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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif">The information from the Ohio Emergency Management Association at this link
<a href="https://cdn.saffire.com/files.ashx?t=fg&rid=VisitUvalde&f=OHIO_PLANNING_GUIDANCE.pdf">
https://cdn.saffire.com/files.ashx?t=fg&rid=VisitUvalde&f=OHIO_PLANNING_GUIDANCE.pdf</a> references several items that are interesting.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif">Ohio is within a one-day drive from 70% of the country’s population.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif">For the 2017 total solar eclipse, hotels and campsites were fully booked 6-9 months prior to the event for hundreds of miles in all directions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif">A 5.5-hour trip from Columbus, Ohio to an eclipse viewing site in Hopkinsville, Kentucky turned into a 17.5-hour crawling trip back to Columbus. During the exit
from the eclipse, across the country (the 2017 total solar eclipse was visible on a line that stretched across the country from Oregon to South Carolina), restaurants ran out of food, gas stations ran out of fuel, and as it got dark, vehicles stopped on the
shoulders for the night, blocking emergency vehicles.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif">Following the 2024 event, the next total solar eclipse won’t be visible in Ohio for
<b>420</b> years, in the year 2444.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0067B1">PAMELA HICKSON-STEVENSON</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#0067B1"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Executive Director</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Akron-Summit County Public Library </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Akron, OH 44326</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white">Direct: 330.643.9100</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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