County officials are concerned that a surge of visitors will crowd campsites, gas stations and public medical, internet and cellphone services.
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.
"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." "The cellphone system is going to go down," Higbee said."You get more than a couple of hundred people there, and it's going to crash. Cell service won't be available."
The Alien Research Center souvenir shop in Hiko, a town of about 120 a 45-minute drive from Rachel, plans a Sept. 20-21 exposition.
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