We're in an area that had 95% coverage, but apparently 95% coverage isn't jack. It got a little darker outside for a few minutes, right at the peak. We came back inside and watched the live coverage on TV for a while, then I went back to work. I guess I was thinking 95% coverage would at least be more noticeable, a bit more interesting. Oh well.
That was our feeling as well. Yeah, it got darker, basically like it does around sunset, then it got lighter.
So many of our neighbors called their kids out of school for the day, which I found to be a little obnoxious. Yeah, it's cool, you can use glasses to look at the sun for an hour, but in reality, we weren't under total darkness. So your kid missed an entire day of school for 20 minutes of mostly-darkness during the day.
Didn't seem worth it to me.