Brett, Sandra and daughter Brenna Lusk of San Antonio made the day trip to Marble Falls to find a good vantage point for eclipse viewing. "Even now, it's sort of overcast, but you can still see," Sandra Lusk said.

Burnet County officials confirmed the Reveille Peak total solar eclipse festival got can - celled abruptly Monday morning, just a few hours before the rare instance of the moon blocking the sun was expected to cast a huge shadow over the Earth and convert normal county daylight into sheer darkness. The totality of the eclipse was predicted to happen around 1 p.m.

- phasize enough how res - idents should be prepared for potential communica - tion and infrastructure is - sues, during the total solar eclipse on April 8. "That goes back to a lot of materials that we pushed out," Bur - net County Emergency Management Coordina - tor Derek Marchio told The Highlander. "Have a backup communications plan, knowing where that volunteer fire department in case you've exhausted every single means of try - ing to call 9-1-1.