Eclipse watchers stuck in heavy traffic driving home: “Worst traffic I’ve ever seen”

[ad_1] Drivers returning home Monday from watching the solar eclipse in cities and towns in the path of totality described traffic jams that were among the worse they’d ever experienced, keeping them on roads all night and into Tuesday morning.  Indeed, cities and towns in the eclipse’s path experienced some of their largest influxes of tourists … Read more

The solar eclipse could deliver a $6 billion economic boom:

[ad_1] Steve Wright said he first heard about the total eclipse on April 8 four years ago, when a visitor booked the first room for the event at Vermont’s Jay Peak Resort. Wright, the resort’s general manager, said he soon started hearing rumblings from other ski areas.  “They said, ‘The hype is real’,” he recalled, … Read more