Travel woes gnawed at eclipse goers ahead of the event Monday, prompting officials to issue safety notices, warn of emergency-like conditions, and even shut...
Officials issued safety notices, warned of emergency-like conditions and shut down major highway ramps into downtown Dallas in advance of the April 8 eclipse.
“It’s Super Bowl weekend for us,” he said. Pauly jumped in a photograph with perhaps the most visible staffer at Buc-ee’s: chief of cutting meat, Ginette Cortes, before she carved up a smoked brisket. Pauly said he expected this location to go through at least 100 briskets Monday, topping about 1,000 pounds of smoked beef rolled up into breakfast tacos and other fare.“It’s pretty wild,” Craig Kleine said of the enormous gas station. Kleine, of Tucson, Ariz.
“We’re happy for the sunshine — yes, yes, yes, yes!,” said an elated Hampton, 75, as the diamond portion of the eclipse peeked out from behind the clouds, providing an aura of optimism. The initial forecast left some forlorn, worrying the moon’s traversal in front of the sun would be obscured. TheGlobetrotters journeyed from all corners of the region , the country and even internationally to witness the first total eclipse in North Texas since 1878.
Donnie, Ebanks and Flowers planned to drive back to Florida after totality ended. They hadn’t given much thought to traffic concerns, other than a potential stop in Louisiana for crawfish.Traffic is lighter and continues to flow on the highways during the total solar eclipse as viewed from the Reunion Tower on Monday, April 8, 2024, in Dallas.Dallas police issued temporary rolling closures of highway exits headed into downtown from about 1 p.m. to 2 p.m.
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