Danielle Rappaport has been fielding a flood of emails about the upcoming total solar eclipse: where to go and how to view what will be, for many people, a once-in-a-lifetime event. With San Antonio the first major U.S. city to glimpse the eclipse, Rappaport, the outreach coordinator for the local astronomy club, has some advice: Get out of town.
"Actually, it's only going to hit the westernmost part" of the city, she says. And any place in the path of totality — the moment when the moon perfectly covers the sun — that is easily accessible by road will be inundated with gawkers gazing skyward. "San Antonio is going to get swamped," she says.
