LUZERNE COUNTY, Pa. — At Penn State Wilkes-Barre in Lehman Township, families from all over the viewing area came to sit and wait patiently for the sun to peep out of the clouds to see a partial solar eclipse.
With camp chairs and blankets in hand, hundreds of people walked up University Drive at the campus in Luzerne County.
"I saw it on the news on WNEP. and I thought, 'Why not?'" Ken Cohen said.
"Now, it's cloudy, so I don't know if we're going to see it or not. Maybe not. I don't know if we're going to see it," Kyler Cromer said.
The chance of clouds didn't stop anyone from showing up with hope.
"I was working for the 2017 eclipse, so now I'm retired, and I'm here to see what we can see," Susan Shiskowski said.
With their eclipse glasses or other eclipse-viewing devices. Families waited patiently for the clouds to clear to see what happened.
"Moon and the sun perfectly aligned to cast a shadow on the earth and makes it dark for like two to three minutes or higher amount of time, so it looks like it's dark outside, but it really is still the daytime," Hunter Nolan explained.
"I think it's fantastic," Shiskowski added. "Could be a once-in-a-lifetime experience for a lot of people."