Rochester, N.Y. — As the clouds rolled in, spirits remained high. I stood among thick crowds of people at the Rochester Museum & Science Center's ROC the Eclipse festival. "We'll still get to see something at least," said one festival goer to another, as we prepared to welcome the moon's shadow and experience the true darkness of totality. Having never experienced any type of solar eclipse before, I didn't know what to expect.
It felt like an apocalyptic scene as an ominously dark lunar shadow raced across the sky, flanked on all sides by a rusty red hue that illuminated the clouds from above and cast an otherworldly scene for us watching from below. Everyone was so excited for the celestial wonder unfolding above. Though we couldn't see the eclipse, we could certainly feel it. The atmosphere was electric. Then, darkness fell.
