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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Chaos as drivers ride bumper to bumper on long journeys home from the 'Great American Eclipse' - and the traffic could last all week!
2017-08-22
[Mail] Thanks to Monday's solar eclipse, disastrous traffic jams have been taking over the country these last few days.

And as folks leave the first coast-to-coast solar eclipse since 1918, the U.S. Department of Transportation estimated that nearly two-thirds of the nation's resident live withing a day's drive of the path of totality.

And with Oregon being the first to see the eclipse, it and neighboring state Washington are experiencing the worst bouts of the traffic jams.

'This is the biggest transportation event that has ever hit Oregon,' Dave Thompson, a spokesman for the Oregon Department of Transportation told AP.

Oregon expected over a million people to be in attendance for the eclipse.
Posted by:Besoeker

#8  never seen so many people on Trail Creek Road!
Posted by: 746   2017-08-22 16:19  

#7  Friends and acquaintances around Carbondale, Illinois (~35K inhabitants with roughly 200K 'eclipse visitors') reported 'madhouse' conditions as far as traffic was concerned. They're not used to traffic jams like their upstate brethren.

Although they said that almost everyone was trying to be courteous and attentive while driving. Not so much in picking up their own trash, though.
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2017-08-22 15:02  

#6  I call bullshit - a) the media love scaring the shit out of the public; b) why didn't we hear anything about the flipside of this - traffic jams on the way to the 'event'. This is complete and utter horseshit.
Posted by: Raj   2017-08-22 12:42  

#5  The traffic could last all week? Is Paul Krugman doing traffic reports now?
Posted by: SteveS   2017-08-22 11:47  

#4  A buddy drove from Hopkinsville KY to Columbus OH - normally about 5.5 hours.

Last night, 11 hours.

Posted by: GORT   2017-08-22 11:21  

#3  Traffic wasn't that bad.

And it was totally worth it.
Posted by: DarthVader   2017-08-22 09:09  

#2  sadly, the US suffers traffic jams every day and even a little bit more traffic than normal brings the potential of major problems

some of the worst problems are tourist areas
Posted by: lord garth   2017-08-22 08:31  

#1  My neighbor drove his entire family 140 miles to Chattanooga for the 114 second long event. And to think, many of these people are registered voters.
Posted by: Besoeker   2017-08-22 08:00  

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