We got to about 97% here.I had to scold at least three people at work for trying to look through things directly at the eclipse.
UGH. They're calling for 40% chance of rain right around the time of totality. Praying hard it isn't so.
I couldn't get glasses, so I did the pinhole paper viewing. It was neat to see the little circle move over the other little circle. My friend and I insist we're getting eclipse glasses for 2024 and want to head up to Burlington VT where it is supposed to be a full eclipse.
We had that same stupid cloud LauraM had in Columbia in Charleston, but it got to us just after totality started. We got 30 seconds to a minute of totality before it covered it. I wanted to hear if the birds stopped and crickets started, but jerkoffs nearby decided they couldn't exist without lights and set off fireworks the whole time. Neighbors were playing a radio station that played Total Eclipse of the Heart during, and Here comes The Sun after. As soon as totality was over, the Mister and I threw our stuff in the car and bolted.
It took us 7 hours to get home taking back-roads instead of 5 hours interstate, but the two times we crossed the interstates we would have taken (95 and 40), they were stopped, so no regrets.
... Given how intelligent crows are, maybe they were saying, "Holy crap, that's incredible!" or even, "Humans get so weird during eclipses. They must think it's nighttime."
... We had a lot of traffic jams to contend with on our drive back down to CA on I-5. An 8-9 hour drive took more than 15 hours, and we were both exhausted (and groggy today). It was completely worth it, though. It's a really uncanny experience.
Our nieces and nephews who were there loved it. I think it will be a lifetime memory for them (except maybe for the two year old).