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Post-Eclipse Traffic Expected To Be A Mess

DENVER (CBS4) - Traffic heading back into Colorado is expected to be a mess for much of Monday.

Thousands of people headed north for the weekend for a chance to see the eclipse.

Great American Eclipse
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And now, as the Colorado State Patrol points out in a tweet, "everyone that was once north, begins to go south."

The number of people who traveled to Wyoming for the solar eclipse, many of them from Colorado, state officials estimated, doubled the state's population of half a million people.

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