Did you get mooned today? (Did you look at the eclipse?)

[Gareth]

Totality from Solartown, in Madras, OR. It was a madhouse, thousands of people in RV's, car camping, and daytrippers like us. My sister made us leave at 2am for the 1.5 hr drive, fearing outrageous traffic (there was none, not even at 4am or 6am). The temperature and lighting change towards totality was surreal. The crowd erupted in cheers at totality while surrounded by a 360 degree "sunset" at the horizon.

[Mr Downtown]

I lucked out in a last-minute change of plans, so I was near Nashville, in the path of totality. Sky was pretty much cloudless. The temperature dropped noticeably and the ambient light got very eerie. During totality, the chickens across the road went quiet and a coyote howled down by the river. I lay on my back on the driveway to look directly at the corona, which was larger and more indistinct than I expected.

It didn't get as dark as I expected; but there was the kind of reddish glow you get at dawn or dusk at the horizon—except it was on all sides of us. As the end of totality approached, it seemed like I could see some brighter spots in random places on the moon: perhaps the mountains of the moon being illuminated by the first glancing rays of sunlight? And then a pinpoint of direct sunlight at the lower right, and it was time to put the glasses back on, and a minute later the show was pretty much over.

[rjmacs]

Will Collier wrote:
100% totality in Helen, GA. Fantastic, and totally worth the trip. Even though the drive back to Atlanta s-u-c-k-e-d.

I saw it from Saluda, SC - pretty close to the center of the path. It was staggering.

And I don't want to hear any complaining from people who 1) drove fewer than 14 hours back home, or 2) got home before 4:30 a.m. :banghead:

[Kraniac]

yes, drove with my wife and our two boys from chicago to Missouri to a spot in the 100% path... just past the edge of a line of thunderstorms near Marshall Missouri in some deep farm land

..and RJmacs is correct..it was staggering..pretty much the most incredible thing I've ever seen..seen a few partials..hmm, totality is a radically, totally different game.

I cried when it clicked in..totally overcome by it and still feeling elated all day today..im not sure it'll ever leave me, i feel different..sound corny? it is..but it's true.