Local costume designer Lisa Taylor said all the talk of traffic kept her in town, where she felt 99.3 percent of totality was probably good enough.
As the city went dark, the streetlights turned on and the air cooled noticeably.
“It’s beautiful and the light, you cannot describe the way the city looks in this light. It’s eerie," Taylor said. "It’s like in the morning just before the sun rises.”
Some people complained their eclipse glasses fell-off easily, causing them to glance at the sun.
But apart from a few temporary eye splotches, spirits were high and no one appeared to have any immediate vision damage.