Bumping this question again. Anyone been to Shores recently and able to give us an update on staffing and operations?
I was there last Friday & all slides were open except the ones by the lazy river
Tilt-A-Hurl, that doesn’t sound too bad. I might be going the end of August, so hoping everything will be open, fingers crossed🤞🏻, but if not that still isn’t too bad. I was at KI this past weekend, and everything in Soak City was open, so that was good to see.
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The lifeguard shortage in Ohio, which was a state-wide problem back in June, has slowly and steadily improved. Lots of locations in central and NE Ohio (not just amusement parks) that were severely lacking at the beginning of summer seem to be firing on all cylinders now.
Promoter of fog.
Just in time for schools to start next week and park hours to start reducing as summer season winds down.
Sounds like the Shores will not open today…. Due to flooding?
There's a storm cell just sort of hovering over Ohio right now, so I can't imagine there would have been much demand for water slides.
Brandon
They got hit pretty hard out that way last night yes? Saw the put in bay concert was canceled due to storm damage.
That there Clark is an RV.....
I'm a bit surprised the park even managed to open today. Areas close to the park got anywhere from 8 - 11 inches of rain last night. There has to be some significant flooding there.
I think I slept for about 25 minutes with the chronic, consistent lightning/thunder that persisted...
Promoter of fog.
Looks like the shores parking lot got a new lagoon on the webcam.
It’s part of the new expansion for CP Shores.
Y'all should come down for a hurricane.
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No thanks, we get enough of them here already.
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I'd take a hurricane over what he had here in Sandusky last night. Y'all don't have basements down there to flood. Here many, many houses have 4 - 5 feet of water in their basements, with more flooding on the way tonight.
Hurricanes aren't even that bad, especially in Orlando.
Jeff:
Y'all should come down for a hurricane.
Down here we call that weather event....Tuesday afternoon.
But seriously, I've seen some crazy photos and videos from Erie County. It must have been something.
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Lightning has blown up one of my air conditioners twice (lightning does strike twice), so to Don's point, that's just a summer day for us.
SuperS0nicSam:
Hurricanes aren't even that bad, especially in Orlando.
I'm sure the folks in Ft. Myers will be glad to hear that, as well as the folks in Orlando who have had to deal with flooding. Or neighbors that had to wait months to get their roof repaired. Or literally anyone in the state seeing 50% increases in their homeowner policies.
But yeah, they're not even that bad.
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Yeah that's a pretty wild statement, especially given the events of the past few years.
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There are some pictures floating around FB showing the flooding throughout the park from yesterday, and it was pretty bad. Frontier Town was closed, Rougarou's queue was completely submerged, ID's lagoon was spilling out onto the midway, etc.
Brandon
I am well aware of Orlando's weather, considering I lived there for over a decade. No need to be so rude to people giving their opinion. I was stating from personal experience that this storm in Sandusky was worse than most of the hurricanes that happened while I lived in Central Florida.
Jeff:
Lightning has blown up one of my air conditioners twice (lightning does strike twice)...
This past weekend, lighting struck the ground in front of my house and hit my main waterline into the property. It caused a hole that was spilling out 7 gallons a minute according to the county when they noticed the spike. Thankfully they came and shut my water off since I was at work. Haven't seen my water bill yet but I am bracing for the worst. Hoping this doesn't happen twice for me.
I will say, these heavy rainfall totals are something that should be ignored I've lived in South Florida for 25 years. Yes, we always got the summer rainstorms/squalls with the lightning and the rain. But over the past 2-3 years the rainfall totals during these are events are extremely different than what we used to contend with.
Whether your political lense let's you believe it or not...climate change its real. So much so that we are now hiring consultants to prepare a resilience and sustainability report to do new modeling to see if our network of pumps and drainage, that was designed to handle the "100 year flooding event" is really adequate. We have had 2-3 "100 year-type" events in the past 3 years...so we may need to set new benchmarks. We are extremely worries about salt water intrusion from rising sea levels...and the SE coast of Florida is trying to figure out how to pay to raise roadways because they are frequently susceptible to flooding today...something we didn't see 20 years ago.
Record heat in the middle of the country, devastating fires in Hawaii, a tropical system impacting Southern California. You just can't ignore this stuff any longer...and at least here in Florida more and more Republicans are paying attention.
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Haven't seen my water bill yet
Which side of the water meter was the lightning strike? If before the meter, you shouldn't be charged for any of that water. If after, you may have an issue. May be able to ague with them what happened and at least have them look at historical bills to determine your typical usage.
My water meter is inside my basement. So leak after the meter would be double bad in terms of increased bill and flooding in the house.
After the meter unfortunately. In my neighborhood, the meters are at the edge of your property in the ground by the street.
SuperS0nicSam:
No need to be so rude to people giving their opinion.
No one was rude to you. Don't confuse your opinion being challenged with rudeness.
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