It seems that "Poor construction and Poor Maintenance" is the basis for much construction. In the 1970s, the City of Kingston, NY had canopies built over the sidewalks on Wall Street, the uptown shopping area. The design was done by artist John Pike. There is now a proposal to tear down those canopies because they are in bad condition.

The problem is they weren't built very well, and they weren't maintained very well. Most people want to keep them because they offer people protection from the weather, they look nice, and they've been in place for fifty years. Those in authority know that they are in bad condition, and they don't want them to collapse on top of people. Tearing them down will cost a fortune, interfere with traffic, and hurt business for the local stores.

The perfect solution would be to get into a time machine, go back to 1970, and build them correctly. That would be followed up with regular inspections and repairs. Unfortunately, although inspections are common throughout the country, doing repairs based on those inspections is not the usual practice.

Many people do not realize there are different types of solar eclipses, partial, where the sun looks like a crescent has been sliced away, an annular eclipse where a ring of the sun is visible around the sun and a total eclipse where the sun is completely obscured. During a total eclipse when none of the sun is visible the solar glasses are not needed. The change in the light between full sun and a small crescent of sun is hardly noticeable. It's when totality starts that the darkness arrives. Even though ecblackiii was directly under the sun's path he apparently saw an annular eclipse. The fact that he was underwhelmed is probably due to the fact that he missed the sun's beautiful corona which is only visible during the few minutes of totality. I witnessed the 2017 eclipse and any one claiming the animals behaviour does not change is perhaps just not paying attention.

I'm in San Antonio, Texas. I've been through two of these here in SA TX.

Indeed animals will be effected, it's just human animals who are too dumb to get it.
Animals become docile. They go to ground, most will shelter under plant growth. Flying creatures will descend from the sky about two hours prior to totality, then for about two hours after. All the animals are docile and not aggressive. Insects go to ground before the birds. The world gets vary quiet.

Will it rain? Who knows, but the effect of the event will still happen. With a clear sky, on the ground expect a loss of 5 to 8 stops of light. Along with temperature predictions you will feel a much cooler to cold day, and the next day will be cooler as well. Weather predictions have no 'eclipse' factor, go figure.

If you look carefully at the shadows under plants, you can seethe effect of the eclipse above.

These overly paid executives are one of the main reasons for our hugely underpaid low pay scale tier of workers in this country. And some of them even get away without paying their full share of income taxes. In California where I live we needed a statewide voting initiative to get these low paid workers a minimum wage increase of $4.00 per hour from $16. to $20. per hour. Even with this wage increase they are far from being able to buy real estate of any kind.
Forty, fifty years ago we were living what became known as "The American Dream". Today we are living "The Corporate Dream".

There have been few studies done regarding animal behavior during an eclipse, although there have been many anecdotal stories. There was a study done after an eclipse in 1932, and that revealed some information. Still, although we know something about how animals behave, we don't know that much, and we don't know why.

Their behavior seems to fall into one of three categories: going through their nighttime routine, active and afraid, doing nothing different. This behavior covers all creatures, from insects to mammals. There are several studies planned for the eclipse coming next week.

I've read a few articles about this lately. We have an unknown number of military satellites circling the earth. When combined with computers and weapons on the ground, they make a very powerful weapons system. There's just one problem. If we go to war with a major country, that country could disable those satellites right away. We would be worse off than if we had no satellites to begin with.

Both Russia and China have the ability to destroy satellites, and China destroyed one of its own, just to show us what it could do. That demonstration littered space with thousands more pieces of debris. I hope the military has a plan to fight a war without satellites.