The 99.999999999999999999% event is still interesting and cool, but we're talking listening to your 5 year old granddaughter sing Ave Maria vs Celine Deon sing it cool.
Look, if you were that close, you should have driven the 30 minutes to experience the real thing. Why you didn't is beyond me, but that was your choice. But then don't come here trying to claim a total eclipse is NBD because you once were in the same town as the Hamilton Broadway play and from where you were, outside the venue and 30 minutes away, it didn't seem like that big of a deal.
But this entire thread does make more sense now. You had already made the decision not to see it and have been attempting to justify that poor decision.