[OPLINLIST] Eclipclaypse 2024!

[Bob Gaydos]

FWIW, my wife and I drove down to the zone of totality in Tennessee in 2017 and it was not at all crazy in my experience.  We viewed the event on the grounds of a smallish college campus and the hotel we stayed at the night before was very close by.  If the folks driving inbound that afternoon encountered crazy traffic, we did not hear about it, nor did we encounter anything more than typical late afternoon traffic when we headed toward home afterward.  I encountered far worse traffic driving home through Akron last night due to an accident.

Are these Chicken Little warnings originating from locations which experienced the 2017 eclipse?

Bob Gaydos
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That's what we ended up deciding. I went to a safety planning meeting back in July with police, fire, Red Cross, Coast Guard, etc to talk about the logistics here in Lorain County.. it really opened my eyes to the extent of what we may be expecting.. I took this info to our Director and then she went to the Board and they made the decision to close us for the day so we did not add to the chaos.

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On Fri, Sep 15, 2023 at 1:24 PM Morgan Paul via OPLINLIST <oplinlist at lists.oplin.org<mailto:oplinlist at lists.oplin.org>> wrote:
The talk around here is to prepare to not be able to get anywhere.  They are warning us to have our gas tanks full before hand to realize we might not be able to get to a grocery store.


I hadn’t really thought about closing until recently.

I think we should close all day, just to be off the roads.

Morgan
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Morgan Paul, Director

St Marys Community Public Library
140 S Chestnut St
St Marys, Ohio  45885

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Subject: [OPLINLIST] Eclipclaypse 2024!

Happy Friday, all!

Looking ahead to April of 2024<https://publicsafety.ohio.gov/home/news-and-events/all-events/ohio-total-solar-eclipse#:~:text=On%20Monday%2C%20April%208%2C%202024,a%20rare%20and%20spectacular%20event.> and wondering what everyone has planned for the eclipse. Many of us are having flashbacks to 2017 and the great glasses debacle. We're trying to get ahead of that this time and have a boatload of sun blockers on order to hand out.

Chillicothe and southcentral Ohio are not in totality, but we're close enough that folks (me included) will want to drive west an hour to be in darkness. I'd like to give the entire staff the opportunity to go see this once in a lifetime event. We're planning programs and education for the weeks leading up to, but have nothing planned on the day of the eclipse.

Is anyone closing for the day? Half the day? Or in any other way curbing activities?

James

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Chillicothe and Ross County Public Library
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