Power Outage at Disney World

March 28, 2008
EpcotSurely Disney World would never experience a power outage, right? After all, Disney World rakes in millions of dollars each year from tourists. That includes thousands of dollars from my family visits to Disney World. Not to mention they are in Hurricane Valley, so surely their CTO and electrical engineers have backup power systems in place with tons of redundancy, right? Wrong!

According to the Orlando Sentinel, "A circuit breaker tripped at Disney's Epcot Center this morning, causing parts of the park to lose power and some rides to close down temporarily."

The article goes on to explain that a breaker tripped causing the entire park to "experience a sudden change in voltage, much like when lights flicker during a thunderstorm", according to Disney spokesperson Kim Prunty.

Apparently, it started at 11:30am and most attractions were up and running at this by 2 p.m. Egads! An hour and a half outage? That's like what, how many rides missed? Oh about 1 turn at Test Track, a notoriously long line.

Disney doesn't know what caused the breaker to trip. That makes you feel confident, doesn't it? According to the article, the power outage was limited to parts of Future World and the main entrance, but several rides stopped because of the power surge and had to go through a restarting process.

I'm headed back to Disney World May 29th. Can't wait to go! Gotta catch up with my old pal Goofy... Maybe he tripped the circuit breaker. He's always tripping up on things.
Tom & Goofy - Liberty Tree Tavern

Tom & Goofy


Post a comment

See this page in TechnoratiTechnoratibook mark in del.icio.usDel.icio.usSlashdot.comSlashdotSubmit to Digg.comDigg

Tags: , , ,

Search Technorati: , , ,
Related Tags: , , , , ,

Using each Web Services and AJAX, links below show you related pages by searching the web

Image::Disney WorldVideo::Disney WorldNews::Disney WorldImage::Epcot


Listed below are links to sites that reference Power Outage at Disney World:

Trackback Pings

TrackBack URL:
http://blog.tmcnet.com/mt3/t.fcgi/35636

Comments to Power Outage at Disney World


  1. Bill Burke :
    March 30, 2008 4:48 PM

    So,

    Did you get the truth from Goofy?

    Was it him who tripped the breaker, after all?

    The Team
    http://wirelessspeech.blogspot.com


(If you haven't left a comment here before, you may need to be approved by the site owner before your comment will appear. Until then, it won't appear on the entry. Thanks for waiting.)