The clouds cleared for me for about 10-15 seconds during totality. Long enough to get a glimpse and some cool pictures. Then, about 5min after totality, the clouds completely cleared out. Thanks mother nature.
Worst part was finding out that somehow the massive fucking fatass cloud that blocked the sun was somehow localized to my neighborhood, because everyone else in the city seemed to be able to view totality in it's entirety, despite being cloudy until just after totality.
I guess the good news is that, in this day and age, it's not truly once in a lifetime, you just have to travel. Admittedly that's expensive, but you can do it.
Edit: here's a cool pic I managed to get in spite of the cloudy bullshit. Sorry for the low res, it's cropped and was taken with my phone's 10x optical zoom camera.
Edit 2: I think the thing I like the most about the pictures I managed to get are the solar flares. Everyone likes posting pictures that have that iconic diamond glare, but imo seeing the solar flares is what makes it really cool. Normally the sun is too bright to see them. Even crazier to think that the earth could probably fit into those tiny red wisps.