Total eclipse of the sun sweeps across parts of Mexico, the United States and Canada in path of totality 185km wide
People look towards the sun as darkness falls during the totality phase of the eclipse, in Kingston, Ontario, on Monday. Photograph: Justin Tang/Canadian Press via APIt was just as promised. An exhibition from the heavens passed over a small patch of earth on the edge of Lake Erie and left everyone standing gazing up in hokey glasses happily dumbfounded. Even the dogs.
“What it’s like for me is: we are standing here, and we see this blue sky and clouds and it’s a normal day. And in minutes it turns dark night and stars. And you realise: that’s a reality that’s out there that we just don’t see. And now we are back to normal. And it is like okay, we came out of that. But for me, the heaviest moment, even heavier than the corona, were those few minutes when it was utter darkness.
“And there was a total eclipse at Virginia Beach. And the prof said: let’s rent a bus and go down as a class. Sunny day. National Geographic was set up down at the beach. And it was just beautiful.” When we chatted, the cloud cover was heavy, but he was completely sanguine about what he might witness on the shores of Erie.
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