Robert Guajardo woke up on Aug. 21 in Omaha, Nebraska, where the weather forecast predicted “clouds and rain in all directions,” he told Space.com in an email. To escape the clouds, he and a friend hit the interstate, driving with no particular destination in mind — anywhere without clouds would do. “Rest areas after rest areas along the highway were filled with tripods, cameras and people eager to get a glimpse of this eclipse,” he said. Eventually, the pair stopped in Grand Island, Nebraska — about 150 miles (240 km) west of Omaha — where “the clouds were thin enough that we didn’t have to look any further.”
“Greg and I, along with hundreds of other people, stood there in the Walmart parking lot wearing our eclipse glasses,” Guajardo said. “The temperature dropped maybe a good 10 to 15 degrees [Fahrenheit, or 5 to 8 degrees Celsius]. A calm wind began to blow. A purple haze started forming over the horizon like none I’d ever seen … then it happened. The sun was gone, and everyone started screaming!”
“To my dismay, I could no longer see anything through the eclipse glasses. It was then that I decided to go against my better judgement and take the eclipse glasses off. Nothing could have prepared me for what I was about to see next. Imagine for a moment the sun as you know it being no more. No more yellow light. No more heat. No more squinting! Instead, a beautiful ring of blue light sparkling like a diamond.”
“For just a brief couple of minutes, the Earth stood still.”
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