Hurricanes & Flying this summer

pooh2001

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Per the weather website.
They estimate Below Average amount of hurricanes this season...
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I really don't believe in these predictions, they are rarely right. Like last winter they predicted above normal snow/below normal temps. We ended up with the opposite.
 
Please don't ever put the words "hurricane" and "flying" in the same sentence ever again:rotfl:;)

We've gone in hurricane season 3 times with no problems so far. Let's hope this summer is hurricane free trip #4. I hate flying as it is.
 
Please don't ever put the words "hurricane" and "flying" in the same sentence ever again:rotfl:;)

We've gone in hurricane season 3 times with no problems so far. Let's hope this summer is hurricane free trip #4. I hate flying as it is.

Amen, sister!

I, for one, am hoping pigletto's luck continues for 2012, since we are travelling during the same week. Here's to a little pixie dust from Mother Nature :wizard: .
 

Pigletto, are you flying out of Buffalo? I think our family is also flying at the same time Aug 22-29.
 
Oh please....dont mention hurricanes!! I travel in July and have always missed the hurricanes by a day or so. I have been lucky too and hope my luck continues for 2012!! :goodvibes
 
Ugh....after all of the stress last year with Irene I am hoping for a hurricane free forecast . We will be flying on 8/19 and 8/28:worship:
 
After my first year travelling in summer I said never again - but then we have always gone August/September time frame. Fingers crossed this year as well.
 
To add some context to my earlier post. I was on a cruise, in the Bahamas, in 2004 when Hurricane Frances was in the Bahamas.:scared:
The ship sailed as far outside of the hurricane as it could. It was pretty darn bad. Bad enough that you couldn't walk without holding the walls. Bad enough that they taped bags all up and down the hallways for people who needed to throw up. We were at sea 3 extra days. Even once the worst of the storm was over, the cruise ports were a mess so there was nowhere for us to go for awhile. The ship ran out of many fresh foods (fruits, veggies, milk etc). No money in the ATM and thousands of people who apparently didn't purchase trip insurance because disembarkation day was a mob of angry people. It was an unpleasant experience during the storm to say the least, but was handled as well as it could be.
In fact one night the entire dining room broke out singing "This is the cruise that never ends.. it just goes on and on my friends....":rotfl::rotfl:

Anyway.. that was enough hurricane adventure for me. I'll take my chances at DisneyWorld for hurricane season but no cruises TYVM;)
 
Please don't ever put the words "hurricane" and "flying" in the same sentence ever again:rotfl:;)

We've gone in hurricane season 3 times with no problems so far. Let's hope this summer is hurricane free trip #4. I hate flying as it is.


It's not always a bad thing. We were "forced" :banana: to stay at Disney when Hurricane Rita hit Houston. We were due to fly back the same day Rita hit and were forced to stay an additional 3 days in The World ( thank goodness for travel ins.).
 
To add some context to my earlier post. I was on a cruise, in the Bahamas, in 2004 when Hurricane Frances was in the Bahamas.:scared:
The ship sailed as far outside of the hurricane as it could. It was pretty darn bad. Bad enough that you couldn't walk without holding the walls. Bad enough that they taped bags all up and down the hallways for people who needed to throw up. We were at sea 3 extra days. Even once the worst of the storm was over, the cruise ports were a mess so there was nowhere for us to go for awhile. The ship ran out of many fresh foods (fruits, veggies, milk etc). No money in the ATM and thousands of people who apparently didn't purchase trip insurance because disembarkation day was a mob of angry people. It was an unpleasant experience during the storm to say the least, but was handled as well as it could be.
In fact one night the entire dining room broke out singing "This is the cruise that never ends.. it just goes on and on my friends....":rotfl::rotfl:

Anyway.. that was enough hurricane adventure for me. I'll take my chances at DisneyWorld for hurricane season but no cruises TYVM;)

Oh, pigletto..........what an experience that must have been!

The image of a wall of barf bags would be hard to get out of one's head :sick: . I can't imagine what that must have smelled like :eek: .
 
I arrived in Orlando on one of the last flights in before they closed MCO during Hurricane Charly. Remember driving in the rain to DTD and the wind and trees swaying sideways through the night. Saw Spaceship Earth in an eerie gray-orange glow from our window through the storm. WDW was closed for half a day the next morning while cleanup was going on.
 














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