@Eaglebauer Said
It was amazing!
The temperature dropped about 15 degrees in less than a minute and we had totality so we could look without the glasses for about 30 seconds. There was like a 360 degree sunset.
When it went dark, almost instantly the crickets and cicadas started going nuts because they thought it was night and then after the sun started coming back, they stopped abruptly and went dead quiet.
eagle - I was in my old neighborhood, when the event. i used to lived two blocks from wastington university. i normally get off the bus, where i used. i walked up to the opposite block toward the schnucks on clayton road.
i get 30 minutes walk and get my groceries, i walked 4 miles a week. i walking back to my bus stop, and there is a park behind my old neighborhood, called claverach park.
there were a lot of students from Washington u. and Frontenac college that is across from the park. other people swarming around the park. so, i walked by the park heading for the bus stop. i saw missed my bus from distance, so i knew i had 30 minutes window to wait. i took my time, walking to the bus.
i usually cut through a quite little neighborhood, basically, the neighborhood's street. i ran into a couple of students that on the street and waiting for the event.
the lady was nice enough to let me look through her special glasses ( the cheap 3-d glasses, you get at movies), i had take off my glasses to put them on. she told me, that the moon partical over the sun. i have admit wasn't that trill, it look at a photo on the internet today. it was a almost 2 minutes, that i had them on.
that i was exciting, i could handle.
i found that interesting than the hype to the couple waw having. i thought of time, when i saw history that i felt was better than this event. i told that when i was six, i watched at my neighbor's house on tv, jfk's funeral. i told remember them, i remember watching john's jr. lifting his hand saluting the his father's coffin in the crowd, with jfk's watch hanging over his wrist. i remember the scene, when the horse and the wagon, his coffin on it heading into the grave site.
i told the lady and the man, i hope you get more out than me. she told me that this thrill for her ( no, twilite, not to meet me, but the event.
), it thrill to witness it. i said my goodbyes to them and heading for the bus stop.
i had 15 minutes, it was hot and i was sweating. i was under a tree, and the tree's leaves, i could see the sun with go blind. you really can't see anything without the glasses.
eagle, you are right about the 15 degrees dropped in temperature. the crickets were curpping and it did get dark for five minutes. i was glad the cool breeze came along to cool myself. then, the sun came out, and waiting a little long to boarded the bus.
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