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Black Brigade's avatar

You get it! In 2017 we drove the family 8 hours to the path of totality, and had to race against the clouds to see it (eclipse started in a cloud and eventually the cloud moved out of the way). Crazy awesome experience. We decided to do it again in 2024. The cloud forecast looked terrible 2 days previous, so we stayed home. Driving 15 hours in storm and rain to have a 50/50 shot at seeing totality again didn't seem like a good idea. April 8 came and suddenly the forecast was clear skies from Russellville AK to Mount Vernon IL! So we missed our chance to experience it again with the kids. But it was fun reliving 2017 watching the NASA stream for 2024. I'm glad everyone else got to see it.

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Salman Merchant's avatar

I saw the totality from our apartment in downtown Dallas. We were lucky to have a balcony that put is right underneath it. It was awe inspiring for me, but other people enjoyed it more by playing loud music and hollering. I don't know, I felt a deep contemplative feeling immediately, and would have loved to just to see it in silence. Nonetheless I was lucky to experience it, and it definitely had that "I don't control anything" feeling.

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