Originally Posted by
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Our percentage was 94.3% and my wife and I rode through it for bragging rights. It was mostly just a visible bluish cast to everything and then got significantly darker for maybe a minute. The biggest difference was the temperature drop - about 9º. It took a good hour to return to the temp it was before.
Anyway, I tried to get my wife to stop at our peak and peel her clothes off and dance but she just dropped me instead. 
When I was a kid, the yard accumulated fallen branches and sticks and such to such an extent that we'd have to burn off the stick pile at least once a year. One time, there was a Lunar eclipse just about the time the stick pile needed to be torched. Dad had read about cultures that would have bonfires and make noise to scare away the dragon that was eating the moon, so OF COURSE, we stayed up late, Dad lit off the stick pile, and we all danced around it, making noise, etc. A friend a block or so away, who had a telescope, was watching the eclipse and notices some light from across town, and when he trained the scope that way, saw people dancing around a fire.
"That'll be the Smiths", he reasoned.