A major water main break early Thursday flooded a building and streets at a busy intersection in south Minneapolis, with the water quickly freezing in subzero conditions.

A beloved local bookstore, Paperback Exchange, is facing an unimaginable loss after a water main break flooded their southwest Minneapolis store early last Thursday morning . The store, which was preparing to celebrate its 50th anniversary this spring, now finds itself in the midst of a crisis.

All residents parking on Oliver Avenue South have been notified as the water might freeze cars to the street if they are not moved soon.

Three people are displaced and a street is closed off after a water main break floods a street in southwest Minneapolis. Authorities have now closed the area surrounding the broken pipe as water continues to flow.

Javonte Lynn, a water distribution trainee with the city of Minneapolis, and Josh Menne, a water distribution foreman, left to right, carry flower bouquets in the flooded basement of Lake Harriet Florist in Minneapolis on Thursday.

A Minneapolis bookstore says it has lost a majority of its inventory due to flooding in the basement caused by a burst water main last week. Paperback Exchange said the burst main under West 50th Street on Thursday resulted in "catastrophic damage" to the basement wall,