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Power Outage Shuts Down Parts Of Great America

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Postby CoasterDave316 on July 19th, 2005, 5:04 pm
A power outage in Gurnee Tuesday afternoon shutdown a number of rides at Six Flags Great America.

Read more at: <a href="http://www.nbc5.com/entertainment/4743724/detail.html?z=dp&dpswid=2265994&dppid=65193" class="news" target="blank">NBC 5 News</a>
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Postby CoasterDave316 on July 19th, 2005, 5:05 pm
Also at NBC 5....im not sure if anybody knew about this. They have a live webcam over Six Flags Hurricane Harbor from Sky Trek Tower.

It can be viewed here: http://www.nbc5.com/sponsor/4709512/detail.html
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Postby coastercrazy111 on July 19th, 2005, 9:32 pm
Does anyone know what rides got shut down due to the power outage?
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Postby Aero737 on July 19th, 2005, 9:34 pm
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Dave, if you don't want this here, then remove it. We had the last one linked like this and your link didnt work.
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Postby Binks Drake on July 19th, 2005, 10:58 pm
Many rides closed during the actual outage. But only Orbit, and V2 stayed closed the rest of the day.

Also: All the street lights went out in HTS at about 8:55. (right before the parade so it was packed and completly crazy!)
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Postby sixflagsguy5 on July 19th, 2005, 11:28 pm
V2 was having problems Sunday and Monday in the mornings. I'll be at SFGAM tomorrow, so hopefully if enough people hear about this I'll be able to get a nice amount of rides in.
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Postby coasterinsane on July 20th, 2005, 1:58 am
i will be there as well. Im taking my little sister.

Hopfully the rides will be working.
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Postby LAFFfan4lyfe on July 20th, 2005, 7:05 am
everything should be working right today, wednesday. Pretty much everything was shut down in the power outage, some food places stayed open, but that's about it.
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Postby m11stephen on July 20th, 2005, 9:21 am
So what happened to the people that were on the rides at the time of the power outage?
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Postby SFGAm Shock Wave on July 20th, 2005, 10:17 am
Evacuation. Most rides ended up already being in the brake run. The only ride I saw stuck on the lift was Viper. Raging Bull was probably stuck somewhere too because they were running 3 trains.
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Postby Coasterchick92 on July 20th, 2005, 9:50 pm
NOT fun I was there during it, we were over at the waterpark durning the first one so it didnt matter but that night there was another power-out but only for like 5 mins. And I went again today and everything was fine and back to normal. It all worked out in the end I guess...
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Postby sfgam05 on August 13th, 2005, 11:18 pm
I just found out that a kid I really dislike was there when the power outage occurred, i was laughing hysterically, thats what he gets for being a turd!
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Postby RagingBullLover1543 on August 18th, 2005, 11:47 am
coastercrazy111 wrote:Does anyone know what rides got shut down due to the power outage?


Yes I was there when it happened.

V2 and orbit.

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Postby twixmix0303 on August 18th, 2005, 10:42 pm
Actually, they were all shut down because of the power outage. If you actually read the article, it says that all rides were shut down for thirty minutes as a precaution.
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