'It was literally cold and dark': Total solar eclipse viewed throughout the U.S

[noahdjango]

I just typed everything out and posted pics in the other thread

Official Eclipse Viewing Thread

I saw on the news that ATL was getting 98% occlusion at 2:37pm. I always have mondays off, so I figured good enough, I’ll just step outside around 1pm and suss it out. I did no research into viewing but I hoped 98% might be enough to look at it unaided. I figured I’d pick up some glasses anyway but… I didn’t. So I stepped out at intervals during the afternoon and just gave the sun the briefest of glances, enough to realize I wasn’t going to be able to see jack shit, at least until I was nea…