What parks are affected from the power outages?
We spent the day at my parent's house - they live about 15 or 20 miles south of I-80 in western PA. No efeects of the outage there, but when we took off we stopped for gas once we reached I-80 and everything was out. We finally found power at the Conneaut Lake exit (147) on I-79.
Not sure if either park lost power but by late evening, they both had it back.
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*** This post was edited by Crashmando 8/15/2003 8:24:10 AM ***
Crashmando said:
Due to the massive power system failure affecting the north eastern part of the United States today Six Flags Great Adventure briefly lost power around 4:15 this afternoon (August 14th, 2003). According to park spokesperson Kristin Siebeneicher “Six Flags at Great Adventure in Jackson lost power for about 10 minutes, but no one got stuck on a ride.” She added "Everything is back up and running, we ran safety checks on the rides." Siebeneicher said in the case of a power outage, rides finish their cycles, then stop. For example, a spinning ride will continue to spin, but will slowly come to a stop. Cycles can take up to a minute to finish. “Nobody was stuck on a ride. We have the means to take people off in a timely manner." All guests were safely walked down from the disabled rides, and after the power returned and safety checks were completed all rides re-opened.
Haha, its because the park has such horrible capacity that nobody got stuck!
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It was a nice change having the hubby and son hanging out with me instead of their PCs!
I see CP is open today, but wonder about the rides that require lots of electrical power (WT??) We've been asked to refrain from using our air conditioning, and have to conserve (and boil) water.
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Hmm.
How much power do Wicked Twister and Top Thrill Dragster take on that dedicated power line again? ;-)
petie said:
I too Im in western lake county...all my friends all around me are still without power. I feel bad they call me and they ask what im doing..."watching tv" they are mad at me!
Hey you jerk! I was sitting here in the dark and you were watching TV?!?! That is so not fair... you only live like 5 miles away from me.
Anyways, if my power was not back on by the time I got up today, I was going to be on my way to CP or SFWoA... I might even go to WoA tonight if I have nothing else to do.
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The park was open again this morning but the Comet was having some work done and wouldn't open until 1 so I gave up and drove home.
I could imagine that Rye Playland was affected along with Sixflags Darien Lake, maybe even Marine World, and Martins Fantasy Land. Also Astro Land (duh) I have a in law who lives not too far from Kingsburg Amusement park in New Jersey, and they had power. In conclusion its good to see that all the parks dealt very well in this situation as did the areas affect by it.
On thing that raises an eyebrow right now is. My sister wanted to go to Hurricane Harbor N. J today, and when I called all the numbers I know for the Sixflags New Jersey property. The are all dead. IM not chancing it today, maybe next Friday. As for now IM happy to not live like a almish anymore.
Do you think that answering your question was their number 1 concern yesterday?
It surprises me that the Magnum walkdown is getting so much attention nationwide. Maybe despite having 20% of the US population without power, yesterday still qualified as a "slow news day?" :)
jimmybob, who just missed the outage by a few miles, and wonders just what the heck an "almish" is...
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This is the first time, however, that an early closing was the result of a power outage.
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bit0mike said:
Investigators are now saying the blackout appeared to have been started by a "9 second 'event'" in northern Ohio. (CNN)Hmm.
How much power do Wicked Twister and Top Thrill Dragster take on that dedicated power line again? ;-)
OK I bet someone put some extra juice into TTD to get it over the top!!
After the great blackout in 1965, someone reported that it happened the second he turned on his toaster-oven. My Dad, who was an electrician, said it was entirely possible that one event caused the blackout..the toaster oven could have overloaded the circuit it was on...cascading to the next circuit, and so on. So you never know...
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For me, it was the same time. I was in the water-park at the time of the outtage, and all of a sudden... the water stopped flowing. I looked over at Magnum, and I saw the train stuck on the lift. I glanced even further off just for the off-chance, and what do you know? Millennium Force was stuck at the near top... almost as high as you can get. I knew instantly it was a power outtage...
...I seriously thought it was only Cedar Po!nt, and put the blame on Wicked Twister for sucking the juice. Pretty soon, it was getting a little annoying because the waterpark remained open with the lazy river slowly slowing down to a crawl. They had to eventually shut it down completely because of a lack of filtration in the H2O.
It was eerie at Cedar Point with no power. Only rides open: Swan paddle boats, Paddlewheel Excursion, & all the classic car rides. Had to try one or two. I was irritated because it was the 2nd day I really had planned out. TTD was running soooo smooth, especially compared to the Wednesday before. I was mad, but I didn't want to blame Cedar Point... but I wanted some kind of compensation... but I know they don't owe me nothing, sorta. So at least they took down all names, addresses, phone numbers, and how many were in your party that day.... which is a nice gesture, but I don't know what's going to happen with that.
I can say that Magnum peeps were stuck in the lift for a good hour or so before being let out. Millennium Force was around 45 minutes (or so it felt) before they cranked them over. Raptor was stuck on the E-Stop, as with Mantis. Not sure about the other bad-boys, though. I think Wicked Twister got stuck at the top spike ;).
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