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Every time I see or hear Mike Polk, I think of this:

djDaemon:

but Dennis asserted that it was beneficial to the park.

True, I guess I see it from the parks perspective maybe it would help prevent overcrowding? Or bring some of us to the park when it's slow to maybe generate some revenue? That's my thinking anyways.

GoBucks89:
Every time I see or hear Mike Polk, I think of this:

Who doesn't! Factory of Sadness, see you on Sunday! LOL!!

Cousin Eddy:

ust saw this from yesterday:

We were inside BackBeatQue when TTD was struck last night, the look on our kids face from the clap of thunder was priceless. 😬

How bad were the storms? Looks like Sandusky got hit pretty hard. Parts of the turnpike are closed due to downed power lines out that way..

For the most part Cedar Point got spared, looks like some parts of Port Clinton got hit hard. CP just got some gusty winds, a ton of lightning, and some heavy rain.

Looks like Rougarou hasn't been running so far today. I know roller coasters are equipped to handle lightning strikes, but would there be any reason a strike would harm it?

Just watched them cycle through some empty trains. Expect that they may have looked at a few things more closely than normal this morning knowing there was a lightning strike. There are systems in place to protect in the event of one but makes sense you would want to verify there wasn't an issue.

I was at the park yesterday and I don’t think Rougarou ran then, either.
I left the Point in the nick of time. I had noticed a weird chill in the air so I said goodbye and headed to the parking lot, figuring there’s not much worse than that walk during a rain storm.
I went into town and stopped at Culvers. By the time I was done there the sky was getting quite dark to the north/ west. So I drove south and stopped at the Speedway there at Rte 2/6. While I was there the tornado siren blew and it must’ve been right over the fence, I jumped a mile. I looked back north and it looked like nighttime with streaks of lightning. So I skedaddled toward Columbus as fast as I could, and the trouble these days is we listen to things other than radio so there was no weather report to pay attention to. An alert came over my phone and yes indeed, it was a tornado for real. I was glad to be gone, but hoped for everyone’s safety on the lake.

I was there too. Thought about leaving when they closed the lines, decided to try and wait it out at the On Tap show. The rain had just barely started when the show let out and they played the 'Severe thunderstorm' warning. Realized it was going to be worse than the forecast said. Walked back to the front parking lot watching the lightning. Drove home in the worst of it. By 8:30 it was already starting to clear up. If it had been a 10:00 closing night, I wouldn't have been surprised if they were able to reopen some stuff.

RCMAC:

While I was there the tornado siren blew and it must’ve been right over the fence, I jumped a mile

Looks like there was a tornado touchdown out that way. Scary for sure....glad everyone is safe!

Checked periodically on Rougarou after I saw it testing. Looks like its running now with people riding it.

For you weather geeks, this is a radar grab from the county over, classic hook echo that did have a tornado on it. Was working at dispatch in Sandusky and it was pretty intense - we were somehow spared the worst of it.

We were also there. The radar looked like it was going to go north of the park initially, but then the storm cell just blew up. Girls were in line for Atomic Scrambler when the alarm went off so we strolled into the Pavilion to ride it out. My oldest saw the Rougarou lightning strike from the windows, and the place shook and you heard "oooooohs" and "ahhhhhhhs" coming from the guests locked inside (they locked the doors on the second floor where we were so you couldn't go out on the patio).

Funny; when the tornado warning went off there wasn't any reaction. You could tell at that point that the park was not getting the worst of it (like mentioned above it was basically rain and an awesome lightning show), but with all of their policies I was surprised there wasn't something about that. By 8:00 we were out of there. Zero doubt rides would have reopened if it was a 10:00 closing.

The ride home was a different story. We live in Louisville, Ohio, which is exactly where the storm was going. Driving home for 2 hours inside it was not exactly fun.

Tornado Warning at-the-park credit earned.

Jordan_Vanichek:

For you weather geeks, this is a radar grab from the county over, classic hook echo that did have a tornado on it.

Kind of hard not to see that, classic hook echo for sure. Norwalk almost got it....wow...

Kevin, do the sirens sound at the park too? Or is it just their park-wide notification system. We activated the sirens well before the tornado warning was issued but was not sure if the park had them too.

We were inside the pavilion, so not sure if that would make a difference. We all found out via our cell phones. You heard about 250 cell phones go off at once. I do not recall hearing sirens go off in the park itself.

My family is staying at Lighthouse Point this weekend and my wife, sister, and mom arrived yesterday with the kids. They were all hunkered down in the bathtub with pizza (which was delivered during the storm!).

One funny (and extremely annoying) thing that happened was that in the rush to get out of there, one of the auto-spiels on a water slide was left on All. Night. Long.

I arrived at the cabin early at about 4:30 am and it was still going.

Sparty42:

All. Night. Long.

Cousin Eddy:

That's right, wasn't it up for sale first then they moved it?

I don’t think it was up for sale either. IIRC, it was supposed to go to CGA, but that idea was scrapped and it was then sent to Dorney.