Comment by spenrose

1 day ago

Got caught in a day-long traffic jam leaving a rural area in North America after the 2017 total eclipse.

It’s the one time I remember when the French highway toll booths said F that, let’s just open them up and let everyone pass. The August 11, 1999 solar eclipse.

The whole of Northern Europa driving back up, me included.

To bad it was cloudy, not sun to be see. I saw the 2017 one in Oregon though, it was scorching hot but no cloud to be seen.

  • I got to enjoy the 2024 eclipse from my backyard. It was cloudy right up to totality, and I had serious concerns of not being able to see it. So unless it's raining, it's still worth a look up. Years before that there was a partial eclipse where a group of people left because it was cloudy. I stuck it out and just before sunset it popped out of the clouds to give a great view of ~80%.

Why were you in such a hurry to leave? I just wander around a city I will probably never go back to, taking it all in.