Officials in one northeast Ohio county are urging residents to stay home April 8 and to avoid looking directly at the sun as the moon obscures its view for a few minutes that day.
Summit County leaders, along with emergency planners and experts from the NASA and the National Weather Service, held an online Town Hall gathering on County Executive Ilene Shapiro’s Facebook page this week to discuss the potential impacts the total eclipse will have on Summit County.
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The general consensus is this will be a once-in-a-lifetime event that should not be missed.
And Summit County officials say the best view will be in residents’ own backyard or a park within walking or biking distance of their home.
The biggest concern is the crush of out-of-town visitors who are expected to descend on northern Ohio.
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A total eclipse in Ohio hasn’t happened since 1806 and it won’t happen again until 2099.