FYI: Upcoming Shows & Hurricane Matthew

[rteetz]

Wow so if you don't get a meal today you're kinda out of luck for food tomorrow?

Pretty much.

 

[Anastasia Tremaine]

The governor is all over our news telling us to turn to Floridadisaster.org to get the latest info but that site doesn't seem to be able to handle the web traffic..So I was wondering if Floridadisaster.org is using the same servers as Disney?

 

[*NikkiBell*]

Tidbits:

1900 Park Fare was open for guests earlier this evening and gave everyone 30% off the bill.

Lines for boxed meals at resorts ran from 1-2 hours today.

Flashlights are being distributed to guests.

Cable TV already out at POFQ.

No housekeeping tomorrow. Extra towels available tonight while supplies last.

Characters are in the main building of the Poly as of an hour ago.

#StaySafeDisney #PrayForFlorida

 

[Tonyz]

That's great about 1900. Now I heard that Boma and Jiko combined into one restaurant. I guess it's all just buffet stuff and it's a mad house.

Mickey and Minnie are dressed in safari gear and in the AKL lobby.

 

[TheMaxRebo]

Hey all I am unfortunately riding this storm out at Beach Club. I was in Epcot till closing and was surprised with all the prep work disney has done. 90% of the Food and Wine booths were taken backstage and almost all the loose signs that were on the booths that were left on-stage were taken down. There were temporary signage for the booths that were still open for guests to see. In general the parks were running on skeleton crew in most attractions as far as I could tell. All the resort CMs are upbeat and I can gladly say with smiles on their faces. this will be a very interesting 48 hours.

I'll keep posting updates on what I notice over the next few days.

Stay safe - seems like so far everyone making the best of it

 

[Tonyz]

http://m.imgur.com/jX8NjDU

Line at Pop Century to get food

 

[Tonyz]

 

[rteetz]

It looked like that at pretty much every resort.

 

[DisneyKevin]

11:30pm and it's very quiet in St Cloud.

We've had some rain and a gust or two, but that's it.

 

[disneyland_is_magic]

Dumb question, I'm already reading about severe power outages if there's a power outage at Walt Disney World do the room doors stop working because magic bands are unable to connect to ....Disney's mother ship or whatever?

 

[Tonyz]

11:30pm and it's very quiet in St Cloud.

We've had some rain and a gust or two, but that's it.

Good.

If the thing completely misses, the parks stay closed right?

 

[rteetz]

Good.

If the thing completely misses, the parks stay closed right?

Disney could open for the afternoon. They wouldn't open in the morning most likely.

 

[rteetz]

Dumb question, I'm already reading about severe power outages if there's a power outage at Walt Disney World do the room doors stop working because magic bands are unable to connect to ....Disney's mother ship or whatever?

I don't believe so because it's RFID. The bands and doors should be the same I would think.

 

[Alicenwonderment]

11:30pm and it's very quiet in St Cloud.

We've had some rain and a gust or two, but that's it.

Thanks for the update. Stay safe!!

 

[Accident]

Dumb question, I'm already reading about severe power outages if there's a power outage at Walt Disney World do the room doors stop working because magic bands are unable to connect to ....Disney's mother ship or whatever?

Disney generates most of it's own power and that power is distributed underground around property so it's less prone to big outages from storms. It's also in control of disney so the repair of any problems are always quick and doesn't rely on a third party that has to priority hospitals and emergency response higher than theme parks. You probably also never noticed it but there is generators all over the place so completely out of power should not happen. Also it's a critical system so like emergency lights, there is battery power for the system to keep going offering time to get some power back to the system. so you may have nothing but an emergency light and the door working. I believe the doors also store what bands open them so it doesn't need communication back to the central system to function.

 

[Accident]

2am here, I'm not far from kevins area but directly south of property. We're still in the same county, i'm just on the western edge of it (with southern half of disney property). Same as he reports, winds are a little stronger but less than a normal thunderstorm right now. tv is reporting some bands of higher wind with the rain that's passing through time to time but it's just quick gusts like any storm has. it's mostly the outer bands of rain that have hit here so far.. the builk of the storm is getting closer though so it'll pick up soon.

Hard stuff is expected in about 4 hours and it's slowly building up winds. so far it's been the outer bands so I suspect we'll start to see some of the 55ish mph winds on the edge of the storm shortly. (35ish right now, up from about 20 a couple hours ago).

 

[superme80]

2am here, I'm not far from kevins area but directly south of property. We're still in the same county, i'm just on the western edge of it (with southern half of disney property). Same as he reports, winds are a little stronger but less than a normal thunderstorm right now. tv is reporting some bands of higher wind with the rain that's passing through time to time but it's just quick gusts like any storm has. it's mostly the outer bands of rain that have hit here so far.. the builk of the storm is getting closer though so it'll pick up soon.

Hard stuff is expected in about 4 hours and it's slowly building up winds. so far it's been the outer bands so I suspect we'll start to see some of the 55ish mph winds on the edge of the storm shortly. (35ish right now, up from about 20 a couple hours ago).

Thank you for the update.. Stay safe everyone!!!!!

 

[Accident]

I shoudl have waited for the 2am release of the updated forecast track.. The storm is actually more east again and they are now saying the hardest stuff around 9am but the hard stuff is now around 55mph max instead of up to 120mph so it just got a dramatically different forecast.. again everyone warning that it's still early for the storm to decide to head more west and then the old numbers kick back in and if it goes enough even more.. It's also finally getting some times that around mid afternoon we're back to about what it is right now (which I would find a windy storm like many we've all seen when at disney). do it's looking like dinner timeish we're back to normal and the cleanup / recovery starts..

Still a formidable forecast but not too bad. For those that aren't from a hurricane/tropical storm, that's still enough to do some damage, break/knock over weaker trees, throw loose things around and generally emergency crews stop operating when winds are somewhere in the 40s to 50s so it's right at the numbers that they will not be out and about helping folks.

 

[Aerin75]

I shoudl have waited for the 2am release of the updated forecast track.. The storm is actually more east again and they are now saying the hardest stuff around 9am but the hard stuff is now around 55mph max instead of up to 120mph so it just got a dramatically different forecast.. again everyone warning that it's still early for the storm to decide to head more west and then the old numbers kick back in and if it goes enough even more.. It's also finally getting some times that around mid afternoon we're back to about what it is right now (which I would find a windy storm like many we've all seen when at disney). do it's looking like dinner timeish we're back to normal and the cleanup / recovery starts..

Still a formidable forecast but not too bad. For those that aren't from a hurricane/tropical storm, that's still enough to do some damage, break/knock over weaker trees, throw loose things around and generally emergency crews stop operating when winds are somewhere in the 40s to 50s so it's right at the numbers that they will not be out and about helping folks.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it stays more east!

They are talking about a 100 year event on the news.

 

[DisneyKevin]

7:00am and we are doing okay.

Windy and rainy but really okay.