So apparently, the U.S. is currently facing a “polar vortex”, plunging much of the country into the lowest temperatures in 20 years.

But instead of hiding indoors and waiting for it to blow over, some folks have decided to see just how cold it really is by tossing boiling water outdoors... and ultimately hurting themselves in the process.

Tried the boiling water trick today... burned the high holy hell out of my hand... I may have done it wrong... but it shore was purdy...

— Tyler Rump (@tyrump) January 7, 2014

So I tried to do the whole throw boiling water outside and it flew back and burned my arm so happy snow day to all

— Hallie Benjamin (@hbenjii) January 6, 2014

Kyle burned his arm trying to do the boiling water trick hahahah pic.twitter.com/FXjEsLOQCu

— Nick Schweppe (@Schweeeeeet) January 6, 2014

I totally just burned myself with boiling water trying to throw it in the air :/ #myluck

— Erika DeBruyn (@ErikaDeBruyn) January 7, 2014

Hey guys, i failed with the boiling water trick and burned my legs

— BenJarvus Lunak (@773_202_LUNAK) January 6, 2014

As a result, social network sites have apparently been flooded with reports of people are actually scalding themselves with hot water just to "make it snow".



Perhaps next time these folks should just leave this kind of stuff to the professionals.