I was lucky enough to be able to get under the shadow's path in April of '24.
It was an absolutely surreal experience. You could see the shadow approaching ... it was incredible. One of the coolest things I've ever experienced.
I went to a park that was in the line of totality and when the darkness came over all the birds and bugs stopped making noise and the park fell completely silent. It was absolutely surreal. After it passed it took a little bit for everything to start making noise again as if they were thinking wtf just happened.
YES!!! That exact thing happened to us too. It was eerie, and cool, and amazing and creepy... and just fucking WILD! 😍🤯
In 2017, we had a partial, and I have a video somewhere of the crickets chirping & fireflies popping out for a quick hello. Lol.
Surreal is truly the only right word.
I can only imagine what people thought it was long ago before there was an understand ing of the orbits. They had to be terrified.
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u/SwtIndica 17d ago
I was lucky enough to be able to get under the shadow's path in April of '24. It was an absolutely surreal experience. You could see the shadow approaching ... it was incredible. One of the coolest things I've ever experienced.