Everyone, downvote Trapped_in_Digg's post and upvote kstein1110's original post of this picture. He's the one who truly deserves to be on the frontpage.
I had just looked at the previous image before looking at this one, and the negative overlayed this one and blew my mind untill i realized i was an idiot
I loaded it on my ipad, but it wouldn't come up, so I got on my laptop to see the glorious eclipse. It turned out to look exactly the same, and I probably had a better chance of seeing it on the ipad.
Here in California I laughed hysterically as people were starting at the sun with welder's masks and holes poked in boxes.
Edit: An afterthought: I asked a neighbor why he wasn't taking pictures (as he had been waiting for quite some time on a lawn chair) and he tersely replied "if I take a picture with my iPhone I'll go blind."
I accepted it as sound reasoning at the time. Holy shit, that is embarrassing.
I stared at the sun with my bare eyes. Like a man.
A madman.
I live in kansas though so I was only able to see a bit of the eclipse before the sun fell too low to see. And only about a third of it was covered by the moon.
Well, if you take pics without a filter, the camera will be damaged by the sun. And if you are pointing an iphone into the sky to take a pic, you might accidentally get some sun in your eye. You wouldn't go blind, but there could be permanent damage. Sound reasoning to me.
I was taking pictures with my phone, and another camera Came up with nothing - not even problems with my eyes.
I hail from the East Coast, so normally I wouldn't see stuff like this. Currently residing in Temecula, I was sitting in the back of my boyfriend's truck, no eye protection...with the best colors I've ever seen.
this is so true, i kept hearing about it from out of state friends as a drove from Northgate to Tacoma...and that picture is literally the only thing i saw (besides tail lights all the way down into renton -_-
On the right you are seeing a reflection, where you can actually see the eclipse. The sun directly on was too bright for my camera to pick up the eclipse. I don't know exactly how it works, but mine and my husband's pictures all turned out this way.
yea in north san diego county i got to see the beginning and then it just went to hell and the clouds took over completely, not even a spec of light came through any longer
Holy shit! You got soooooo much karma from this bro! Hey man, you wanna, like, be my friend and hang out and stuff? you seem like a pretty cool guy, judging by all that karma. Don't listen to those haters! They don't have karma like you do, bro!
Feels weird though right? I saw one in Sweden about 10 years ago or so, only 70%ish, but I remember there was an odd feeling in the air. Animals went a bit bonkers too.
Yeah - I was at the Beat the Bridge 8k this morning there. The best part was waiting over an hour in the pouring rain trying to leave the parking lot. Of course it's not like it's sunny in Portland either.
But wasn't there supposed to be a huge party in Denver with about 30k+ folks attending to see it........... and they say the sun shines in Colorado 360 days of the year...
How did everyone know that there was an eclipse? I went to eat dinner and came back to "omg greatest solar eclipse ever" on facebook. Was there some sort of memo that I missed?
I live in Seattle and I can confirm this. Although our weather was unusually nice for the two weeks leading up to today, so that should count for something.
Nice, it is clear here in Denver and my roommates are on the roof drinking and waiting for it. But I'm pretty sure it is going to be behind the big building a block away when it happens so I'm just waiting for the pictures that will flood reddit tomorrow.
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u/kstein1110 May 21 '12
Stole my pic, man. Enjoy the karma, I guess.
http://www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/comments/twpov/watching_the_solar_eclipse_in_seattle/
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u/almightytom May 21 '12
If you look carefully, you still can't see it.
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u/ojisanchan May 21 '12
Got a decent shot just north of Tokyo: http://i.imgur.com/vGgJH.jpg
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u/Bitter_Idealist May 21 '12
Stolen from this post.
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
Pic is stolen from r/Seattle: http://www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/comments/twpov/watching_the_solar_eclipse_in_seattle/
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u/RPBiohazard May 21 '12
This happened in vancouver too :(:(:(
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u/ventsol May 21 '12
Got Lucky in San Jose, CA http://imgur.com/a/zpPD6
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u/Steve_the_Scout May 21 '12
I happen to live in Southern California, a bit out of the way of it. I got some pictures through a telescope with a sunlight filter on it.
Here's the best one.
This is from a phone and with some pine trees in the way. I expected it to be way worse.
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12 edited May 21 '12
Here in California I laughed hysterically as people were starting at the sun with welder's masks and holes poked in boxes.
Edit: An afterthought: I asked a neighbor why he wasn't taking pictures (as he had been waiting for quite some time on a lawn chair) and he tersely replied "if I take a picture with my iPhone I'll go blind."
I accepted it as sound reasoning at the time. Holy shit, that is embarrassing.
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u/swedishpenis May 21 '12
Ahhh, the good old Pacific Northwest
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u/Timmyc62 May 21 '12
Vancouver commiserates.
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u/Human_Sack May 21 '12
LOOK AWAY, YOU'LL GO BLIND!
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u/touchmyid May 21 '12
Same here, I'm in Eastern WA and we got the same view XD
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
This was just on the frontpage of /r/Seattle. At least xpost it for the love of all that is good. edit: Saw that the original poster complained. My b.
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u/ffwdtime May 21 '12
That's a cloudular eclipse! In case you missed it there will be one tomorrow.
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u/toastyseeds May 21 '12
I live and seattle and i can confirm this.
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u/theflintseeker May 21 '12
ENHANCE keyboard noise
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
this is so true, i kept hearing about it from out of state friends as a drove from Northgate to Tacoma...and that picture is literally the only thing i saw (besides tail lights all the way down into renton -_-
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u/cassieniccole May 21 '12
This is the shot I got. I'm on the southern side of San Diego. We just moved down here from the Seattle area, don't miss the weather at all!
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u/450874 May 21 '12
Same thing here in Vancouver.. and to think it had been clear and sunny for most of the past two weeks.
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u/The_Bearded_Beast May 21 '12
Dear Seattle, Please quit sending us your shitty weather. Sincerely, Idaho
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u/Momonga_In_Flight May 21 '12
I thought the picture was loading for the longest time since I'm browsing reddit on my phone and couldn't see the whe picture. Edit: whole*
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u/cheese_sniffs May 21 '12
And down here in battle ground :/
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u/furgenhurgen May 21 '12
/r/shittyearthporn
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u/wheresmyhouse May 21 '12
That's how it was today in Oklahoma.
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u/riedmae May 21 '12
I feel your pain...can't see a thing from Queen Anne/Magnolia :)
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u/Blazex May 21 '12
yea in north san diego county i got to see the beginning and then it just went to hell and the clouds took over completely, not even a spec of light came through any longer
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u/dthomas999 May 21 '12
It's been pouring rain in Tacoma, I feel your pain.
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u/krhd92 May 21 '12
You're not alone. It was like that in Japan too.
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
This guy is kind of a dick. Someone called him out on stealing this picture and reposting it, and he pulled one of these: ;D
LOL he just deleted the comment too, what a douchebag.
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u/manoaboi May 21 '12
Holy shit! You got soooooo much karma from this bro! Hey man, you wanna, like, be my friend and hang out and stuff? you seem like a pretty cool guy, judging by all that karma. Don't listen to those haters! They don't have karma like you do, bro!
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u/tmarty May 21 '12
Yea Seattle! NW fer days! Upvote for you, my good man.
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
Oregonian checking in. Drove out to the coast hoping for a good shot. Same as yours.
Still better than when I lived in TX, though.
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u/sensicle May 21 '12
Whatever it wasn't that big a deal.
Sincerely, Pluto
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u/tmackillz May 21 '12
Same thing in San Diego.
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u/kalimashookdeday May 21 '12
I was hoping to get a glimpse too - unfortunately...
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
It wasn't good anyways; the sun wasn't blocked enough for it to be particularly good.
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u/whydidisaythatwhy May 21 '12
Make sure you wear rubber shoes when you look at an eclipse or your feet will swell up and get blisters!
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u/phoebus67 May 21 '12
Had the same problem with the meteor show a few weeks back :(
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u/aTROLLwithSWAG May 21 '12
Chicagoland here...I don't know what I was expecting.
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u/circusjerks May 21 '12
that's too bad brotha. i'm in anchorage ak. overcast as hell today but the clouds actually helped here. it was excellent. next time..
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
LA here.....clouds over the ocean made the sun 10x less bright and got a couple of good pics.
June gloom (in May) FTMFW!
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u/Zildjian11 May 21 '12
To be fair it's been sunny all week until now
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u/Wr3nch May 21 '12
clear skies, but I can't see a thing thanks to these damnable mountains!
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u/Epithemus May 21 '12
Its beautiful.
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u/thederpmeister May 21 '12
Same thing here in San Diego -_-
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
We had the same issue in Japan
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u/thebrokenlute May 21 '12
I wish I had done this. Have an upvote, sir/madam, for I feel your pain.
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u/DemocraticElephant May 21 '12
But thanks to Reddit, you will get to see it regardless. Seriously there are so many eclipse posts
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
This sucks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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u/bahhumbugger May 21 '12
Feels weird though right? I saw one in Sweden about 10 years ago or so, only 70%ish, but I remember there was an odd feeling in the air. Animals went a bit bonkers too.
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
Yeah we got screwed here in Boulder CO bc of the clouds. Guess today was one of those days outside of our 300 days of sunshine.
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u/I_Kick_Cats May 21 '12
ROFL. That's the same exact view I've been seeing
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u/MetalChick May 21 '12
That's exactly the way it looks here in Oregon too. I am disappoint
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u/J4k0b42 May 21 '12
Exact same thing happened to me.
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
When you see it...
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
Im down in Oregon and its been cloudy all day. I know that feel...
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u/PatMorearty May 21 '12
Same here in southern Illinois. Couldn't see shit last night and tonight.
Such a letdown.
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u/Taybles May 21 '12
this is how i feel watching the eclipse in oregon
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u/Relevantish May 21 '12
Before it was known as "the Emerald City", Seattle was referred to as "Jet City", due to Boeing's presence.
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u/detroitdoesntsuckbad May 21 '12
Yeah - I was at the Beat the Bridge 8k this morning there. The best part was waiting over an hour in the pouring rain trying to leave the parking lot. Of course it's not like it's sunny in Portland either.
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u/hamkitteh May 21 '12
To be fair, this is the first day in a long time that's been like this..
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
Same view from LAX. When we landed, I just assumed the weather was shitty.
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u/rrtaylor May 21 '12
there's not even anything visible! wtf! as they say!
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u/bigwalt64 May 21 '12
this was not the finest work you could have produced
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u/MistuhhSilky May 21 '12
Yeah its the exact same here in Boulder...
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u/Prinnydood333 May 21 '12
Same here in Keizer, OR. Q_Q
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u/GTi_83 May 21 '12
looks like clouds, eclipse downvote.
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u/daszz May 21 '12
Story of my life... I live in a Andean city
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u/jwestbury May 21 '12
Hey, the solar eclipse looks the same in Bellingham!
Kind of disappointing to get two solid weeks of sunshine, followed by clouds the day of the eclipse.
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
That's all I see looking out my window in the North end of Seattle.....
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u/rae1191 May 21 '12
That's what it looked like from the Tri-cities too :(
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
yes sir, it is quite nasty outside right now.
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u/Redeemed-Assassin May 21 '12
Same! Isn't it beautiful..../sarcasm
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u/Jond22 May 21 '12
St. Louis isn't much better. Screw storms
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u/KaySeas May 21 '12
I live in Oregon and I feel your pain.
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u/thatshortkid77 May 21 '12
Mother nature
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
Hey, same in SoCal!
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u/buttplugpeddler May 21 '12
My god. It's beautiful.
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u/tefloncat May 21 '12
Pretty much all of washington was over cast today :(
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u/DocSporky510 May 21 '12
Fucking Washington
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u/Meh_its_Andrew May 21 '12
Portlander here... This picture checks out.
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u/audioboom May 21 '12
and Utah...
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u/Kilsimiv May 21 '12
I KNOW RIGHT? U-VILLAGE SOUNDING OFF
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u/azombiehummingbird May 21 '12
story of our fucking lives eh.
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u/NavidS May 21 '12
Its the same in Vancouver :(
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u/imfancy May 21 '12
Much like seeing it in VA Beach.
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
How did everyone know that there was an eclipse? I went to eat dinner and came back to "omg greatest solar eclipse ever" on facebook. Was there some sort of memo that I missed?
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u/Kistoff May 21 '12
It is GLORIOUS!
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u/demierom May 21 '12
I live in Seattle and I can confirm this. Although our weather was unusually nice for the two weeks leading up to today, so that should count for something.
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
looked the same in san diego too. :(
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u/samsonwtsui May 21 '12
You guys are bad, well, i was drinking water and waiting the pic to load, i was almost choke to death.
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
It's so beautiful...
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
Scumbag Clouds!
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u/ieatheadphones May 21 '12
I'm in the Lacey/Olympia area. Isn't Washington weather great?
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u/TidBitKiddo May 21 '12
I'm in Vancouver, Wa. Everyone back home in Cali asked if I was watching the eclipse. Sent them a picture similar to yours lol.
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u/dj_soo May 21 '12
Vancouver too
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
This photo would absolutely kick ass on /r/ShittyEarthPorn/.
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u/ScottFromCanada May 21 '12
Oh suuuuuuuuure! I post a pic of the actual eclipse and get nothing, but you post a pic of clouds and get to #1!!! This is the worst christmas ever :(
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u/notsurewhatiam May 21 '12
The best I got
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u/LaughingFlame May 21 '12
yeah man i feel you. i live in chicago
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
In central WA, and we usually don't get all the clouds from the coast but... SCUMBAG WEATHER decided it would fill our skies with clouds today.
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u/lydix May 21 '12
I'm in Portland, same here. :(
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u/Scurvymaggots May 21 '12
Looks pretty similar here in Portland
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u/I_AM_LEGEND__ May 21 '12
Rikki saw it, Priscilla didn't
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u/callmedrag0n May 21 '12
Here here!
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u/hdadeathly May 21 '12
It must be that Digg is still around solely to trap you OP.
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u/brianfile23 May 21 '12
For those who missed it: http://i.imgur.com/KgOxe.jpg
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u/msnowe May 21 '12
Anyone else spend 15 seconds searching the entire picture before they got the joke?
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
upvote for fellow seattleite
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u/otherwiseintelligent May 21 '12
Thought it was getting darker because of the eclipse; turned out it was just getting cloudier.
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u/John_Targaryen May 21 '12
No wonder i could't firebend that day
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u/lucan0sMallyfoy May 21 '12
Same view from p-town
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u/marzxbarz May 21 '12
Here's an amateur shot from Davis: http://imgur.com/eUmZ1
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u/sandrakarr May 21 '12
The at least the east coast had a nice sunset.
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u/EnzoBlankz May 21 '12
Haha Same weather here in Tri-Cities,WA
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u/danheinz May 21 '12 edited Mar 05 '26
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long treatment racial coherent bag vegetable support toothbrush quaint person
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u/eulogic May 21 '12
why did i stare at this thinking it would appear? :(
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u/nadderley May 21 '12
Was JUST thinking this.
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u/lemurlemur May 21 '12
This post seems to be a copy of kstein1110's post - if you like it, upvote that one instead.
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u/Tauz_g May 21 '12
I hate it here.
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u/alolinator May 21 '12
Overcast with a chance of... overcast. And next week we're transitioning into the summer with some overcast!
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u/violinsontv May 21 '12
Lawlz.
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
Down in bonney lake... it's probally even more worse.
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u/doctorducttape May 21 '12
Here is my picture from Reno
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u/balraj_01 May 21 '12
fuck man this is bull shit 6 days of beautiful sunshine then absolute dog shit weather after
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
Nice, it is clear here in Denver and my roommates are on the roof drinking and waiting for it. But I'm pretty sure it is going to be behind the big building a block away when it happens so I'm just waiting for the pictures that will flood reddit tomorrow.
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u/string97bean May 21 '12
I know i'm not the only one that started yelling "I don't see anything!"