I was on the Ohio turnpike yesterday around 6 PM, and decided to go have a look at Cedar Point. Well, I got off at the exit, traveled down, followed the signs (all while there were 40+ MPH winds with rain and hail), and noticed that there were emergency vehicles everywhere. Streets were closed off, due to uprooted trees, and downed power lines. I got out of there fast, and stopped somewhere in Indiana for the night. Anyone have any news about this?
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Tidal Wave... Sky Whirl... what's next... Whizzer?
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Sit up right, hold on tight!
*** This post was edited by SFNE Man on 3/10/2002. ***
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Millennium Force......It has its ups and downs.
Strong winds have been moving across the northeast for the past day. On Saturday it was 70 degrees in Rochester, NY, but overnight we had wind gusts of up to 50 mph and when I woke up today it was 25 degrees, snowing and still pretty windy. That's what I call some serious weather change! :) It probably just hit Sandusky earlier than here...
-Matt
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Rob
I HATE SNOW!!! I am boycotting snow, I refuse to have fun in it.
Does anybody know if there might have of been any damage over at PKI? I know here in Richmond Indiana(right on the Ohio border) Tree's were uprooted, several semi's were being tipped over, and the tempature dropped from 55 to 32 degrees in a matter of 15 min! I just hope no damage was done at PKI!
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Cedar Point fans and Magic Mountain fans unite. Let's sign a rollercoaster treaty.
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My Top 5 Coasters:
1. Raging Bull(SFGAm) 2.Millenium Force(CP) 3. Deja Vu(SFGAm) 4.V2(SFGAm) 5.Cornball Express(IB)http://coasterworld.cjb.net
It was windy to day in RI
did millenium force fall down again because of the wind?
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Out of the coasters i've ridden here is what I rank them overall:(ive been to canobie lake and SFNE)
1. S:RoS 2. Yankee Cannonball 3. Riverside Cyclone 4. Canobie
Corkscrew 5. Thunderbolt 6. Galaxy 7. Mind Eraser 8. Dragon coaster 9. poison ivy's tangl
In response to TR:TR2002's question:
At PKI the wind did cause some damage, but nothing to worry about. One of the boards of the giant TR:TR sign on International Street fell off, it was funny watching two security guards trying to lift the board up in the 50 mph sustained winds during the storm, couldn't lift it half way up. Quite humorous. Then in the associate parking lot some sort of debris from the storm was fired in the wind at my car, shattered the rear window in the car. However I guess that isnt PKI's misfortune, but mine...
So nothing major happened at PKI. My coworkers were expecting one of the many signs upon International street to fly off its hinges, yet that never happened.
Son of Beast,
I also live in Grove City and saw some of the damage due to the VERY, VERY high winds ( I was at work at the time right down the street from Stringtown) but official word from the National Weather Service was there were no tornadoes yesterday, just 85 MPH wind gusts! The wind took down several telephone poles and supposedly one cell tower.
At one point, it actually looked like a hurricane was blowing through. There is a couple of large 30 foot tall concrete signs out of front of my workplace that show the address for the place. Both of these were actually swaying in the wind. There is also 5 large radio towers a few hundered feet away. At 7:00PM last night, these were all swaying quite a bit. Our power even went out.
While I haven't heard of any other damage to PKI an hour away other than what DropThisFar mentioned, it would not surprise me if the damage was greater north of the park. Today, I went to Springfield and it was still a chore to drive into the wind even though it wasn't nearly as strong.
-Sean
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Wild Thing: 75Laps! Power Tower: 73 Rides. Valleyair Security 2002! 8Years Working at Valleyfair :)!
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