It wasn’t much of anything here because of the cloud cover. It just looked like it was going to rain, so basically it was like every other day here from February through May.
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Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
The arc of the moral universe doesn’t bend itself. it’s up to us.
Let us savor the impending downfall of lawless scoundrels who richly deserve the trouble barreling their way.
Donald Trump, welcome to your everything, everywhere, all at once.
The Supreme Court is corrupt. Democrats must win in November and force court reform.
It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.
Everything is totally normal and fine!!!
Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.
The rest of the comments were smacking Boebert like she was a piñata.
Democrats have delivered the Square Deal, the New Deal, the Fair Deal, and now… the Big Joe Biden Deal.
Somebody needs to explain to DeSantis that nobody needs to do anything to make him look bad.
‘Museums aren’t America’s attic for its racist shit.’
Please don’t feed the bears.
Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.
You’re just a puppy masquerading as an old coot.
There are a lot more evil idiots than evil geniuses.
If you’re looking for someone who’s young and athletic, go watch a fucking movie.
Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?
There is no compromise when it comes to body autonomy. You either have it or you don’t.
This really is a full service blog.
Conservatism: there are people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.
He wakes up lying, and he lies all day.
In short, I come down firmly on all sides of the issue.
A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals
When you’re in more danger from the IDF than from Russian shelling, that’s really bad.
zhena gogolia
It looks like twilight here.
rikyrah
Didn’t leave my office, but, just looked out the window. Could see when the sky turned dark. It’s over now.
Trivia Man
We took a collander to the botanical garden. About 88% totality, it made some interesting shadows
lee
I traveled to Missouri in 2017 with my youngest to see the eclipse. It was sort of a bust. We got about 30 seconds of seeing the totality because of the clouds. It was still a fun trip for what was supposed to be the first day of her Senior year. The drive back was supposed to be 7 hours and it took 12 because of the traffic.
This year she was here at the house and we watched from the backyard with my wife. This eclipse made more of an impression because of the slowly darkening skies leading to the totality.
The trip back took about 15 seconds.
mrmoshpotato
@zhena gogolia: It’s such a weird light.
FastEdD
Watching the NASA feed as it travels across the US. Cheering across different time zones. It is kinda like New Year’s Eve, except based on a real event in nature. I love science.
HumboldtBlue
I’ve heard you can tell where a full eclipse is happening in the US because cops started shooting at the blacked out sun. Whatever eclipse we could see happened two hours ago, I was doing laundry.
Leto
Here in the Philly area, we had 90% totality. A good bit of cloud cover, but as we misplaced our glasses that turned out to be a great thing. The darker clouds let you view the eclipse and it was pretty spectacular. Very cool thing to see.
Kind of amazing how dark it gets in the 100% totality areas, basically night. Also glad that most news is covering this and they had scientists on to talk about it. Science!
Soprano2
It was weird, got dark and cooler and the birds were singing like it was early morning. Had about 97% totality.
Leto
MSNBC currently showing Houlton, Maine and it looks like a scene from a Stephen King book. Bad time to be a clown performer.
M31
Got to about 85% here, was very cool! Set up a small telescope backwards to project onto a piece of paper, had glasses, all the neighbors came out, colander trick actually works. Never got that dark but the light got kind of weird and it did get quite a bit cooler.
stacib
Never in a hundred years would I have imagined I would be interested. As a kid, my field trip to the Planetarium was the most boring place ever. Today, I am enthralled with this eclipse! My manager brought over glasses, so I had a ‘what the hell’ attitude. OMG, it was fantastic to watch!
mac
I was in the path of totality, almost right on the center line, and that was something else. So much better than partial eclipses I’ve seen in the past. Just amazing to look up at the sun completely blocked out by the moon.
sixthdoctor
traveled to ohio to see it (have area family). totality was 30 mins ago. still in utter awe.
M31
and of course I chanted the magic words “Fuck you Donald Trump you fucking fucker” and the sun came back!
I saved you all, you’re welcome
Brachiator
I enjoyed the partial eclipse here in Southern California. Family and friends in Texas got the Solar Eclipse Full Monty. Apparently it was spectacular.
I watched some of the ABC National Geographic “Eclipse Across America.” They were in Burlington, Vermont and the view was astounding.
ETA. So, what happens to solar panels during an eclipse?
geg6
Should have driven here. Pretty spectacular. It’s only 97% totality but still very cool to watch.
Tazj
I was disappointed because it was mostly cloudy outside. I saw a few peaks of the sun before totality but then back behind the clouds. However, it was cool seeing it go to as dark as night within a few minutes. Jumped about a mile in the air when some people set off fireworks in my neighborhood. I should know these people by now.
My oldest is in college in Montreal, and it was sunny there, so he got a better look at things.
Lyrebird
@FastEdD: Love that!
We’ve had off and on clouds, but still with the glasses you can see the crescent shape.
@Trivia Man: So do you make a pinhole camera out of the colander or what? Just curious.
Gregory
Here in Indianapolis we had the full corona for nearly five minutes. It was amazing! It’s also incredible how the day appeared fully bright half an hour before totality, but with the glasses on the sun was already more than 90% eclipsed.
M31
@Lyrebird:
I just held up the colander and the shadow on the ground had little crescents rather than round holes!
zhena gogolia
@mrmoshpotato: It’s a little like the white nights in Sweden or St. Petersburg.
Spanky
Totality in Cleveland through a hefty amount of cirrus. Corona suppressed, but great view of prominences, including a huge one at the bottom, like an angry, angry hemorrhoid.
Cheryl from Maryland
Here in Montgomery County, MD, I thought the cloud cover was too dense, but just before it reached its furthest extent (about 90%), it got dark and cooler, and the birds became VERY QUIET. As it started to leave, the birds became very noisy. Now they are normal and back at the feeder. I had proper glasses and a stool to watch the show.
narya
We had ALL the “technology”–I had glasses from Adler, astronomer friend affixed Mylar to his binocs, we had a colander . . . and it was very cool. we got to about 94%, and the light got very weird. I know totality is super cool, but I’m going to contend this was cool in a whole different way. Glad I’ve seen both this and totality.
Spanky
@Spanky: I should add that the cirrus actually enhanced the view of the shadow rushing in. And out.
Subsole
The ground got as dark as night, but the sky remained about as bright as dusk. Moved in stages. You’d see it visibly get darker and feel cooler. Only lasted a short span of time, but was neat all the same.
Was very, very cool.
Scout211
I went outside with a colander and saw the 30% shadow. It was meh.
PSA: Donate your eclipse glasses!
Astronomers Without Borders.
They have drop-off places, including all Warby Parker retail stores.
Baud
OT in case people still care about this.
K488
Just got back from a bench out in our athletic campus. 100%, and totally clear. Amazing! Experience of a lifetime. All our kids are fanned out across the center of the path (Austin, Bloomington (that’s us), Ann Arbor, Burlington) so we’ll be comparing notes. There were a lot of people in our stadium, but we were about 1/2 mile away, so nice and quiet. Just amazing.
trollhattan
We were 50%ish here which, if you weren’t watching for it would have gone by unnoticed–the local critters seemed unmoved.
Got nice pics on account of rare for us clear sky today–breezy and cloudless. Sunspots show on the disc.
Anyhoo, y’all with better coverage, enjoy! Seen you again in…shit…I’ll be blind if not further impeded.
Bro reporting from Maine where it’s clear. Got to love a plan that comes together–he made it to Oregon in ’17, so a veteran. My only claim to eclipse fame is the annular eclipse in…’12? Dead center, and it was damn cool.
Old School
@Lyrebird:
See TaMara’s post down one.
suzanne
It got dim and eerie, and a dude walked by reeking of weed.
SiubhanDuinne
I had a lot of trouble in 2017 finding the proper eye protection, so this time I ordered a package of 10 or 12 from Amazon. Except for the pair I was wearing myself, I ended up giving them all away today to various unprepared sky-watchers. I feel like an Eclipsian Saint Francis of Assisi.
We had only 85-90% totality here, but it was incredibly cool to gaze up at the sun and watch the moon turn it into a thin, beautiful crescent.
I’ll be 102 the next time North America experiences a total solar eclipse. My new goal is to live (physically and mentally healthily) long enough to travel to the PNW of Western Canada to see and enjoy it in 2044.
danielx
One of the weirdest things I’ve ever seen – outside lights coming on, twilight at 3, white ring around black circle…..
Scout211
Yes. Every hole in your colander makes its own pinhole camera. It casts a cool pattern of many eclipses on the sidewalk.
Falling Diphthong
MA, about 93% coverage.
Close to the maximum (3:28) it got distinctly colder and the light and sky were really weird. But I think you would have to know what was happening to really register those effects.
Baud
The eerie thing is how quiet everything gets during the eclipse.
HeleninEire
It was pretty much a bust here in NYC. I was able to see the sliver up in the sky, but it got only a bit dark. More like cloudy.
Really upset the rapture didn’t happen. Imagine being rid of all those assholes!
Steeplejack
@mrmoshpotato:
Yes, weird light. Here in Threadkill Lane it got overcast, and then for the couple of minutes on each side of “totality” (whch was about 87% here in my corner of NoVA) there was a weird combination of overcast and brightness. I could feel my brain sort of glitching to process it. Is it dark? Is it light? It can’t be both? Can it?
I did go outside for five or 10 minutes, but I didn’t have glasses, so I didn’t look at the sun. There were four or five people who did have glasses checking out the scene.
geg6
@Baud:
Yes! It got pretty dark, the birds stopped singing and even the road traffic (we live on a heavily traveled road) stopped. Eerie.
Citizen Alan
@HeleninEire:
The problem with that is that if the Rapture did occur, it would prove that those assholes were right and that God really is an evil sadist who wants to torture us all for sport.
Falling Diphthong
And here the birds were singing like it was early morning.
Trivia Man
@Brachiator: we hit about 88% and totality was about the top of the hour. We get a reading every 15 minutes, input dropped from 3.3 to 0.4 in the lead up, rising again now.
Tom Levenson
Lovely here in Barton, Vermont. Enough high cirrus to hide the outer corona, but just lovely. Will post a couple of pictures tomorrow.
now for the traffic jam back to Boston
Scout211
Eunicecycle
We were in totality in Upper Sandusky OH for almost 4 minutes and it wasn’t long enough! Indescribable. No words. In a cool coincidence, our children all lived on the path, too. Texas to Ohio, we all ooed and awwed.
ETA it became noticeably colder and the wind started blowing. Very eerie!
Trivia Man
@Lyrebird: Tamara has a good view in the last thread
S Cerevisiae
The clouds parted for totality here west of Austin, a spectacular red flare and a fiery corona ring. Different from totality in Wyoming in 2017 and just as incredible.
Splitting Image
It was about 98% in my area, but almost completely cloudy. The zone of totality passed about five miles away from my house. I went outside and looked down my street and could see where the somewhat dark area became really dark. Really impressive. I was able to see the crescent for a few seconds whenever the clouds cleared a bit.
Soprano2
@SiubhanDuinne: My goal is to live to be 100 so I can see Halley’s Comet again, because it was such a bust when it came around in the 1970’s. I’ll have to live til 2061 in order to see it again.
Citizen Dave
@HeleninEire: I left totality where I live to attend a business meeting in Jersey City on the river. With the glasses the crescent was pretty cool. But, hoping two extra tourist days in NYC will make up for me leaving midwest totality. Up for NYC reccomendations, especially in the Village.
Geo Wilcox
We live out in the country and got totality at our land. The only birds making noises were cardinals that usually hit the feeders at dawn and dusk. The rest of the birds were quiet but the frogs, OMG were they noisy!!!! We could also hear humans cheering and yelling even way out here. They had a big party in town, apparently Batesville, IN was one of the best places to watch. So very cool. I saw one when I was a kid but mostly only partials and lunar eclipses so this was a real treat.
New Deal democrat
Was in the path of totality, and it was one of the most spectacular things I.ve ever seen.
In the last few minutes before totality, the sky got dim like dusk, and the air still and cold. The sun was reduced to just a tiny crescent.
Then all of a sudden you could see the entire silhouette of the moon (lit be reflected earth glow), and then the moon was entirely black and you could see the corona of the sun.
Within a few seconds the sky was dark enough that you could make out several planets nearby the sun, just as if it was the night sky.
Definitely cool! Definitely worth it!
mrmoshpotato
@Brachiator:
The local news during the eclipse said electricity production dropped.
frosty
We’re in a state park SW of Cleveland. Woke up to clouds which cleared to a completely sunny sky. High haze came in around noon and got thicker but the sun and eclipse cut through it. Seeing the Sun as a black hole is awesome. My second time. I think I may have to plan a trip to Spain for the next one.
Didn’t get pictures, you need the right gear. So it’s 3 or 4 minutes in the moment and then memories.
mrmoshpotato
@narya: I saw WGN was broadcasting from the planetarium. We’re you there?
Brachiator
ABC and National Geographic followed the eclipse. Near the end of their program they showed a picture taken by the International Space Station of a huge shadow moving over part of North America resulting from the eclipse. It was damned eerie.
Parfigliano
My wife and I drove over to Ft Worth yesterday and saw totality for about 2 minutes from the top of our bugalow at Hotel Otto.
Sister Golden Bear
Only a 30% eclipse here in the SF Bay Area, but since I had the glasses I went out for a quick look. Otherwise I enjoyed watching the television coverage.
Since 2017 got clouded out, I still want to see a totality with clear skies. It’ll give me a good excuse to travel overseas.
Lyrebird
@M31:
That’s so cool, thanks! (I’ve now gotten to see the prev. post with a photo like that.)
@Old School:
Thanks! (pretend there is a thumbs-up emoji here)
@Scout211:
@Trivia Man:
Thanks to y’all as well! That’s a really cool picture. I tried to take a cell phone photo with my eclipse glasses over the lens… just got an ominous orange blob. Seeing the crescent with my own eyes and glasses and eclipse glasses was cool though.
@Scout211:
So glad you put up the AWB shout out as well, because I read that these only last a few years… better if someone else might get a chance to use them!
mrmoshpotato
@suzanne: Haha! How much coverage did you get? We had 94% coverage which just made it look weird outside.
Fair Economist
Got a great show at the Cleveland airport. Now on the plane back to AL. My best friend from middle school came up with this idea to fly in and then right back out and it worked great.
Can hardly wait for 2045!
Ceci n est pas mon nym
We lucked out. It was starting to get cloudy but the sun was visible here in Montreal throughout the whole thing. Totality looked just like the pictures I’ve seen.
You couldn’t tell with the iPhone though. Nothing looked like any of the sun was missing, and it brightened up the weird twilight darkness so it looked like ordinary daylight.
Fair Economist
@Sister Golden Bear: Spain gets totality in 2026; Segovia and Valencia. Could be a great trip!
Redshift
We cancelled plans to go to Texas when the forecast turned bad, and after waffling for a while we decided on Dayton, OH, and were able to get here.
The weather ended up being great, and it was utterly awe-inspiring. The darkening and sun getting less intense, then the light got about as dark as a cloudy day but different and weird. Then like twilight, with light visible around the horizon.
Then totality and the corona, just jaw-dropping. I understand now why people become crazy eclipse chasers.
Uncle Cosmo
Most of us underestimate how much our pupils contract in full sunlight to block out the light and let us see. IIUC (not sure how to look this up) if you were to go farther from the sun, normal pupils would contract less to compensate for the dimmer light (inverse-square law and all that), and you wouldn’t really notice how much dimmer the light was until beyond Jupiter’s orbit. OTOH if you were to go up above the Arctic Circle in summertime you would definitely notice the difference, not because the light would be perceptibly dimmer but because the sun would be lower in the sky and the light would therefore be shifted toward the red end of the spectrum – I was in Tromso in Norway one August and the long days were like a 20-hour-long mid- to late-afternoon.
Redshift
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: Yeah, the only cell phone picture that worked for me was with the brightness turned all the way down and some high clouds partially blocking it. (That was for the partial phase, I didn’t really try during totality.)
Sister Golden Bear
@Fair Economist: That’s what I’m planning. Otherwise there’s two coming up in Oz.
NotMax
@Citizen Dave
A few random freebies.
National Museum of the American Indian (inside the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House, 1 Bowling Green)
Salmagundi Museum of American Art (47 5th Ave,, between 11th and 12th St.)
The Garden at St. Lukes in the Fields (487 Hudson Street between Christopher and Barrow Streets)
The Jefferson Market Garden (6th and W. 10th, entrance on Greenwich Ave.)
Strand Book Store (828 Broadway at 12th Street)
HumboldtBlue
Here’s an awesome shot of the eclipse from Progressive Field in Cleveland.
Jeffg166
I was watching a movie and forgot all about it.
eclare
@Scout211:
Thanks! That is so cool.
Subsole
Also, found a really cool plant outside. Didn’t see it there earlier, but noticed it after the eclipse. Not really sure what kind.
Been looking online, can’t find any match for species. Looks like some kind of succulent, maybe? Not sure. Regardless, got it inside, watered and potted. Gonna feed it a little later and see how it does!
SiubhanDuinne
These are my two favourite memes right now.
and
Argiope
@HumboldtBlue: Nice one! I was certain we’d be cloudy in NE Ohio and kept my expectations low but found as it cleared up that it was hard to get any work done, because all the anticipation I didn’t allow myself before was bubbling up. Totality is very different than other eclipses I’ve seen through the glasses. I thought for a moment that I had indeed been raptured because WOW. Gray disk with white corona all around it, and some firey beads on the edges. Just incredible. An amazing thing to be able to see in my own backyard where all familiar things suddenly looked very unfamiliar indeed.
prostratedragon
@SiubhanDuinne: I did the same, gave extras to my neighbors as I headed out and to the people on the accessible. Glad I had them; the people were so appreciative. Had an apptmt downtown (Chicago) and left early to see it on the way in. Turned the corner into the NWestern medical district and saw so many people clustered in sunny spots it was actually funny. Not a good half hour to have coronary pains! I had to go a block away to find a spot.
Didn’t seem that dramatic — too much city noise I guess — until you looked up through the glasses, then wow! Not quite like totality back in 2017, but still a real event.
BeautifulPlumage
@Subsole: you know this is how some horror movies start, don’t you?
SiubhanDuinne
@suzanne:
I almost want this to be a rotating tag.
Barry
I’m in south east Michigan. It was good here.
SiubhanDuinne
@Soprano2:
I kind of doubt I’ll make it to 2061 — I would be 119 by then — but if we both make it, let’s plan now to watch the comet together.
patrick II
Where I live in northern Indiana we had blue skies and 96% totality. My wife and I watched it in our front yard. I tried putting an extra pair of sunglasses over my phone’s lens, but for reasons I don’t understand the sun sti!l came out round on the picture.The wind suddenly kicked up and it got quickly chilly. I was surprised, but found out that is to be expected. It was a display of awesome power at a distance.
At the end of the eclipse, my elderly curmudgeon neighbor came over and said “I can’t believe people go a thousand miles to see that. I wouldn’t go one hundred.”
It didn’t impress everyone.
eclare
@SiubhanDuinne:
That would be a great opening line to a book. Of course it would be followed by “and then the murders began.”
NotMax
@eclare
“It was a dark and pungent night.”
;)
mrmoshpotato
@SiubhanDuinne:
What was the problem in the 70’s? Cloud cover?
mrmoshpotato
@eclare: It was a dark and stormy night – and then the murders began.
mrmoshpotato
@NotMax: “It was a dank and pungent night.”
Noskilz
Where I was things were clear until 15 minutes before totality (it was set for 96% coverage in TN), but then a thick layer of clouds rolled in a didn’t leave until after the eclipse ended. It is mostly sunny right now.
sab
I was in NE Ohio and we got totality. Dog woke me up at 4:30 am and it was raining after a beautiful day yesterday. But by midday it was gorgeous again.
My husband got us eclipse glasses but I used my box with the pin hole. It worked okay in 2017 but this time it was disappointing so I switched back to the eclipse glasses and that was amazing. Partial eclipses are very cool with the weird light and the dropping temperature and the silent birds. Totality was very different. I was less interested in the sun and moon directly, and amazed by the full horizon twilight, and the stars (probably planets) that appeared.
Then the mailman came through on his appointed rounds, and almost ( but didn’t) ran over the neighbors cat who was chasing a chipmunk across the street. They don’t usually let him out but they thought he would enjoy the eclipse.
I have pale skin and freckles so I usually avoid the sun. Once I gave up in the pinhole box and switched to the glasses I had to take my hat off, and I got quite a sunburn on my face and my ears. In April in Ohio. My husband is laughing about it. He thought I always exaggerated about the sun
ETA The sun problem was probably a side effect of my blood pressure medicine.
sab
My ears feel crispy from at that Spring sunshine.
NotMax
Everyoneremember to bring along some snackage?
Historically, bread and cirruses has proven a popular combo.
:)
Soprano2
@mrmoshpotato: Halley’s comet came, and it was not impressive at all. Sometimes it’s spectacular, but that wasn’t one of the times. I was so disappointed in it. It comes every 76 years.
sab
@Soprano2: There are other comets. There was a very bright one back in the late nineties when I lived in Las Vegas. I didn’t keep up on the news, so I went for a few days thinking it was a landing airplane near the horizon at dusk with bright lights. Then I turned on NPR and realized I was oblivious to something astronomers were very excited about.
It was really really bright.
columbusqueen
Two & 1/2 minutes of totality with clear skies in northern Knox County. Absolutely sublime, & worth the trip.
Chacal Charles Calthrop
@Soprano2: sometimes Halley’s comet is brighter and nearer to earth, sometimes it isn’t. When it swung by in 1066 it was so bright it could be seen during the day, and, since those weren’t the days of checking the Internet to know when to step outside and ordering polarized glasses from Amazon, it made a huge impression.
Here in NYC the eclipse itself was a bit meh. However, the street scene was awesome as everyone poured out of their buildings, handed around said polarized glasses, and held out colanders so that everyone could see the curved specs of sunlight. The sky got cool and dim, pigeons fluttered around (as likely disturbed by all the people as by the light) and a good time was had by all.
Which is good, because as nymag.com put it after reporting on our little one-second earthquake, “We had floods earlier this week. A solar eclipse is imminent, as is a plague of locusts. Eric Adams is the mayor. It’s all very troubling,” althttps://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/new-york-new-jersey-earthquake-and-eclipse-end-times.html?
Albatrossity
Here’s what it looked like from my lawn chair in my front yard here in Manhattan KS. 87% coverage, no visible Rapturees.
Buckeye
Delurking from Dayton.
I ended up just going to a local park near downtown.
Had a couple of actual clouds block the sun just about 3 minutes before totality, which caused everyone to yell ‘Go away!’
And then all of sudden the street lights started coming on, the diamond went away, the cheering started. Really really cool. But 2 1/2 was not enough to take in everything, and now I need to win the lotto so I can chase eclipse.
BethanyAnne
I sat out with my brother in law and nephew and we hung out for about half an hour before it started. In the path of totality, and it was so freaking cool. It got cool, and we could see stars, and the neighbors’ night lights came on.
Another Scott
ICYMI, here’s a graphic that makes it easy to remember the difference between a Solar eclipse and a Lunar eclipse.
HTH!
Cheers,
Scott.
caphilldcne
@Another Scott: The Turtle Moves.
kalakal
It was the day from hell here at the library. The ‘phones rang non stop from 10am to 3pm. We started giving glasses out at 1:45, they were gone by 1:46.
My favourite was the person who insisted they had to have eclipse glasses because if they weren’t wearing a pair it would be too dangerous to drive.
What made it extra fun is all our phones are linked to Teams and the handsets can’t really handle simultaneous calls. While you’re answering a call, if someone else calls you get the ring tone full blast over the conversation you’re having. My head still hurts
cintibud
Fantastic day and eclipse viewing in Trotwood OH, just NW of Dayton. Have a nice group of family and friends on my sister’s farm. Totality lasted over 3 min, twice as long as my first total eclipse in TN in 2017, and it still wasn’t long enough. My wife and friend who where with me in TN that day agreed with me that this was more spectacular than the last one, or maybe we just really can’t remember how glorious the total eclipse is.
Weather and conditions couldn’t have been any better!
Chacal Charles Calthrop
@caphilldcne: too true!11
Citizen Dave
@NotMax: thanks for these nyc tips! I will use them
Origuy
In Danville, Indiana at my sister’s. We had totality for about 3 minutes. It’s in a new development, so no birds, but the dogs in the neighborhood got really quiet. All the houses back into a big open area, which got really dark. All the neighbors were out, and a lot of kids. My niece has two boys, 5 and 2. When totality hit, everyone cheered.
GregMulka
Went from STL to Lake Wappapello State Park. Line for the park was backed up 2.5 miles from the entrance an hour out from the start of the eclipse. Turned around and joined some strangers at a cleared area on the side of the road. My family and some of our friends got setup while we were joined by a few other groups. Skies were nearly perfect. Shot close to 60gb of pictures. The 4 minutes of totality certainly didn’t feel like it. The 11 year old spawn said it was the most beautiful thing they’ve seen and it’s hard to disagree.
Now for the post-processing.
Kayla Rudbek
@mrmoshpotato: my solar Garmin watch records solar intensity, and it picked up the drop during the eclipse. So it’s perfectly understandable that the solar panels would be affected
Kayla Rudbek