That was a terrible time for the Eclipse to have come in the Americas. Right about then everyone should have been asleep/eating/whatever. It was also inconvenient for me, because I live on Mars...
Also, several people were totally ignoring the Eclipse (mostly ch00bs). My character had seen a couple Marfusangs, and Ulbernaut, and a Consumer in Ojaveda, and ran rabidly for Hydlaa, which would have been kind of a stupid thing to do I realize now. As she ran, telling people to escape, they just pranced around hacking 'n slashing at little rats.