TopThrillDragster Posted April 13, 2004 Share Posted April 13, 2004 I was at Pki a couple of summers ago with my friends and this huge severe storm blows in! It was crazy, it was raining so hard I could barely see infront of me. We were chillen in the Coney Mall arcade. I remember a person got on the intercom and was sayting get inside of a building because the storm was so strong! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drewbari Posted April 14, 2004 Share Posted April 14, 2004 Has any one ever crashed on DOT? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeLorean Rider Posted April 14, 2004 Share Posted April 14, 2004 That depends on your interperation of the word Crashed cause I mean cars bump each other all the time and hit the guard rails. Omg last year workin at AT Bside the roughest show ever, ooo big problems w/that ride. Yea I just have way to many memories, id be typin for hours and no one would read it, i sure wouldnt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AZ Kinda Guy Posted April 14, 2004 Share Posted April 14, 2004 Has any one ever crashed on DOT? LOL...Completely random and hillairious. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaviMan2 Posted April 14, 2004 Share Posted April 14, 2004 Just about everyone who was been in PKI Rides for longer than a year knows about my FOF experience with mike tuerscher...ask me some time...too long to type right now!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlopez Posted April 14, 2004 Share Posted April 14, 2004 My scariest moment at PKI was the first time I rode Drop Zone, I was so scared, I was only ten years old at the time, I closed my eyes the whole way up and the whole way down. I will never forget that day, I was literally shaking I was so scared. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMBryan Posted April 14, 2004 Share Posted April 14, 2004 i dont think im aloud to share my scariest pki experience. i dont know ill ask someone else that works there and find out. i might be able to share it later but dont count on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adbort Posted April 14, 2004 Share Posted April 14, 2004 My scariest moment was before I was an Employee at PKI in '99. I was riding Drop Zone, and we got stuck at the top for 15 minutes. But that wasn't really the scary part, the scary part was this lady sitting next to me was freaking out. Screaming trying to get out of her restraint. And to top it all off the ride ops didn't help either. They kept saying "Enjoy your view from the worlds tallest gyro drop". Like this is what you really want to hear when your stuck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dropzone265 Posted April 16, 2004 Share Posted April 16, 2004 While all the rides are scary and every thing else I know I am safe but one time I felt my life was theathen was back in 1999 I think which would make me 11 years old. We just got out of line for Flight of Fear when my friends and I noticed something the sky was complety dark and it was only one o clock or so. And before we knew it the rain had come and the person on the speaker said "Attenion PKI guests we have dected a near by funnel cloud please be advised and seek shelter. Then the scary part was when the torando sirens went off window were shaking and little kids were crying. After about 30 minutes when the rain had slower to almost a stop we headed home all to find out that the area 10 minutes from were we live was destoryed by a torando. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coasterdime Posted April 16, 2004 Share Posted April 16, 2004 I remember the night Sparky was talking about. I was just a guest, there spending the day after a Discovery Channel shoot. (I wasn't even living in this area yet) We were in The Racer station, and waited out a good portion of the storm. The ride ops apparently wanted to go UNDER the station....and told us few in the station that we had to LEAVE! We ran from the station into the Fudge n Fun building. I can still remember not only how scared I was; but how angry I was. I still can't believe they made us leave. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRickster Posted April 16, 2004 Share Posted April 16, 2004 Incase of a tornado a station would be the worst place to be because they would create a wind tunnel effect with debris. You should have been directed to a tornado shelter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TowerGuy Posted April 16, 2004 Share Posted April 16, 2004 We were in The Racer station, and waited out a good portion of the storm. The ride ops apparently wanted to go UNDER the station....and told us few in the station that we had to LEAVE! The reason the crew wanted to go under the station is because the tornado location for The Racer is indeed under the station. They may have been waiting in the station for offical word to go to the tornado location. The problem is that at most rides the tornado location is barely big enough for the crew or not actually at the ride, let alone a ton of guests who may be waiting in line to ride. An associate should know this and let the guests know that there station is not the safest place to be and that they should head for a safer place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMBryan Posted April 16, 2004 Share Posted April 16, 2004 what tower guy said is true. but i see why you were mad they should have told you to leave before they got the call to go to the tornado location Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dropzone265 Posted April 16, 2004 Share Posted April 16, 2004 Is there even a place for guest to go incase of a tornado. They just told us to seek shelter and we ended up in the Emporuim. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coasterdime Posted April 16, 2004 Share Posted April 16, 2004 I was mad because those of us forced to leave, were simply left to run down the midway...lightning EVERYWHERE, tree branches flying around us....with no plan as to where to go. It seemed as if we were sacrificed for the crew's safety/convenience. Had we been directed to a safe place, fine. But "You guys gotta leave, NOW!", just didn't seem proper procedure in a park that is built around guest safety! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopThrillDragster Posted April 16, 2004 Share Posted April 16, 2004 Thats crazy and so rude. Did you tell a manager or anything? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coasterdime Posted April 16, 2004 Share Posted April 16, 2004 Nah, didn't say anything at the time. I was simply too shell-shocked by the experience. I just left when the storm passed. There were about a dozen or so with me....some were parents with crying kids. I'm confident someone spoke up. Everyone involved was irate. Maybe that station wasn't the safest place at the time. (although it's still standing) Just being told to go out into the belly of the storm without seemingly any care for our safety was enough to label that crew as one of the worst of that season. Too add insult to injury, (and as I implied before) the crew was just so rude about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopThrillDragster Posted April 16, 2004 Share Posted April 16, 2004 That really sucks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SOB/Gun Steve-O Posted April 16, 2004 Share Posted April 16, 2004 We were in The Racer station, and waited out a good portion of the storm. The ride ops apparently wanted to go UNDER the station....and told us few in the station that we had to LEAVE! When we are informed of a tornado, we have to throw you out of the station - but the crew is supposed to take you to their tornado shelter. Really now, do you want to stay there if a God for bid a tornado was barreling towards you? I sure wouldn't. I believe that the Festhaus is also the major designated tornado shelter for guests - though I probably wouldn't go there because it has a large wide-span roof. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanner Posted April 16, 2004 Share Posted April 16, 2004 Ok with the weather you saw, why would you still want to ride a coaster? I'd be inside somewhere for sure, but maybe that's just me wanting to be safe. If I'm not mistaken that is common sense. You're complaining about teenagers working a ride and they are probably more scared than you are at the moment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeliriumDreamer Posted April 16, 2004 Share Posted April 16, 2004 My scariest moment was about 2 or 3 years ago. I decided to go on drop zone by myself, because my parents are unusually proportioned. The ride went up, then it got stuck at the top for about 15 minutes. I was afraid of heights at the time, so I hypervenilated for the last 5 minutes we were up there. I never went on drop zone since. btw, has anyone read the book, "The Beast"? It's kinda short, but it invoves pki, The Beast, and a huge tornado. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coasterdime Posted April 16, 2004 Share Posted April 16, 2004 Really now, do you want to stay there if a God forbid a tornado was barreling towards you? First of all, I'm not sure there even WAS a tornado barreling toward me, and we definitely weren't informed of any impending [weather related] doom. Ideally, I could think of a few places I would have RATHER been, but we were stuck in that station. A tornado wasn't the immediate danger here. The real danger was the frequent and intense lightning. That's what those of us ejected from the station that night were trying to dodge. Again, what THEY were told or weren't told about the weather really isn't the issue. Neither is the strucural stability of one building versus another. My issue, and the reason for my fear that night, (in the context of the subject at hand) was not only the lightning and debris...but how we were just rudely pushed out- without a suggestion for a safer alternative. Tornado, microburst, bad thunderstorm- whatever...I felt safer under ANY structure than I did running unprotected down Coney Mall, dodging lightning. And I still feel that the way we were pushed out, to fend for ourselves; was probably not in keeping with PKI policy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drewbari Posted April 16, 2004 Share Posted April 16, 2004 Really now, do you want to stay there if a God forbid a tornado was barreling towards you? First of all, I'm not sure there even WAS a tornado barreling toward me, and we definitely weren't informed of any impending [weather related] doom. Ideally, I could think of a few places I would have RATHER been, but we were stuck in that station. A tornado wasn't the immediate danger here. The real danger was the frequent and intense lightning. That's what those of us ejected from the station that night were trying to dodge. Again, what THEY were told or weren't told about the weather really isn't the issue. Neither is the strucural stability of one building versus another. My issue, and the reason for my fear that night, (in the context of the subject at hand) was not only the lightning and debris...but how we were just rudely pushed out- without a suggestion for a safer alternative. Tornado, microburst, bad thunderstorm- whatever...I felt safer under ANY structure than I did running unprotected down Coney Mall, dodging lightning. And I still feel that the way we were pushed out, to fend for ourselves; was probably not in keeping with PKI policy. When did this all happen? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coasterdime Posted April 17, 2004 Share Posted April 17, 2004 Ok with the weather you saw, why would you still want to ride a coaster? I'd be inside somewhere for sure, but maybe that's just me wanting to be safe. If I'm not mistaken that is common sense. You're complaining about teenagers working a ride and they are probably more scared than you are at the moment. Tanner, Like most storms of this nature, it just came out of nowhere. I'd say within 5 minutes, the skies when from perfect blue to deadly. When this thing did hit, believe me...coaster riding was the farthest thing from anyone's mind. None of us really feared tornadic activity, we were really bowled over by the amount of lightning. It was literally hitting everything around us. Common sense was simply to stay put! By the way, no phone rang or anything, the crew told us how badly they wanted to leave from the start. It was much safer for them to retreat than it was for us. Also, if the crew was scared, fine. We all were. My only gripe is how they pushed us into the lightning-charged air....and were quite rude about it. As I said in an earlier post, there were entire families caught off guard on that platform. We all weren't suicidal thrill seekers, I promise you. Also, I'm not REALLY complaining about anything. I was posting in a thread about my scariest time. I didn't complain to anyone then, and not really complaining now. I'm just reaffirming my original point, and answering a few questions. For what it's worth, I've visited PKI hundreds of times in the past 30 years. I've had the questionable honor of waiting out dozens of storms. This one sticks out in my mind still...simply for the amount of lightning it possessed. As for another question, (when did this happen?) My memory tells me it was August 2001. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SOB/Gun Steve-O Posted April 18, 2004 Share Posted April 18, 2004 August 2001? Man, I remember that. I was in West Virginia at band camp (no this one time... jokes!) at the time, and we were under a tornado warning twice on the same day. Saw a rotating wall cloud (which usually precurses a tornado) headed right for us. Scary %$@#. I'm told it was quite bad around Cincy, as well. Apparently there was a radar-detected tornado over Kenwood as well, though one never formed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beastdude Posted April 18, 2004 Share Posted April 18, 2004 now this is just curiosity but, if a Tornado hit a band camp would there be a bunch of music playing. Steve-o don't get mad I am actually serious. Just one of those moments were you say what if?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fryler87 Posted April 18, 2004 Share Posted April 18, 2004 now this is just curiosity but, if a Tornado hit a band camp would there be a bunch of music playing. LOL good question... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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