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  1. The street view at Kings Island was made using one of the Street View bikes. I was working at the park the day they recorded the park. I was in a truck sitting at the railroad crossing waiting for a train to pass when the bike came back out of Boomerang Bay (as it was called when i still worked there). Sadly it wasn't recording so I am no where to be seen!
  2. A boat flipping was extremely rare (never happened while I worked at WWC) but it was always a concern in the back of your mind. I thankfully never had to deal with an evac from a situation other than boat jams and losing a pump. WWC normally runs 3 pumps with the 4th always on reserve to be rotated generally daily. With the pumps right next to the station it amazed me how relatively quiet it got when just 2 pumps were operating. Lol.
  3. Does the water drain automatically? I have friends that worked Thunder a few years back and claimed they had to open gates to allow other water to drain. Things very well could have changed since they worked there.
  4. Thunder canyon is a different design than WWC. You hit the E Stop at Thunder canyon and the station can flood, possibly resulting in the boats rising above the drums. But when you E Stop at KI, all the water drains from a majority of the ride down to the lake.
  5. More often than not, White Water was likely being evacuated because of a boat jam. That's a situation where 2 boats become jammed between the rotating drums. Not as big of an issue usually as stopping and restarting the drums usually remedies the issue. In the event of an evacuation the Train shuts down because guests have to walk across the tracks if they are being escorted back from the trough right out by Diamond back. Having spent 2 summers at that ride as the Head Supervisor, I can say with confidence that those boats are way to heavy to ever go air born. And E Stops can happen for a variety of reasons. Someone falling in the water is a given, but there are other mechanical issues that training constitutes an E Stop. The way WWC is designed, an E Stop results in the water level in the station immediately lowering as the pumps would have completely cut off. That being said, when the water level rises, the flow of water generally isn't that strong in the area the boats are designed to collect.
  6. You make a very good point. Upon searching, the same link is on the site map for Cedar Point.
  7. Yeah, the link is kind of hidden toward the bottom of the site map page. I thought it was bizarre and that it could possibly be a place holder for 2014. Here's the site map link if anyone wants to look for themselves. https://www.visitkingsisland.com/sitemap
  8. Hi everyone, long time reader, even had another username that I've since forgotten the info for. Any way, while perusing visitkingsisland.com I took a look at the Site Map and came across a link that said Gforcify. https://www.visitkingsisland.com/gforcify/ The page doesn't load anything other thank the typical KI menu bar at the top of the page but the Header says "I just g-forcified myself." Is this something that's been used in the past that I've just never noticed and been abandoned or could this be something brand new?
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