[chargercrazy]

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Several people were stuck on rides at Carowinds after a power outage shut down nearly half the amusement park Wednesday night.

Chopper 9 Skyzoom flew over the park around 6 p.m. Duke Energy said a crew working at Carowinds accidentally hit an underground power line around 5 p.m.

Carowinds officials told Eyewitness News within 41 minutes everyone stuck on rides was evacuated. No one was hurt.

Park officials hope to have the problem fixed by Thursday morning.

http://www.wsoctv.com/news/16713036/det ... r&psp=news

Were any of you stuck on rides yesterday???

[GriffonBoy69]

no, but I was frantically running around evacuating rides, and it wasnt half the park.
the only rides that were operating were in the waterpark.

[MarkD]

I might be reading it wrong but if the only rides people were stuck on were in the water park then didn't all they have to do was walk down steps or get out of the water?

[falula]

No, the hard rides were stopped due to the power outage. The waterpark was fine. GriffonBoy, which rides did you evacuate? I, too, was running around taking people off the rides.

[RollerBee]

No, the hard rides were stopped due to the power outage. The waterpark was fine. GriffonBoy, which rides did you evacuate? I, too, was running around taking people off the rides.

Wouldn't releasing that information be a violation of Carowinds' "Inside Information and Speculative Activities" policy or "Media and the Press" policy? Posting unconfirmed information on the internet is grounds for termination/final notice. I learned from my mistakes, so I try to encourage current employees from making the same ones I did. Also, wouldn't a power outage stop the water rides/slides's pumps?

[Jonathan]

Let the park worry about that. You're the last person who needs to be watching out for other employees.

I don't see what problem there could be with posting something that anyone who was in the park yesterday would have known.

[bgwfreak]

I couldn't get the video to load, but it appeared they were showing people stuck in the helicopter ride.

That's a long way from the water park bub.

[swampfox43]

It looked like the park was pretty dead that day thankfully and from what I could tell, the only riders stuck were on the brake run of Vortex. Chopper 9 zoomed into just about every ride and there didn't appear to be any coaster trains stuck on lifts and all the boats stacking up before the first drop on the flume appeared to be empty. Maybe the seats in the motion theater got stuck at a tilt..lol.

[falula]

Nothing has been said on here that wasn't said on the Channel 9 news. Except that the news got it right in saying that everything was secure within 41 minutes. No fear of speaking out of turn on this one.

[arjaybee]

I was at the park Wednesday and ALL the rides were down due to the outage...only the waterpark was functioning normally. It was odd that the water stopped pumping on Rip Roaring Rapids, but the waterpark was fine. I was in-line at RRR when the power outage hit. What ticked me off was that the park was down for nearly 3 hours but Carowinds couldn't extend closing by at least one hour 'till 9:00pm. Oh well...it only cost me $65 in gas to make the trip.

[chargercrazy]

the only riders stuck were on the brake run of Vortex

That doesn't sound very fun

[GriffonBoy69]

Nick-o-round.... technically anyways, and boots balloon race.