I saw no indications of the eclipse here. THE eclipse of the century and I've seen it get dimmer when a cloud passed in front of the sun.

Not that I didn't try. I pulled out a stack of colored filters from my days shooting B&W photos on film, and stacked a green, red, orange and a gray polarizing filter, and brought the intensity down to safe. I could see the dark shape next to the sun, but not enough to waste my time setting up a shot.