This hasn't been a good week for Carowinds. The Cedar Fair park on the North/South Carolina boarder has had a tumultuous week where two major incidents have hampered park operations.
This last Sunday, the park's 300 ft Windseeker stalled about half way up the tower, stranding 64 riders for about an hour. The incident follows a few incidents where similar things happened at other Cedar Fair parks, including the infamous stalling of Knott's Berry Farm's Windseeker for 3 hours, which prompted Cedar Fair to shut down all Windseekers across the chain. The chain then installed evacuation platforms at each of these parks. Carowinds itself had its last stalling last September.
While Windseeker has since reopened, the park did experience a water main break on Monday, according to this post by Coaster Crew on Facebook. This can cause problems in anything that uses water, which includes water fountains, restrooms, soda machines at vendors, water rides, and the water park. At this time, there is little other information to go on other than that post.
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