Agreed. The problem now is that there are animals and fairly extreme coasters with very little else or in between.
Here is the original attraction audio which recreates a ride through, which was sold on a soundtrack CD at the parks up until a couple years ago:
“Scare Me Music” is the “official” name of the cavern music piece. The other original piece-the loading station music—is “The Pirates Overture.”
Quick side note, following the 2006 refurbishment the "A Pirate's Life For Me" that plays at the landing of the first drop was changed to an instrumental version. I can't recall how long it was before they restored the lyricized song, but its stay seemed brief.
Still on iTunes—And a bargain at only $7.99!
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Did you know that California is about overdue for a massive rainstorm and flood that scientists cleverly call the "ARK Storm"???
ARK stands for Atmospheric River 1,000. The last one California had was in the winter of 1862 and it dumped over 10 feet of rain on California over a period of just a few weeks. But there have been bigger ARK Storms in California in the past, every 150 years on average. There was an ARK Storm in 1605 that was twice as strong as the 1862 event. Then there were modest ARK Storms that still devastated the state in 1750 and 1810.
If an ARK Storm hit this winter, Orange County would be inundated by floodwaters that the existing flood control channels and dams were not designed to handle. Disneyland would be underwater for at least a couple weeks.
Can you imagine that mess, especially with all the basement levels Disneyland has?!? The Haunted Mansion and Pirates of the Caribbean have showroom warehouses that are below ground level, and would fill with a dozen or more feet of water. Those warehouses built beyond the berm were all dug down even further into the Anaheim bedrock.
What about Small World and Space Mountain? I believe they were all built below the ground level at least in spots. And what did they do for Star Wars Land? I have to believe they have basement levels to that huge complex, right? Soarin' Over California at DCA also comes to mind as a ride that wouldn't fare well in the next ARK Storm.
There is a joke out there somewhere about New Orleans square , but it would be tastelessUtah comes to mind, at least the low-lying southern part of the state. Although any eruption of the active volcanoes in the California Sierras would impact Utah and potentially cover much of Utah in inches of ash.
I was going to say Tennessee, and had typed out some stuff about it, but then I remembered the devastating New Madrid mega-earthquakes near what is now Memphis about 225 years ago.
Um... West Virginia? Vermont if you don't count blizzards and ice?
The current flood control systems in Orange County were mostly put in place after the big flood of 1938 that impacted all of SoCal. Here's downtown Anaheim during that 1938 flood, after SoCal got a year's worth of rain in just three days. But an ARK Storm flood would bring much more rain and for several weeks at a time compared to the rather modest '38 flood. I can't imagine how the huge basements in some of Disneyland's facilities would handle that type of thing.
I added the red star on this USGS ARK Storm flooding map to signify where Disneyland is.
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Is that why you moved?Did you know that California is about overdue for a massive rainstorm and flood that scientists cleverly call the "ARK Storm"???
ARK stands for Atmospheric River 1,000. The last one California had was in the winter of 1862 and it dumped over 10 feet of rain on California over a period of just a few weeks. But there have been bigger ARK Storms in California in the past, every 150 years on average. There was an ARK Storm in 1605 that was twice as strong as the 1862 event. Then there were modest ARK Storms that still devastated the state in 1750 and 1810.
If an ARK Storm hit this winter, Orange County would be inundated by floodwaters that the existing flood control channels and dams were not designed to handle. Disneyland would be underwater for at least a couple weeks.
Can you imagine that mess, especially with all the basement levels Disneyland has?!? The Haunted Mansion and Pirates of the Caribbean have showroom warehouses that are below ground level, and would fill with a dozen or more feet of water. Those warehouses built beyond the berm were all dug down even further into the Anaheim bedrock.
What about Small World and Space Mountain? I believe they were all built below the ground level at least in spots. And what did they do for Star Wars Land? I have to believe they have basement levels to that huge complex, right? Soarin' Over California at DCA also comes to mind as a ride that wouldn't fare well in the next ARK Storm.
Utah comes to mind, at least the low-lying southern part of the state. Although any eruption of the active volcanoes in the California Sierras would impact Utah and potentially cover much of Utah in inches of ash.
I was going to say Tennessee, and had typed out some stuff about it, but then I remembered the devastating New Madrid mega-earthquakes near what is now Memphis about 225 years ago.
Um... West Virginia? Vermont if you don't count blizzards and ice?
The current flood control systems in Orange County were mostly put in place after the big flood of 1938 that impacted all of SoCal. Here's downtown Anaheim during that 1938 flood, after SoCal got a year's worth of rain in just three days. But an ARK Storm flood would bring much more rain and for several weeks at a time compared to the rather modest '38 flood. I can't imagine how the huge basements in some of Disneyland's facilities would handle that type of thing.
I added the red star on this USGS ARK Storm flooding map to signify where Disneyland is.
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Wish there was a comprehensive resource documenting changes to Disney rides. Pirates and Haunted Mansion have had many.
