Oh, dear. That YouTube video with Ms. Charita Carter was a tad messy.
And just as Joe Rohde did with all his "research trips" for roller coasters, WDI decided to play up New Orleans because it has an operating
Ritz-Carlton downtown where they can set up camp on the corporate card. Never underestimate the power of Imagineering execs to spend lavishly on themselves and pretend they have to do endless expense-account "research" for a log ride.
As for salt domes, sure why not?!? The salt dome theme has endless possibilities for drama and mayhem. But at least in the 1980 Louisiana disaster, all the miners made it out alive.
Barely.
Tiana's Bayou Adventure - Presented by Morton Salt