And I can only imagine the "surprise" a group of workers experienced as they were washing in this "cone". They inadvertently allowed "soap" to enter, which was (at the time) nothing more than a "washtub" to clean their dirty clothes.
It seems "common soap" breaks the surface tension of the underlining "scalding water" below the ground just a few feet. In Yellowstone National Park, the eruption of "Old Faithful" can be predicted with the second hand on a clock. This geyser in Rotorua just takes a little "soap" to set it off.
It must have hysterical to see a dozen naked guys trying to recover their clothes, blown to heaven, and trying to avoid scalding water raining down out of the washing machine!
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Oh, I love this..... the description of the Rotorua washing machine was, indeed, hysterical..... and I can picture those naked guys going beserk! A scene straight out of "South Pacific"....wouldn't that have been fun ? And when you consider that one normally does add soap, when washing clothes, this scene must play itself out quite frequently !
Corrine
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