I wasn't too thrilled with the whole eclipse happening from the very beginning. If there's anything we don't need here in the Cuse it's more gray and dark, and it has been a particularly gray winter with few days of sunlight....depressing overcast and gray for way too long stretches this year. Initially the forecast for Monday was sunny and warm in the mid 60s, and this area was said to be a pretty much perfect place to view the phenomenon. Of course it didn't turn out to be that way as there was cloud coverage but the temp was a nice 60+ degrees. I would have been on the porch of the Cobblestone eclipse or not as it's Monday and Alicia is on (wasn't there last Monday
...that was the look on everyone's face when they walked in and saw she wasn't on). Heading over on my bike I was kind of surprised at the amount of traffic, and the foot traffic on the sidewalks was heavy, everyone was hustling and bustling about to get to their eclipse viewing spot. The Cobblestone opens at two, there's a coffee shop across the street. I was thinking on my way over (1:45 or so) there was going to be some yuppie aszwhole with a mocha frappe sitting in my seat at my table as it's a pretty prime spot for eclipse viewing. Fortunately that didn't happen as that coffee shop patron with his/her frappe wouldn't have been sitting there when this bar patron came out on the porch with his Yuengling. Yes, when it got dark it did happen fast but the coming on of it didn't happen fast. It just got grayer and grayer and looked more and more like just another one of those way too many gray days we get here, I wasn't thrilled. The temp did indeed drop quickly but you could feel that coming on too. The temp was still reading 61 degrees but that's the chilliest 61 degrees I've ever felt, people went from t-shirts to sweatshirts pretty quickly and it never did warm back up. The eclipse was cool (literally too) but I'm fine with the fact that it''ll be a long time before we see another one.
