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Solar Eclipse Armageddon

Posted on 3/25/24 at 3:29 pm
Posted by pioneerbasketball
Team Bunchie
Member since Oct 2005
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Posted on 3/25/24 at 3:29 pm
Dont remember it like this last time.

News stories talking about how there wont be any food/gas left in places that are expecting an influx of visitors.


Is this a scare tactic to raise prices?
Posted by CAD703X
Liberty Island
Member since Jul 2008
78428 posts
Posted on 3/25/24 at 3:30 pm to
for the last one i was at ground zero in nashville and had to drive about 7 miles closer to town for the 'longest dark period' and my only recollection is we left about 30 minutes before it started and there was nothing out of the ordinary with traffic or anything else.
This post was edited on 3/25/24 at 3:31 pm
Posted by chinhoyang
Member since Jun 2011
23681 posts
Posted on 3/25/24 at 3:31 pm to
The estimate - Greenville, Texas 60k visitors, Sulphur Springs, Texas 120k visitors.

It will be a shitshow - long gas lines and it will overwhelm food places.

If I could go the night before to the family farm (dead center of the total eclipse) and leave the next day, I'd do it. I can drive there from where I live without refueling. Not worth the risk.
Posted by Jack Bauers HnK
Baton Rouge
Member since Jul 2008
5728 posts
Posted on 3/25/24 at 3:32 pm to
When hundreds of thousands of people drive in, rent a room for a few nights, all at the same time, and all those hundreds of thousands need to eat and refuel their vehicles, yeah it might put a bit of stress on the local economy.
Posted by North Dallas Tiger
United States of America
Member since Mar 2024
2787 posts
Posted on 3/25/24 at 3:46 pm to
Glad we secured our luxury bunker space in advance...
Posted by AUCom96
Alabama
Member since May 2020
5059 posts
Posted on 3/25/24 at 3:56 pm to
My sister in law was talking about plans to travel to see the eclipse.

Has this always been a thing? I never recall any talk of traveling for eclipses. You'd hop out, do the paper trick, check that box and move on.
Posted by Auburn80
Backwater, TN
Member since Nov 2017
7609 posts
Posted on 3/25/24 at 4:00 pm to
I was in the direct line of the last one. Cool to see the streetlights come on, but no excessive crowd.
Posted by 0x15E
Outer Space
Member since Sep 2020
12824 posts
Posted on 3/25/24 at 4:04 pm to
quote:

Is this a scare tactic to raise prices?


No.

Now take the tin foil off the top of your head.
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