Yeah I don’t even live in Florida and know it’s far too early to say how this might impact the theme park area if at all.
These types of threads are so useful. Airlines might be cancelling flights. Airlines are waiving change fees and or fare differences if passengers want to change their flights.
We typically have one here too. This forum gets a lot of traffic and it’s useful to have them in multiple places usually.
Exactly .. one thing I learned about Florence last year .. you just spend a lot of energy worrying for a week until it is more definitive (like a day or two out) where it will be going.
I guess I'm a weather nerd. I watch them until they are no longer a threat. I especially like to track the spaghetti charts to see if and how the various models converge.Exactly .. one thing I learned about Florence last year .. you just spend a lot of energy worrying for a week until it is more definitive (like a day or two out) where it will be going.
The weather channels give you the WORST case scenario.
Florence was predicted roaring in at a CAT 4 .. and came in as a CAT 1-2. Still very damaging .. but really it was all the rain AFTER the landfall that was the issue (and the flooding), not the winds itself.
Be prepared .. be very flexible and while it will affect flights and travel plans, no need to panic ... yet.
I will say this .. after having stayed for Florence (it made landfall maybe 4-5 miles from my house) .. if you are near the coast and near landfall .. get out if you have the ability to do so. It's no fun wondering if a tree will break and hit the house (with little kids in the house), worrying if your house will flood (water came about 6 inches from my foundation on all sides) and no fun being in a house with no power for a week, but if you do leave, it may be a week or two before you can even make it back from your house.
I wish we would have vacated to Disney World for Florence - my son was out of school for a month and I didn't have power to work for over a week
(Going to WDW not an option for Dorian though it appears).
Oh trust me .. it is addicting to watch these things. It feels like all we did for a week and half before Florence was watch the weather channel.
I don't disagree about people looking at getting flight changes and the like, but the prediction of landfall location and strength is what is problematic to me. Many people are going to pick up on these threads over the next few days and many will complain that their airline or the DCL is not giving them any info or allowing changes if the storm is going to hit Orlando / Central Florida. But the airlines and DCL typically wait as long as possible to make any commitments due to the inaccuracy of tracks until closer to landfall. After living in Orlando for 25 years. I have seen the wide variety of news outlets, especially national news or stations away from central Florida predict and sesationalize the storms, and then be dissapointed when they make landfall elsewhere or not at all. The pictures of tracks that they show are misleading as most focus on the center of the track as a straight line, rather than focusing on the wide cone. The way this storm is set up, it won't likely be until Friday night or Saturday morning before it would make a western turn towards Florida (if it does at all), so this speculation just feeds the fires. I'm all for being prepared or adjusting your plans if you want to, but leave the forecasting and speculation to others.
