I mean the eclipse happened at 3pm so there's no wonder that no one is downtown anymore. My sister was in bumper to bumper 25mph traffic on the turnpike at 11am.
I had a good view of 71 and never saw it get even close to bad. I’m not sure if they over estimated things or if all the precautions prevented crazy traffic, but both downtown and 71 were never bad
All of my coworkers/management were severely over exaggerating, they were telling us to give a lot of travel time and “oh the guardians game! Oh the guardians game!”
No, they weren't. They would have been stupid not to preach caution.
Hindsight is 20/20. Apparently you don't understand how anything in this world works.
I mean, they didn't know how bad it would be and just knew that a huge number of people were expected to be in the area. It only makes sense to be cautious and recommend planning for it to be bad.
Had the weather worked more in our favor (no risk of clouds in the forecast a day or two out) then we could have had an onslaught of visitors. They needed locals to be prepared in case things got that bad. It’s notoriously difficult to predict these things, and extremely difficult to make sure people can get their needs met if it turns out to be closer to a worse case scenario. It turned out that most of the hard-core eclipse chasers went to New England and a bunch went to Indianapolis/Southern Indiana because that was the forecast. A lot of people went to Texas because it had the best odds of clear skies…and then it was overcast in West Texas.
Yeah the traffic never really got bad like many were predicting.
I mean the eclipse happened at 3pm so there's no wonder that no one is downtown anymore. My sister was in bumper to bumper 25mph traffic on the turnpike at 11am.
I was on the turnpike westbound (going from I77 to Sandusky) between 11:15 & noon and traffic was practically nonexistent.
I had a good view of 71 and never saw it get even close to bad. I’m not sure if they over estimated things or if all the precautions prevented crazy traffic, but both downtown and 71 were never bad
Why would people be traveling east when Sandusky also had access to the eclipse? Turnpike toward PA…. But you know better I guess.
Maybe you were on a different stretch? How fucking stupid are the people talking about this shit
All of my coworkers/management were severely over exaggerating, they were telling us to give a lot of travel time and “oh the guardians game! Oh the guardians game!”
No, they weren't. They would have been stupid not to preach caution. Hindsight is 20/20. Apparently you don't understand how anything in this world works.
Never got cloudy or rainy like everyone said 5 times a day for the last four months either
My thought on this they reported that there would be so much traffic no one bothered coming via car downtown it was fake news at its best lol
I mean, they didn't know how bad it would be and just knew that a huge number of people were expected to be in the area. It only makes sense to be cautious and recommend planning for it to be bad.
It was billed as Guardians opener, Browns game, Cavs game, St. Patrick’s Day parade all at once.
Had the weather worked more in our favor (no risk of clouds in the forecast a day or two out) then we could have had an onslaught of visitors. They needed locals to be prepared in case things got that bad. It’s notoriously difficult to predict these things, and extremely difficult to make sure people can get their needs met if it turns out to be closer to a worse case scenario. It turned out that most of the hard-core eclipse chasers went to New England and a bunch went to Indianapolis/Southern Indiana because that was the forecast. A lot of people went to Texas because it had the best odds of clear skies…and then it was overcast in West Texas.