Will the Hurricane effect any parks?
RollerJunkie said:
Okay.. Isabel isn't that strong of a hurricane. It's a strong cat. 2 which isn't bad at all.
Maybe if you are used to them, you are getting jaded with them. As far as I am concerned, if its classified as a "Hurricane" , it has the potential to be damaging. Doesn't matter if its category 1-5. Even though its a strong cat. 2, the weather channel has been stressing how widespread this storm is compared to normal. Its freakin huge.
I was caught in a Tropical Storm down in Florida about 8 years ago. That scared the crap out of me and that wasn't even close to being Hurricane strength. The rain was coming down in sheets for hours and the wind just kept howling. It was by far worse than any thunderstorm we encounter here in the Midwest.
To everyone in its path, stay safe.
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Ask yourself; When was the last time YOU visited Conneaut Lake Park?
From what I heard during the latest weather update the winds are forecast to only reach speeds of between 30 & 50 mph in my area,now I've seen higher winds during some of the afternoon thunderstorms that we've gotten than that,so hopefully it won't be that bad.
Did anyone in the area get a look at the sunset this evening? it was a bright red color in my area & for those who missed it unfourtunately it was the last look at the sun we'll be able to see for the next couple of days,for those in the direct path of this storm I wish you all the best of luck & stay safe.
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If someone makes a post and you post-quote it right beneath it, you're wasting bandwidth. Think before you press the button.
The Hurricane shouldn't affect too much in most parks. In terms of rollercoasters, superstructures are designed to withstand 100+mph winds - even the wooden ones!
I'm sure that parks are taking the proper precautions to safeguard their rides and attractions during the storm.
Be at ease... I'm pretty sure the parks want to be standing after the storm as much as you do.
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I think it's hysterical when people adamantly refuse to go on a certain ride, but they get in line and go on it anyway.
Like shown in the pic above, Knobels (and Hersheypark) got hit pretty hard during Hurricane Agnes in 1972, mainly from flooding. Agnes did not affect PA much with wind, but it did dump record amounts of rain on the area... thanks to the fact that it stalled and actually back tracked a bit right over PA resulting in 3 days of record breaking rain. They predict that Isabel will be moving much faster than Agnes when she crosses PA with the heaviest rain (along with sustained wind of around 35mph with 60+ mph gusts) coming late tonight and early tomorrow morning. By Friday afternoon, we should have clear skies and nice weather (as is always the case after a storm like this).
The Juniata River and West Branch of the Susquehanna along with small streams will probably see flooding. The biggest concern here... our ground is so saturated from the rainy weather we have been having that a) it can not soak up much more and this means flooding / flash flooding b) the high winds combined with the saturated ground means that trees will be easier to uproot and that means treas hitting power lines and causing outages.
What does this mean for PA parks? All will have to deal with 12+ hours of heavy rains and winds (and downed branches and tree limbs etc) while low lying ones will probably see some flooding, though probably nothing like the flooding that devastated them in June 1972.
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krazy pete said:
In terms of rollercoasters, superstructures are designed to withstand 100+mph winds - even the wooden ones!
Plus, wind would probably pass through them with ease, unlike trees and buildings. I would be more concerned about something else falling ON a coaster.
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Rob Ascough said:Plus, wind would probably pass through them with ease, unlike trees and buildings. I would be more concerned about something else falling ON a coaster.
yeah, i was a little worried about this too. I guess some parks won't have too much of a problem, but for parks like BGW there are alot of trees, and if a large tree were to fall on a coaster, there is a possibility for damage. I have this same problem with my house, that is surrounded almost completely by trees, and my family was worried at first when there was a chance of a direct hit from Isabel. so I'm praying nothing happens at any parks, because I have been planning a trip to BGW over a weekend next month, I don't want any coasters being damaged (or any other rides for that matter). It would ruin my vacation, and more importantly, could be very costly to the parks.
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janfrederick said:
RollerJunkie said:
Okay.. Isabel isn't that strong of a hurricane. It's a strong cat. 2 which isn't bad at all. I live on the SC coast and have been in the middle of much bigger storms than that. People are acting like this is Andrew or something. It is not strong enough to do hardly ANY damage to parks. Plus, the parks and rides were designed to withstand that kinda stuff. Andrew was cat. 5 and hit in the heart of the theme park capital. Hardly anything was destroyed.Well, with a couple feet of rainfall, I don't see how that couldn't do hardly any damage.
Sure the rides will stand up, but cleaning out flooded buildings can't be too cheap.
By the way, aren't you supposed to be evacuating if you live on the SC coast?
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No, actually. I live in the southern most tip of SC, Hilton Head Island, if you've ever heard of it. It's been beautiful here for the past couple days! Not one cloud in the sky. The hurricane is really pulling all of our clouds in with it.
To tell you the truth, I actually wanted to get hit by some of it. Since I live in hurricane territory, I know not to get too freaked out by hurricanes. I've evacuated before for Floyd and Hugo, and it was pretty fun to tell the honest truth! We get to miss school, and go on a small vacation! It's fun... in a bittersweet kinda way. But I hope no one gets too affected by the hurricane! Flooding is supposed to be really bad because it's moving slowly. My prayers go out to those that got their houses flooded or blown away...
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RollerJunkie said:
Okay.. Isabel isn't that strong of a hurricane. It's a strong cat. 2 which isn't bad at all.
Don't tell me that a strong category two hurricane isn't bad. I live in Charlotte, NC, and when Hugo hit, it came inland to make a direct hit on Charlotte, but by the time it got there, it was a category 1. The winds uprooted 200 year old trees, my house as well as thousands of others was heavily damaged. Three of our neighbors lost their roofs. All that happened with 80 mph winds. So 100 mph winds can severly damage ANYTHING in their path. Now that Isabel has passed through we can see the damage. No parks damage that we know off, but at least 24 dead, millions without power, the Outer Banks of NC, are battered and broken, one island was ripped in two when the storm surge and the wind took the land right from underneath houses and businesses. That sounds pretty bad to me, don't you think?
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