" she cried; "let me get at thee, that I may plunge this knife into thy body.
Before the sun rises you must plunge it into the heart of the prince; when the warm blood falls upon your feet they will grow together again, and form into a fish's tail, and you will be once more a mermaid, and return to us to live out your three hundred years before you die and change into the salt sea foam.
The plunge in temperatures led to a water main leak in Brooklyn, flooding some residents' homes.