Stephen wrote:

> No serious PPE (Personal Protective Equipment). Safety boots, jeans, tee shirt,
> overalls, leather/cotton gloves and hard hat. I tried removing my tee shirt but
> the metal on the overalls was too hot to touch. I know what the temperature was
> because I took a mercury thermometer up to check as I wanted to know what the
> temperature was and a bi-metallic strip thermometer was reading over 100C.


can only assume that your drenched clothing somehow kept you a few 
degrees cooler than that or something. (Surely water must evapourate 
stupidly fast at almost boiling point!)

Reminds me of the time I was trapped by a fire. I didn't realise that 
skin could actually excrete water that fast. I'm not kidding, I had 
water *pouring* off me like water flows out of a tap. I have no idea how 
much water there is in the human body, but I'd suggest fatal dehydration 
couldn't take very long at that speed. (I had one *bad* headache 
afterwards!)

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