by Robin Scott Johnson
North Platte, Nebraska: A large sinkhole, probably caused by Wednesday night's extremely cold temperatures, opened up on Cottonwood Street and 4th, after a water main ruptured early in the morning on Thanksgiving Day in a quiet neighborhood west of the downtown area.
City maintenance workers closed a short section of Cottonwood Street between 3rd and 4th Streets, and opened up a fire hydrant for nearly an hour to relieve pressure on the break and to prevent the hole from expanding.
When one of the workers on the crew was asked how he liked working Thanksgiving Day, he replied only with a look of sadness and put his hands up in the air in silent resignation to the task at hand.
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