Jammed cellphone signals. Traffic at a halt. Roadways too congested for ambulances to get through.
Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to travel to the Buffalo Niagara region next month for a once-in-a-lifetime total solar eclipse – and first responders are hard at work getting ready for them.
Preparations are underway in Western New York for a total solar eclipse on April 8. Here is our complete coverage.
“We’re getting into crunch time,” Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz said at an emergency preparedness seminar at the Convention Center Thursday. “This is sort of the two-minute warning period.”
Poloncarz said the county is treating the eclipse like a blizzard – asking businesses to close for the day or have staff work from home, urging people to have all the supplies they need and to stay off the roads. He warned that first responders will be stretched thin.
“If you have not scheduled an event yet, my statement to you is: don’t. Do not schedule an event at this point,” Poloncarz said.
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