The dead water parks at the heart of Disney World Florida

bbc.co.uk Newsbeat ^ | March 20, 2016 | staff

[God luvs America]

Disney fanatic two...i was also told there was some type of amoeba in the water that was dangerous, hence they closed it down....we stay at the Contemporary Resort all the time and you can see DI from there..

[kingu]

And superceded by the opening of Animal Kingdom. Once that park neared completion, much of the Discovery Island cast transferred to the much better paying positions there.

[oldvirginian]

Would that have been Life After People?
Very good show that explained what would happen to the world if humanity disappeared. How nature would slowly reclaim the planet as the man made bits began to fail.
How the dams would fall with no one to open the floodgates.
How the skyscrapers would deteriorate without constant maintenance.

Even went into the pets left behind and how the mongrels would adapt better than most.

It used to be on one of the history or science channels every year.
It may have disappeared since the history channels rarely show history and the science channels rarely show science.

[21twelve]

Yes - that was it. I think I watch one show. It was pretty interesting though. I was at a house yesterday that was falling apart - vacant for several years. We did just paint our house and a new roof a few years ago, but it seems our house doesn’t require a whole bunch of work all the time. I suppose just living in it and opening the doors and the heat running is enough to keep the decay away.

[kingu]

It was a parasitic aemoba that is blamed, but all lake water was treated before entering River Country. New water resorts opened which had dedicated parking and the old one shuttered.

The boy who died from the aemoba passed away a decade before the park closed, and the lake speed permitting swimming a few years later when the company decided lifeguards should be no more than 30 feet from a swimmer at all times during the day.

[reviled downesdad]

I had blast at River Country back then with a load of cousins I had never met before.

[ozzymandus]

Lefties love to trash Disney.

[oldvirginian]

Yeah, everyday living does seem to keep things in order.
Especially keeping the vermin out.

One of the things about living in the country has been watching the city slickers come out and buy the old abandoned farm houses.
They see a charming fixer upper where my neighbors and I see a hole that gobbles money.

Five years ago a couple with two young children bought an old house that had been abandoned for about ten years.
In its day it had been a mansion.
Large semicircular porch with balcony on top, large rooms with ten foot ceilings, fireplace in every room, beautiful detailed woodwork.
You name it, it had it.

Couple buys this place and five acres dirt cheap.
They start restoration in late fall.
When spring comes everything slams to a halt.
Contractors refuse to even walk onto the grounds.

Rattlesnakes.
A house full of rattlesnakes.

They call a respected business to come in and get the snakes out.
The man they sent to check it out spent ten minutes in the house and left.
His conclusion: an infestation that he had not seen in fifty years of business.
Take the loss and burn the place down before someone was killed.

The buyers had pre-ordered a lot of very expensive woodwork that couldn’t be returned. Custom doors and windows and marble counter tops.
They had close to $200,000 tied up in that house.
They tried suing the Realtor, the previous owners and everyone remotely involved with the property.
More money paid out.

Judges decision: Buyer failed to prove fore knowledge or malice, no recourse.

A year later they donated the building to the local fire department just to get a tax write off.

[T-Bone Texan]

"...just parallel the shoreline about ten feet from the beach and your paranoid commando buddies can just roll off the side of the moving boat and walk on-shore...."

I really want to try that, not necessarily at Disney World.

[Twinkie]

There’s an abandoned frame house up the road from us. It
has been empty a long time. Now, the deterioration is
really evident & nature is taking it over. It was fairly
old to start with; the residents probably either died or
went to a nursing home. Probably no heirs who wanted to
live in it. Now it’s what I call “ramshackle”. Our place
may end up like that. It’s in the woods; a modest place &
son is the only heir & he lives up north. We upkeep it
pretty well as we’re able. Husband wants to leave the
place to his brother & SIL & their kids. Not fair to our
son; but I’ve fought that battle all I intend to fight it.
He *may* outlive me; but then again, he may not. I’m
exhausted with his petulance & I don’t view that bunch
through the same rose-colored glasses that he does.

[blackdog]

I have seen the same thing with honey bees. The entire structure was filled in every wall or ceiling void space with honeycomb and bees. If you drove a nail into the ceiling honey ran out. Same with the walls. Exterminators had pumped in poison over the years, so the honey was contaminated. Each time exterminators killed off one entrance, the bees would wall it off with comb and build in the other direction. Anytime a wild swarm would smell out the vacant openings they would move in because the insecticide had become inert, as it should after time.

This was not out in the country. It was a $3 million home in suburban Philadelphia. In the end they had to set it on fire, it almost exploded with the few thousand pounds of bees wax in the walls. Once that got going it was like a slow detonating bomb.

[oldvirginian]

Even small amounts of upkeep done regularly can stave off large scale deterioration.
Biggest thing is leaks and paint.

Dividing up estates has done more harm to more families than anything else I know of.
We have had two bitter estate battles in our family and those wounds never heal.

My mom did the best of all, she has a very detailed will that gives certain things to certain people.
She also named someone to administer the estate.
A very tidy job by a good lawyer.

Hope things work out for you.

[oldvirginian]

Wow!
A Honey Bomb in Philly!

I wonder if the insurance company paid out for the structure?
I can imagine the hoops they made the owners jump through to get paid even a little.

[blackdog]

I figure it took about 30 years for the bee hive problem to have come to the point of crushing the structure under shear weight. There had to have been many owners over that time.

I was called because I am good at getting swarms out of walls. I am a bee keeper. Once the bees have set up residence there, new swarms will just keep coming unless you tear out the old wax comb clean up all the honey thoroughly, and seal every possible crack, crevice, and hole. Nothing has that new home smell to a swarm of bees more than a vacant hive with a few thousand pounds of honey available.

[blackdog]

My mom left me a house because we were the only ones out of my family who had children. Although that was nice, it's destroyed almost all family ties. Mostly caused by the spouses of my brothers and sister.

Had to do again, I'd turn it down. It's not worth the next 45 years of hard feelings no matter how irrational they may be?

[sheana]

Hubby’s dad had a trust that specified his house and everything be sold and the money divided.
That’s much better than leaving a house to one sibling.
Our problem was that before Dad died the sister stole every dime Dad had which was about $500k.
It seems like greed always gets to someone.

[blackdog]

There is no permanency in today's economy with jobs and employers. Holding down a job means moving every so often unless you are a government worker. There is really no favor in leaving your kids real property unless things change.

I agree. Sell it all and split it up. Toss my ashes in the park where I spent time with my dog/s. Save just a little to put in little bags to hang in the car so I get to travel a lot.

[outofsalt]

My wife is flipping houses and is snake phobic.
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[Twinkie]

Thanks. My BIL is very bossy; but, thankfully doesn’t live
all that close to us. He & the German SIL are sticking
around their hometown (where he gets a fair amount of hero
worship from some former students). The drive the 12 hour
round trip to visit their 4 grandchildren & 1 adopted
grandchild every month; sometimes twice a month. They are
afraid they’ll have to “babysit” all the time if they move
up there. If anything ever happens to my husband, I just
know the BIL is gonna be on me like a duck on a Junebug,
bossing me around. His wife won’t like it; & neither will
I. Maybe my attitude isn’t all that great; but it has been
formed over a 50 year span of watching how he manipulates
my husband to get what he wants & how my husband thinks
he has a golden butt. Maybe I’ll be incorrect in my
assessment of him; but somehow I doubt it.

[PLMerite]

Amusement Park ride escapes, devours neighborhood!