Solar eclipse 2024: Travis County judge issues local disaster declaration | FOX 7 Austin

A Travis County judge has issued a local disaster declaration in anticipation for the upcoming total solar eclipse next month.

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[MynameisnotYOU]

The only people that predict fires start fires

[lindawilkinson]

What do you know that is so important to stock up on food and water during an eclipse? This does not even begin to make sense.

[patriciastrang]

So how is the coming eclipse different from all the others we've had ....what do they know

[octavioandrade]

One upon on time… I was falling in love.. now I’m falling apart…. Nothing I can do total eclipse of the heart!!!

[Jimmycricketsapocalypse]

They know. Natural cataclysmic events incoming. Sun is active. All planets aligning. Major energy incoming.

[Gwrightproductions]

We did not do this in 2017. As a matter of fact, people actually looked into the sun. Nothing happened.

[ernest]

Nothing surprises me anymore. Just pray and stock up just incase. Its better to have it and not need it than it is to need it and not have it. 🙏 and put your faith in Jesus Christ.

[daybyday]

The last words he said was very weird!

[shelbybarrett]

Stock up? Why? It's an eclipse for 4 minutes.. what's really going on?

[roadkillavenger]

What I can't stand are all of the negative slime balls that don't have anything good to say.

[spacecoyote]

People tell these folks that the crowds will be three times larger than the largest crowd they've ever seen. Maybe they will have big crowds and maybe they won't

[urklesteve]

If people were wise they listen to this people and stick up because this is just weird and not to mention if you believe in the Bible this eclipse has a lot of strange biblical coincidences. I’m in Nevada, but I’m still going to prepare just in case. It’s not just this county doing this either!

[biancac]

3 days of darkness. Thats why they are telling people to have food, water, and gas. It's going to be total chaos.

[Monjagetitonya]

How many pairs of these glasses will be on the ground? SMH! Please stay off our bluebonnets!!!

[CasperEloff-eolh]

Quora message of hope hidden Bible Prophecy in Torah

[esmysyield]

Its a solar eclipse. They arent rare. Why is everyone going stupid? Everyone has lost their damn minds.

[artlife]

how about handing out blue roof paint to all citizens?

[spencerathearn]

Dosen't a disaster have to happen before you declare one, seems like a money grab to me

[msmoe]

Declaring a disaster before the thing even happens? What the hell is wrong with people?!?!

[BB-zcgq]

Oh man, i better go get some toilet paper.