The Loud Cloud

Jesús H Christ, look at the time it is

kid: dad whats a 69

It’s wilder than that. You feel the temperature drop around you. Animals start to freak out cause they think night has fallen. Even more crazy is shadow snakes. Where you see the shadows around you start to shimmer. Kind of like the shadows of atmospheric disturbances you see during really hot days or near a fire.

My unga bunga ancestors, absolutely surrounded by shadow snakes during an eclipse

Also, the overall tone of the light is wrong and it’s almost impossible to articulate why.

I was about 7-8 when a solar eclipse happened in Chicago. It was during the school day, and our teacher had spent the week up to the event reminding us of it, teaching us basic safety (don’t look at the sun or the eclipse; we can watch the footage that Bai’s dad makes tomorrow), and telling us what to expect with the temperature drop and the darkness.