Total Eclipse A Looming Traffic Nightmare?

A total eclipse is coming April 8? Many Eastern schools will be closed & DC Swamp workers will stay home (as usual) BUT experts warn of massive traffic jams anyway ala the 2017 West Coast version as day trippers swarm over the darkened landscape like cicadas.

The WSJ coverage waxed: “’Imagine the largest public event you’ve ever been to, a fireworks show or right after the Blue Angels fly at an air show & everyone tries to leave at once, but it’s thousands of times worse,”’ said Russ Miller, a California store manager who says he spent 16 hours in traffic from Oregon to northern California after the 2017 total solar eclipse.” Well, does what happens on the woke West Coast always happen on the elite East Coast? Notes the paper, “About 32 million people live in the roughly 115-mile-wide path of totality – when the moon entirely blocks the sun. An additional 150 million people live within 200 miles,” according to a quoted geographer.

The stay-at-home forever & regardless of the excuses to do so government officials say the most traffic on April 8 will likely occur immediately after the total eclipse passes out & when nearly everyone realizes the “end of the world” did not happen as many professional soothsayers, wanna-be prophets & garden variety fearmongers say it will. Of course, cloud cover & rainy weather would tamp down the thrill-seeking crowds. But, don’t worry. We’re told “state transportation & emergency-management officials have spent more than two years holding regular calls to prepare.” Sure. On the other hand, all of us living or working along the Beltway (or any other Interstate in the 2024 eclipse’s path) know what happens to traffic when a fender bender shuts down one lane for 30 minutes.

Davd Soul