Originally Posted by jmastron

It was a tough call for sure -- I had refundable same-day flights to/from DFW for my son and I. It came down to deciding whether I'd feel more foolish spending a whole day and <more than I'd usually consider> just to go sit in a cloudy soup, and possibly getting stuck in the rain/thunderstorms/hail that were being predicted, or if I'd feel more foolish if I canceled and it turned out halfway decent. With no guarantee that any attempt to see a future one would go better. If we'd seen one before it would probably have tipped the other way, but we decided to go, and are very very glad we did. Ended up watching from the Dallas College North Lake campus in Irving. The view of the sun was mostly clear throughout; a few brief cloud interruptions during partial, and a full view of totality. There were some high level clouds that show up more in pictures than in real life, but they didn't really detract IMO.



Traffic didn't look too bad in the DFW area when I looked out of curiousity. I suspect a lot of people changed their destination, and a lot in the area stayed home. For us, no wait for DART in either direction. TSA pre-check had a line and took ~15 minutes, but I was prepared for much worse.