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[Jogumpie]

NoLimits onride: http://www.lifthill....p?ID=44&quali=2
NOTE: 31 MB.

[knex-man]

The lifthill and a hill are half done!





Thanks for the pictures www.toverland.info

[knex-man]

NNNNNNNOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THE WHOLE LIFTHILL HAS FALLEN DOWN!!!!!:mcy :mcy :mcy :mcy :mcy :angfire :angfire :angfire :angfire :angfire :angfire
Look at this before and after pictures:



This will take a lot of time...

[Jogumpie]

Damn! It freakin' collapsed!!! I still am like 'WTF!!!'.

EDIT: 'it' = the lift hill, to point out the obvious.

[Marl]

Collapse? That's a shame, those supports were gorgeous.

Ninja edit: Well, not so much the lift hill supports. They were kind of blech. That banked turn supports were gorgeous.

[Antinos]

Thats a HUGE blow to the company and park. Hopefully it won't cause too many problems. Apparently something was wrong with the supports, you would think they would stay even though it wasn't finished.

[Thunder-Wood-Designer]

Man Those inspectors are going to be all over them now. They re going to check the smallest noch in the wood now.

[KiNg Of Da Ka]

OMG OMG OMG I almost collapsed like the lifthill when I heard the news. Hope this dosen't mean that it will not open when schedualed.
^
Terrible spelling.

[Jogumpie]

No one was injured. The coaster should still open on June 23rd. Two weeks of work has been undone by the wind blow. It seems the last leg(s) are/were not secured for 100% yet. If the wind would've come one hour earlier or later, there would have been no problem at all.

[Maxlaam]

Indeed, I just heard it on the news!
they still want to open the coaster by june! I wonder if they would make that!
I almost didn't go to school because of the wind, I hate wind (unless i'm going to powerkite!)

They already cleaned up the mess, they will start rebuilding in no time!

[Evil Scotsman]

^ You powerkite too? What size is your kite?

Seeing this will make a lot of people nervous about riding this coaster. I can't wait to see it finished, it looks great!

Stu

[Tyrant]

I think a lot of people will understand that while building the coaster, there is not as much structural integerity, as the cross braces haven't even been installed yet. From what I understand only a couple large pieces (such as the ledgers) need to be replaced, as the rest of it is still structurally sound. Keep in mind that when you are building a coaster, you put up a bunch of bents, then "tie" them together with cross-braces, those cross braces were not installed yet, then the wind pushed it over.

-Tyrant

[Jogumpie]

I hope you people know what legs are, in terms of wooden roller coasters.

Those legs are being lifted up and placed on top of their anchors. Then the legs get connected to the previous one by horizontal bars. A few is enough to hold the leg in position without the crane holding it. However, the structure is not strong enough for a huge winds.

The last two legs weren't properly secured yet, because the workers wanted to get a break and the weather wasn't suspicious at all. And then the wind started to mess up... it made the last two legs collapse, taking the others with them. As if they were domino's.

[Ace o Spades]

^^still, such a shame, I never saw this coming.

It reminds me of when everyone saw Xcelerator's lack of supports and freaked out

[Maxlaam]

^^^^ I only got 1 "real" kite a Buster 4.0 (not big at all and pretty Noobish)
I also made a kite whit a friend of me from a beachtent (pulls pretty hard, you need to walk back whit someone pulling you ) It;s pretty cool though.
Like moutainboarding too but I dont have a board yet(and a Bar).

[NitroRyder33]

Heres a statement from GCI's Jeff Pike

Regarding today's incident with wind:

At around 12:30 today, a gale-force wind swept through the Sevenum area. The wind blew over 13 bents of the lift structure, but thankfully all employees were off-site eating lunch at the time of damage.

Initial inspections of the damage reveal that the foundation and anchors are intact, and most of the lumber contained in the affected bents is salvageable. We will have to replace several large legs and batters with new material.

It is important to note that a coaster is not as strong during the construction process as it is when completed, since all supporting batters, bracing and track are not yet in place.

We hope to have all affected areas rebuilt within a week or so.

Again, we are blessed that no employees were injured during this unforseen event.

Jeff Pike
GCII

[Maxlaam]

Looks a clear explanation to me. how long wouldit take to rebuild...
(I realy need to go to Toverland sometime, when it's finished ofcourse..)

[Jogumpie]

^About two weeks.

[Maxlaam]

No updates yet? phew.....

[Maxlaam]

Yay they almost finished rebuilding the lift-hill!