What's the roughest weather you've ridden a coaster in?

Well I always joked about a inverted log flume and even mentioned it as PKI's NEW ride for 1999 when they closed KMLF. actually some GP believed it!

Little did I know upon my visit to IOA I'd actually be riding one over and over. Dueling Dragons in a pouring rain. Those wheel guards just funnel the water down on you going up the lifts.

Guess I got about 25 rides in two hours divided between the two.

Good times!

Chuck

Blackpool in February. :)
30 degrees outside. Might as well be Antarctica- I'm from California.

I've also been on Legend and Raven in a pretty good rainstorm. It was cool, as there was pretty much no one in the park and I got many rides where my friend and I were the only ones on the train.

Alpengeist in a chilly downpour. It wasn't hard to imagine what a windshield feels like in a hail storm! Great times, though...

1) S:ROS @ SFA during an absolutely drenching rainpour on opening day 2001. The temperature was not particularly warm and I was shocked that the park even opened. My fellow enthusiasts and I were all soaked to the bone. Naturally, it got sunny later in the day.

2) Phantom's Revenge in 2003. It was raining fairly hard and everytime we would come off of the turnaround back towards Thunderbolt, things got real painful.

Viper at SFMM in such a hard pouring rain that when the train we had just gotten out of dispatched it hit the chain and couldn't catch there was that much water in the way. Also Goliath right after a really really hard rain there was so much water left in the air that it literally cut our faces (my friend bled).

Mantis in a downpour. when we hit the bottom of the first drop, the train sent up a spray like you would see on a log flume. the water was pooling at the bottom.

almost didnt make it through the corkscrew, either. thought for sure we'd roll back or something.

once in a lifetime ride and probably the best i'll ever have on Mantis. (they closed the ride due to weather as we were leaving the platform!!)

I was on Rolling Thunder at SFGADV. As we hit the top of the lift it started pouring rain out. We went the complete curcuit. OUCH!!!

A beautiful sunny day on Mean Streak.

^LOL! coasterkitty.

Hydra, Steel Force, and Talon in the pouring rain.....woohoo!

The "jojo" roll or whatever it's called on Hydra combined with the rain made you feel like you were in a washing machine.

I remember riding Volcano at PKD in the pouring rain. Nothing like being "drowned" as you blast up the "volcano" lol. Shockwave wasn't too shabby in the rain either, it took away from the pain of the ride. :-)

-Tina

Sleet on Millennium Force. More than once.

While it wasn't rough, per se, a friend and I went to SFGAm and we ended up waiting three hours to ride Deja Vu at the end of October in 2002. When we finished the queue and finally rode, I couldn't feel anything from my nipples to my feet. I quickly managed my way over to the nearest hot chocolate selling station and then got out to the car.

It was too cold that day.

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Jeffrey R Smith said:
I’m almost ready to declare a winner…but just in case…are their any tsunami or hurricane stories out there? Or possibly one of those tornado picked up the train and set me down 3 miles away without injury tales…?

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Now THAT would be a ride to talk about! Talk about airtime! ;-)

-Tina

Front row of GASM at SFOG over halfway through a 30 hour marathon. Never ending rides during a driving rainstorm for over an hour. The pain of stinging rain combined with the exhaustion of many hours seated on a coaster combined to be the most painful riding experience I have ever had.

-Hector Jimenez

Heavy Mufflehead season on Top Thrill Dragster at CP. not really weather, but in a way it is for that park

Worst?

MF in downpour.

Most exciting?

At IOA this year for HHN, they ran Dragons in a severe electrical storm. It was magical and exciting. Not only did it go faster than I ever have felt, at the point the loops "collide", a massive bolt streaked across the sky at the perfect time making for quite the view! Simply amazing! To this day I question why the Dragon's remained open, yet Hulk and most other attractions were down. No complaints for that though!

I agree, Turbo. Mufflehead season should be part of the "weather" at Cedar Point. I have been smacked a few times and it's not pleasant.

The best thing is to keep your mouth closed and your sunglasses on.

-Tina

A few summers ago my husband and I went to SFGAM on a particularly craptastic day. I love going on rainy days because as they say, this is Chicago. You don't like the weather, wait five minutes. All the kids and moms tend to clear out of the park fast when it rains.

We got onto The Eagle and it started raining, nothing big but some decent drops...then we hit Viper. And midway through the ride there wre these big, fat, stinging drops that felt like frickin needles in my skin. We were laughing our butts off the entire time and then got off the ride and hid in the relative safety of an arcade to play DDR while the nasty nasty storm passed overhead.

Worst thing I've had happen is being launched on Robin:The Chiller at SF GAdv during a rain storm. 3...2...1... Goodbye. Out the tunnel and OUCH! Rain!

S:RoS at SFA in a thunderstorm. :) And Phoenix in the rain. Some good times there. :)

In May of 1983 During the A.C.E. Spring Conference at the Late Great Idora Park in Ohio we got to ride the WILDCAT during a Thunderstorm! I don't think any park in their right mind would let us do that nowadays!

BTW that was the last time I got to ride the Wildcat before it burned down in '84:(