While writing I was thinking along the similar lines. Maybe I could get my kid to squirt me with a mist bottle while I try to light a fire. Then step up to a lawn sprinkler.

I started thinking about wind direction, direction of rain, and figured I should be able to shield most of it with my body huddled over it. I plan on packing a garbage bag with the fire starting materials. Maybe I could go inside my garbage bag while starting a fire to provide a cover. Of course keeping in mind oxygen depletion and suffication factors. Maybe split open the garbage bag and improvise a small makeshift tarp covered area?

During the same testing period, I had put a cotton ball sized portion of 0000 steel wool in the water as well. After the couple hour soaking, I shook out most of the water and then blew on it. I was able to light it on the first spark. There was still some water so it did not burn as well as completely dry steel wool but only to the practiced eye. I put the steel wool on the end of a fatwood splinter about 3/4 pencil diameter. WIth a gentle puff or two I got some flames but they went out before the fatwood splinter started. I tried another portion of dry steel wool on the same splinter. Again steel wool burned but failed to light the splinter.

My conclusion to those tests was the splinter was too large and the amount steel wool too small. That is why I took the time to make the next tests with a split fuzz stick as described in the first post. I did not try any additional steel wool tests but concentrated on the wet cotton ball since it seemed more of a challenge to light wet cotton.