I was working that day. I worked in housekeeping in accomodations. I worked at the Sandcastle. I remember when I went into the little employee break area at Sandcastle, on break. The sky was black. I still remember looking at the Mean Streak lift hill. The sky over there was so black that the Mean Streak looked like the lights were on. It looked like it was lit up for the night. After my brake it was still black out. I then went up to a room that I was taking out all of the trash from the guests who had checked out. I had to take the bed spread down to the linen room. When I was on my way to the linen room one of the girls was sweeping outside. She saw the 1st water spout. It was back near the Breakwater Cafe. So I go and take the bed spread to the linen room, and I tell the people in there about the water spout. I go back to the Raptor wing, and I tell the employees about it. By this time the rain is just coming down. Everybody stops working and they just go and run to look out the windows. There were some guests who were standing outside taking pictures, and video taping it. The garbage cans outside of the lobby were all over the parking lot. Just after we see the first water spout out lining the peninsula, there's another one right next to it. Since the shape of the peninsula curves on the bay side the water spout looked like it was going right through the middle of the park. Then right above the pretzel portion of the Magnum there was a funnel cloud up in the sky. Then right next to it was another funnel cloud. The sky in this area was gray, and I could see great detail of both funnel clouds. Then after all of the standing and watching our supervisor tells us to get back to work, and that the Accomodations office was monitoring the weather. In the mean time some guests were on the first floor of the Raptor wing. Some of the guests were crying. It was so windy that when a door on the second floor opened from the hallway by the elevator, that all of the ceiling pieces started to go up. It was like someone standing there and pushing them up. Then I was taking the sheets off of a bed, and I heard the girl down the hall who was cleaning scream. I run into the room that she was in. I asked her what's wrong. There was another funnel cloud forming out over the lake. The lake was very rough looking. The waves were tremendous. The funnel cloud was black and gray. It was pretty big. It kept spinning, and getting bigger. But it headed off directly across the lake. It was a tornado. It never hit the water. After that it was all over. It stopped raining and the sun came back up. But out over the lake to the East the sky was black, purple, pink, and red. The lake water looked really dark black compared to the color of the sky. I wished that I had a camera to take a picture of looking towards the lake. I had never saw the sky that way before. When I got off work at about 4:00 p.m. I was going over the causeway, and I saw all of these news vans heading to Cedar Point. The next morning I was watching the today show. They mentioned that water spouts were spotted near an amusement park in Sandusky, Ohio. They had an amature video of it. The video was taken by someone standing in their backyard in Sanduksy. That's one day that I will not forget. The entire thing only lasted for about a few minutes.
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