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Related: About this forumWater remains out in much of Atlanta after multiple water main breaks
Hat tip, NBC Nightly News
METRO ATLANTA
Water remains out in much of Atlanta after multiple water main breaks
Government facilities, hospitals and attractions, restaurants and businesses forced to close
By Henri Hollis
Updated 10 hours ago
>> New Saturday updates on this story are posted here
Some Atlanta residents are still without water after multiple main breaks led to outages in much of the city on Friday, including all of downtown.
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Water remains out in much of Atlanta after multiple water main breaks
Government facilities, hospitals and attractions, restaurants and businesses forced to close
By Henri Hollis
Updated 10 hours ago
>> New Saturday updates on this story are posted here
Some Atlanta residents are still without water after multiple main breaks led to outages in much of the city on Friday, including all of downtown.
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Water remains out in much of Atlanta after multiple water main breaks (Original Post)
mahatmakanejeeves
Jun 2024
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rampartc
(5,835 posts)1. now atlanta.
jackson. new orleans. flint. the maga legislatures do it by holding the money.
they really do want our infrastructure to crumble.
Raven123
(6,111 posts)2. Multiple water main breaks?
yonder
(10,005 posts)3. The 'multiple' throws me too.
First thought was some kind of hack got to the control system and jacked up pressures to cause weak distribution elements to fail.
I'd be the first to admit I know little about water delivery systems and how they're controlled as well as my little theory sounds pretty kooky.
Still, multiple failures at once seems unusual.
Permanut
(6,698 posts)4. No worries..
I'm sure MTG is all over this.
AZ8theist
(6,541 posts)5. Yes. She's an EXTREMELY effective legislator....