URGENT: Immediate, mandatory evacuation for area between Locks 1 and 2 on Pearl River

[BananaTom]

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St. Tammany Parish EOC calling immediate and mandatory evacuation for area between Locks 1 and 2on the Pearl River Diversion Canal and South to highway 36 between Bush and Hickory.

"Failure of Lock 2 is imminent," says a statement from the EOC.


The area covers Bush to the north, Hickory to the south and east of Highway 41, according to Suzanne Parsons, the public information officer for St. Tammany Parish.