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News: Riders stuck as Carowinds loses power

Posted at 8:04 PM EDT (0004 GMT)

Jun. 26th, 2008 -- Several people were stuck on rides at Carowinds after a power outage shut down nearly half the amusement park Wednesday night.

Duke Energy said a crew working at Carowinds accidentally hit an underground power line around 5 p.m.

According to the park, within 41 minutes everyone stuck on rides was evacuated. No one was hurt.

Park officials hoped to have the problem fixed by this morning.

For more information visit WSOC.

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Nitro Luvr Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 398 View Park/Ride Count	Glad to see no one was hurt. I do have a rather stupid question since they said half the park was without power. I wonder if the amsuement park is on two different electrical grids considering that it crosses states. If that is so, which state lost power when the workers accidentally hit a power line?
6/26/2008 8:22 PM
GaleRazorwind Joined: Mar 2007 Posts: 757 View Park/Ride Count	Glad I moved on to a different park before this happened >^_^<
6/26/2008 9:22 PM
Alan J Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 1085 View Park/Ride Count	Valleyfair had he same issue last summer.
6/26/2008 9:58 PM
Carowinds 73-03 Joined: Apr 2003 Posts: 11834 View Park/Ride Count	Nothing big really. This happens about twice a year. so more than likely it will happen again this year. Not really sure which side lost power. I remeber when i worked there it was the entire park but this might be different since the line was cut into.
6/27/2008 1:51 AM
Brian F Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 2242 View Park/Ride Count	Most likely it was part of in- park power distribution that was cut into, rather than two separate power grids.
6/27/2008 5:00 PM
trackwalker Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 272 View Park/Ride Count	No big deal. I remember power going out lots of times at LeSourdsville's roller coaster. The train would just stop on the lift hill until the power came back on. If the power went off after the train left the lift hill, again not a problem because we stopped the train with hand brakes. Everything was all manual after it left the lift hill.
6/28/2008 10:01 AM
coastergeek25 Joined: Nov 2006 Posts: 266 View Park/Ride Count	I got stuck on the old Rocket Rods at Disneyland once on a Winter night. Got really cold just sitting there.
7/2/2008 4:43 AM

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