how bad was the storm at cedar point and sandusky and is there any damage
Just from what I saw driving home, there are a lot of trees down and flooding. As for Cedar Point, probably the same but no one is really going to see any of it until morning since the storm rolled in after everyone was off work.
I have seen photos around the Employee Housing area of 1-2 inch hail, trees down and branches/shredded leaves everywhere... But from what I saw on radar, I think that park got mostly just rain and the mainland got most of the damaging hail. It was a fun/nerve racking night with sirens blasting and hail falling everywhere though. I guess I will see how the park looks on Monday for Employee Training!
Cedar Point Lifer, RideOp, Now Park Guest
2008 - Mantis/MF/Skyride
2009 - ATL Raptor
2010 - TL Sweeps
2011 & 2012 - Area 3 Rides Supervisor
The storm sounded like someone was dumping a huge barrel of gravel on my roof, and the wind was howling, so I fled downstairs even before the sirens went off. Power was out, but I got the tornado warning on my blackberry. A few seconds later all was quiet. I looked out the front and there was so much hail it looked like snow! I've only seen that once before, about 30 years ago in Saskatchewan! I measured a piece of hail and it was just over an inch. There was no tornado seen, just a nasty looking radar echo.
Power came back on quickly, and stayed on for the second severe storm. This morning some neighbours from the condo walked around: we decided we'd have to restain the woodwork and do some painting.
Good thing the park isn't open today. Winds are blowing at 32 gusting to 42 and I'm sure several rides would be DDW.
Roz
I would probably kill myself if a tornado went through Cedar Point. Well, not really.. but I wouldn't be happy. :(
Well, there was some good news out of it. CP saved some money demolishing Mean Streak, as part of the structure collapsed, and both the Shoot the Rapids pools were filled up, for free! It's like they planned this! :)
/sarcasm
Notice the word "sarcasm" in his post. That is a good clue as to if he is serious.
rulea90 said:
did it really collapse and where did u hear this from
Yeah it did, along with parts of Maverick and Gemini.
Now Steven, lets not torment the boy. You need to get your facts straight though, the only part of Maverick that collapsed was that stupid tunnel, so now we can have our mist back! And I think you are mistaken, it was parts of the Cedar Creek Mine Ride, not Gemini. ;)
/SARCASM
RideWarrior18 said:
Now Steven, lets not torment the boy. You need to get your facts straight though, the only part of Maverick that collapsed was that stupid tunnel, so now we can have our mist back! And I think you are mistaken, it was parts of the Cedar Creek Mine Ride, not Gemini. ;)/SARCASM
Haha, yeah sorry about that sarcasm rulea90, just upset my wings lost.
I heard Maverick's heartline roll flew into the lake because of the storms... Cedar Point says they are replacing it with an S-bend and will be ready by June. ;)
Let's Get Weird.
I was driving from Cleveland's Playhouse Square to Toledo- down Clifton Avenue in Lakewood at about 9:45pm on Friday, and there were downed power lines, uprooted trees in the middle of the road that were crashed into parked cars. There was a power outage in Cleveland/Lakewood as well.
As I 'barely' made it towards the Route 2 entrance ramp near Rocky River, I noticed a cop standing in the road with a flare- waving it. The road ahead was completely flooded. He was yelling at everyone to backtrack towards downtown where we'd be re-routed onto 90 East to 271 South to 480 West towards Sandusky.
The roads were gridlocked because not only was the Indians game called early- but the theaters had let out too. The hail mixed with the humidity was NOT a safe mix. It hailed non stop all the way to Sandusky and once I arrived there (almost midnight)...it was calm as can be!!
That definitely was one HELL of a storm.
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