Cedar Point = Walley World?

[Batman]

Cedar Point Amusement Park, one of the country's best, shut down for the weekend because of a water main break in nearby Sandusky, Ohio. The sad/funny part is, no one bothered to get the word out, so people still started showing up on Saturday.
No word on whether someone broke in and forced the security guards to go on an all-day ride binge.

Many visitors to the roller coaster Mecca didn't know about the closure until after they arrived, some after driving hundreds of miles.
Roger and Debbie Balderas of South Bend, Indiana, their daughter and their daughter's friend drove four hours to Cedar Point early Saturday and snagged a good parking spot before they were told the park was closed.
"This was our vacation," Roger Balderas told The Sandusky Register.

http://news.yahoo.com/water-main-break-closes-cedar-point-amusement-park-143908866.html

 

[BTExpress]

Oh, I suspect word got out in some fashion. But there's no reason to think someone hundreds of miles away would hear it on their local news. Nor would they have any reason to go to the amusement park website (which likely had all this information).

When mountain parks are closed 2.5 hours from me, the only way I know of it is to click on the "current conditions" link on the park website.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

The word was getting out. It happened Saturday morning.

 

[Captain_Kirk]

"First ones here."

 

[MisterCreosote]

The sad/funny part is, no one bothered to get the word out.

The moose out front should've told them.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Actually, the park was already open the water main break shut them down. Maybe the shouldn't have opened, but who knows what estimates were on when the break would be fixed.

 

[Just_An_SID]

"Sorry folks, the parks closed. Moose out front should have told you."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwVpSBKzQYo

 

[ColdCat]

Oh, I suspect word got out in some fashion. But there's no reason to think someone hundreds of miles away would hear it on their local news. Nor would they have any reason to go to the amusement park website (which likely had all this information).

When mountain parks are closed 2.5 hours from me, the only way I know of it is to click on the "current conditions" link on the park website.

Cedar Point is a big enough park that its closing would be newsworthy through most of the region.
do a news google search and you can find many, many news outlets in Ohio, Michigan and Indiana picking the story up. The issue is the timing. From the Register. . . .

Sandusky city engineer Aaron Klein said a 16-inch cast iron main that supplies water for Cedar Point broke between 6 a.m. and 7 a.m. Saturday under the parking lot at Cedar Point. City workers were summoned to the scene.

Once the park closed, those folks coming from hours away had already hit the road.

 

[Bubbler]

 

[MisterCreosote]

I guess they weren't whistling Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah out of their assholes.

 

[WolvEagle]

And more good news from Cedar Point: http://www.sanduskyregister.com/article/cedar-point/5746146

Of the 16 employees, 13 are from Michigan and three from Ohio.

 

[Brian]

And more good news from Cedar Point: http://www.sanduskyregister.com/article/cedar-point/5746146

Of the 16 employees, 13 are from Michigan and three from Ohio.

I'd rather just keep pretending these folks are Rhodes Scholars so when they're checking my shoulder restraint before sending me rocketing 300 feet into the air at 170 miles per hour I don't have a panic attack.

 

[WolvEagle]

A few more details: http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/article/20140610/NEWS01/306100006/13-Cedar-Point-workers-from-Michigan-arrested-fight?nclick_check=1

 

[TwoGloves]

Local middle school had their annual year-ending field trip scheduled for Cedar Point that day. And Cedar Point put the closing on its Facebook page

 

[TwoGloves]

Sidenote: Watched a bio about the making of Vacation the other day. Candy's part was added when people didn't like the ending. Chevy Chase suggested him and they offered him $500,000. Candy was hot at the time, asking for $1 million ... and got it.

 

[Batman]

And more good news from Cedar Point: http://www.sanduskyregister.com/article/cedar-point/5746146

Of the 16 employees, 13 are from Michigan and three from Ohio.

I'd rather just keep pretending these folks are Rhodes Scholars so when they're checking my shoulder restraint before sending me rocketing 300 feet into the air at 170 miles per hour I don't have a panic attack.

If it's any reassurance, at a place like Cedar Point they do make them pass a test or two before they're allowed to press the button. An operator test for a roller coaster isn't easy.
The hardest part about the test that just lets them check the lap bars, though, is usually knowing where all the damn fire extinguishers are.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

About an hour ago, someone died after being hit by the Raptor roller coaster. Word from CP is he jumped a fence into a restricted area and was struck by the coaster. Someone claiming to be on the ride at the time posted on Twitter that someone kicked the guy in the head. Probably inadvertent, as your legs dangle as you ride.

 

[Vombatus]

I imagine that hurt someone's foot.

 

[LongTimeListener]

The rider was Antonio Brown.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Dummy lost his life for a cell phone. And was hit by the ride, not a person, according to police:

Man struck, killed by Raptor roller coaster in Cedar Point