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  • 01-12-2010 2:23pm
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,658 ✭✭✭✭


    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 :o )

    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.

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  • Registered Users Posts: 174 ✭✭sillybird


    Wow! Thank you for sharing :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,419 ✭✭✭tommy21


    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!


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,283 ✭✭✭positron


    Winter photos of the year! Spectacular!


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,079 ✭✭✭dancingqueen


    These pictures are amazing - thank you for sharing! :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 76 ✭✭cabot


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


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,658 ✭✭✭✭Peyton Manning


    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!

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,234 ✭✭✭thetonynator


    Unbelievable! Where in kilkenny are you???


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,658 ✭✭✭✭Peyton Manning


    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:


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,440 ✭✭✭cdaly_


    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...


  • Registered Users Posts: 15,815 ✭✭✭✭po0k


    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.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,761 ✭✭✭chucken1


    Brilliant photos. Thanks for sharing :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,615 ✭✭✭Panda


    :eek: Must eat those berries :eek:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,548 ✭✭✭Harps


    Amazing photos, never seen anything like that!

    Should send them to the RTE weather comp


  • Registered Users Posts: 642 ✭✭✭red_fox


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


  • Registered Users Posts: 31,819 ✭✭✭✭Mars Bar


    Fabulous pics Archie!! :eek:


  • Registered Users Posts: 87 ✭✭cartom


    Amazing photos


  • Registered Users Posts: 18,484 ✭✭✭✭Stephen


    I actually saw this on Reddit :) Fantastic pictures.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,237 ✭✭✭Owwmykneecap


    Yeah me too. excellent photos.

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


  • Registered Users Posts: 216 ✭✭cocoemma


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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,658 ✭✭✭✭Peyton Manning


    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:


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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,237 ✭✭✭Owwmykneecap


    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.


  • Registered Users Posts: 11,134 ✭✭✭✭maquiladora


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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,658 ✭✭✭✭Peyton Manning


    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!


  • Registered Users Posts: 285 ✭✭iii Stevo iii


    What camera did you use tom? great pics!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,658 ✭✭✭✭Peyton Manning


    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! :o


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,658 ✭✭✭✭Peyton Manning


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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,288 ✭✭✭TheUsual


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


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,551 ✭✭✭SeaFields


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


  • Registered Users Posts: 447 ✭✭bluecatmorgana


    Amazing pictures especially for Ireland.

    Its very like a weather type called freezing rain.

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

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    It can be very dangerous


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,249 ✭✭✭✭Kinetic^


    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:


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