Man creates frozen waterfall from running tap
Published: 2013 April 17 18:25:01 (3217 Views)
A Chinese man inadvertently created a frozen waterfall outside a block of flats when he left his tap on all winter.
Wen Hsu, 58, was the last remaining resident of the building, scheduled for demolition to make way for a new shopping centre in Jilin city, Jilin Province.
As winter approached, Hsu was worried the uninsulated water pipes running up through the unused and unheated flats below him would freeze, leaving him without running water.
So he simply switched on the tap - and then diverted the warm water to flow down the side of the building.
He said: "The water running into the pipe is from underground where it is above freezing and that is stopping the water pipes in my house from freezing.
"If that had happened I really would have had to move out. They want me to move but what they were offering was not enough for me to get another place so I'm refusing to leave."
Ironically the spectacular waterfall has drawn attention to his case in national media and officials are now urging developers to settle the matter so that the project can move on.
- Orange News
Wen Hsu, 58, was the last remaining resident of the building, scheduled for demolition to make way for a new shopping centre in Jilin city, Jilin Province.
As winter approached, Hsu was worried the uninsulated water pipes running up through the unused and unheated flats below him would freeze, leaving him without running water.
So he simply switched on the tap - and then diverted the warm water to flow down the side of the building.
He said: "The water running into the pipe is from underground where it is above freezing and that is stopping the water pipes in my house from freezing.
"If that had happened I really would have had to move out. They want me to move but what they were offering was not enough for me to get another place so I'm refusing to leave."
Ironically the spectacular waterfall has drawn attention to his case in national media and officials are now urging developers to settle the matter so that the project can move on.
- Orange News
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