And this is why I will NOT ever ride a roller coaster!

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16. This is so very scary

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I had my first evacuation experience last year in October. On our last day in the parks (Saturday), we were doing the "single rider" line for a ride at the Animal Kingdon called Expedition Everest which is a roller coaster rider where you go backwards for part of the ride. We were coming up to the last part of the ride where the Yeti pretends to swipe at riders when the entire ride shut down. My oldest child was in a train that was behind us and had to go down 14 flights of stairs. My middle child was in the same train but two cars up from me and stayed with me. They got some cast members up to us and asked if anyone had medical issues. My middle child jumped in and told them that I had breathing and mobility issues. My middle child told me that it was up to me but she really wanted the fire department to help.

My COPD was acting up and after we got out of the ride we were supposed to go down 8 flights of stairs. We first exited the car and then had to wait for the evacuation. I could not get back into the ride to cross over (the step was high) and I started wheezing. I have balance issues at times and was worried about 8 flights of stairs The ended up getting the local fire department come up and take me down in a wheelchair. There are nice stairs throughout the ride and it was not too bad going down the wheelchair.

I had a rescue inhaler on me and the Disney cast members and the firefighters laugh at my "joke" that the rescue inhaler was not working. My son is in great shape and made it down to where my ECV was and talked to the firefighters before they went up. A senior management type was talking to my oldest and gave us a chance to watch a preview of a new attraction that was to open to the public next week. This was a cast preview for this new attraction that was replacing "It is Tough being a Bug".

Disney is set up for evacuations. I saw that they had some evacuations at Big Thunder Mountain when it reopened.

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I would not go on the Galveston roller coaster. I will stick with Disney roller coasters where they know how to evacuate people.