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[jazzfish]

The difference between 99% and totality is Twain’s difference between the lightning and the lightning bug.

Transcendent.

More words later, when I can find them.

Comments

[davidgoldfarb]

I'm glad you got to see it. Where I was, things were cloudy in the early morning, then clearing up a bit in the late morning...and then an hour before totality the clouds rolled in again. A great disappointment.

[jazzfish]

Boo, and my sympathies. I was prepared for Totally Overcast and just getting to experience the dark, but we lucked out.

[vvalkyri]

This is so far my favorite video, which captures what I couldn't. The dark, the horizon.
https://twitter.com/nickelpin/status/1777931680944152685?t=Cj7TZwmcPGxD23TTYpw6nA&s=19

[carbonel]

I used the same analogy. My brother who lives in Portland didn't bother to drive an hour for the 2017 eclipse because -- despite my telling him otherwise -- he thought that 99% was good enough. He later admitted he'd been wrong.