Originally Posted By aliceinherownland Was it just me or did everyone in the Parade of Dreams on Sunday seem inordinately confused when it started to rain? I thought they would have had back-up plans or something, but as soon as the first drops of rain started to fall, the parade dancers kinda ground to a halt and looked at each other like they didnt know what to do. I was watching the tea party float (because the jumping cards are the best part of the parade) and when it started raining, the flowers on stilts disappeared, as did the giraffe and zebra stiltwalkers for lion king. The float handler in front of me motioned for the cards to come down, but the cards were a bit rebellious and continued to bounce. All in all, I thought the confusion was more interesting to watch, but I was just wondering, dont they rehearse for rain?
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORWEN: Rain?! In Southern California? In the summer time? I didn't think that EVER happened!!!
Originally Posted By TP2000 It sprinkled for like 10 minutes in central Orange County on Sunday. Statistically, that hadn't happened in July in over 50 years, and it confused everyone a great deal.
Originally Posted By monorailblue And, I think the answer is they do not practice for rain performances--if it is raining, they do not perform--the instances where it begins to rain part way through the parade are probably infrequent.
Originally Posted By dresswhites my final summer at disneyland in 99, we had a couple times where we got storms. southern california doesn't get this phenoma very often, but it does happen. like monorailblue said, they do the parades when it rains, because the ground is slippery, so there probabaly was some confusion. i think it would have been interesting to see!
