Can you turn the thunder down?

[SpaceRanger]

I think that water melts what is left of the guests brains...

As soon as it started to rain, people starting going over the ropes so they could go hide under the canopy of the fantasy land theater.... a dozen cm's yelling at them to get their ass back in line doesn't do anything, cuz "it's wet out there." :roll: That was when it was only sprinkling... after MUCH effort, they finally get all the guests back where the line is SUPPOSED to be. But it starts raining pretty hard, so back over the ropes they go... altho I do always find it funny when they hop over the ropes then start running and fall and make an idiot of themselves.

Anyway, they finally let everyone into the theater. There's a little bit of thunder, and a lady comes up to the counter and asks for us to "please turn the thunder down, it frightened my son"

Yes lady... we'll do that just as soon as we shut off the rain too.

[DisneyPrincess]

:roll:
I like the ones that decide hiding under the very metal and very electical filled cart is a good thing to do....
Or when they get mad when we evacuate the theatre that is full of electronics, metal benches and a moat full of water, but it's safe to stay in during a lightning storm.

[GuyFromTheBigSplashyRide]

:roll:
I like the ones that decide hiding under the very metal and very electical filled cart is a good thing to do....
Or when they get mad when we evacuate the theatre that is full of electronics, metal benches and a moat full of water, but it's safe to stay in during a lightning storm.

Heh, the nice thing about guest saftey during rainstorms is that they have HUGE lightning rods convienently located in almost every outdoor cast break area...look around kids... remember, if your heart stops...they don't have to pay you anymore... they lose a guest, they lose money. Think about it- CIRCLE OF LIFE...*does african tribal dance*

[DisneyPrincess]

I know they do, but I also know that we've had lightning miss the rods and hit other things as well.

[Zazu]

I just love working at an outdoor attraction during a thunderstorm.

"Are you open?"

"No, we have to close during electrical storms."

"But will you open later?"

"Yes, we'll reopen about 20 minutes after the storm clears."

When will the storm clear?"

"About 20 minutes before we reopen."

"When will you reopen?"

"About 20 minutes after the storm clears."

I like to see how many times a guest will go around this cycle. It's not like I've got anything better to do.

[DisneyPrincess]

Hehe that is a pretty funny one to do :)

[goose]

I would have told her that the thunder wasn't under my control. It wasn't my department.

[SpaceRanger]

"Sorry m'am, they just fired the guy who is in charge of turning that down for us. Just sit tight and hope they find someone to take his place soon."

[Pschtyckque]

"It's not really raining. Someone must've left on the roof sprinklers."

[DisneyPrincess]

"Sorry m'am, they just fired the guy who is in charge of turning that down for us. Just sit tight and hope they find someone to take his place soon."

"We have an opening if you're interested" :)

[tourbunny]

"so you don't like our new guy in charge of park atmosphere? he's just trying to make the climat under our big dome more realistic to the outside world. you are lucky you came on a softopen day for that, we are just testing, it'l be over in 20 minutes"

[pixiedust]

I was always jealous, because I heard that when lightning/thunder storms pick up in florida, the CMs on the back of the trams get to sit on the back row instead of standing out on the back platform in the lightning.

Also, I guess when we opened downtown disney, the "simba" toll booths didn't have floor mats, so they would have to shut down when there was lightning because the entire booth, including the floor, is metal. Hehe.

[techie-13]

Believe it or not but when I started working in rides at Great America (back in '87) they did not have a policy of closing rides during thunderstorms. That came about in 1990 after a guest went into Guest Services and asked why they were still running the 200 ft tall Skytower in an electrical storm. One of my least favorite rides department memories is when I wound up working a double shift on top of a metal and wood catwalk 100 ft off the ground (the chute position on Loggers Run) while soaking wet and watching an electical storm get closer and closer. I kept calling the lead and giving him updates about where the storm was and asking "when are we were going to close?"