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Re: Early Eclipse-It's already a disaster area in Klameth Falls
Author: Erik H.
Date: 08-19-2017 - 22:33
Jim R Wrote:
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> In central and eastern Oregon, so far the eclipse traffic has failed to materialize.
Traffic in the southwest part of Portland has been much lighter than normal for a summer weekend. Earlier this morning folks headed to Lincoln City said it was a breeze and traffic was light; there are LOTS of hotel rooms available. Guess the concept of cancelling peoples' reservations and trying to resell the rooms for much higher has backfired for some hotels; so not only are they completely losing out on any money, but now they have negative goodwill from those whose reservations were cancelled and are telling all their friends and family about it, and will likely never go back to that hotel.
I was shopping at a local mall and the place was busy (back-to-school sales) so I imagine that to a lot of people, this is a non-event and they are just going about their normal business.
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> In central and eastern Oregon, so far the eclipse traffic has failed to materialize.
Traffic in the southwest part of Portland has been much lighter than normal for a summer weekend. Earlier this morning folks headed to Lincoln City said it was a breeze and traffic was light; there are LOTS of hotel rooms available. Guess the concept of cancelling peoples' reservations and trying to resell the rooms for much higher has backfired for some hotels; so not only are they completely losing out on any money, but now they have negative goodwill from those whose reservations were cancelled and are telling all their friends and family about it, and will likely never go back to that hotel.
I was shopping at a local mall and the place was busy (back-to-school sales) so I imagine that to a lot of people, this is a non-event and they are just going about their normal business.
