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Water Park? Disney Guests Swim in Flooded Magic Kingdom Streets
CLICKORLANDO ^ | July 30, 2021 | Stacy Greenhut

Posted on 07/31/2021 11:43:00 PM PDT by nickcarraway

‘Magic Kingdom turned into a water park,’ guest said

Rain and theme parks don’t mix, but for some it was the perfect opportunity to continue the fun.

Around 3 p.m. Thursday, a weather system moved over Disney World and the streets around Cosmic Ray Café become flooded, according to photos shared with News 6.

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While some guests took shelter from the rain, others, mostly children, decided to enjoy the “water park” that formed inside Magic Kingdom.

Cassie Chase shared photos of children playing and swimming to the Annual Passholders Facebook page, saying, “Magic Kingdom turned into a waterpark!”

When asked if she joined in on the fun, Chase said she just walked through it to get inside, where hundreds were eating and watching the kids play.

By the look of the photos, water was about ankle deep.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: dibey; flood
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1 posted on 07/31/2021 11:43:00 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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Masks?😷


2 posted on 08/01/2021 12:07:51 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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Snorkels?


3 posted on 08/01/2021 12:09:56 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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I wonder what that was doing to the utilidors(basement). anytime you’re in a Florida Disney park you’re on the 2nd floor. Due to groundwater, the “basements” in Disney parks were built at grade and the park was built on top of that.

CC


4 posted on 08/01/2021 12:18:00 AM PDT by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
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Overloaded sewage lines, anyone?

I wonder what the E. coli (coliform bacteria) count of that floodwater was.

Regards,

5 posted on 08/01/2021 12:24:14 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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Gators? 🐊


6 posted on 08/01/2021 12:29:12 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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Liberals?


7 posted on 08/01/2021 12:45:37 AM PDT by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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Those would be snakes. 🐍


8 posted on 08/01/2021 1:02:09 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: alexander_busek
Due to a lack of pets and their waste, the storm runoff water may have been turbid but was clean of the most common source of bacteria. Oddly, bird poop would have been the most prominent contaminant.

On the whole, Disney World is an astonishingly clean place, with sanitary sewers and storm water drainage kept rigorously separate. Indeed, the water in the lakes created for the park is monitored and treated so that they do not follow nature's course and become the green fetid swamps that Florida's climate and topography incline toward.

9 posted on 08/01/2021 1:33:45 AM PDT by Rockingham
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One of the reasons Discovery Island / River Country in Walt Disney World shut down was because the waters in the lake were deemed by the state to be unfit for the water park. Unofficial reasons for the closure range from bacteria in the water to lack of revenue. Disney never gave an official reason.
10 posted on 08/01/2021 2:50:24 AM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
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My first thought too was contamination especially in a theme park.


11 posted on 08/01/2021 2:52:38 AM PDT by EBH (Republics are only meant for a good and moral people. 1776-2021 May God Save Us.)
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To: nickcarraway

Very cool. Looks fun.


12 posted on 08/01/2021 2:52:46 AM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism.)
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To: nickcarraway

Real opportunity to continually wash your hands, your face.


13 posted on 08/01/2021 2:55:27 AM PDT by OKITRUMP77
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Real opportunity to continually wash your hands, your face.


14 posted on 08/01/2021 2:55:28 AM PDT by OKITRUMP77
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I had lunch at Cosmic Ray’s on Thursday, just after the rain slowed. I didn’t see that.

Someone in a mouse suit must have been out there pronto to clear the drains.


15 posted on 08/01/2021 4:12:33 AM PDT by bobcat62
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They’re back.

Overnight, they ran around and put the mask signs back up.


16 posted on 08/01/2021 4:14:35 AM PDT by bobcat62
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To: alexander_busek

I wonder what the E. coli (coliform bacteria) count of that floodwater was.

Ding ding!


17 posted on 08/01/2021 4:29:22 AM PDT by Flick Lives (We may or may not have reached herd immunity, but we've definitely achieved herd stupidity.)
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Thank goodness for Governor DeSantis — no masks required. Florida is a free state, for now.


18 posted on 08/01/2021 6:08:41 AM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (America -- July 4, 1776 to November 3, 2020 -- R.I.P.)
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That is very localized flooding, not widespread. It is just one small pond and not particularly deep. Good for kids.


19 posted on 08/01/2021 6:11:16 AM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (America -- July 4, 1776 to November 3, 2020 -- R.I.P.)
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To: nickcarraway

Was the LBTWOQBXM Journey shut down?


20 posted on 08/01/2021 6:21:40 AM PDT by bray (Hating Whites is racist)
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