The relative darkness came on much more suddenly than I thought it would. Not dusk or dawn, but noticeably darker than the 2:30pm time would suggest. Then the cicadas came out, thinking it was moving toward evening. But we knew better. The temperature dropped just slightly, but enough to notice. I thought I felt the wind pick up just slightly. But overall, it came and went kind of quickly, and had I not shared the experience with a bunch of neighbors standing in the front lawn I would have just put it off to a large cloud passing in front of the sun and wouldn't have so much as glanced up. But this was the eclipse of the century, so we put our eyesight in the hands of some company from Tennessee we've never heard of to catch a glimpse of the sun doing it's best impression of the crescent moon. But as a guy who has had a out of date prescription for glasses, and a recent noticeable drop in vision quality beyond a couple feet, every time I'd take off those damn eclipse glasses I'd start squinting at everything and wonder...if I wake up blind tomorrow that little sliver of the sun through the darkness was so not worth it.
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