- July 10th, 2012, 4:49 pm
#49431
Me and my friend's arrived at the park around 11 AM, and as expected the lines were minimal like it would be for a Monday in the middle of summer. We made several loops around the park riding everything the park had to offer as many times as we felt liked.
Around 3:00 my group wanted to head to the water park, I didn't have swim wear so I split from the group. I was just about to be sent out on front row Intimidator when it started to rain. I instantly knew this was going to be a really painful ride. It was really cool to see the rain falling as you looked over the first drop, however that is when the fun ended. The rain hitting you at that speeds were painful, with each drop hitting your stinging. After this ride, I decided it would be better to ride something much slower and less painful in the rain. I was just about to board Windseeker when a crack of thunder suspended operations of the ride along with all rides in the park. I decided to stay in line under the canopy thinking it would block the rain. It did for a little while till the winds were strong enough that it was raining sideways. I ran from Windseeker to the arcade in the monsoon, where several other people were camping out.
After the storm blew through, the rest of the park tried to recover from the storm. Everything was down for about an hour and a half after the rain stopped. The park was a mess from all the twigs and leaves blown around. Part of Gold Rusher's tin roof was blown off from the storm. Vortex had a large branch fall on the lift hill, so it never reopened for the day. Hurler's sign was smashed from something hitting it, the only part of the sign left reads "Hu". Intimidator had a lot of trouble from part of the sign's lettering being blown down. Intimidator was also stuck by lightning, so a few things in the computer had to be reset. After a while several rides opened back up, but still about half of the rides were down for the rest of the night. The fireworks show was cancelled as well. Interesting to see how a storm like that can effect the park that badly.
Around 3:00 my group wanted to head to the water park, I didn't have swim wear so I split from the group. I was just about to be sent out on front row Intimidator when it started to rain. I instantly knew this was going to be a really painful ride. It was really cool to see the rain falling as you looked over the first drop, however that is when the fun ended. The rain hitting you at that speeds were painful, with each drop hitting your stinging. After this ride, I decided it would be better to ride something much slower and less painful in the rain. I was just about to board Windseeker when a crack of thunder suspended operations of the ride along with all rides in the park. I decided to stay in line under the canopy thinking it would block the rain. It did for a little while till the winds were strong enough that it was raining sideways. I ran from Windseeker to the arcade in the monsoon, where several other people were camping out.
After the storm blew through, the rest of the park tried to recover from the storm. Everything was down for about an hour and a half after the rain stopped. The park was a mess from all the twigs and leaves blown around. Part of Gold Rusher's tin roof was blown off from the storm. Vortex had a large branch fall on the lift hill, so it never reopened for the day. Hurler's sign was smashed from something hitting it, the only part of the sign left reads "Hu". Intimidator had a lot of trouble from part of the sign's lettering being blown down. Intimidator was also stuck by lightning, so a few things in the computer had to be reset. After a while several rides opened back up, but still about half of the rides were down for the rest of the night. The fireworks show was cancelled as well. Interesting to see how a storm like that can effect the park that badly.
251 laps on Intimidator, and counting.
2013 Cedar Point Games Host
2014 Kilimanjaro Safari Driver at Walt Disney World.
2015 Day Custodial at Disneyland Park.
2013 Cedar Point Games Host
2014 Kilimanjaro Safari Driver at Walt Disney World.
2015 Day Custodial at Disneyland Park.
