Comment by tverbeure
1 day ago
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%.