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    August's Solar Eclipse is Basically a National Disaster

    There’s a good reason authorities are treating the upcoming solar eclipse like a natural disaster.
    by Meredith Rutland Bauer Aug 11, 2017 3 minutes
    A reflected image of the sun is seen on a white board as kids look up to view the beginning a partial solar eclipse outside the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center in San Diego, California on October 23, 2014. The total solar eclipse on August 21 will be the first visible across the United States since 1918.
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    Port-a-potty shortages. Cellular blackout zones. Ambulances stuck in gridlock. These are the conditions emergency managers across the nation are expecting the week of August 21.

    No, a major hurricane isn’t forecast. This isn’t preparation for a cyberattack after someone tipped the FBI. Beyoncé isn’t doing a national tour—but the cause is a star of another kind.

    The upcoming solar eclipse—the first in 99 years to sweep across the continental United States—has so many fans that disaster-level preparations are being put in place because of the large number of travelers predicted to jockey for prime viewing spots. As many as. The path of totality, the area where the sun is completely blocked out, stretches from Oregon to South Carolina.

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