ApocEclipse

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Our little county of Towns, in the state of Georgia, population 11,100, activated its emergency notification system yesterday evening, alerting all residents by telephone of the unprecedented nature of the coming weekend. Not the eclipse itself, but about all the danged visitors we might get wanting to watch it.

Could be thousands! they said, and they advised us to act like we would in a snowstorm and buy food and gasoline and batteries and batten down. I expect we’ll pull through like the tough mountain folk we are around here.

It has been fun reading all these thoughty pieces on eclipses this week. Here are a few, in case you missed them:

The Illuminating Power of Eclipses

Yes, the Solar Eclipse Is Worth the Hype (Trust Those Who Have Seen One)

During an Eclipse, Darkness Falls and Wonder Rises