BuffyFan
Earning My Ears
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- Oct 18, 2000
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We noticed while riding Grizzly River Rapids that there is a last "surprise" water-producer in the ride, a water spout that may or may not drench you as the ride is almost over. We got SOAKED the first time through, then the second time through, later that day, noticed that the water spout didn't seem to be spouting as much water. Same for our third time through the next day.
We asked the CM's at the ride about it, and they told us that GRR operates on a "summer/winter" mode in which a sensor automatically detects the air temperature and sets the water spout into high and low mode accordingly. Winter mode is when the water spout goes into low mode, and the cut off is apparently 65 degrees.
Interesting, we thought, but we also noticed that late at night, say after 10pm or so when DCA is open until midnight, the water spout goes, inaccountably, into full-on summer mode and completely drenches you, even though the temps at night are generally lower.
Why the discrepancy? We have a feeling that during daytime hours the CM's leave the ride on this regular automatic mode for the water spout, but during the last few park hours, when very few people ride GRR anyway, they manually set the mode to "summer" so adventurous riders (like us!) can get totally soaked.
That was our theory, anyway. Fun to guess!
GRR is super to ride between 10pm and midnight, by the way. It is a walk-on because most people don't go on water rides that late. So if you are daring...
S.
We asked the CM's at the ride about it, and they told us that GRR operates on a "summer/winter" mode in which a sensor automatically detects the air temperature and sets the water spout into high and low mode accordingly. Winter mode is when the water spout goes into low mode, and the cut off is apparently 65 degrees.
Interesting, we thought, but we also noticed that late at night, say after 10pm or so when DCA is open until midnight, the water spout goes, inaccountably, into full-on summer mode and completely drenches you, even though the temps at night are generally lower.
Why the discrepancy? We have a feeling that during daytime hours the CM's leave the ride on this regular automatic mode for the water spout, but during the last few park hours, when very few people ride GRR anyway, they manually set the mode to "summer" so adventurous riders (like us!) can get totally soaked.
That was our theory, anyway. Fun to guess!
GRR is super to ride between 10pm and midnight, by the way. It is a walk-on because most people don't go on water rides that late. So if you are daring...
S.
