Due to approaching incliment weather...

[Celerystalker]

Why is this so hard to comprehend??? Ok, it is pouring down raining with thunder and lightening, and they still ask why the ride is closed??
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I was at WDW last week and Splash Mountain was closed most of the time I was there. I assumed it was because of the weather, so I asked a cast member at the ride if that was why. She said it wasn't. Was she pulling my leg or does Splash Mountain have other problems?

[Zazu]

I was at WDW last week and Splash Mountain was closed most of the time I was there. I assumed it was because of the weather, so I asked a cast member at the ride if that was why. She said it wasn't. Was she pulling my leg or does Splash Mountain have other problems?

It sure did last week!

I first noticed that there was no water in the flume. This normally means BIG trouble, because I know of only three reasons to drain the whole mountain:

1. A leak. :(
2. A failure of two of the three big pumps (it takes two to keep the mountain wet). :mad:
3. There's a body in the flume.

Fortunately, it was the first of these. A water leak in a high pressure line that was spraying all over the flume and some of the animatronics. Not a Good Thing.

The leak was stopped fairly quickly, but it took quite a while to refill the mountain and effect a patch. It was still 101 when I left that night.

[Anim8EdCox]

I am amazed at the reactions in the crowd outside Cinderellabration when the show is called off due to inclement weather. They shout and fume and are pretty nasty about it.

2 weeks ago they announced a performance was cancelled due to the rain that had begun to drench everything and I actually heard a male guest shout that his daughter want's to see Cinderella and she'd better see her now! One of the attendants cleverly told him that due to the weather and the value of her gown and jewels that Cinderella would be waiting to meet and greet all of her subjects safely over in ToonTown until the bad weather passed. That was just in time for the fireworks to be shot from the castle which seemed to appease the guest and he grabbed his little daughter's hand and ran to Toontown in the downpour!

If the weather is too dangerous for cast and guests alike, don't these people realise that it is in everyone'sw best intersts to cancel or close something down that could be hazardous to everyone? It's their vacation, but even Disney can't control the elements causing outside locations to close down for the time being.

[Zazu]

If the weather is too dangerous for cast and guests alike, don't these people realise that it is in everyone'sw best intersts to cancel or close something down that could be hazardous to everyone?

Ah, I believe the correct answer to your question would be ... "No." :( But thanks for playing!

[Simba1]

but even Disney can't control the elements causing outside locations to close down for the time being.

Ahhhh...but I have been asked, on more than one occasion: "What time does the rain stop?"

[Anim8EdCox]

Ahhhh...but I have been asked, on more than one occasion: "What time does the rain stop?"

LOL! I have too and it's still hysterical every time I hear it! Amazing...guests are...amazing!

[BTTF4Life]

Ahhhh...but I have been asked, on more than one occasion: "What time does the rain stop?"

Same here. I've even had guests get mad when I tell them that it's unknown.

[coldfire409]

"What time does the rain stop?"

Well Chuck, let me consult my super dopplar radar sitting behind me here. All indications point to when you leave this god forsaken place.