Ever have one of those weekends? Maybe you should ask the same question to the whole Oxford community. In a 12-hour span from late Friday evening to early Saturday morning in subarctic zero conditions, the Oxford community experienced not only an electrical outage but also a water break. Today, Oxford is operating at 100 percent after the Kansas Department of Health and Environment lifted a boil-water advisory this morning. The trouble started at 5 p.m. Friday evening when the lights went out in Oxford. The temperature was 7 degrees, with a wind chill of -14. At 7:48 p.m., short of three hours, power was restored. Oxford residents, like the rest of Sumner County, planned to spend the rest of the weekend hunkered down as the storm blew through. When Oxford residents woke up the next morning, many residents noticed that little to no water was coming out of their faucets. Oxford utility workers immediately headed north of town to the town wells and saw something they hadn’t expected — a newly formed lake that wasn’t frozen. “We have never had any problem with the water line before,” said Shannon Brister, Oxford City Clerk. “I would say this was the largest water leak in Oxford history.”
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