It passed over my house about forty minutes ago. It's very cloudy today, but they parted for about 45seconds right where the eclipse was. I'd never seen one before, and people weren't kidding when they said you could feel it.
Ughhh. Pefect day except for one big cloud that obscured everything 1 minute before totality. It went from awesome to merely interesting just like that...
I was a nice little office get-together. Those of us who had glasses passed them around and one of the guys made a large pinhole camera out of box. It reached about 85% of totality here.
Edit: About 15 minutes after the eclipse reached maximum, a thunderstorm passed over and it started to hail. Now it's sunny again.
I was at work as it happened, at a public library. We had a ton of people attending a program our librarians put on--sharing glasses and making pinholes with the kiddies. Me and my coworkers all took turns sneaking out for a peek, and we had the live stream broadcasting on all our computers. It was awesome.
Heh. We got a 'Pac-Man' lookin sun before the clouds moved in to block out totality. Still, I really enjoyed the 15 minutes before and after. Thunder rolled through and seemed to signal the eclipse, timed almost perfectly. The frogs kept track here. They livened up to full steam and then died back down afterwards. The swiftness of the darkness approaching right before was really nice. An interesting and strangely emotional event regardless, much more than I thought. --- "And a great wailing was heard from all the brethren here upon the mountain top. There was a great gnashing of teeth and stomping of the MoonPies".
The path of this eclipse crosses the path of the upcoming total solar eclipse of April 8, 2024, with the intersection of the two paths being in southern Illinois in Makanda Township at Cedar Lake just south of Carbondale. An area of about 9,000 square miles, including the cities of Makanda, Carbondale, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, and Paducah, Kentucky, will thus experience two total solar eclipses within a span of less than seven years
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Now for my jokes...
Remember to stare directly into the eclipse to get your superpowers, I got control over all matter.
Today there shall be no fire bending in the shade.
Crescent shadows on the balcony at work.
I was a nice little office get-together. Those of us who had glasses passed them around and one of the guys made a large pinhole camera out of box. It reached about 85% of totality here.
Edit: About 15 minutes after the eclipse reached maximum, a thunderstorm passed over and it started to hail. Now it's sunny again.
It was cool. Another 7 years and we'll get to see a full one.
An interesting and strangely emotional event regardless, much more than I thought.
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"And a great wailing was heard from all the brethren here upon the mountain top.
There was a great gnashing of teeth and stomping of the MoonPies".
is better.