Mandatory evacuation? Where do they go?

[cindyfan]

Just thinking about all the posts regarding Irma. And "mandatory evacuation"?
They say visitors are the first to be forced out? Where do they go? Especially if they flew there?
I just have this vision in my head of families standing in the streets with their suitcases waiting for a cab? or Uber? then where would they go?

So, if people are at resorts, wouldn't the resorts have plans in place to keep these people safely in rooms or buildings (such as the custom house, or restaurants).

Being it is Florida aren't the building codes inclusive of hurricane safety?

I get that if it's on the coast, yes they would somehow be taken "inland". Obviously you don't want to stay at a beachfront resort! But in a case such as WDW where it is dead center of the state, why are some posters stating that people would be forced out due to "mandatory evacuation"??

Don't mean to be snarky, I am truly curious where everyone goes?

 

[tvguy]

I hope not to find out. My daughter got called from work today, they are sending her Friday to Jacksonville, Florida for a week to help out at a sister station there in their Irma coverage. It , or part of it, is projected to hit there Sunday night or Monday.

 

[cgattis]

OP, right now they're predicting Irma to come ashore near Miami and run right up the center of the peninsula, not come ashore on the beach sides.

@tvguy, hoping your daughter stays safe. I know that's scary for her parents :/

 

[cindyfan]

But, where do people go if they are told to evacuate?

 

[bigbabyblues]

If there is a mandatory evacuation (any place, not just Orlando), it doesn't matter where they go, they just have to get out of the area being evacuated--where and how is up to them to figure out. I would assume they would either go home or go somewhere safe but close enough to go back and finish their vacation when visitors were allowed back in.

Anyone traveling into an area where this particular hurricane could be going at this point needs to have a back up plan, although I don't know if Orlando has been evacuated for a hurricane in the past, anything is possible. It is also possible that even if they get their entire vacation in, they may not be able to get home the way they have planned. Depending on the damage, roads may not be passable for a few days, airports may not reopen as quickly as planned, no one knows.

 

[sam_gordon]

OP, right now they're predicting Irma to come ashore near Miami and run right up the center of the peninsula, not come ashore on the beach sides.

@tvguy, hoping your daughter stays safe. I know that's scary for her parents :/

Check your forecast. Now it's predicted to run up the east coast of Florida.

 

[tvguy]

OP, right now they're predicting Irma to come ashore near Miami and run right up the center of the peninsula, not come ashore on the beach sides.

@tvguy, hoping your daughter stays safe. I know that's scary for her parents :/

They just called, she isn't going. they didn't need anyone with her job skills (she's a Director). Strike 2, she was on standby to go to Houston 2 weeks ago and didn't go

 

[Lynne M]

Just thinking about all the posts regarding Irma. And "mandatory evacuation"?
They say visitors are the first to be forced out? Where do they go? Especially if they flew there?
I just have this vision in my head of families standing in the streets with their suitcases waiting for a cab? or Uber? then where would they go?

So, if people are at resorts, wouldn't the resorts have plans in place to keep these people safely in rooms or buildings (such as the custom house, or restaurants).

Being it is Florida aren't the building codes inclusive of hurricane safety?

I get that if it's on the coast, yes they would somehow be taken "inland". Obviously you don't want to stay at a beachfront resort! But in a case such as WDW where it is dead center of the state, why are some posters stating that people would be forced out due to "mandatory evacuation"??

Don't mean to be snarky, I am truly curious where everyone goes?

It's no different for visitors than residents. If there's a mandatory evacuation, you must leave the evacuation zone. Where you go and how you get there is up to you to figure out. You can't stay in a hotel. Yes, if necessary, you get a cab and go to an airport, a bus station, a rental car office, and go home, or to some other town or city that's not being evacuated.

 

[Wendy31]

It's no different for visitors than residents. If there's a mandatory evacuation, you must leave the evacuation zone. Where you go and how you get there is up to you to figure out. You can't stay in a hotel. Yes, if necessary, you get a cab and go to an airport, a bus station, a rental car office, and go home, or to some other town or city that's not being evacuated.

Right, except if you're an actual resident, they can't force you to leave your home. If you're a visitor, yes, they can make you leave, but they can't make you leave your home.

But, if you don't leave your home, it then means that you're "on your own" until the danger is past. If you change your mind during the middle of the hurricane, it's too late - no one is coming to rescue you until it's over.

Lots of times, the bridges & roads to the barrier islands are closed, & electricity & sewer systems to the barrier islands are turned off & shut down.

If I remember correctly, last fall, in preparation for Hurricane Matthew, St. Johns County in northeast Florida closed the bridges, shut off electricity, & turned off water & sewer systems to Anastasia Island (the barrier island). So people who elected to stay even after the mandatory evacuation, stayed knowing they were "on their own" & in the dark & w/o water.

 

[melanielll]

You can go to a shelter that has been set up for the storm.

 

[dish rag]

Stuck in Orlando. Cancelled fights Saturday to Toronto for another week. I don't think we will have to leave our place but are considering getting a room at a Disney hotel.

 

[Shanti]

Being it is Florida aren't the building codes inclusive of hurricane safety?

There is no such thing as a hurricane-proof building, no. A very powerful hurricane can rip any house in its path to shreds and push a big box store over a highway.

People evacuate out of town, away from the hurricane. They go to hotels, homes or shelters in other cities and states.

 

[Lsdolphin]

Stuck in Orlando. Cancelled fights Saturday to Toronto for another week. I don't think we will have to leave our place but are considering getting a room at a Disney hotel.

You better hurry up and do it! During Matthew, Disney stopped taking reservations so they could use any available rooms to relocate guests staying in Fort Wilderness Camp grounds and they used rooms for their "ride out crew" of CMs who would need to stay on site to work through storm.

 

[cindyfan]

There is no such thing as a hurricane-proof building, no. A very powerful hurricane can rip any house in its path to shreds and push a big box store over a highway.

People evacuate out of town, away from the hurricane. They go to hotels, homes or shelters in other cities and states.

I never said "hurricane-proof" I know that would not be possible. But WDW has hotels and shelters that people could go to, right?
Didn't a lot of people during Matthew last year go to WDW for the shelter?

 

[BrinkofSunshine]

I believe anyone who is evacuated and has nowhere to go would go to a designated shelter.

I doubt WDW would be under a mandatory evacuation. I live in Orlando and I've never experienced this, even in the 2004 season when we were last impacted.

 

[Julie's Haircut]

We were in Cancun for Hurricane Emily in 2005. Mandatory evacuation of beachfront hotels. They had buses to bring us to a recreation center that was a designated shelter about 10 miles inland for one night.

 

[cindyfan]

We were in Cancun for Hurricane Emily in 2005. Mandatory evacuation of beachfront hotels. They had buses to bring us to a recreation center that was a designated shelter about 10 miles inland for one night.

Thank you. I kinda thought they'd do that. But was hoping someone that lived through it would chime in and say what they went through!
How do they designate a building as a a safe shelter? Location, obviously. But what else?

 

[maddiel]

My husband was in Florida at a conference the week of Hurricane Wilma in 2005. I forget what city he was in (Miami, maybe?) but it was in the area where it forecast to hit. IIRC, the airlines put on extra flights the day or two before it made landfall and didn't charge change fees to encourage people to leave before flights out became impossible, so he rebooked his flight and came home two days early.

 

[Monorail_Man_NJ]

Orlando wouldnt evacuate as there is nowhere to evacuate too except North. Its in the center of the state. You shelter in place and at the designated resort your staying at.

 

[cindyfan]

Orlando wouldnt evacuate as there is nowhere to evacuate too except North. Its in the center of the state. You shelter in place and at the designated resort your staying at.

I was thinking the same thing.