Winter is coming, the temperature has plummeted, and ice and snow have appeared in many places. In such weather, going to the toilet can also become a difficult task. A woman living in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, suffered a frightening night, when she went to the toilet in the middle of the night, she found that the toilet was frozen, and poured hot water for more than an hour before the ice barely melted.
The woman, surnamed Li, was a white-collar worker who lived in an old-fashioned bungalow. She said that she rarely uses the heating because she thinks it is too expensive and it is not good for her health. She was accustomed to the cold of the Northeast and felt that as long as she was warmly dressed, she could survive the winter. Her toilet is a small room outside the house, with no heating and no water pipes, and she has to carry water with a bucket every time she goes to the toilet.
On the night of December 25, Ms. Li went to bed early because she had to go to work the next day. She said she had a strange dream that night in which she was being chased by an ice-carved horse in a snowy place. When she woke up, she found that she wanted to go to the toilet, so she put on a padded jacket and took a flashlight, walked out of the room, and walked towards the toilet.
She opened the door of the toilet, and a cold wind blew in her face, and she shivered. She looked at the toilet bowl and was stunned to see that the water in the toilet bowl was all frozen, and the ice was several centimeters thick and shining silver. She felt that her dream had become a reality, and she felt a pang of fear in her heart. She thought, how is this possible, she has used the toilet in the morning, the water is normal, why did it freeze into ice overnight?
She thought about it and thought that it might be because the weather was too cold, the toilet was not insulated, and the water temperature was below freezing, so it froze. She decided to melt the ice with hot water, so she ran back to her room, poured the water from the kettle into the bucket, and put it on the cooker to heat it. She waited for ten minutes, the water was boiling, she took the bucket, ran to the toilet again, and started watering.
She poured a bucket of water and found that the ice had not changed, so she ran back to add water and water it again. She repeated it a few times before the ice loosened a little, she took a flashlight and found that there was still water under the ice, she felt hopeful, and she continued to water. She poured it for more than an hour before the ice completely melted, and she finally breathed a sigh of relief, hurried to the toilet, and then returned to her room and continued to sleep.
The next morning, after she got up, she went to look at the toilet again, and found that the water in the toilet was frozen again, she smiled helplessly, she felt that this was the most memorable time in her life to go to the toilet, and it was also the coldest time. She said that she must use more heating in the future, otherwise she is afraid that she will freeze into an ice sculpture.