I am at the Wilderness Lodge right now with DS. We headed to MK early since it (and MGM and Epcot) opened at 8AM for resort guests...I actually learned of the early opening on the DIS, not from the hotel directly
We have actually gotten no information about the Hurricane from the hotel other than a tape recorded message on the room phone last night saying that the parks planned on being opened. This morning I called the front desk and they confirmed that the parks were opening early. On the boat to MK the CM let us know that the parks were closing at 1PM but on our way into the park we received a little notice that "if" the park closed early we would not be charged with a day on our pass for today. I didn't see any sign or anything about the park closing at 1PM but, the original CM was right, the park did close at 1PM, it was just very "low key".
Inside the park it was empty for the first two hours. We did 10 rides in 2 hours and almost all of them were walk-on. After 10AM it got a bit more crowded. Most rides did not have fast passes open. Even though the early morning was very empty, by the time we got over to BTMRR at 10:30, the wait was 75 minutes...UGH! While we were at the park there were lots of CMs busy bolting down a lot of the carts and tying down umbrellas and lights hanging from lightposts.
We left the park at 12:30 and got right onto the WL boat without a wait. When we got back to the hotel it started to drizzle a bit and they closed the pool and started dragging all of the chairs inside. The lobby doors facing out by the pool are covered with plastic and have sandbags stacked at the bottom of the door.
We headed back to our room and found the patio furniture stacked inside, by the sliding glass door. We watched the news for a bit and then headed back down to the lobby just as a bunch of characters arrived...Cinderella, Peter Pan and Wendy, Rafiki and Pluto.
It hasn't been raining for a while now so it is hard to believe that such a major storm could be heading this way...
I hope that everyone who is in the path of the storm gets through it safely.