Had I stayed home it would have seen 99%.
But with the totality band only 90 or so miles away, you know I'd be there. Yesterday, the wife and I took our motor home to Clinton, (yes, Clinton! :)) SC and parked overnight at a Pilot truck stop. Took a couple hours to get there and closer to 4 hours to get back home today. Totally worth it! Even with just binoculars, the corona was awesome!
To borrow a phrase from Mark Twain (but in another context) the difference of seeing a partial eclipse and a total eclipse is like the difference of seeing a lightning bug and seeing lightning.
It's the second total eclipse for me. For the first one on July 10, 1972, I drove the family over 700 miles from Upstate NY to Cap-Chat, Quebec. That's on the Gaspe peninsula where English is not a known language. It was overcast so you knew where the sun was, but you could not clearly see it. The most impressive thing was seeing the moon shadow wave blacking out the clouds at great speed. Clouds of mosquitoes came out of nowhere to feast on us.
To borrow a phrase from Mark Twain (but in another context) the difference of seeing a partial eclipse and a total eclipse is like the difference of seeing a lightning bug and seeing lightning.
It's the second total eclipse for me. For the first one on July 10, 1972, I drove the family over 700 miles from Upstate NY to Cap-Chat, Quebec. That's on the Gaspe peninsula where English is not a known language. It was overcast so you knew where the sun was, but you could not clearly see it. The most impressive thing was seeing the moon shadow wave blacking out the clouds at great speed. Clouds of mosquitoes came out of nowhere to feast on us.
