Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!

Classic roller coaster
Phoenix Case-Shiller:
Miami Case-Shiller

You know that excitement you feel (chuga chuga chuga) as the coaster is climbing the hill. Oh, how high will we go? Weeeeee, this is gonna be fun.

Then you get to the very tip top, and it's calm. You have a nice view. Everything's gonna be OK. It's peaceful.

And then, if you're sitting in one of the front cars, you feel gravity taking you down. You start to scream. You see the drop ahead of you. You scream even louder. But oddly, you only hear silence from those behind you. Oh, that's because they're still enjoying the peak, having no idea of what's to come.

Well, now the whole coaster has crossed the peak, the ones in the front are screaming their heads off, they've got a full view of the drop ahead, and even the ones toward the back of the coaster can feel the gravity take hold, even though they don't have a clear view of what's ahead.

Here's the Case Shiller graph for Phoenix and Miami. And of course, one of my favorite coasters at Cedar Point.