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[Annabellethecat66]

Virginia (near Washington,DC) It's been raining here but it did clear a little.  It just got a tiny bit darker but that might have been because of the rain.  Ha!

[Annabellethecat66]

There's another one in 2024!  I'm 70, it's a toss up if I'll be around.  If I am I probably won't know where I am anyway.  Ha!  Women in my family live to be around 100 anyway.

[beckyb1012]

We had 80% here in my part of Texas and I did get to see it.  2024 is supposed to be much better for our area.  Making reservations for Dallas area now.

[Twoaces]

San Diego 60%. Clear skies.  My husband was having his first radiation treatment which I thought would last through the entire event.  But happily, one of the doctors shared his glasses with everyone, including DH whose treatment went more quickly than expected. 60% may not seem like much, but it was fantastic to see! And light penetrated the trees and shrubs in that definite crescent shape..  That was amazing!  It definitely seemed like a winter afternoon when the sun shines at an acute angle, lying lower on the horizon. And I, too,  am envious of anyone who has had a totality experience!

[fourpaws56]

I captured an amazing photo of it!

[Lipstickdiva]

I'm in Ohio and they said 80% for us and it was barely noticeable here.  I guess if I would have had the glasses maybe I could have seen something but as far as it getting darker or cooler, didn't really happen.  It's been overcast a lot of the day today but then it got sunny so around 2:15, it got a little oddly colored here but that was it.  I noticed no temp. change at all, no wind change, etc. 

[Tylerpoo]

All I can say is WOW!!! Live near Charleston, so it was 100% for us, it got totally dark, what an experience, will never forget this.

[hoosieroriginal]

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@Annabellethecat66 wrote:

There's another one in 2024!  I'm 70, it's a toss up if I'll be around.  If I am I probably won't know where I am anyway.  Ha!  Women in my family live to be around 100 anyway.

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@Annabellethecat66 - that's funny when I heard 2024 - I thought the same thing - will I be here?  I know my grandmother lived to 99 - I have a slight chance of seeing next one I guess.  But what the heck - we made it to see this one!

[MacDUFF]

Charlotte, NC...98%...I posted the following on the OOTD thread in fashion and copying it here, which I hope is not a major board faux pas...

Speaking of eclipses...you know that whole thing about how if someone says "don't think about a pink elephant" and, naturally, you think of one?   All this talk about "don't look directly at the eclipse" was getting to me...it's the way I roll!   Tell me I can't look and, well, I start channeling Lot's wife.

It got really eerily dark, and neither Handsome nor I could resist.   He got his two welding helmets out and...don't tell anyone, but we peeked!!!   A nanosecond and could see a little bit, but nothing to write a post about (opps!) LOL.

The funny thing is that, right after we peeked and went back on the deck, I had a moment of sheer panic when I realized that everything looked dim and twilight-y!!   OMGosh...now I've done it!!!!   Ummm...errr...wait a minute!!    Hello?   McFly?...I mean...MacDuff??   It's dim because DU-UH there's an eclipse!

[hoosieroriginal]

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@Plaid Pants2 wrote:

Even at totality, it was never going to get pitch  black dark, like it is at midnight.

Darker, yes, but not 100% totally, and completely pitch black midnight dark.

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@Plaid Pants2 - it got pitch black in Wyoming on TV - pitch black!