It appeared much different from what I expected. I can easily understand why ancient people thought the world was ending. It is rather sudden, and without those glasses, you wouldn't be able to tell the moon is close to the sun. It gradually darkens for a while as the sun gets more obscured. Animals start getting confused, crickets chirping and the like. The day becomes darker, like dusk, but the colors are all wrong. It's almost like looking at a video of daytime through an underexposed camera. It was quite hot beforehand, but as the partial eclipse continued, it became comfortably cool. Then, it gets very quickly dark enough for stars to be visible. The street lights automatically came on as soon as totality started. The eclipse itself looked quite unlike anything I have ever seen in person. The corona was much larger and fuller than I was expecting, and it was not uniform. The moon is dark enough to look like a black hole, with a halo of light around it that looks like something out of a sci-fi movie. It is hard to get a sense of what it is really like from a video.