The sky decided to be a little dramatic for my viewing. A few pouring thunderstorms early in the morning, followed by a lot of sporadic cloud cover, with the sun peaking out for just a few seconds at a time. Which is, by the way, a fantastic way to enforce brief viewing intervals. Also, while I feel like most people have indeed seen the rain coming down on a sunny day at some point or another, I can now claim to have seen the rain coming down through a partial eclipse.
It cleared up as we neared totality though, and the last cloud drifted out of the way almost exactly before totality set in. The gap before more clouds moved in was long enough for the entire 2 minutes and 30 odd seconds of totality we got, so I was extremely fortunate in that regard.
I was sadly unsurprised to find the neighbors out in the Missouri countryside celebrated the return of the sun with random gunfire. I was somewhat surprised, however to learn that it is possible to use a Cheez-It as an eclipse projector.
