WASHINGTON, April 3 — US communities along the path of the April 8 total solar eclipse are preparing for the year’s biggest astronomic event, with millions of visitors expected...
The City of Dripping Springs, Texas, prepares for the solar eclipse with a set of larger than life glasses on display at Veterans Memorial Park on March 5, 2024. — AFP picWASHINGTON, April 3 — US communities along the path of the April 8 total solar eclipse are preparing for the year’s biggest astronomic event, with millions of visitors expected to brighten local economies — and snarl up logistics.
“I don’t know that we’ll have anything quite like this again,” Jeff Lawson, a vice president in the chamber of commerce, told AFP.Lawson marvelled at his city’s “incredible luck” at an opportunity “quite literally falling out of the sky into your lap.” Preparations for the big day began years ago, Matt Bruning of the Ohio Department of Transportation told AFP.
This year’s path of totality is about 115 miles wide, wider than in 2017. It begins in western Mexico, arches up through the US cities of Dallas, Indianapolis, and Buffalo, before ending in eastern Canada. Nasa warns that only in the path of totality — and only during the few minutes of the actual totality — is it safe to look at the eclipse without eye protection.Almost all of the United States will get to experience a partial eclipse, but UCLA astronomer Jean-Luc Margot says the trip to see the totality is definitely worth the hassle.
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