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Eclipse versus storm
Aug. 22nd, 2017 06:22 amYeeeeeeeeees. My Nanea order has shipped. Or has had the info set to FedEx. Whatever, the point remains that it has begun the process of being on its way to meeeeeeee. If I happened to be a more patient person, I would've waited for a sale or free shipping and gotten myself basically another $20+ or so worth of actual product and not, y'know, paid that in shipping. But because I feel like I've been waiting FOREVER and partly because I wanted to let the company know that dammit, Nanea is awesome and releasing stuff for Melody is also awesome, I made my order. I regret pretty much nothing about it. I wish I'd had more money to throw at this release because if I do a round-up on stuff I actually want from this, the whole thing, I'm going to cry at how much money it'll take. Might literally cry. If only they'd take Paypal, because it looks like the money I've set aside for the Halloween release on Saturday isn't going to be quite as needed.
Let's shift gears to the eclipse, eh? So I didn't have the glasses which was a bit of a bummer but really, I should've gotten them months ago. Or something. Also, it wouldn't have made a HUGE difference because while it was sunny for awhile, about the time people started shrieking, "Hey, you can really see it happening!" the clouds started rolling in.
( No interesting pictures contained within. Just clouds and shadows. )
It was basically a showdown between the eclipse over my part of the parking lot and the storm rolling in on the other side of the parking lot. When I'd look back over to the fountain, I'd see lightning arcing from one cloud to another, so I wasn't feeling super great standing out in the parking lot as I watched the sun disappear.
Every so often there would be a break in the clouds and you could see the partial eclipse moving closer to totality, which was probably not the best for anyone looking without glasses but then a cloud would drift over and cover things back up which probably did help. Even if I'd wanted to really try to capture a picture of the eclipse proper, it wouldn't have happened because just as we hit totality and the light outside slipped away, causing all the jerkass teenagers who literally ran down the street moments before to start screaming like they were in a low budget horror flick... a cloud blocked the view. Completely.
But it was still interesting to be standing outside and watching it progressively get darker and darker and then the street lights clicked on (who knew the one right by our house started off green?) and Mums came out because she figured it must be getting close to show time.
Then darkness sort of descended, the shrieking started, and I just kind of looked up at the cloudy mess overhead. Slowly the light filtered back a bit but it was honestly hard to tell because the storm was intensifying. Yeah, the storm raged for the rest of the afternoon.
Let's shift gears to the eclipse, eh? So I didn't have the glasses which was a bit of a bummer but really, I should've gotten them months ago. Or something. Also, it wouldn't have made a HUGE difference because while it was sunny for awhile, about the time people started shrieking, "Hey, you can really see it happening!" the clouds started rolling in.
( No interesting pictures contained within. Just clouds and shadows. )
It was basically a showdown between the eclipse over my part of the parking lot and the storm rolling in on the other side of the parking lot. When I'd look back over to the fountain, I'd see lightning arcing from one cloud to another, so I wasn't feeling super great standing out in the parking lot as I watched the sun disappear.
Every so often there would be a break in the clouds and you could see the partial eclipse moving closer to totality, which was probably not the best for anyone looking without glasses but then a cloud would drift over and cover things back up which probably did help. Even if I'd wanted to really try to capture a picture of the eclipse proper, it wouldn't have happened because just as we hit totality and the light outside slipped away, causing all the jerkass teenagers who literally ran down the street moments before to start screaming like they were in a low budget horror flick... a cloud blocked the view. Completely.
But it was still interesting to be standing outside and watching it progressively get darker and darker and then the street lights clicked on (who knew the one right by our house started off green?) and Mums came out because she figured it must be getting close to show time.
Then darkness sort of descended, the shrieking started, and I just kind of looked up at the cloudy mess overhead. Slowly the light filtered back a bit but it was honestly hard to tell because the storm was intensifying. Yeah, the storm raged for the rest of the afternoon.