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Lots of places we visited on our summer road trip are now experiencing flooding, ranging from big puddles to downtowns entirely flooded out with many feet of water.
Here's Hersheypark. The Trailblazer and Dry Gulch Railroad are clearly not so much dry as submerged. The area around Comet Hollow where I struggled to get information about the Virginia quake is now the bottom of a lake.
The saddest detail: Hersheypark has a "ZooAmerica" area that we didn't get around to visiting (though I remember seeing it when I was a kid). While they managed to evacuate nearly all of the animals in time, there was a sudden flash flood that threatened to drown the park's two bison before they could possibly be gotten out of their pen, and they decided to shoot the bison instead. There seems to be a lot of outrage and second-guessing going around about this; I'm personally doubtful about whether amusement parks should really be running zoos at all, but the one at Hersheypark is at least accredited, and it sounds as if they were genuinely caught flat-footed by the speed of the rising water and had no time to do anything else.
As for the roller coasters, I'm sure they'll be all right; I know that even old woodies have been completely submerged and come out intact. It sounds like it might take a while to clean up, though. I heard Knoebels got hit pretty hard too.
Here's Hersheypark. The Trailblazer and Dry Gulch Railroad are clearly not so much dry as submerged. The area around Comet Hollow where I struggled to get information about the Virginia quake is now the bottom of a lake.
The saddest detail: Hersheypark has a "ZooAmerica" area that we didn't get around to visiting (though I remember seeing it when I was a kid). While they managed to evacuate nearly all of the animals in time, there was a sudden flash flood that threatened to drown the park's two bison before they could possibly be gotten out of their pen, and they decided to shoot the bison instead. There seems to be a lot of outrage and second-guessing going around about this; I'm personally doubtful about whether amusement parks should really be running zoos at all, but the one at Hersheypark is at least accredited, and it sounds as if they were genuinely caught flat-footed by the speed of the rising water and had no time to do anything else.
As for the roller coasters, I'm sure they'll be all right; I know that even old woodies have been completely submerged and come out intact. It sounds like it might take a while to clean up, though. I heard Knoebels got hit pretty hard too.