Never seen anything like this

Peyton Manning · 01-12-2010 2:23pm #1

Thought you guys might enjoy these. I'm not a photographer or anything, but this was absolutely extraordinary so I had to take some pictures. Basically, there's a huge water tower beside our house which for some reason or another, has been overflowing the past few days. I mean properly overflowing, right out the top of it. It's stopped now, but what has been left behind frozen is spectacular. Here's a few pictures of the trees at the bottom of the tower. Like I said, Im no professional, so Im sure somebody who's good at photography would love to photograph this properly!

(Note: Also, the base of the tower, the ground is really soft. I found this out the hard way. I sank as soon as I stepped inside the gate. Pretty scary, sank all the way up to my thighs and I'm a good 6'2". Had to phone for help. Very embarrassing. But that's besides the point

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Edit: My method of resizing these pictures was hilariously bad, but Owwmykneecap has kindly pointed out a good website for resizing them and keeping the high quality, so I've edit this post and swapped the ones I originally posted for better versions. I also found one I forgot to post first time round. Hope this isn't too much of a bandwidth hog.

sillybird · 01-12-2010 2:35pm

Wow! Thank you for sharing

tommy21 · 01-12-2010 2:35pm

Great pictures! Be warned though, this could lead to subsidence over time if you have a garden wall etc. nearby for instance. Equally depending on how close it is to your house, I'd be getting it looked into lest the great flood comes :O Very unique photos though, I'd send them into the paper, perfect for the back of the Examiner!

positron · 01-12-2010 2:38pm

Winter photos of the year! Spectacular!

dancingqueen · 01-12-2010 2:39pm

These pictures are amazing - thank you for sharing!

cabot · 01-12-2010 2:40pm

That is beautiful, I would love to have seen that! Bit scary that you sank in the mud though lol

Peyton Manning · 01-12-2010 2:43pm

cabot wrote: »

That is beautiful, I would love to have seen that! Bit scary that you sank in the mud though lol

Damn right it was scary! I suppose it would be good manners of me to post up the hilarious picture of me with nothing but sheer terror in my eyes! Keep in mind I was sinking deeper and deeper in what was basically freezing cold quick sand!

thetonynator · 01-12-2010 2:44pm

Unbelievable! Where in kilkenny are you???

Peyton Manning · 01-12-2010 2:45pm

thetonynator wrote: »

Unbelievable! Where in kilkenny are you???

That's the water tower between Johnstown and Urlingford. I'm a stones throw away from it.

Just so nobody comes to any conclusions, I did not break the water tower by throwing stones at it either! :pac:

cdaly_ · 01-12-2010 3:37pm

Brill pics. Well done.

For the record, next time you find yourself sinking in quicksand, spread your body weight over a large area to avoid sinking further. Put your hands / arms on the ground or even lie down...

po0k · 01-12-2010 4:19pm

Tom_Brady wrote: »

Basically, there's a huge water tower beside our house which for some reason or another, has been overflowing the past few days. I mean properly overflowing, right out the top of it.

Water is a weird substance. Just about everything else contracts as it gets cooler.
At about 4*C (Refrigeration) and below, water starts expanding in volume to a max of 9% increase.
So it's less dense. This would be why ice floats and pipes burst.
I'm going to guess there's a lid on the water tower, and as the ice freezing and expanding at the top pushed down on the liquid water below it, it was forced out.

chucken1 · 01-12-2010 4:26pm

Brilliant photos. Thanks for sharing

Panda · 01-12-2010 4:51pm

:eek: Must eat those berries :eek:

Harps · 01-12-2010 5:15pm

Amazing photos, never seen anything like that!

Should send them to the RTE weather comp

red_fox · 01-12-2010 6:04pm

Incredible photos, and thank God for mobile phones!!!

Mars Bar · 01-12-2010 8:21pm

Fabulous pics Archie!! :eek:

cartom · 01-12-2010 8:49pm

Amazing photos

Stephen · 01-12-2010 9:15pm

I actually saw this on Reddit

Fantastic pictures.

Owwmykneecap · 01-12-2010 10:52pm

Yeah me too. excellent photos.

Do you have high res versions? some would make a good wallpaper etc.

cocoemma · 01-12-2010 11:26pm

WOW :eek: fantastic photo's....

Peyton Manning · 02-12-2010 12:21am

Owwmykneecap wrote: »

Yeah me too. excellent photos.

Do you have high res versions? some would make a good wallpaper etc.

Yup, the originals are like 3000 pixels wide or something like that. My method of resizing them would probably make the professionals cringe - I opened them in Photo Viewer, pressed print screen, pasted it into Paint and cropped the rest of the screen out of it :pac:

Owwmykneecap · 02-12-2010 12:45am

I'm no pro and I cringed!

Try www.imgur.com If you upload them there the will keep their full resolution and it has huge bandwidth.

maquiladora · 02-12-2010 12:53am

Wow! Incredible pictures. You should send these to the papers and to The Weather Channel in the US.

Peyton Manning · 02-12-2010 1:01am

Owwmykneecap wrote: »

I'm no pro and I cringed!

Try www.imgur.com If you upload them there the will keep their full resolution and it has huge bandwidth.

Cheers, that's a great website! I'm editing the original post with higher res pictures from that site right now!

iii Stevo iii · 02-12-2010 1:06am

What camera did you use tom? great pics!

Peyton Manning · 02-12-2010 1:09am

iii Stevo iii wrote: »

What camera did you use tom? great pics!

My mum's camera phone believe it or not! And I'm damn lucky I did too, because I didn't have my own phone with me. Had I taken the digital camera instead, I would have had no way of phoning for help when I was stuck!

Peyton Manning · 02-12-2010 1:26am

Edited the first post to include the higher quality pictures. Much better! Cheers for the advice

TheUsual · 02-12-2010 1:34am

Lovely pics.
Hope you didn't catch a cold getting them !

SeaFields · 02-12-2010 1:37am

Absolutely stunning photos - particularly the ones with the berries. Thanks for sharing.

bluecatmorgana · 02-12-2010 1:45am

Amazing pictures especially for Ireland.

Its very like a weather type called freezing rain.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freezing_rain

images%3Fq%3DFreezing%2Brain%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26sa%3DG%26biw%3D1366%26bih%3D653%26gbv%3D2%26tbs%3Disch:1&itbs=1&iact=rc&dur=329&ei=dev2TPfNI8uK4QaGr4WyBw&oei=QOv2TOPPLMOcOuHy2dQG&esq=4&page=1&ndsp=17&ved=1t:429,r:2,s:0&tx=82&ty=72

It can be very dangerous

Kinetic^ · 02-12-2010 1:48am

po0k wrote: »

Water is a weird substance. Just about everything else contracts as it gets cooler.
At about 4*C (Refrigeration) and below, water starts expanding in volume to a max of 9% increase.
So it's less dense. This would be why ice floats and pipes burst.
I'm going to guess there's a lid on the water tower, and as the ice freezing and expanding at the top pushed down on the liquid water below it, it was forced out.

Yeah...but look at the pictures!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :pac:

Bodhisopha · 02-12-2010 2:00am

www.ngm.com/yourshot

Do it!

Peyton Manning · 02-12-2010 2:31am

Bodhisopha wrote: »

www.ngm.com/yourshot

Do it!

Submitted the close up of the frozen berries for the heck of it! Im sure there's plenty wrong from a professional point of view though, I haven't cropped them or messed around with the colours or anything which usually makes them look better for that type of stuff.

Danno · 02-12-2010 3:02am

Amazing photos Tom, will take a closer look passing by there on Friday!

Peyton Manning · 02-12-2010 3:05am

Danno wrote: »

Amazing photos Tom, will take a closer look passing by there on Friday!

Whatever you do, do not under any circumstances walk directly underneath the tower! It went from solid frozen ground to sinky death trap in the space of one step!

Owwmykneecap · 02-12-2010 5:33am

Tom_Brady wrote: »

Edited the first post to include the higher quality pictures. Much better! Cheers for the advice

If you're interested in how many views/much bandwidth they are using, right click the image and click view (well in firefox anyway) and change the url from for example http://i.imgur.com/2BJPp.jpg to: http://imgur.com/2BJPp

(i.e. remove the the i. at the start and jpg at the end.)

Now playing: Rage Against The Machine - Vietnow via FoxyTunes

neelyohara · 02-12-2010 5:43am

bluecatmorgana wrote: »

Amazing pictures especially for Ireland.

Its very like a weather type called freezing rain.

Wow! Thanks a million for sharing the photos!

I was just about to post the same info as bluecatmorgana. I've seen it before but never in Ireland... it's commonly referred to as an 'ice storm' and the results can be fascinating. A quick google search will throw up some cool results!

c montgomery · 02-12-2010 5:47am

po0k wrote: »

Water is a weird substance. Just about everything else contracts as it gets cooler.
At about 4*C (Refrigeration) and below, water starts expanding in volume to a max of 9% increase.
So it's less dense. This would be why ice floats and pipes burst.
I'm going to guess there's a lid on the water tower, and as the ice freezing and expanding at the top pushed down on the liquid water below it, it was forced out.

Nerd:p;)

r3nu4l · 02-12-2010 10:42am

Amazing photos, great to see a 'post of the day' that isn't from the 'You laugh, you lose' thread in Cool vids, Pics and Links

Glad you got out safe too, scary! :eek:

violeta8l8 · 02-12-2010 1:34pm

Tom_Brady wrote: »

Damn right it was scary! I suppose it would be good manners of me to post up the hilarious picture of me with nothing but sheer terror in my eyes! Keep in mind I was sinking deeper and deeper in what was basically freezing cold quick sand!

OMG!!!

JohnSherwin90 · 02-12-2010 7:58pm

Post them into RTE or The Mirror and get them published:)

Kinetic^ · 02-12-2010 11:28pm

JohnSherwin90 wrote: »

Post them into RTE or The Mirror and get them published:)

The Sun, first time something with their cherry in tact will have appeared on page 3.

John mac · 02-12-2010 11:59pm

Kinetic^ wrote: »

The Sun, first time something with their cherry in tact will have appeared on page 3.

why get the rags to publish, when you can get ngm

Dude111 · 04-12-2010 9:03pm

Oh my TOM....

AMAZING PICTURES!!!!!!!

I think you are a photographer,those are excellent

meercat · 04-12-2010 9:30pm

great pictures
great story about how you got them
thanks

Goodshape · 05-12-2010 8:53pm

Tom_Brady wrote: »

Took me a second to see this properly... I thought you were resting on your knees!

Fookin' hell.

fatherted1969 · 08-12-2010 11:59pm

Tom_Brady wrote: »

Yup, the originals are like 3000 pixels wide or something like that. My method of resizing them would probably make the professionals cringe - I opened them in Photo Viewer, pressed print screen, pasted it into Paint and cropped the rest of the screen out of it :pac:

If you type in PIXresizer on google and download it. Its free software and good for resizing pictures

CR 7 · 09-12-2010 2:35pm

Just saw these photos on 'The Morning Show' on TV3, congratulations Tom, you're famous.;)

(Just to clarify, I wasn't subjecting myself to watching it by choice.)

Peyton Manning · 10-12-2010 1:38am

Park Ji Sung wrote: »

Just saw these photos on 'The Morning Show' on TV3, congratulations Tom, you're famous.;)

(Just to clarify, I wasn't subjecting myself to watching it by choice.)

Serious?

Awesome, can't believe they showed them

Was this yesterdays (thursdays) episode? Any idea where I could watch it again?

Edit: Never mind, found it on the TV3 website! Thats awesome

Wine Goddess · 11-12-2010 12:54am

Amazing pictures.....:cool:
But who took the photo of you sinking in the MAD quicksand????
Like, why did you have to phone for help???!!!
Or am I missing something!

Peyton Manning · 11-12-2010 4:53pm

Wine Goddess wrote: »

Amazing pictures.....:cool:
But who took the photo of you sinking in the MAD quicksand????
Like, why did you have to phone for help???!!!
Or am I missing something!

Yup, I was by myself and luckily was using a camera phone so was able to phone to get some help.

Sadly, my families priorities are:

1. Photograph funny and/or embarrassing moments so the memory can live forever.
2. Save me.

Never seen anything like this

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