Burroughs & Chapin Co. Inc, owners of the property are saving almost everything else that was at the park, but no one apparently wanted the coaster and the classic dark ride.

Lowcountry Wrecking, operations manager Joe McCready said that the Hurricane was being a particular challenge to tear down.   It took about an entire day just to take down 30 feet of track the first day of demolition.  McCready expects to have the coaster down completely within about a week.

Hurricane Category 5 (the official name of the coaster) was built by Custom Coasters International, Inc. for $6,000,000 and opened in 2000.  It featured many airtime filled hills as well as two intense helixes.

McCready said among discoveries they found during demolition, they actually found part of the original Attic building.  He was quoted saying, “They put everything in the ground. The foundation was left. It was underneath the old go-kart track beside the current Attic building.”

For more information and photos of the demolition of Hurricane, visit The Sun News.