A total solar eclipse crossed the entire continental United States coast to coast for the first time in 99 years, passing through fourteen states from Oregon to South Carolina. It was nicknamed the "Great American Eclipse" well before it happened, and small towns directly in its path saw their populations multiply many times over for a single weekend as people drove in from hours away just to stand in the roughly 70-mile-wide band of totality. For the two minutes or so of full darkness, temperatures dropped, crickets started up as if it were dusk, and a lot of people who'd been skeptical about making the trip admitted afterward it was worth it.
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