<div dir="ltr">The Wife unit and I made it up as far as the Valhalla welcome center in SC and were joined unexpectedly by our 2nd daughter. We sat on the hill underneath trees north of the welcome center proper. it gave us a great view of Lake Hartwell and all of the eclipse action. A cloud threatened at one point but blew by without obscuring our view.<div><br></div><div>I thought the coolest part was as totality ended we got the beautiful "diamond ring" for a few seconds and then BAM! the darkness was instantly dispelled as a small sliver of sun broke around from the dark side of the moon. It was really striking how suddenly the darkness dissipated, not gradual like sunrise. It was a great experience!<div><br></div><div>For us traffic was a mess coming and going. Six hours to get there from south side of Atl. then we drove on up to Greenville---complete gridlock southbound all the way to Greenville---spent the night in G'ville and drove home this morning. There was some traffic event on I-85 south in Gwinnett still causing a 40 minute traffic jam as late as 10:30am!</div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 4:47 PM, Pete Hardie <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pete.hardie@gmail.com" target="_blank">pete.hardie@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Old man yells at cloud?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div></div></span><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="h5"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 12:37 PM, Lightner, Jeffrey <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:JLightner@dsservices.com" target="_blank">JLightner@dsservices.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">A co-worker went up to Nashville (largest city in the path of totality) and told me that they had a view up until the sun was almost completely covered and then a cloud blocked the view so they didn't get to see the full eclipse. He said when the cloud appeared you could thousands of people expressing disappointment.<br>
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You just KNOW some moron is going to try to sue the city of Nashville and/or NASA because of that cloud.<br>
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William Bagwell <<a href="mailto:rb211@tds.net" target="_blank">rb211@tds.net</a>> writes:<br>
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> Just got back from Lavonia... Well worth the day of vacation and<br>
> *TRAFFIC* to see it total! Better than the 1984 annular since there<br>
> was a minute plus it could be viewed with out glasses. Dark enough the<br>
> single street light near us kicked on. Could hear cows bellowing in<br>
> the distance. Also amazed how quick it got light as totality was ending.<br>
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We went up to Anderson, SC. Alas, it was cloudy where we were from 2-3 so completely missed the actual event. It did get dark and some of the lights around us came on, which is darn cool. But didn't get to "see"<br>
it. :( Kinda sad about that.<br>
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