{"id":16022,"date":"2025-10-20T17:08:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T23:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/hot-tub-rescued-from-vallecito-reservoir\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:53:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T03:53:27","slug":"hot-tub-rescued-from-vallecito-reservoir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/hot-tub-rescued-from-vallecito-reservoir\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot tub rescued from Vallecito Reservoir"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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A hot tub, dubbed the \u201cS.S. Tubbie,\u201d is towed to shore and hauled out of Vallecito Reservoir on Saturday. The intrepid hot tub was washed into the reservoir by heavy flooding the week prior. (Courtesy of Explore Vallecito)<\/span>cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

On Friday morning, workers brought ashore a hot tub washed into Vallecito Reservoir by torrential rain and flooding.<\/p>\n

A video on the Facebook group Explore Vallecito showed the hot tub, adorned with an American flag, being winched onto a trailer and pulled from the water.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe met down at the Marina at around 9 a.m., took the Zodiac out and we came back around 11ish,\u201d Rob Hossler, one of the rescuers, said in an email to The Durango Herald<\/em>. \u201cThe hot tub was out of the water around 11:30.\u201d<\/p>\n

It seemed the gales of November arrived early in Vallecito, and what some are calling the \u201cS.S. Tubbie\u201d was ripped from its foundations and swept into the lake by rushing floodwaters.<\/p>\n

\"The
The \u201cS.S. Tubbie\u201d that was filmed floating down a flooding Vallecito Creek on during the Oct. 11 floods is seen in Vallecito Reservoir at the north end of the lake. (Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald file)<\/span>cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

For nearly a week, the hot tub floated in Vallecito Reservoir after being pummeled by the storm.<\/p>\n

Yet, unlike the \u201cEdmund Fitzgerald\u201d or the \u201cTitanic,\u201d this intrepid Jacuzzi remained afloat and refused to sink.<\/p>\n

Hossler and other members of Explore Vallecito said following the fate of the \u201cS.S. Tubbie\u201d was their way of injecting some humor into an otherwise grim situation.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe enjoyed keeping everyone informed of the status of the hot tub,\u201d Hossler said. \u201cIt was a moment of levity in a bad situation for the community.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ladies and gentlemen, the hot tub \u2013 and the community of Vallecito \u2013 are indomitable.<\/p>\n

An earlier version of this story gave an incorrect day for when the hot tub was brought ashore. Incorrect information was given to the Herald<\/em>.<\/p>\n

sedmondson@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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