep up the great work!!

[@RadioactiveDrew]

Glad you enjoyed it. Los Alamos is an interesting place to explore. I hope one day to do a video about the lab with the cooperation of the national lab.

[@Moser72]

I dig it. I’m from Montana and live in east Texas. I drove to Mount pleasant, tx and was crossing my fingers until about 20 minutes prior to totality. It was incredible. Nice videos!

[@bueb8674]

16:43 this looks so surreal, amazing stuff. Some thin clouds certainly add dramatic effect.

[@venomstorm53]

On the day of the solar eclipse, I actuly was leaving a local antique store near where I live trying to find radioactive stuff, and I was very dark when I walked outside. I found some decent uranium glass at the store! :)

[@RadioactiveDrew]

It’s always nice to find something worth taking home from an antique store.

[@venomstorm53]

@@RadioactiveDrew Yeah! :D

[@paytonlong8338]

Drew!! My wife and I always love it when you post. It is always a great adventure seeing your journey. Growing up close to Sulphur Springs in East Texas it is awesome seeing you there. I can’t wait to see the future journeys you take us viewers on!

[@RadioactiveDrew]

I’m so glad you enjoy the videos. I’ll have some exciting places coming up soon to share with everyone.

[@colemayes859]

Your Toyota setup is dope. Someday I’d love to have a similar rig, cool way to travel

[@pfrydog]

Your Eclipse footage is the best I've seen so far.

[@markmark2080]

Los Alamos was a great visit some 30 years ago, I was hoping to get some nuclear test videos but they were still classified at the time, now YT has loads of them. It was exciting for us little boys back in the 1950s seeing the tests and early rocket launch/failures on the newsreels we would watch at school. It's a shame those now 'in charge' have such low regard for preserving history... Nice to see you stopped at the little church in Taiban NM... Saw the last eclipse from a hill top in Nebraska in the dead center of the shadow, spectacular 360 degree orange sunset some 30+ miles out in every direction, was even able to see the shadow approaching for a couple seconds. Enjoy your videos, thanks.

[@lookingin2309]

Thank you for sharing a Great trip, location and video! The best images I have seen of the eclipse Drew. Tks and safe journeys!

[@CommomsenseSmith]

Nice camera work! So much detail. My son loved the whole event and B&H got the glasses to us quickly. Just an amazing natural phenomenon every time I see it.

[@RadioactiveDrew]

It is pretty amazing. I might try and do the one in Australia in 2028. The one in Spain sounds like it could be very different since its taking place with the sun low in the horizon.

[@GlennSisson]

Thanks for taking us on your road trip Drew! Great stops on the way and and excellent eclipse video! I drove from San Diego out to Texas and then chased the best opportunity for clear skies all the way into Arkansas, finally settling for a spot west of Conway. We had only the slightest of high haze there and it was a great 2nd total eclipse for me, as it was for you. Thanks again Drew!

[@rsanford100]

Drew, that was beautiful! Thanks Those storms in Texas you spoke of were down here in Houston; I was able to view some of it at JSC. Also enjoyed the museum visits in Los Alamos.

[@RadioactiveDrew]

The Los Alamos area has some interesting places to visit.

[@DaveStewart-qo4bd]

Love your hobbies and your videos. Great job capturing the eclipse. We were totaling clouded out for it in Tennessee. Glad you shared with us.

[@RadioactiveDrew]

Glad you enjoyed the video.

[@scottcapron1873]

I love all your videos. 2017 August I drove from Fort Worth, Tx to watch the Total Eclipse. The guy in my area filmed it with an expensive Nikon. His camera with all the eclipse pictures were stolen. I believe it was the two girls in the jeep that grabbed it of his front fender as they left. This eclipse I watched the total eclipse from a chair in my backyard. At thin crescent a huge cloud bank blocked the sun. The sun went total second after the bank cleared. No clouds the whole two minutes of the eclipse. Next one is in twenty years, for the USA, in Colorado. I will be in my mid 80s.

[@Slay2468]

Incredible footage!! Honestly took me back to that moment of seeing totality in person. Thank you for sharing the journey!

[@RadioactiveDrew]

Glad you enjoyed it.

[@cfneal1459]

well done! Short & sweet, with just the perfect personal touch. Thank you.

[@greegearl1542]

Bravo, well done! The first video that I have watched that gives me some of the excitement as when I saw the Eclipse in person. Thank you.

[@RadioactiveDrew]

Really glad you feel that way. When I was editing the video I would start to feel that awe I felt that day watching the eclipse.

[@oldminer5387]

Thank you for the road trip Drew. I really enjoyed your photographs of the eclipse. The clouds added a dramatic effect.

[@RadioactiveDrew]

The clouds sure did add something a little extra.

[@jrumiano]

Nice footage of the eclipse! Well done!

[@RadioactiveDrew]

Thanks. I’m happy with what I got. Plus it was so awesome to see the eclipse again.

[@ASK-yogi]

Well done Drew! Even through the partial cloud cover you captured good images, with excellent focus and clarity showing both the solar flares and the corona shining through. I travelled to Wyoming from New Mexico for the last one (perfect conditions!), but wasn't able to make a trip this time. A nice composition all the way through--glad I watched.

[@RadioactiveDrew]

I’m glad you watched the video. I figured this video wouldn’t get a lot of views because there are so many eclipse videos coming out. But I like sharing what I capture with everyone here…

[@davidrodriguez6493]

Epic and awesome eclipse capture! I feel like the sparse clouds helped give it an interesting dimension and showed the shape of the light rays

[@stevesmith-sb2df]

I am glad you had good luck with the clouds. I watched from my backyard. We had broken low clouds. I was able to get some photos of the totality through the cloud breaks. In 2017 we drove to Kearney NE.

[@RadioactiveDrew]

The weather was pretty good considering how crazy it was the day before and right after.

[@EvoLeef]

Wow finally found a clip showing it how I saw it with the thin clouds moving past the sun making it look like it's on fire! Nice video.

[@lancelessard2491]

Went to upstate New York and had the same kind of view with filtered sunshine so we couldn't see the planets or the comet, but it was still amazing. Great video!

[@RadioactiveDrew]

I saw some pictures of the comet. Wasn’t even thinking about looking for it during the eclipse.

[@Hecxa]

That was awesome, you can even see the Moon's shadow woosh by in the speeded up or timelapse clip at the end (thanks to clouds). Well made video, as usual!

[@RadioactiveDrew]

Thanks. That sped up 360 camera shot did look pretty cool with the clouds and the moon’s shadow.

[@Tormented86]

I always enjoy watching your videos. This one was a little different but special and amazing!!

[@RadioactiveDrew]

Glad you enjoyed it.

[@jerrywatt6813]

Thanks Drew btw you got the right truck for youre life style ive been a toyota owner for 40 years cars pickups suv's cant be beat cheers !

[@RadioactiveDrew]

My Toyota Tacoma has been great for what I do.

[@dymytryruban4324]

I was lucky to see it as well. It lasted just over a minute and a half. Not all of Montreal was in the path of full shadow though: the Eastern part and districts near Laval didn't have that chance. The exterior of the church at 11:04 reminds of Slash's guitar solo in "November Rain" music video, although the entrance is off-center and longer. And those prominences!

[@Ganiscol]

You actually captured developing solar flares - neat! At first, when they were only dots, I thought these could be stars, but then they grew and began to bend along the magnetic field lines. A spectacular detail, much more so than the black disc in the sky itself! 😎

[@RadioactiveDrew]

That large solar flare was pretty amazing to see. It actually looked very big when looking at it.

[@rickmerritt8035]

Amazing video. Thank you for sharing.

[@RadioactiveDrew]

Glad you enjoyed it and thanks for the comment.

[@MMWcolotrain]

Excellent video! We had nearly the sam type of weather in SE Oklahoma.

[@robertmeyer4744]

that was really nice. great 4K video. the drown has great 4K on it. some great video of solar eclipse. nice solar flair. we are around solar max at time of eclipse. that what makes the southern and northern lights. also makes radio waves bounce around more or less . love the Los Alamos video as well.

[@RadioactiveDrew]

Really glad you enjoyed the video.

[@dalejr183]

Front yard Cleburne TX awesome. The clouds cleared just before saw it clearly

[@The-One-and-Only100]

What were the readings on the radiacode during the eclipse

[@shayne109]

Very nicely done sir!

[@RadioactiveDrew]

Thanks.

[@howardlyman]

Another excellent video! Thanks for the Los Alamos tour, was that one of the uranium cubes from Germany? Did you go to downtown Sulphur Springs by the courthouse? They have an interesting public bathroom there with a 1 way mirrored exterior in the court yard, and the court house granite is radioactive enough that it easily showed up on my radiacode. I live about an hour east in Rockwall, luckily we got a good break here with cloud cover for totality. Can't wait to see your next video. Thank you again for all the time, effort, trouble, and hard work that you put into all your videos that make them some of the information out there without some agenda behind it.

[@RadioactiveDrew]

I really appreciate that...I try to have zero agenda with my videos...other than trying to teach people about radiation. That museum in Los Alamos said the uranium cube was one of the German ones. But I've seen pictures of that reactor that was built and the one the Nuclear Science and History Museum has and this one doesn't look the same. Its missing some cuts and uranium metal that old is going to show signs of oxidation and be a little more crude. Maybe I missed the sign saying that it was a reproduction uranium cube?

[@jarchiec]

Glad you got to see it. Kinda bummed that I didn't get a chance to meet you. I live just south of Sulphur Springs.

[@RadioactiveDrew]

I would like to go back out that way again. Ludlum radiation detectors is based out of Sweetwater and I would like to do a video about them.

[@jarchiec]

@@RadioactiveDrew let us know if you make it to east Texas again. My treat on the adult beverage of your choice and I know all the best places to find U-glass and Fiestaware. ;-)

[@RadioactiveDrew]

@jarchiec thanks for the offer. I’ll have to keep that in mind.

[@pak7524]

15:31 so amazing!!

[@elsieelm2763]

Thanks Drew! Nice video indeed

[@MrZerbi21]

Was in Waco for it. Clear skies for the eclipse. Was great

[@RadioactiveDrew]

I liked it, even with the little bit of cloud cover we had.

[@Mr.GiggaChad]

Glad to see your getting into Fpv. I got really good at it but still stuck figuring out my content stich

[@RadioactiveDrew]

I'm really liking FPV. I feel more comfortable now flying the FPV drone around than I do the Air 2S. Integrating the FPV content into my videos isn't that hard. I've been using the drone to scout locations that are a little hard to find...like old uranium mines.

[@andersanden3221]

The lens and camera explains your great video quality.

[@RadioactiveDrew]

Thanks.

[@DofTNet]

I planned to go to Arkansas and had several different campsites picked out and was watching the weather forecasts obsessively until noon on Sunday... every site was forecast with around 30% cover. Ended up going to my first choice I'd picked out months ago in the Ouachita National Forest. It turned out to be a perfect spot As a side note, my radiation monitors kept alarming along particular stretches of Highway 270... On the way to the campsite, I noticed it happened along specific stretches of pavement. The road itself was apparently made with gravel that was slightly more radioactive.

[@cfneal1459]

your radmomitor is THAT sensitive?

[@DofTNet]

@@cfneal1459 I have both a Radiacode 102 and a Raysid. I had the alarm thresholds for the count rate set fairly low. Count rates were about 3x background and dose rate was about 2x background

[@mahbriggs]

I had originally planned to watch the ecliose in Texas, but decided because of the weather forcast to go to eastern Missouri instead! Had a good time visiting places I hadnt seen before!

[@robertmcgowan3352]

Excellent my good man

[@RadioactiveDrew]

Thanks.

[@normhill1748]

AWESOME Thank You.

[@RadioactiveDrew]

Glad you enjoyed it.

[@joshgaming44]

I was able to get some really nice pictures of the eclipse. Truly an amazing experience.

[@ThizzRyuko]

Another great video 🎉

[@RadioactiveDrew]

Thanks.

[@billl2673]

Great content and amazing photography as usual. I viewed the eclipse from northern Maine and had my Radiacode 102 logging data during the event. If anything background radiation levels actually seemed to go up slightly during the event, although I was walking around and carrying my device so the readings would have been questionable. Very interested to learn what you observed.

[@ramennoodles7221]

Been waiting for this

[@RadioactiveDrew]

Hope you enjoyed it.

[@ramennoodles7221]

@@RadioactiveDrew Just like every other of your videos. Keep it up!

[@thoyson2562]

Awesome!

[@MGSHM1]

Great, Drew👍

[@promisel1964]

Thank you Drew for posting and look forward postings, also did you see a decrease in back ground radiation?

[@RadioactiveDrew]

I don’t see a decrease in background radiation. But Texas as a state had some of the lowest background radiation levels I’ve seen…overall.

[@promisel1964]

@@RadioactiveDrew thank you for your response Drew and thank you for the video's i have learned a lot from your presentations

[@RadioactiveDrew]

@promisel1964 that’s awesome to hear.

[@geoffp.7414]

I think the clouds created an interesting effect of constantly varying the exposure of the prominences so you could see how pink and structured they were. They got pretty washed out in most pictures but they were the most brilliant pink color I've ever seen, and far more obvious than the 2017 eclipse when solar activity was lower. Surprisingly, the corona looked less interesting than in 2017.

[@OnTheRiver66]

Well done! And I enjoyed the additional parts that I didn’t expect. I guess the increase in background during the totality was too scary to post? Or too boring.

[@RadioactiveDrew]

There was no measured change in background radiation during the eclipse.

[@rogerpenske2411]

Oh my GOD! Stetson hats are radioactive!

[@notatimelord21]

Indiana had good weather for totality

[@briangoates3245]

Did the background radiation fall ?

[@joeltalbot1546]

They're is nothing about "progress" they're rewriting history" Great job on your photography...STELLAR as usual. Thanks for the website URL on where to purchase the drone. Would you please do it on all the equipment use. Thanks again Drew.

[@zonderafspraak]

We also went down to Texas from Utah, and likewise managed to find a relatively cloud-free spot west of Austin. So worth it! Incidentally, we swung through White Sands on the way down, and experienced that wind. Wasn't ideal, haha 😂.

[@StarlancerAstro]

Got to see it in Indiana, what an awesome experience!

[@ProtoHadron]

watch out guys, the planet is eclipsed

[@_Musashi_13]

Your tent is pretty amazing. Is that an anti-predator sort of setup or a standard height due to its roof storage?

[@MontanaDirtRoads]

Dispersed camping is always better then campgrounds,no generators, barking dogs and Campground karens.

[@RadioactiveDrew]

This is very true. Generators are very annoying when out camping. I run very little power with my rig, mainly for my Dometic cooler and charging camera and drone batteries. So I have a battery with a solar panel I pop out when I'm at a place for a while. Usually driving to locations keeps the battery pretty topped off.

[@pswer1600]

Hello Drew! I've had two Cat scans of the head which have ionizing radiation. Now I am worried about getting brain cancer. Do you have any information on this matter?

[@RadioactiveDrew]

The chances of you getting brain cancer from two scans is extremely unlikely.

[@pswer1600]

Thank you for helping with my extreme anxiety. I worry about all of the nuclear medicine tests doctors order for us.

[@pswer1600]

One show I watch had people saying Cat Scan of the head was very bad and causes the death of brain cells, and particles continually bouncing against each other in your head giving one a tumor.

[@RadioactiveDrew]

@@pswer1600 sounds like a bunch of people that don't know what they're talking about.

[@madmax2069]

I got lucky, the Ohio weather actually cleared up to be able to see it. A few hours before it was complete cloud cover. It was my first total eclipse. I was wanting to bring my shortwave radio out to see the effect of the eclipse on MW and shortwave broadcasts, but i didn't, i kept my full attention to the eclipse.

[@RadioactiveDrew]

Glad the weather worked out for you to see it.

[@madmax2069]

@@RadioactiveDrew yeah, I thought the typical Ohio weather was going to ruin yet another event.

[@pswer1600]

Can a lay person order a dosimeter for everyday use?

[@RadioactiveDrew]

Not really sure why you think its something a "lay person" couldn't order. There are plenty of different types of radiation detectors out there. The trick is finding the one that suits your needs based on your level of involvement in the subject. Radiation can be a very deep rabbit hole to start going down. But I think anyone could easily get the gist of it pretty easily. Its helpful in the beginning to understand what dose rates are similar to things almost everyone experiences. That's why I usually try and talk about how many dental or chest x-rays something is. Of course I make it a little harder in my videos because I'm using CPM (counts per minute) to measure radiation and there isn't a direct conversion to dose rates from those units. CPM is like looking at the RAW data coming into the detector.

[@pswer1600]

My concern is cumulative radiation in my body. It seems like anytime I go to a health care provider they order an xray or cat scan or something with radiation.

[@RadioactiveDrew]

@@pswer1600 x-rays and CAT scans can dump a decent amount of energy into your cells. But our bodies can recover from that damage with no ill effects. Radiation exposure doesn't add up over time. If you have massive doses in a short period of time that can cause problems. But the dose levels needed for something like that is much greater than what a CAT scan or x-ray will deliver.

[@EnergyTRE]

Nice thanks.. weather did mess it up for me, seen it a little. Not as good as this.

[@EnergyTRE]

14:17 stop it at this point sir. You'll notice the shadow that cuts through the light at exactly the six o'clock position. 🤔

[@ausnorman8050]

Random question, did the background radiation drop a lil when the sun was effectively blocked for those few minutes? Should of watched teh video before asking the question lol.

[@RadioactiveDrew]

I went back over the data that was recorded during the eclipse and I saw no dip in background radiation. Kind of the reason why I didn’t address it any further in the video.

[@ausnorman8050]

@@RadioactiveDrewThanks Drew~~! Looks like you had a blast on this trip. Good weather in the end :)

[@RadioactiveDrew]

@ausnorman8050 the trip was a lot of fun. I really enjoy road trips. Can’t wait for the next couple of trips. I have some cool places to visit this summer.

[@pswer1600]

May I ask have you had any health issues being around radiation?

[@RadioactiveDrew]

Zero issues...I was checked out by a doctor last year just because I wanted to know if there was anything I needed to watch out for. All my labs came back normal. I also had my first surgery to repair a hernia with zero problems there. I feel great and I try to exercise everyday taking my dog for walks or riding my bike around. I told my doctor what I do and that I go into radioactive areas and handle radioactive material. So my radiation exposure is going to be higher than most people out there. But my exposure is nothing compared to people that get a CAT scan or have some type of nuclear medicine procedure. I've been doing radiation related exploring and collecting for the last 7 years.

[@pswer1600]

So Cat scans have very high radiation?

[@ScottBalkum]

You were in my area and didn’t say hi??? :)

[@ScottBalkum]

Nice shots man. Did you listen to the bugs, birds and frogs? They were wild.

[@thexfile.]

Shadow people...😎

[@travisgoff99]

I was in Ohio for this

[@RadioactiveDrew]

How was the weather?

[@jonathanellis1842]

I Read Psalm 8 after watching this, humbling whatever your beliefs may be.

[@RadioactiveDrew]

Seeing a total solar eclipse is a very humbling experience.

[@n5sdm]

All the yelling and screaming ruined it.

[@bueb8674]

Not nearly as bad as many other videos, but also what do you expect? A once in a lifetime event for many, and for noone to get emotional/excited?

[@RadioactiveDrew]

What are you talking about. That level of excitement is exactly what you feel watching this eclipse happen.

[@n5sdm]

@RadioactiveDrew sorry Drew, I love your content and look forward to your videos, but I have to disagree. I deliberately drove to the middle of nowhere so I could experience the eclipse and hear the birds go silent and things get weird. Only to have both eclipse moments joined by a background of hollering idiots from miles around for 4 minutes, making every dang dog bark. I can understand the cheering at first totality, but for 4 minutes? That kinda ruined it. Then again....i am weird and would rather enjoy watching the eclipse and photographing it than running around and yelling my lungs out for 4 minutes.

[@RadioactiveDrew]

@n5sdm I get where you are coming from. For the video I think it works. The last eclipse I saw in 2017 I was in the middle of a field with one other person with me. It was nice seeing it like that. But being with other people this time around was also a good experience.