Cedar Point
Sandusky, Ohio
Coaster Mania 2007
June 15, 2007
Page Six






As we launched I just let go, put my hands in the air and started to scream.  About a tenth of a second later the scream was prematurely snuffed out as the air rushing past me as I accelerated up to one hundred and twenty miles an hour pushed my scream back down into my lungs.



My reaction was really weird and took me several rides to put everything together and figure out what was happening to me.



I was in the middle of a panic attack due to my fear of heights and after the four seconds it took to accelerate to one hundred and twenty miles an hour my fear of heights was thrust right in my face and my mind kicked off a fight or flee response.  Since I was strapped in and unable to flee fighting my way through it was my only choice.



So as I sped up into the blue and over the top where the view of all of Cedar Point was laid out before me for a few seconds I raged.



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