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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Let's also not turn it into a dispute about people being jaded vs not.  The "nothing special" posters (myself included) were people who were unfortunate enough to be in a cloudy area at the time.  Those who were thrilled to see it didn't have the misfortune of having cloud coverage at the peak.  Believe me all of you who thought it was pretty neat would not have had the same reaction if you had seen it from my neighborhood. [/quote]

You know, the eclipse lasted for nearly 3 hours.  It started around 1:18 and slowly progressed until 81% coverage at 2:42.  Then the moon waned until 4:01.  The storm was a very localized storm in just a few parts of Northern Va.  If it was cloudy or rainy where you were and it was important to see the eclipse, you could have driven about 5-10 miles in almost any direction, parked your car and gotten out and seen at least an hours worth of the slowly waning moon from in front of the sun.

I understand if you didn't prioritize this and it wasn't that important to you.  However, it was rather special, even if it was less important to you.  You didn't value seeing the eclipse and that's fine; but not because the eclipse itself was not special.[/quote]

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