# USA TSE, total solar eclipse: April 2024 (was "three years away for USA" when started)

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> [@panache45](#):
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> In 2017, I was in Hopkinsville, KY. The traffic prior to the eclipse was ok, since people arrived at different times. But the traffic immediately following the eclipse was a nightmare, with everyone leaving at once. I avoided it by staying an extra day.
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> 2024 will be my fifth Totality, weather permitting. I’ll have to just step outside and look up.

My 2017 experience was very similar, traffic-wise. Horrendous traffic when leaving! Everybody leaving at once.

The eclipse expert Fred Espenak at Sky & Telescope has a good map showing % coverage if you’re off the totality path. I snapped it to imgur.

[[Album] imgur.com ![](https://i.imgur.com/Zpn88A9.png?fb "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/a/BaCEJL3)

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