Hurricane Matthew Closes WDW - Reopens Saturday, October 8th

[#1hoosierfan]

I'm staying at pop. Have not been given flashlight or anything yet so it's not just the hotels with internal corridors that have nothing.
Luckily I brought a load of high quality glow sticks to use at parks at night so I should be fine. I also had garden grocer delivery on arrival so have plenty of drinks and snacks.
The food court was insane at 4 I took one look filled my mug and left.
Have to say we have had little to no info from the resort still told that they would use the message system on the phones to update us but it's not working.

Agree with this.

I specifically asked yesterday and was told that the food court would be open for the duration. We went to HS today knowing that we had breakfast things and plenty of bottled water because we had garden grocer delivered at check-in. We were surprised when we arrived back to the resort around 5 to a message telling us to not leave the resort and we could purchase a boxed lunch to get us through tomorrow.

The whole food court was crazy. The problem was nobody knew what line they were in.... burger, pizza, box lunch, etc. No one was there to give direction.

Dh did wait about 90 minutes. We decided to get two pizzas. One we ate tonight. One we will eat cold tomorrow for lunch (doesn't bother us at all) The two pizzas were $33 total which I think is a very good price for WDW.

 

[hiroMYhero]

Apparently I need to book a deluxe resort for the next hurricane *L*

Entertainment "Ride Out" teams have been deployed to all resorts. There is a team at AoA but if you, and they, are confined to rooms, it may be difficult to meet up with them.

 

[The Sasquatch]

I am scratching my head...Orlando is a big city with thousands of places to eat. Why are people sitting there with a box of food like a refugee?

 

[mikedoyleblogger]

Wftv orlando. Anything better to be watching (serious question)? They just breezed through the update so it was probably oversimplified.

Try WESH 2, streaming online.

 

[Eoywin]

Entertainment "Ride Out" teams have been deployed to all resorts. There is a team at AoA but if you, and they, are confined to their rooms, it may be difficult to meet up with them.

Yeah, as much as I'd love to see rare characters, no way I'm walking through a hurricane from my Little Mermaid room.

I'm happy enough with the Disney movies they are showing. My kid is happily playing with her toys.

 

[Susie63]

I am scratching my head...Orlando is a big city with thousands of places to eat. Why are people sitting there with a box of food like a refugee?

I would imagine that most restaurants would be sending their staff home.

 

[ravenclawtrekkie]

I am scratching my head...Orlando is a big city with thousands of places to eat. Why are people sitting there with a box of food like a refugee?

A lot of tourists don't have a rental car?

Those who do might not want to drive on unfamiliar roads in heavy rain and in the dark?

Non-essential traffic isn't supposed to be on the roads?

Local businesses, including restaurants, are closed so their employees could go home?

 

[Marbel]

Fort Wilderness is empty. RV's have all been moved to the Magic Kingdom parking lot.

That's good. Omg can you imagine the logistics of moving all those RVs!

 

[otten]

They have their own infrastructure and backup generators but there is no way they can power every single resort on reserve. It is possible the power will go out. However, I imagine Disney has their own crew to try and get the power back up as quickly as possible.

Disney's power is mostly underground (as you can tell from the lack of overhead lines) which protects them from the biggest cause of outages which is debris and trees hitting distribution lines. However generating facilities and substations are not typically underground and if damaged take more time to get back online.

 

[maranara]

If the procedures haven't changed there is usually a hunker down crew at each of the parks. Just a handful of people who will be able to go out and access any damage asap.

There are definitely CMs hunkered down at DHS - a friend who is a CM there just checked in on facebook - he's part of that crew there.

 

[Shutterbug]

Bob Iger spoke at a government seminar attended by my relative many years ago. He said that in the last hurricane the vegetation was destroyed, no serious structural damage but repairs were completed and the vegetation was all replaced by the following morning when the parks opened. Disney has resources the common man, like all of us, can only dream of. My thoughts and prayers are with anyone in danger from this massive storm. Stay safe everyone. Bless you!

I think (or at least hope) that this will be the case with "most" of Florida. I was watching the Weather Channel and they were talking to a professional in the building profession( not sure what his actual job was) He talked about the construction codes and what is required of buildings.

 

[Boopuff]

I am scratching my head...Orlando is a big city with thousands of places to eat. Why are people sitting there with a box of food like a refugee?

There is a curfew starting at 7:00 tonight. So no they can't go schlepping around and no one is delivering anything to the resorts.

 

[Mr. Drauer]

I am scratching my head...Orlando is a big city with thousands of places to eat. Why are people sitting there with a box of food like a refugee?

Because a Cat 4 hurricane is bearing down, and every Central Florida county made a 5:00 "be home or be screwed" announcement earlier, so there are no restaurants or stores open, and those stores that are have no food or water, and Disney sent most of its CMs home at 5:00 too. Orlando is basically closed until Saturday. Hope we all come out OK.

 

[OKWDVCMagic]

I am scratching my head...Orlando is a big city with thousands of places to eat. Why are people sitting there with a box of food like a refugee?

They don't have transportation and many businesses and restaurants have already closed

 

[gja360]

I am scratching my head...Orlando is a big city with thousands of places to eat. Why are people sitting there with a box of food like a refugee?

Where are they going to go if they don't have transportation?

And even if they did there is a 10 pm curfew until 7 am Saturday

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

Apologies if this was already mentioned but this popped up on my FB news feed a little bit ago. I suppose you gotta do what you gotta do

 

[wilkeliza]

Apologies if this was already mentioned but this popped up on my FB news feed a little bit ago. I suppose you gotta do what you gotta do

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That is a bit extreme. They could have just put in under what looks like a carport.

 

[avic77]

http://floridapolitics.com/archives/223709-teresa-jacobs-declares-curfew-orange-county

Curfew in effect tonight till Saturday. Stay put, stay safe.

 

[Eoywin]

Curfew is under affect. I have my car but being a tourist I didn't want to tool around an unfamiliar town looking for food.

We did already have snacky things in our room. Plus a bag filled with candy from Tuesday's MNSSHP.

My kid is already bouncing off the walls so I don't want her consuming a ton of sugar.

 

[leebee]

I just heard from my sister. They are at Coronado Springs, supposed to check out tomorrow. CS has extended their stay until Sunday. She says they handed out flashlights and a bottle of water for everyone, but there is no food available at all. She is OK- they bought bagels, protein bars, nuts, juice boxes, etc. and will have enough for the duration. As she pointed out- it's all good, they have coffee!!