There will be millions of people coming to see it. They will be pillaging the grocery stores and traffic will be horrible. If you wait to buy food, you might find the shelves empty.
Exactly!
It was the same song and dance as the last one when I was in South Dakota. Lots of traffic, lots of visitors, lots of places shut down. There will be many people in the area, Air-BNBing it up, hotels are sold out in Erie for 3X the normal rates. Groceries and stuff will be scarce. Not a SHTF situation, just a large influx of people.
Schools are closed here (NW PA) under the idea that the eclipse happens exactly as schools are letting out and they're concerned about looky-loos congesting the area, even out here in podunk PA.
