It had a pretty big impact up here. Vermont officials estimate 160K people drove to the state for Monday’s eclipse. We went up by KMPV to watch and there must have been 20 small planes lining the runway.
This was the post eclipse traffic on 89 south between exits 7 and 6 at 7:30 on the 8th. It was crazy. I couldn't imagine sitting in that, I would go nuts.
I went down to Montpelier around 7:30 and it was still pretty crowded. The restaurants seemed pretty busy. When I was done with my walk I went up the hill and circled down to Rt. 2 to avoid the traffic.
Went down to W. Leb this afternoon. Pretty steady stream of cars coming north on 89. Didn’t seem that much heavier than the Friday before a holiday weekend during ski season.