Road closures for solar eclipse in Essex County [Video]

If you plan to watch the eclipse on Monday, public safety officials are warning you should leave a lot of time for travel and plan ahead.

Roads are expected to be busy, but emergency management planners don’t yet have a firm grasp on how many people will be coming to Windsor-Essex to watch the big event in the sky.

Officials say 500,000 to one million people are planning to watch the eclipse in the Niagara Falls area, prompting an emergency declaration there. But if the weather is cloudy or rainy, some could shift this way.

“Our guesstimating, between probably 6,000 on the very low end to potentially 50,000 to 70,000, depending on the weather,” said Dan Metcalfe, the community emergency management coordinator for the County of Essex.

Come Monday, it’s expected a few county roads will be packed with traffic with people on route to view the phenomenon.

“Make sure …