The "epicenter" of yesterday's eclipse is about 100 miles south of where I live and we were told we would have about 97% totality. Which I thought would make it much darker here than it really got. The streetlights uptown came on, though. And my cats sat in the window with their ears back and the cicadas got really loud, so that happened.
Things got interesting a few hours later when the "eclipse traffic" was heading back north! We live on the Interstate and traffic was so heavy (and apparently there was an accident somewhere) that they were getting off and taking the local 2-lane highways. I stayed home all evening, but I heard the south end of town was a total mess!
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Our town was in a good spot and we got very dark during the eclipse; very cool. Of course, the point of totality the sun and moon were behind a cloud!
But we saw most of it, and then saw our first evert traffic jam in Smallville as people tried to go home.
I thought it would get darker with 96% coverage.
Noticed the tree shadows. Did not notice any animal
activity other than a flock of Canada Geese flying low
over us. They don't do that in the summer around here.
Only bridge from Oregon down by us shut down for a while.
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