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News Over 40 WDW Attractions Closed Late Afternoon 8/29 due to Power Surge
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EvilChameleon
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Mike O'Malley voice: POWER SURGE!!
NotCalledBob
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I'm here now at DHS. All rides closed. The park is coping surprisingly well with large queues for shows. But it's bad timing as most of the shows are coming to the end of their operating day.
NotCalledBob
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It must be bad though. I've been in a Vegas casino before where there has been a power outage in the whole city, but the property's generator has kept all the slot machines running, and the casino floor lights on.
Where is Disney's backup generator?!
Where is Disney's backup generator?!
BagOfGroceries
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Always buy a natural gas backup generator, folks.
Clowd Nyne
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I’m at Hollywood it seems like everything is running on local generators with no main source power.
StarWarsGirl
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- In the Parks
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I'm here during the summer every year and this is HIGHLY unusual. It happens because it's Florida, but it's just super unusual
I was in Captain Cooks and the power flickered. That itself is super unusual. Normally you can't even tell.
ETA: not to this extent. Normally if this happens, it affects one park, and that park is usually MK.
I was in Captain Cooks and the power flickered. That itself is super unusual. Normally you can't even tell.
ETA: not to this extent. Normally if this happens, it affects one park, and that park is usually MK.
Clowd Nyne
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Tower is working but it’s powered by another dimension
NotCalledBob
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It's been a long time now and there is no information. A lot of people around us asking what is going on. They need to send out a push notification to people in the parks. Like they do for extended ride breakdowns.
NotCalledBob
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We are in the lightning lane for ToT. It isn't really moving, which is unsurprising as it seems to be the only thing that has reopened. The cast must be having a horrible afternoon.
EvilChameleon
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Any day now they'll get to work on that nuclear power plant.
StarWarsGirl
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- In the Parks
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Star Tours being back up will greatly help. Before when it was just ToT, that was not good.
Kind of ironic that the only attraction not affected by a lightning strike was ToT...
Had a couple of power surges at Beach Club about 90 minutes ago when the storms rolled through. Wasn’t as bad as yesterday’s, but all it takes is one lightning strike in the right place.
hopemax
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That’s where we were. In the restaurant building part of the queue. Got a recovery LL but decided to try and head back to the hotel (Coronado for D23) rather than wait for rides to come back. But we have been waiting and waiting for a bus, while all the other buses have come and gone.
hopemax
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We had two close strikes while we were in Remy queue but it took another 20-25 minutes before all hell broke loose. After the 2 close strikes I mentioned this was a storm that could take a whole park down.
We got stuck on the monorail once when it got hit by lightning. We were in the GF station when it happened so thankfully we were able to disembark. But it still took 2 hours to get to MK (before the walkway). Flooded bus from GF back to TTC and then bus to MK.
We got stuck on the monorail once when it got hit by lightning. We were in the GF station when it happened so thankfully we were able to disembark. But it still took 2 hours to get to MK (before the walkway). Flooded bus from GF back to TTC and then bus to MK.
etc98
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I mean this kind of seems like the one headline from them that isn’t clickbait. That’s exactly what happened