There was a gigantic water main break this morning. Schools, offices and the CDC were closed. Buford Highway looked like a lake. It was closed to traffic. We are going to have to boil drinking water for several days.
Interesting info and videos here; very 21st century with short clips, tweets and so on: https://www.ajc.com/news/traffic/just-water-main-break-shuts-down-buford-highway-dekalb-county/cefcx91zPPjthLAb31zQjI/ This is the problem with gigantic, centralized infrastructure. Especially when it gets old, it becomes fragile and subject to catastrophic failure. - Jed
