Area 51 events in Nevada prompt emergency crowd planning

[TexasTowelie]

LAS VEGAS — Fearing they could be overwhelmed with visitors, officials in the remote Nevada county that’s home to the Area 51 military base have drafted an emergency declaration and a plan to team resources with neighboring counties and the state ahead of events next month tied to the “Storm Area 51” internet drive.

The elected board governing the county with about 5,200 residents conditionally approved two events Monday for tiny desert towns near the once top-secret U.S. Air Force test area known in popular lore as a site for government studies of outer space aliens.

“Oh, we’re taking this seriously,” Lincoln County Commission Chairman Varlin Higbee told the Las Vegas Review-Journal. “With the possibility of 35,000 to 40,000 people showing up, yeah, this is serious.”

County officials are concerned that a surge of visitors will crowd campsites, gas stations and public medical, internet and cellphone services. Officials count just 184 hotel rooms in the county nearly twice the size of the Connecticut.

Read more: https://www.yourstephenvilletx.com/zz/news/20190820/area-51-events-in-nevada-prompt-emergency-crowd-planning

[Wellstone ruled]

1. Hate to be a downer.

Hope these folks Google the map of Rachel. They claim there are 13 rooms. Oh boy,and the Closest Hotels are a couple hours away or more. Oh my,and don't count on Fuel at the ready,not going to happen.

[BlueTsunami2018]

2. This whole thing was/is a JOKE.

No one is storming Area 51.

[Callmecrazy]

3. It will attract the Press, mostly...

And maybe 100 or so looky-lou's watching and waiting for some thing to go down.