China woman accidentally leaves water tap on, turns community into ice rink overnight

South China Morning PostCenter-RightEN 1 min read 100% complete by Alice YanFebruary 4, 2026 at 07:00 AM
China woman accidentally leaves water tap on, turns community into ice rink overnight

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A woman in Lanzhou, Gansu province, China, identified as Wang, inadvertently created an ice rink in her residential community after accidentally leaving the water tap of her solar water heater running overnight on January 16. Wang took a shower and forgot to turn off the tap, causing water to continuously flow from the rooftop tank for approximately nine hours. The leaking water streamed down the building and onto the surrounding area, which froze due to the night temperature dropping to -8 degrees Celsius. Wang apologized to her neighbors via a social media video, acknowledging her mistake in creating the icy conditions discovered the next morning. Her father was the first to discover the ice while going for his morning workout.

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