We have such crappy infrastructure, and now it’s all going to catch up with us:
St. Tammany Parish, a community north of New Orleans on Lake Pontchartrain, on Saturday ordered the mandatory evacuation of thousands of residents in some 1,200 homes, fearing the failure of a lock along a canal could send a wave of water sweeping through neighborhoods.
Saturday night, parish emergency officials said that the opening of valves had relieved pressure on Lock 2 on the Pearl River Diversion Canal but the evacuation order would remain in place.
Earlier, parish officials said the order covered residents between Locks 1 and 2 on the Pearl River Diversion Canal. “Failure of Lock 2 is imminent,” the parish said on its website.
