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Postby punkbunny24242 on May 16th, 2004, 10:36 pm
Darn I wanted to ride it! Oh well I am going Wed and again on Sunday! Yay!
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Postby Danhockey04 on May 18th, 2004, 5:11 pm
King Chaos was not open today, neither was American Eagle because it got struck by lighting last night
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Postby btpcheater on May 18th, 2004, 5:22 pm
UT oh! Is Eagle ok? That stinks. :(
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Postby Danhockey04 on May 18th, 2004, 5:31 pm
The eagle is fine though, they spent the whole day fixing it, and testing it at the end of the day. So there was no severe damage done to it
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Postby twixmix0303 on May 18th, 2004, 5:39 pm
How do you know this?
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Postby Danhockey04 on May 18th, 2004, 5:39 pm
I was there today
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Postby twixmix0303 on May 18th, 2004, 5:40 pm
Lucky you!
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Postby btpcheater on May 18th, 2004, 6:20 pm
WOWZers. Good thing. I love AE so do many others. :) Classic Wooden Adventure. :) Never get sick of it.
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Postby Aero737 on May 18th, 2004, 6:34 pm
Danhockey04 wrote:King Chaos was not open today, neither was American Eagle because it got struck by lighting last night


I wonder where it got struck, because there are ligntning rods and ground cables around every 5 feet.
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Postby BigBoyEvilBill on May 18th, 2004, 6:55 pm
This might be a stupid question, but why would they need lightning rods every 5 feet. It's been my understanding that lightning rods are used to leak charge and make something neutral so lightning doesn't strike it at all (physics class).
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Postby punkbunny24242 on May 18th, 2004, 6:57 pm
That stinks man.. I hope it's up and running tomorrow.
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Postby Aero737 on May 18th, 2004, 7:00 pm
Acually, lightning rods are there to attract lightning. They have a pointed tip (eletrical charge will be distributed evenly on a globe and strongest at a tip) to acually create a stronger charge. When lightning strikes this, it travels down a grounding cable (one can be seen at the base of every steel rollercoaster footer, and running down the side of AE). The charge is often enough to destroy the cable and the rod forcing the park to replace it. The park would much rather have to replace a lightning rod/ground cable then replace sensitive electonics/motors.
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Postby planea380 on May 18th, 2004, 9:08 pm
Danny you were not there, unless you consider talking to your girlfriend every five minutes the whole day; then yes you were there. :D
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Postby SFGA Bob on May 19th, 2004, 11:46 am
Eagle was open yesterday and running just fine. I rode it twice, trust me. it was closed in the morning, but opened before noon. only blue was running, but that probably had more to do with the lack of people in the park than anything else.

getting back to the topic of this thread, I have a Mardi Gras update.

there were a few more cars on Cajun yesterday and they were working all over on the ride. most noticable was the work outside the station. they were painting bricks on the siding. all grey too. I don't know if they'll add color today or what, but a lot of the outside of the station was grey.
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