{"id":254376,"date":"2026-01-23T23:18:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T23:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/254376\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T23:18:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T23:18:07","slug":"sartell-warns-residents-to-take-precautions-as-extreme-cold-causes-freezing-pipes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/254376\/","title":{"rendered":"Sartell Warns Residents to Take Precautions as Extreme Cold Causes Freezing Pipes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(KNSI) \u2013 The City of Sartell is offering advice after residents reported their water pipes are freezing.<\/p>\n<p>Recommended precautions include running a small, steady drip from a faucet to help prevent the water from freezing. City officials emphasize this is a preventative measure and not required of residents. Homeowners are still responsible for all water usage recorded on their meter.<\/p>\n<p>Central Minnesota has been plunged into a deep freeze, with air temperatures reaching -24 degrees and wind chills near -36 degrees. An extreme cold warning was issued overnight, followed by a cold weather advisory, which is in effect until midnight. The National Weather Service predicts Friday\u2019s high will be -10 degrees, Saturday\u2019s high will be -4 degrees, and Sunday will top out at 1 degree.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 Leighton Media. All rights reserved. This material may not be broadcast, published, redistributed, or rewritten, in any way without consent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(KNSI) \u2013 The City of Sartell is offering advice after residents reported their water pipes are freezing. Recommended&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[105185,242,85,46,3716,4179,141,105,1481],"class_list":["post-254376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-community-information","tag-environment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-new","tag-radio","tag-science","tag-sports","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}