2024 Eclipse: What to expect, from the awe-inspiring to the "very strange"

Everyone’s talking about the eclipse today but no one’s talking about how it’s the perfect time to take down the fire nation.

I live in Waxahachie, TX and was scheduled to deliver for Amazon today. It was overcast cloudy and I clocked in and was told that I'd be on standby, so I was cautiously hopeful. I waited and then got let out before noon. I gunned it home to my parents with a few breaks in the clouds and set up a bluetooth speaker playing Pink Floyd, had a neighborhood friend bike over to my backyard, and after "Eclipse" finished playing at 1:34 P.M. it was just 3 more minutes until the beginning of totality. It was the most awesome thing I will ever see in my life. 4 minutes of true awe that I probably will never experience again, right over my backyard. I completely understand now why people fly around the world to experience it, it is TRULY AMAZING, and that is an understatement. 😅 The best part is the last 10 seconds looking through the glasses and seeing the light around you dim quickly until it looks like the sky before dawn or after dusk, and to see a black circle block a bright star that you can do absolutely nothing about is something I will never take for granted. After the Union Pacific Big Boy 4014 rolled through Waxahachie in 2021 and now 4 minute totality, I can say without a doubt that I have seen everything (except the northern lights, Starship launch, and the Milkyway Galaxy in person at a certified dark sky location) and can die now, and I wouldn't be upset. It's like the mountains, unless you've seen it in person, you won't understand until you do, because pictures just DO NOT do it justice at all.

Was in Weezer Idaho for the 2017 eclipse with my wife in a field by ourselves. Huge crowd across the street but we had the field to ourselves. Animals went crazy and temp dropped a good 15 degrees. A TRULY UNFORGETTABLE EXPERIENCE. If you are close to a totality zone, don't miss it.

I’m in a suburb of Houston, we are expecting 94% coverage. I had a teammate schedule a meeting at the peak eclipse time. I made him push the meeting back 2 hours so we could go outside instead 😊

"Every second of my two minutes I'm gonna take in and enjoy" what a fun lady

I am so excited for this big event tomorrow.

Total solar eclipse is indescribable, rare, mysteriously beautiful, sacred moment in my lifetime. ❤ from Thailand

It’s been nearly seven years, and I can still remember going out to the Naper Settlement in Naperville, Illinois, with a group of people watching, and it was one of the best feelings and experiences, in my life. 🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞 Truly felt like it was yesterday.

"a total eclipse of the heart"

🎶The sun is in tune but the sun is eclipsed by the moon 🌚 🎶

Tomorrow’s forecast: overcast, followed by darkness, followed by several days of powerful thunderstorms. 😕

Because of God's AWESOME CREATION!❤

Great advice! Very interesting

I don’t recall all this for the 2017 Solar Eclipse 😑

I agree with that guy! Don’t miss it for a picture, it comes and goes very quickly!

In 1979 an eclipse went through Bozeman, Montana. My impresion was it got twilight but not completely. It got strangely quiet. The only sounds were the people. All the wildlife thought it was nighttime. When the Sun came back, so did the sounds. Then all the hype was gone too.

Wow. I am so ready to see this. We are not in the path of total eclipse but we are still going to sit down, enjoy it & have a beer.

I am so excited!!!!!!!!!!!!❤

That was really nice of them to give out those glasses for free - you had to pay for them here & even the park system charged for them!

1988 Solar Eclipse..Can't describe the feeling when it occured..wavy and shimmery atmosphere..😮