Very much regret not driving a few hours NW. 93% was cool, but nothing like 100%.
99% to 100% is a night/day difference. Maybe "literally". With just the pin-point left, it's very clearly daylight out. Yeah, it's darker than normal, but still daylight. At 100%, it's pretty much night. Maybe late sunset. You can look at the eclipse at 100%, and you see the corona and all the awesome. At 99%, you can't look at it without the fancy cheap 3-d glasses.
My wife's sister and her family came to Cleveland to see it. They could have gone somewhere closer, but used the eclipse as an excuse to visit. Before the eclipse, we invited them to dinner after the eclipse. But they were freaked out about all the traffic. "The traffic is going to shut the city down!!! OH NO!!!" I said that the traffic wouldn't be bad. Though, I gotta admit, I thought the traffic after the eclipse might be as bad as after a Buckeye game or something like that - it might be bad for 30 minutes or so, but I think that's all I expected. So, since they were unwilling to come to our house, we said we'd go to them. I watched the maps for bad traffic. All afternoon from 3:30 to 5:00, all of the roads were green - no traffic. At 5:00, we left the house, and I quickly realized that this is supposed to be rush hour traffic. The roads were empty. I see more traffic at 8:00 on a Sunday morning than I saw yesterday evening. The doom and gloom nerds overestimated the traffic problems. I think with all the people staying home, businesses closing, etc., and maybe we didn't get the influx of "eclipse-gawkers" that they were expecting, people just stayed off the roads.
