Weather on TTD and Kingda Ka

Serious weather storm never hits on Cedar Point so far. But waterspout were hits on Lake Erie. TTD look like fine. But future we never know what happen.

Serious weather storm hits Six Flags Great Adventure sometimes But hurricanes will destory it anyway. Kingda Ka will be sad! LOL.

What you think about weather?

George

Six Flags Great Adventure near Atlantic Ocean. You know.

George

Six Flags Great Advenute General Manager are nuts! What for set Kingda Ka up. Six Flags near water! Huh???

George

Take another hit.

Good GOD...Are you from some foreign country or are you, in fact, like bholcomb said, hitting something extremely strong?

I would think that a $25 milion + ride can withstand strong winds. The most damage that would be done to TTD would be the tarps and banners around the ride coming off or trees falling on the ride. Damage on the ride itself would be very minamal. The structure is open so the wind flows right through instead of catching the wind and binding over. Every roller coaster a park builds is and I think has to be by state law, built to withstand the strongest of winds to hit that region. Trust me the rides are built to stay.

Gomez said:
I would think that a $25 milion + ride can withstand strong winds.

Cost is irrelevent... This structure cost $7 million in 1940....

*** Edited 11/4/2004 4:48:33 PM UTC by MiLLeNNiuMRiDeR***

I know price doesn't mean that much but all the rides at Cedar Point are built to withstand very highwinds. In 1977 a tornado went through frontier I believe, some building were damaged the rides were fine other than the Mine Ride which was hit by debris. That bridge you showed in that picture was built without the thought of aerodynamics. The wind couldn't pass through the bridge like other suspension bridges are built to. The wind caught the bridge and it swayed. It eventually swayed to much and colasped. Similar to Vertigo. TTD's structure does not have an issue with wind.

I would hope that 25$ million could buy enough engineering to build a tower that would stand in whatever conditions are common in the area. Rides at Cedar Point must be able to withstand a wind load of 90mph. That's a pretty good target to aim for. You know exactly what the design limits are. For Gertie, noone thought to measure the wind in the sound and then design to account for that.

I would be interested to see what kind of environmental requirements are in New Jersey for rides at SF.

Milleniumrider,

The bridge was built in 1940 top thrill dragster was built in 2003. I think theres gonna be a differance in the arrowdinamics. (i think thats how its spelled) It also cost 18 million dolars more. *** Edited 11/7/2004 3:41:22 PM UTC by cpJakecp***

Aerodynamics. Anyway, I don't see how this example of cost and structure stability has anything to do with anything. It was 60 some odd years ago.

-Eagle

One word: VertiGo. That was only 3 years ago.

Or is that two words?

*** Edited 11/8/2004 7:31:14 AM UTC by Michael Darling***

OK I gave a bad example (made sense when I typed it out the first time) but Michael Darling has the better example here.

It wasn't a bad example. It was actually a good one. Your point seemed to be that even expensive structures (which if you factor in inflation the bridge was way more expensive than any coaster ever built) can fail.

My point was that even with advances in structural engineering nothing has really changed much over the years. Anything can fail if something simple is missed... in the cases of the bridge and VertiGone (HorizontiGo?) certain wind factors were overlooked.

In VertiGone's case it was vortex shredding- causing the towers to vibrate at or close to their natural frequency causing one to snap. The bridge, I believe, was a very similar issue.