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With one week until the Great Eclipse here are some things to plan for.

Traffic should increase as the week progresses and eclipse visitors begin to arrive. Beyond traffic their could be cell phone and atm issues as the numbers grow beyond what the local infrastructure was meant to support.

ODOT expects many Oregon highways to be very crowded in the days around the Aug. 21 #OReclipse. Many crashes are the result of distracted driving and traveling too fast for conditions. So we’re encouraging you to #DriveHealthy: Keep your hands on the wheel, your mind on the task, and your eyes on the road—not on the sky. It also means you must plan your travel well in advance.

Because of the expected large crowds, please treat the 3-hour eclipse as a 3-DAY event:
Arrive early, stay put and leave late.

The Eclipse Megamovie Project [EMP] is a project that aims to gather as many images as possible over the path of totality. Those images will come from volunteer observers and be incorporated into a summary movie of the event.

The first total solar eclipse visible across the entire contiguous United States since June 8, 1918 first appears over Oregon on August 21st 2017.

Beginning between Lincoln City and Newport at about 10:15 a.m. PDT and exiting the state at 10:27 a.m near Ontario.