Seems two people tried to ride out the California wildfires by sitting in a hot tub instead of evacuating like they were asked to do. It didn't work nearly as well as they had hoped.

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-Blast

A similar situation occurred in the WW2 bombings of both Hamburg, when people climbed into limited amounts of water ahead of the advancing wall of fire. Fountains in Hamburg and water barrels in Tokyo provided only fleeting protection. Once the water heated up it made the situation far worse.

The result was pretty much the same in both cases ... soup. Not a pleasant way to go.

People can survive exposure to higher temperatures longer if the air is dry. Steam and hot water are far more efficient at transmitting heat to skin than hot dry air.

I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

I mean, c'mon, we cook shellfish this way.

Nevermind skin - they planned to breath, right? I always thought lungs were more easily damaged by heat than skin if you had to take a breath at the wrong moment...

It certainly would be interesting to have a way to play back a person's though processes at a time like that. Now THAT would make a really entertaining TV series!

California... redwood hot tub... relatively small amount of water... It kind of sounds like the cooking pot in one of those cannibal cartoons.

I wonder if those two will receive Darwin Award nominations?

"Breathe? We have to breathe?"

the stupidity of people never fails to amaze me.

Apparently, they're alive and medium-well...

Nah, they're both still in the gene pool, thus disqualified.

Hopefully they learned something. And not "We need a bigger hot tub!"

And the award for the most tasteless (and therefor funniest) joke goes to Uncle Groo.

-Blast: sick, twisted, and (currently) highly medicated

You just can't fix stupid!