Abandoned Amusement Park

[badpenny]

Did you get you're Chemical Warfare Badge?

[operator bell]

Actually the reason is a little more mundane. The Southern Pacific railroad runs across the lake on a causeway that prevents the two halves mixing, and since one side has an industrial salt extraction plant, over a period of many years that side became considerably less salty than the other. In fact, so many millions of tons of salt have been extracted that the crust on the Bonneville Salt Flats is now barely a couple of inches thick, whereas 100 years ago it was well over a foot.

The reason I know this is I was out there in the fall of 1983, a year of unusually heavy rain. High water levels on the salty side washed away a long section of the Southern Pacific causeway, and this was considered to be a life saver for Bonneville because it replenished the salt.

[badpenny]

I've found some more photos of an abandoned Amusement Park.
I suspect it's Six Flags again, but possibly taken more recently.

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[urbanbody]

make a google search with "pripyat amusement park"

[jimmy55]

Wow ...scary. Brave (or foolish) people for entering and taking the pictures. I wonder how long it will be before it is fit for habitation again?

[coppinpr]

Wow ...scary. Brave (or foolish) people for entering and taking the pictures. I wonder how long it will be before it is fit for habitation again?

more scary than you know, there is an area close to this where 20,000 cars,trucks and helicopters were parked because they are radio active, they have since been stripped by locals and the parts sold in Moscow as spares (well at least the car will glow in the dark) the locals close to the Chernobyl site regularly fish in the cooling lakes around the reactors, the catfish can be up to 10 feet long ( and I guess,also glow in the dark) so the moral is " dont buy a secondhand car in Moscow and drive to Chernobyl for a fish dinner"

[urbanbody]

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=pripyat& ... e&t=h&z=18

[youngerap]

Wow ...scary. Brave (or foolish) people for entering and taking the pictures. I wonder how long it will be before it is fit for habitation again?

According to Wikipedia (and everyone knows they can trust Wikipedia, eh?) "Ukrainian officials estimate the area will not be safe for human life again for another 20,000 years".

Which is why it makes perfect sense that the place becomes a tourist attraction!

[jimmy55]

According to Wikipedia (and everyone knows they can trust Wikipedia, eh?) "Ukrainian officials estimate the area will not be safe for human life again for another 20,000 years".

Which is why it makes perfect sense that the place becomes a tourist attraction!

Suddenly Great Yarmouth out of season sounds so much more inviting! ......mind you theres a tall Russian girl who works in the Golden Nugget who has a certain glow about her ( maybe thats just my imagination .......)

[coppinpr]

"Ukrainian officials estimate the area will not be safe for human life again for another 20,000 years"

same as Disney land Paris then

[badpenny]

"Ukrainian officials estimate the area will not be safe for human life again for another 20,000 years"

same as Disney land Paris then

In 1997 my (then) step daughter who was aged 4, having just woken to hear that Princess Diana had just died in Paris, rushed into our bedroom.

"Oh mummy, mummy ......... it's so sad, the Princess of Disneyland is dead"
Out of the mouths of babes etc.