A Florida teenager who plummeted 100 feet from a Wisconsin amusement park ride has returned to the state to promote an expansion project at the hospital that likely saved her life.
Hospital staff and others watched in awe Monday as 14-year-old Teagan Marti strode across the lobby at American Family Children’s Hospital in Madison under her own power, using only a walker for support. The teen, whose spine was severely injured in the July 2010 fall in Wisconsin Dells, appeared at a news conference to promote funding for the $32 million hospital expansion.
Excavation is under way at Mount Olympus on the ruins of the Lost City of Atlantis.
Archeologists predict the outdoor water fortress situated in front of the Triton water slide complex will rise six stories in the air and span an area of three acres.
Owner of Mount Olympus Water and Theme Park Nick Laskaris said the formerly lost city will feature seven water slides, a massive dump bucket and a geyser, which, on a regular interval throughout the day, will shoot water 12 stories into the sky.
A year ago this week at Six Flags Great America, director of maintenance/construction Gary Pohlman dealt with the headache of digging new pools for Hurricane Harbor while the Lake County landscape was frozen rock-solid and covered in two feet of snow.
But Tuesday’s spring-like conditions brought a new set of obstacles for crews building the X-Flight roller coaster in County Fair — with temperatures pushing 55 degrees, the ground had taken on the consistency of pudding.
“It’s a mud pit,” Pohlman said with a rueful smile, standing in the shadow of the American Eagle as heavy equipment lumbered through the muck. “We prefer hard ground to move around on at this point. We got all the concrete put in before the holidays, and since then, we’ve been praying for cold, but it’s not working.”
If you like zip lining, there’s a good chance you’ll also like the new adventure ropes course located inside the Wilderness Hotel & Golf Resort. It’s called the Northern Lights Sky Ropes Course and it’s perched 30 feet above the mega arcade in the Wild West region of the property. Wearing a full-body safety harness, you’ll climb your way around 42 challenges with varying degrees of difficulty.
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