NIAGARA FALLS, Ontario (AP) — Ontario’s Niagara Region has stated a state of emergencysituation as it prepares to welcome up to a million visitors for the solar eclipse in early April.
The overall solar eclipse on April 8 will be the veryfirst to touch the province because 1979, and Niagara Falls was stated by National Geographic to be one of the finest locations to see it.
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The city is in the course of totality, where the moon will completely block the sun’s rays for a coupleof minutes. Niagara Falls Mayor Jim Diodati stated earlier in March that he anticipates the most visitors his city has ever seen in a single day.
The local town of Niagara is proactively conjuringup a state of emergencysituation to prepare for the occasion. The statement revealed Thursday sets in movement some extra preparation tools to prepare for the day, which might include significant traffic jams, muchheavier needs on emergencysituation services and cell phone network overloads.
The eclipse will reach Mexico’s Pacific coast in the earlymorning, cut diagonally throughout the United States from Texas to Maine, and exit in eastern Canada by late afternoon. Most of the rest of the continent will see a partial eclipse.
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