Dear Don Rosa,
I know that Chapter 10B and the "Quest for Kalevala" will be coming
out soon in America. Other than those stories, has Todd Klein started lettering
any of your more recent works for publication in Gemstone comics? Also, have
you finished that neverending Brazilian story yet? Will that most likely come
out by Christmas?
Sincerely,
Anthony
Author
Topic: 200407
(175 messages)
Anthvvuono
New Gemstone Rosas?
Message 1 -
2004-07-01 at 07:21:22
Mickey
DCML Digest Issue 31
Message 2 -
2004-07-01 at 10:21:56
>I have now been officially invited (and have accepted) to be in Athens on
November 1 - 4, 2004
If I come deliberately for you from Italy, would I come back home with a
drawing of yours in my hands? ^_-
Mickey
November 1 - 4, 2004
If I come deliberately for you from Italy, would I come back home with a
drawing of yours in my hands? ^_-
Mickey
Don Rosa
DCML Digest, Vol 17, Issue 1
Message 3 -
2004-07-01 at 15:04:40
> From: Anthvvuono at aol.com
> Subject: New Gemstone Rosas?
> I know that Chapter 10B and the "Quest for Kalevala" will
> be coming
> out soon in America. Other than those stories, has Todd Klein
> started lettering
> any of your more recent works for publication in Gemstone comics?
??? What could be more recent than two that have not yet been published? Are
you asking if he's lettering any more beyond those two stories? I don't
think they have their schedule planned out that far, but he is apparently
wanting to letter more of my work when they decide to use it.
> Also, have
> you finished that neverending Brazilian story yet?
NO! This week I had to stop to write texts for the 2005 DON ROSA CALENDARs
and to draw a new PICSOU pin-up! I hope to finish the Brazil story this
month!
> Will that most
> likely come
> out by Christmas?
It usually takes 6 months for something to see print after I send it in, so
I guess that will be next year.
From: "Mickey" <mickey at iol.it>
Subject: Re: DCML Digest Issue 31
>>>If I come deliberately for you from Italy, would I come back home with a
drawing of yours in my hands? ^_-
I wish I could guarantee that! But when somebody else is running the show, I
must do as they direct. If the crowds are too big, I won't be able to do
drawings. If the crowds are manageable, I will gladly do drawings for anyone
who asks. But if the Greek publisher has some odd reason that he wants
NOBODY to have a drawing even if there's time (and in the past sponsors have
decided that for reasons of their own), I'll hafta do as they say (though
I'll certainly gripe at 'em). But one good way to handle crowds and still do
drawings for a few people is to have the people who want a drawing *get back
to the end of the line* and come through a second time -- that way, I don't
spend time doing too many drawings such that time will run out and there
would be some folks who would not even get a signature. I did it this way at
the various 4-5 hour long signing sessions during my Scandinavian tour last
month. The most important thing is that everyone gets *something*, and the
autographs come first, I think.
> Subject: New Gemstone Rosas?
> I know that Chapter 10B and the "Quest for Kalevala" will
> be coming
> out soon in America. Other than those stories, has Todd Klein
> started lettering
> any of your more recent works for publication in Gemstone comics?
??? What could be more recent than two that have not yet been published? Are
you asking if he's lettering any more beyond those two stories? I don't
think they have their schedule planned out that far, but he is apparently
wanting to letter more of my work when they decide to use it.
> Also, have
> you finished that neverending Brazilian story yet?
NO! This week I had to stop to write texts for the 2005 DON ROSA CALENDARs
and to draw a new PICSOU pin-up! I hope to finish the Brazil story this
month!
> Will that most
> likely come
> out by Christmas?
It usually takes 6 months for something to see print after I send it in, so
I guess that will be next year.
From: "Mickey" <mickey at iol.it>
Subject: Re: DCML Digest Issue 31
>>>If I come deliberately for you from Italy, would I come back home with a
drawing of yours in my hands? ^_-
I wish I could guarantee that! But when somebody else is running the show, I
must do as they direct. If the crowds are too big, I won't be able to do
drawings. If the crowds are manageable, I will gladly do drawings for anyone
who asks. But if the Greek publisher has some odd reason that he wants
NOBODY to have a drawing even if there's time (and in the past sponsors have
decided that for reasons of their own), I'll hafta do as they say (though
I'll certainly gripe at 'em). But one good way to handle crowds and still do
drawings for a few people is to have the people who want a drawing *get back
to the end of the line* and come through a second time -- that way, I don't
spend time doing too many drawings such that time will run out and there
would be some folks who would not even get a signature. I did it this way at
the various 4-5 hour long signing sessions during my Scandinavian tour last
month. The most important thing is that everyone gets *something*, and the
autographs come first, I think.
Arthur
Discovery Channel to raise boat with ping pong balls
Message 4 -
2004-07-01 at 15:56:40
Hi all,
On the television show Mythbusters, that runs on Discovery Channel in the US and Canada, each week special-effects experts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman take on three myths and use modern-day science to show you what's real and what's fiction.
On an upcoming episode that is now in post-production and will probably be aired at the end of this year, the makers of the show use 60,000 ping pong balls to try and raise a 24-foot sailboat! This, of course, was first done by Donald Duck in 1949 in the classic Carl Barks story "The Sunken Yacht" in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories 104.
If you don't mind to be spoiled I found the following article on the web where you can read about if they succeeded or not: http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/news/8954923.htm
You can find more information about the TV show Mythbusters and when the "Ping Pong" myth episode will air at: http://dsc.discovery.com/fansites/mythbusters/mythbusters.html
Kind regards,
Arthur
DCW: http://www.wolfstad.com/dcw
On the television show Mythbusters, that runs on Discovery Channel in the US and Canada, each week special-effects experts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman take on three myths and use modern-day science to show you what's real and what's fiction.
On an upcoming episode that is now in post-production and will probably be aired at the end of this year, the makers of the show use 60,000 ping pong balls to try and raise a 24-foot sailboat! This, of course, was first done by Donald Duck in 1949 in the classic Carl Barks story "The Sunken Yacht" in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories 104.
If you don't mind to be spoiled I found the following article on the web where you can read about if they succeeded or not: http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/news/8954923.htm
You can find more information about the TV show Mythbusters and when the "Ping Pong" myth episode will air at: http://dsc.discovery.com/fansites/mythbusters/mythbusters.html
Kind regards,
Arthur
DCW: http://www.wolfstad.com/dcw
Kimba1962
DCML Digest, Vol 16, Issue 30 (Vacation Time)
Message 5 -
2004-07-01 at 17:13:20
Derek Smith wrote:
<<I just read "Vacation Time" by Carl Barks in Vacation Parade 2004. I hadn't
read it before so it was a treat to me. I think it might be one of the best
Barks ever did. The story was funny and serious at various points. I think the
best scene in the whole story was the last panel of page 29 with Donald looking
at the fire's destruction. The story showed how responsibile, etc. Donald can
be when the situation calls for it. Vacation Time is the type of story I think
I'll read again and again occasionally to recall how good it is.
For those who have read the story, what do you think of it?>>
A really, really excellent story, one of Barks' finest. It's a great example of how a story can teach a meaningful lesson without being preachy or overly didactic. Donald's directions to HD&L on how to avoid being killed by the fire are tossed off naturally as part of the flow of the narrative. It's so easy to imagine this sequence coming off like an extended version of "Donald Duck Tells About Kites" in lesser hands. Rather than creating the spokescritter Smokey Bear, as the U.S. Forest Service did about that time, the USFS should have seriously considered distributing THIS story to campers and park visitors as an illustration of how (and how NOT) to camp.
Others have remarked on the high level of Barks' artwork and unusual panel design in this story. Barks apparently put quite a lot of thought into how to arrange the various oddly shaped panels. This was most unusual for him, as he generally stuck to a conventional layout and concentrated on what was INSIDE the panels. One might regard "Vacation Time" as presaging Barks' bolder artistic approach of the early 50s, wherein he started to use human characters in supporting roles and otherwise lift his stories out of what would then have been considered the "conventional" channels of relating a "funny animal" adventure. Of course, he eventually got slapped down on the issue of using humans, but "Vacation Time" nonetheless stands as something of a modest declaration of artistic independence.
Chris Barat
<<I just read "Vacation Time" by Carl Barks in Vacation Parade 2004. I hadn't
read it before so it was a treat to me. I think it might be one of the best
Barks ever did. The story was funny and serious at various points. I think the
best scene in the whole story was the last panel of page 29 with Donald looking
at the fire's destruction. The story showed how responsibile, etc. Donald can
be when the situation calls for it. Vacation Time is the type of story I think
I'll read again and again occasionally to recall how good it is.
For those who have read the story, what do you think of it?>>
A really, really excellent story, one of Barks' finest. It's a great example of how a story can teach a meaningful lesson without being preachy or overly didactic. Donald's directions to HD&L on how to avoid being killed by the fire are tossed off naturally as part of the flow of the narrative. It's so easy to imagine this sequence coming off like an extended version of "Donald Duck Tells About Kites" in lesser hands. Rather than creating the spokescritter Smokey Bear, as the U.S. Forest Service did about that time, the USFS should have seriously considered distributing THIS story to campers and park visitors as an illustration of how (and how NOT) to camp.
Others have remarked on the high level of Barks' artwork and unusual panel design in this story. Barks apparently put quite a lot of thought into how to arrange the various oddly shaped panels. This was most unusual for him, as he generally stuck to a conventional layout and concentrated on what was INSIDE the panels. One might regard "Vacation Time" as presaging Barks' bolder artistic approach of the early 50s, wherein he started to use human characters in supporting roles and otherwise lift his stories out of what would then have been considered the "conventional" channels of relating a "funny animal" adventure. Of course, he eventually got slapped down on the issue of using humans, but "Vacation Time" nonetheless stands as something of a modest declaration of artistic independence.
Chris Barat
Adel Khan
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2004-07-01 at 22:27:06
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"Somwhere in Nowhere"
Message 7 -
2004-07-01 at 22:34:38
Regarding the mesages to Uncle $crooge 329 . When Will "Somehere In Nowhere" be printed again. Its a Barks?Pat/Lustig coaboration when would it be published in USA.
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Barks panels used in national Dutch high school exam
Message 8 -
2004-07-02 at 00:07:48
Hi all,
The 2004 chemistry exam for the MAVO high schools in the Netherlands, which
was given on the 3th of June, contained seven questions about several panels
from Carl Barks' The Mad Chemist (WDC 44, 1944). It showed the first four
panels of the second page of the story.
The questions were about the chemical formulas in the panels, the measuring
cups that are shown, the substances 'gesmoorde zwavel' ('braised brimstone')
and 'gestoofde vitriool' ('stewed sulphur') and about which safety
precautions Donald should have taken when doing the experiments in the
fourth panel.
The last question mentions that Donald mumbles about CH2 in the 1944 story,
yet the particle (?) with formula CH2 wasn't actually discovered until 1959.
If you're interested in seeing the exam you can download it as a PDF from:
http://www2.citogroep.nl/vo/ex2004/400009-1-585-540o.pdf
Kind regards,
Arthur
DCW: http://www.wolfstad.com/dcw
The 2004 chemistry exam for the MAVO high schools in the Netherlands, which
was given on the 3th of June, contained seven questions about several panels
from Carl Barks' The Mad Chemist (WDC 44, 1944). It showed the first four
panels of the second page of the story.
The questions were about the chemical formulas in the panels, the measuring
cups that are shown, the substances 'gesmoorde zwavel' ('braised brimstone')
and 'gestoofde vitriool' ('stewed sulphur') and about which safety
precautions Donald should have taken when doing the experiments in the
fourth panel.
The last question mentions that Donald mumbles about CH2 in the 1944 story,
yet the particle (?) with formula CH2 wasn't actually discovered until 1959.
If you're interested in seeing the exam you can download it as a PDF from:
http://www2.citogroep.nl/vo/ex2004/400009-1-585-540o.pdf
Kind regards,
Arthur
DCW: http://www.wolfstad.com/dcw
Ola Martinsson
The black knight glorps again, Does the hook actually work as you
Message 9 -
2004-07-02 at 11:41:30
Hi Don !
I've read the first part of your new story and so far I like it. There
however is one detail that I'm wondering about. Note that I'm not trying
to tell you that you have committed an error. I don't care if you do.
But since you are so thorough with your details, I hope that you can
explain this to me.
******* SPOILER WARNING ************
When Lutin falls by slipping on the carpet he is catched by the hook.
But wouldn't he swing around in a circular movement around the point
where the hook is hooked to the floor so that he would glorp the floor
from underneath where the hook is so it would in fact become loose again
and he would continue to fall ?
Ola in a rainy Stockholm +13
I've read the first part of your new story and so far I like it. There
however is one detail that I'm wondering about. Note that I'm not trying
to tell you that you have committed an error. I don't care if you do.
But since you are so thorough with your details, I hope that you can
explain this to me.
******* SPOILER WARNING ************
When Lutin falls by slipping on the carpet he is catched by the hook.
But wouldn't he swing around in a circular movement around the point
where the hook is hooked to the floor so that he would glorp the floor
from underneath where the hook is so it would in fact become loose again
and he would continue to fall ?
Ola in a rainy Stockholm +13
Dan Shane
Smokey and the Ducks
Message 10 -
2004-07-02 at 13:48:47
CHRIS WRITES:
> Rather than creating the spokescritter Smokey Bear, as the U.S. Forest
> Service did about that time, the USFS should have seriously considered
> distributing THIS story to campers and park visitors as an illustration of
> how (and how NOT) to camp.
AND I RESPOND:
Hey, don't be dissin' on my bro' Smokey!
I agree that VACATION TIME would have made an excellent handout then (and
still would now), but Smokey has proved an excellent spokesbear for the
Forestry Service. I could wish that the USFS had approached the publishers
for Barks' help in developing a crossover story with Donald and Smokey -- I
think such an idea would be fun.
I haven't read VACATION TIME for many years, so I don't recall if Barks uses
a discarded cigarette as a firestarter, but Smokey has always warned us of
the dangers of smoking in the woods along with carefully neutralizing our
campfires. It's a fact that most of the preventable forest fires are
started by careless smokers, and I suppose Disney wouldn't even allow
someone to be shown smoking in a comic these days. After all, Pecos Bill is
known to have given it up in the DVD release of MELODY TIME.
Dan
> Rather than creating the spokescritter Smokey Bear, as the U.S. Forest
> Service did about that time, the USFS should have seriously considered
> distributing THIS story to campers and park visitors as an illustration of
> how (and how NOT) to camp.
AND I RESPOND:
Hey, don't be dissin' on my bro' Smokey!
I agree that VACATION TIME would have made an excellent handout then (and
still would now), but Smokey has proved an excellent spokesbear for the
Forestry Service. I could wish that the USFS had approached the publishers
for Barks' help in developing a crossover story with Donald and Smokey -- I
think such an idea would be fun.
I haven't read VACATION TIME for many years, so I don't recall if Barks uses
a discarded cigarette as a firestarter, but Smokey has always warned us of
the dangers of smoking in the woods along with carefully neutralizing our
campfires. It's a fact that most of the preventable forest fires are
started by careless smokers, and I suppose Disney wouldn't even allow
someone to be shown smoking in a comic these days. After all, Pecos Bill is
known to have given it up in the DVD release of MELODY TIME.
Dan
Don Rosa
DCML Digest Issue 2
Message 11 -
2004-07-02 at 14:44:45
> From: Ola Martinsson <Ola.Martinsson at ericsson.com>
> I've read the first part of your new story and so far I like it. There
> however is one detail that I'm wondering about.
> ******* SPOILER WARNING ************
> When Lutin falls by slipping on the carpet he is catched by the hook.
> But wouldn't he swing around in a circular movement around the point
> where the hook is hooked to the floor so that he would glorp the floor
> from underneath where the hook is so it would in fact become loose again
> and he would continue to fall ?
No, because if that happened, the story wouldn't work.
But that's why the hook was so large with a wide radius from point to its
base -- it extended out far enough that if he swung backwards, he wouldn't
glorp that spot where the hook point was lodged. Also, I think I mentioned
somewhere (or it's just something *I* know), when he's falling through those
floors, he's not falling at full speed, he's being slowed down *a bit* by
the brief moments that the Omnisolve(tm) takes to dissolve the concrete...
that's why he wasn't killed when he fell 10 floors onto that pile of
diamonds in the original story. So he would not spin very much when the hook
dug into something... mostly just hang there.
But... I dunno, I couldn't experiment...
> I've read the first part of your new story and so far I like it. There
> however is one detail that I'm wondering about.
> ******* SPOILER WARNING ************
> When Lutin falls by slipping on the carpet he is catched by the hook.
> But wouldn't he swing around in a circular movement around the point
> where the hook is hooked to the floor so that he would glorp the floor
> from underneath where the hook is so it would in fact become loose again
> and he would continue to fall ?
No, because if that happened, the story wouldn't work.
But that's why the hook was so large with a wide radius from point to its
base -- it extended out far enough that if he swung backwards, he wouldn't
glorp that spot where the hook point was lodged. Also, I think I mentioned
somewhere (or it's just something *I* know), when he's falling through those
floors, he's not falling at full speed, he's being slowed down *a bit* by
the brief moments that the Omnisolve(tm) takes to dissolve the concrete...
that's why he wasn't killed when he fell 10 floors onto that pile of
diamonds in the original story. So he would not spin very much when the hook
dug into something... mostly just hang there.
But... I dunno, I couldn't experiment...
Jani Järvinen
(no subject)
Message 12 -
2004-07-02 at 16:19:26
Ho is read "Quest for Kalevala"? I dont like that storie so match, but I am
Finnish. It`s too... I dont no, but it?s need somehting. Somehting... good.
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ZeldasTriforce
FCBD 2004 Gemstone Issue/Miky Mysterio
Message 13 -
2004-07-04 at 03:21:36
Hi all!
Well I got my copy of Gemstone's offering for Free Comic Book Day. One thing
that struck me about the 'Riddle of the Red Hat' is that it really (to me)
doesn't look like it was drawn by Barks. I know it was, but my eyes couldn't
really detect his style/way of doing things. After seeing Paul Murry's first story
in Vacation Parade, I think it was for the best that Barks was a Duck and not
a Mouse artist. His art for Red Hat seems basically like anything you'd
encounter in a regular Mouse story of the 1940's/50's. The art wasn't bad by any
means, but there wasn't anything that made it stand out either. As for the story
itself, it's pretty good, a bit better than the average Mouse story I think.
As for the second story "Second Richest Duck" I, like many here, have read
the story before. I read it again today, hasn't changed any, still great as
ever. Not much more to be said on that account.
All in all, I think Gemstone's FCBD offering this year, measures up pretty
well to 2003's offering of Maharajah Donald, etc.
Question to Gary Leach: I've been reading at Arthur's DCW about Miky
Mysterio, an Italian comic magazine that was around for a few years in the mid 1990's
and was revived in Greece in 2002. It's basically Mickey being a detective,
etc. with the stories apparently being rather well done in comparison to a lot
of stories in that genre. I was wondering if Gemstone had any plans on
printing some of those stories? Perhaps in MMA? The Greek magazine is 100 pages long,
but I don't know if the stories themselves are of suitable length to be
included in MMA.
Derek Smith
Well I got my copy of Gemstone's offering for Free Comic Book Day. One thing
that struck me about the 'Riddle of the Red Hat' is that it really (to me)
doesn't look like it was drawn by Barks. I know it was, but my eyes couldn't
really detect his style/way of doing things. After seeing Paul Murry's first story
in Vacation Parade, I think it was for the best that Barks was a Duck and not
a Mouse artist. His art for Red Hat seems basically like anything you'd
encounter in a regular Mouse story of the 1940's/50's. The art wasn't bad by any
means, but there wasn't anything that made it stand out either. As for the story
itself, it's pretty good, a bit better than the average Mouse story I think.
As for the second story "Second Richest Duck" I, like many here, have read
the story before. I read it again today, hasn't changed any, still great as
ever. Not much more to be said on that account.
All in all, I think Gemstone's FCBD offering this year, measures up pretty
well to 2003's offering of Maharajah Donald, etc.
Question to Gary Leach: I've been reading at Arthur's DCW about Miky
Mysterio, an Italian comic magazine that was around for a few years in the mid 1990's
and was revived in Greece in 2002. It's basically Mickey being a detective,
etc. with the stories apparently being rather well done in comparison to a lot
of stories in that genre. I was wondering if Gemstone had any plans on
printing some of those stories? Perhaps in MMA? The Greek magazine is 100 pages long,
but I don't know if the stories themselves are of suitable length to be
included in MMA.
Derek Smith
ZeldasTriforce
X Mickey-Gary Leach, etc.
Message 14 -
2004-07-04 at 03:39:57
I meant to put this in my least email with my question to Gary about Miky
Mysterio. But another Mickey series I thought of is the Italian comic 'X Mickey'.
It's sort of detective stories, except it's more involved with Mickey
investigating monsters, weird stuff, etc. Some surreal stuff it seems. Apparently,
its stories are well-thought of as well.
To Gary: Basically the same question I had about Miky Mysterio, any plans on
printing stories from X Mickey? Each issue has a long story and a short one.
Based on the stuff you've printed in DDA (like Lars Jensen's stories, for
example), it seems like X Mickey would be great for MMA.
And to all DCMLers who have read stories from Miky Mysterio and X Mickey,
what did you think of them?
Derek Smith
Mysterio. But another Mickey series I thought of is the Italian comic 'X Mickey'.
It's sort of detective stories, except it's more involved with Mickey
investigating monsters, weird stuff, etc. Some surreal stuff it seems. Apparently,
its stories are well-thought of as well.
To Gary: Basically the same question I had about Miky Mysterio, any plans on
printing stories from X Mickey? Each issue has a long story and a short one.
Based on the stuff you've printed in DDA (like Lars Jensen's stories, for
example), it seems like X Mickey would be great for MMA.
And to all DCMLers who have read stories from Miky Mysterio and X Mickey,
what did you think of them?
Derek Smith
Larry Giver
Barks' "Vacation Time" story
Message 15 -
2004-07-04 at 12:13:54
Does anyone know how Barks came up with the idea for Donald and HDL
to bury themselves (pages 27-28) before the forest fire reaches them?
It's interesting that Dewey suggested they get in the creek's water (page 25,
panel 7) to escape the fire, but Huey thought the water would get too hot,
and they would "be boiled like eggs".
This story predates HDL joining the Junior Woodchucks, so they can't
consult the guidebook, or do any quick calculations to determine if the
water would indeed get too hot to survive during the fire, as they could in
later stories. Dewey thought it was a good idea, but Huey didn't;
both just had conflicting ideas of their own, and they had to defer to
Donald's judgement. I expect that after surviving the fire being "nearly
steamed away" underground (page 29, panel 5), Dewey must have
stopped at the creek to see how hot the water got, and if his idea would
have been a better plan.
Now what's the better idea in real life? Here in the San Francisco Bay
area of California, about 10 years ago the huge Oakland Hills fire
destroyed about 3000 houses and apartments. Most people escaped the
area of the fire; some of the people trapped in the area of the fire saved
themselves uninjured by getting in a swimming pool while houses, trees,
and buildings burned up around them. Lots of these houses and
apartment groups had swimming pools. The water didn't heat up
significantly. I didn't read any news reports of anyone burying himself
to survive the fire.
------------Larry Giver.
to bury themselves (pages 27-28) before the forest fire reaches them?
It's interesting that Dewey suggested they get in the creek's water (page 25,
panel 7) to escape the fire, but Huey thought the water would get too hot,
and they would "be boiled like eggs".
This story predates HDL joining the Junior Woodchucks, so they can't
consult the guidebook, or do any quick calculations to determine if the
water would indeed get too hot to survive during the fire, as they could in
later stories. Dewey thought it was a good idea, but Huey didn't;
both just had conflicting ideas of their own, and they had to defer to
Donald's judgement. I expect that after surviving the fire being "nearly
steamed away" underground (page 29, panel 5), Dewey must have
stopped at the creek to see how hot the water got, and if his idea would
have been a better plan.
Now what's the better idea in real life? Here in the San Francisco Bay
area of California, about 10 years ago the huge Oakland Hills fire
destroyed about 3000 houses and apartments. Most people escaped the
area of the fire; some of the people trapped in the area of the fire saved
themselves uninjured by getting in a swimming pool while houses, trees,
and buildings burned up around them. Lots of these houses and
apartment groups had swimming pools. The water didn't heat up
significantly. I didn't read any news reports of anyone burying himself
to survive the fire.
------------Larry Giver.