OTTAWA – Ontario’s Niagara Region has declared a state of emergency as it prepares to welcome up to a million visitors for the solar eclipse in early April. The total solar eclipse on April 8 will be the first to touch the province since 1979, and Niagara Falls was declared by National Geographic to be one of the best places to see it. The city is in the path of totality, where the moon will entirely block the suns rays for a few minutes. A view of Niagara Falls, Ont. is shown on Friday, March 29, 2024 in a photo […]
That’s like asking “a hospital can’t handle patients?” with no understanding of the effects the pandemic (and specifically ‘mah raghts’ hillbillies) had on the healthcare system – and will for years to come as we recover. NO industry can handle a 50-fold demand, even for a day, without collapsing.
The numbers - a million in a day - are going to be absolutely absurd. I don’t expect it, I don’t predict it, but if traffic needs to be blocked on the way in to prevent another million people coming, maybe declaring an emergency is good to enable rapid mobilization and better funding for emergency services. If it takes days to clean up from the traffic, I wouldn’t be surprised.
Who’s saying a million?
Are people just driving through or stopping? There’s no hotel or parking vacancies that could handle that, so they are going there for what? To sit in their cars?
Really, the article is shit and doesn’t really give any details at all. They could be worried about running out of food for all we know. Garbage reporting.