Ontario’s Niagara Region has declared a state of emergency as it prepares to welcome up to one million tourists to the solar eclipse in early April.
The April 8 total solar eclipse will be the first in the state since 1979, and Niagara Falls has been declared one of the best places to view it by National Geographic.
The city is on the path of totality, where the moon completely blocks the sun’s rays for several minutes.
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Niagara Falls Mayor Jim Diodati said in early March that he expected the most visitors the city had ever seen in a single day.
Ontario’s Niagara Region has declared a state of emergency as it prepares to welcome up to one million tourists to the solar eclipse in early April. (John Moore/Getty Images)
Local governments in Niagara are actively implementing a state of emergency in preparation for the event. The declaration announced Thursday launches several additional planning tools in preparation for a day that could result in massive traffic jams, increased demand on emergency services and overloaded mobile phone networks. .
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The eclipse will reach the Pacific coast of Mexico in the morning, cross diagonally across the United States from Texas to Maine, and disappear over eastern Canada by late afternoon. Most of the rest of the continent will see a partial solar eclipse.
