DAYTON — Water can quickly change to ice in these dangerously cold temperatures.
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As reported on News Center 7 Daybreak, crews responded to a water main break near Burkhardt and Hayden Avenues on Tuesday night.
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Our news crew saw several Dayton city crews blocking the area. There were also several inches of water across a freezing road.
The entire region is under an Extreme Cold Warning until noon on Wednesday.
Storm Center 7 said low temperatures will fall between -5 and -10 degrees across the region. Even with lighter wind, wind chills will likely be -20 or colder.
A man had to deal with slippery sidewalks.
“There’s a ton of it, like I said, that’s the stuff that got me, I was like, it looks like water, and I go and step on it, and it’s like I’m starting to ice skate,” said Antonio Garcia. “It’s kind of hard to maneuver upward with everything going on.”
A woman reached out to News Center 7 about this water main break.
She lives a few streets from the intersection.
Our news crew stopped by her house, but she did not want to talk.
She showed our news crew that her water was not working.
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