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Originally Posted by freebeard
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Did anybody else get to see it?
This was my first total eclipse, and it was pretty amazing.
It clouded over in my little city about an hour before totality, so we raced down the freeway (note: very un-hypermiling behavior!) towards blue skies.
We weren't the only ones with that idea: the rest stop where we pulled off was packed. Lots of people had hit the road for a better view.
I was particularly surprised by how bright it stayed out even when only the tiniest sliver of the sun's surface was visible. Darkness fell bizarrely quickly when it came.