Being farther north, we were only in a 70%+ coverage zone.

Tried to watch the NASA live feed, until the Internet blew up. News sites just had a bunch of talking heads -- WTH?? Stop flapping your gums and show me the bleeping sky!

Clear morning here -- and half an hour before the show, heavy translucent cloud moved in. Figures.

But you could see a noticeable dimming of the light intensity on the ground.

And there was an odd tinge to the light somehow. Not like a cloud simply obscuring the sun. Can't put my finger on it, but it was a colour thing -- vaguely parallel to the weird sun when the smoke from the forest fires moves in.