Eclipse preps: Central Texas judges issuing disaster declarations

AUSTIN (KXAN) – As the moon casts its shadow across Central Texas in a once-in-a-lifetime solar eclipse, county officials expect every city, town and hamlet to be brimming with visitors on April 8, and many are preemptively issuing disaster declarations to prepare.County judges in and around the Hill Country told KXAN they are issuing the declarations to give themselves additional power to handle the consequences of the tourism tidal wave expected to accompany the celestial event.Among man