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in an E-stop or any sort of stop really, the entire flume drains. I've been on Yankee Clipper when that happened, we got stopped at the gate at the bottom of the lift, then a few boats rear ended us, and next thing you know you're sitting on the bottom of a dry trough. Which is why I dont get why everyone makes so much drama every time they see a water ride drained. It takes like 2-3 minutes to drain and less than 5 min to fill again.
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The troughs also drain in the event of a power outage. Ride stops station stops and trouble lights do not drain the trough though.
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Like the ride was going, and the water level went all the way down, and there was no water, and then we just sat there for an hour.
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I have also gotten stuck on the Yankee Clipper but not when the water drained. Me and my friends were about to go up the second lift and we hit another boat.
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by tp41190 on December 21st, 2008, 7:10 pm
A condom that I stuck to the ceiling in the bat cave.
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^And you just happen to be carrying around used rubbers on your trip to SFGAm?
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by tp41190 on December 21st, 2008, 7:29 pm
I never said it was used... Once I also found a sports cup sitting in a bush by Batman and got some $1 drinks.
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That's also kind of gross.
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Not if you sterilize it in one of the bathrooms and use soap...
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by tp41190 on December 22nd, 2008, 1:35 am
^And if you don't use the straw.
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No, you use the straw in the dirt to find worms, so that you don't have to pay for lunch and you don't have to walk to burger king.
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by tp41190 on December 22nd, 2008, 1:44 am
Or you could use the straw to drink the juice/sweat that is collected in the storm drain in the B:TR que.
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by tp41190 on December 22nd, 2008, 1:44 am
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by [jonrev] on December 22nd, 2008, 2:26 am
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by bigb7965 on December 31st, 2008, 1:45 pm
^ wow
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bigb7965 wrote: ^ wow
You got that right. How does
that even happen these days?
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It is by far safer to stack the boats in the holding pond rather than stopping them on the course. That situation was handled correctly.
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by BP317 on January 1st, 2009, 11:06 pm
Its designed to do that, at Roaring Rapids also if there is an e-stop the rafts that are past the tunnell will go into the storage resevior where the rafts are chained to wall and evacuated.
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Speaking of Roaring Rapids and the two other water rides, about how long does it take to fill them up? Especially the first time they are to be open for the season? Any estimates on how many gallons of water it takes?
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by BP317 on January 2nd, 2009, 12:36 am
It takes like 2 minutes to fill Rapids up in the morning.
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SFGAm07 wrote: It takes like 2 minutes to fill Rapids up in the morning.
That's it?! Why drain it every night anyway?
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by BP317 on January 2nd, 2009, 12:49 am
Theres another storage res behind the ride where the water is stored every night. Like all rides, they inspect it in the morning before running it plus having water in the trough 24/7 would corrode it and cause breakdown.
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To fill up the holding pond usually takes 1-2 days.
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Do they really go back under the rides to look for your stuff? Has anyone actually gotten them to go and they found it? I can't imagine losing something important, telling them to go find it when the park is closed and then go back all the way to Gurnee when they found it...camera, phone, wallet, etc.
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