GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) – Hundreds of people gathered on the City Deck downtown Green Bay Monday to get a glimpse of the long-awaited solar eclipse.
Young and old alike were prepared with special eclipse glasses in hand or perhaps a homemade viewer made out of a cereal box.
But no matter how you decided to look at the rare event, everyone was excited.
Tania Jones of Green Bay says she experienced the celestial event when she was a child but nothing quite like this.
“So now being an adult and being a middle school teacher, it was really interesting and I knew it was something that wasn’t going to happen again for almost another 100 years, so we thought we’d come and check it out,” Jones said.
Nancy Selinsky and her husband brought their lawn chairs…ready to relax while the event unfolded.
“We’re having a great time, I’m telling you. We were in Iron Mountain this morning and it was cloudier the closer we got towards Green Bay and thought maybe we should have stayed up there. But no, look at this day. It is just awesome. It’s everything that’s everybody said it was going to be,” said Selinsky. The peak of the eclipse in Wisconsin happened around 1:16 p.m.
If you missed the rare event, you won’t have to wait too long see it again. The next solar eclipse will happen on April 8, 2024 that will stretch from Texas to Maine.
