All rides in Hollywood Studios closed for technical difficulties (7/12/18)

Bob

Bob

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monothingie said:
If he was anyway remotely involved with or at some point watched ESPN, then yes.

(@Bob am I doing it right?)
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GlacierGlacier

GlacierGlacier

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Corey P said:
Chillers are very reliable and this type of situation really should happen. Those system aren't a matter of a simple problem happens and the whole system goes down. Do you ever hear of skyscrapers losing AC? No, very rarely does anything on that scale happen. Fire isn't a big worry because this is industrial grade stuff that has very very few pieces that can burn. The systems should all be backed upped, in other words a failure somewhere shouldn't cause the system as a whole to fail completely.

Just wondering what really happened?
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A Mickey balloon got caught in a power-line.

Someone left a pair of metal pliers beneath an unprotected circuit board (personal experience).

A bird built a nest right in a critical choke point of the cooling plant.

People stopped believing in fairies, so the ones cooling the air turned grey and withered to dust.

Thanos
snapped his fingers and cut the cooling capacity of DHS in half.

The cooling tower had to be removed to access the yeti.

The cooling plant got too hot in the gondolas.

The cooling plant was structurally unsound due to a sinkhole and the stress caused by the inverted-omnimover system.

Current Disney Management found out that Walt's Frozen Head was inside the cooling station.

Bees.

*Night on Bald Mountain plays*

The coolant tower was shocked at the visibility of the Guardians building, and shut down out of disappointment.

The coolant tower is actually manned by Elsa, but she had a hair appointment conflict and missed out for a few hours.

If they run the coolant tower for only half the day over twice as many days, they can conceal the capital expenditure they spend on cooling.

The coolant tower was traded as part of the Fox deal.

The coolant tower was in the way of the new Monsters Inc attraction.

The coolant tower was converted into a M&G for Zootopia fans.
 
monothingie

monothingie

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Corey P said:
Chillers are very reliable and this type of situation really should happen. Those system aren't a matter of a simple problem happens and the whole system goes down. Do you ever hear of skyscrapers losing AC? No, very rarely does anything on that scale happen. Fire isn't a big worry because this is industrial grade stuff that has very very few pieces that can burn. The systems should all be backed upped, in other words a failure somewhere shouldn't cause the system as a whole to fail completely.

Just wondering what really happened?
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The cooling plant operates multiple chillers for capacity and redundancy. Whatever happens (Pump failure/fire, or something ) was critical enough to defeat all the redundancy. Could be as simple as a blown transformers or something that failed which requires shutting everything down to remediate the problem. Everything that was reported indicated a fire of some sort. The repair time line is consistent with this type event.
 
Lensman

Lensman

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Corey P said:
Do you ever hear of skyscrapers losing AC? No, very rarely does anything on that scale happen. Fire isn't a big worry because this is industrial grade stuff that has very very few pieces that can burn. The systems should all be backed upped, in other words a failure somewhere shouldn't cause the system as a whole to fail completely.

Just wondering what really happened?
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Our building (a 32-story office tower in NYC) lost AC a few years ago when there was a catastrophic break in the chilled water line. We didn't really notice that the AC was out though, because of all the water pouring down from the ceiling and running down the hallways. The office was closed for a couple of days. (pm if you're interested in seeing the video!)

Later that year we heard the same thing happened on a different floor.

Obviously, neiither of these made the news nor were people talking about them on social media.

I suspect that this kind of thing happens all the time, but most of the time the impact is local and so it's not news.

I'm impressed that they got it (the DHS AC) back up and running in a few hours.
 
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Nubs70

Nubs70

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WEDwaydatamover said:
A long storied history of neglect and mediocrity.

Pile on.
Most people here know that Phil and his strategies have brought about the worst at WDW. Especially the Magic Kingdom.
HIS ideas (or grand visions) in WDWs future don't look or seem very well thought out one bit.

Phil is amateur hour compared to his predisessors.
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Could be as sipmple as a pump failure. Put the pitchfork down.
 
Debbie

Debbie

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We were in Muppets 3D and it seemed to be very warm. We walked into one of the shops and the cast member told us about the outage. I went back to the hotel--the rest of the gang got their bands converted to a hopper for the day and went to Epcot for a couple hours and went back to DhS once the notification came over their phones
 

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