past CPers...hurriances

[savannahjean85]

Heavens forbid one should happen but I was reading someone past CP blog and she mentioned a tropical storm and it made me wonder
what is the situation if there is hurricane warning (work wise and housing complex wise)? I only ask because we will be there during the hurricane season.


p.s. sorry I come up with the most random questions

 

[SiSiMonique2009]

Heavens forbid one should happen but I was reading someone past CP blog and she mentioned a tropical storm and it made me wonder
what is the situation if there is hurricane warning (work wise and housing complex wise)? I only ask because we will be there during the hurricane season.


p.s. sorry I come up with the most random questions

I think thats a great question I know where Im from we get hurricanes quite often and everything closes. I havent been to Disney durring a hurricane b4 but I do remember one storm where the park was closed I cant remember the name of it though. Sorry I cant really answer your question but it is a good one because I dont think they talk aboud that on the WDWCP website.

 

[christiemarsh88]

It may be horrible of me, but I think it would be pretty neat to experience a hurricane. (One where there's limited damage and no serious injuries/loss of life, obviously).

I'm from the Midwest, so I've got lots of experience with tornados. Comparing a hurricane to a tornado sounds like comparing Summit Plummet to a playground slide. Definitely exciting.

P.S. You may have noticed that I didn't have any answers for you either, savannahjean85. Sorry about that.

 

[SiSiMonique2009]

It may be horrible of me, but I think it would be pretty neat to experience a hurricane. (One where there's limited damage and no serious injuries/loss of life, obviously).

I'm from the Midwest, so I've got lots of experience with tornados. Comparing a hurricane to a tornado sounds like comparing Summit Plummet to a playground slide. Definitely exciting.

P.S. You may have noticed that I didn't have any answers for you either, savannahjean85. Sorry about that.

When hurricanes hit where I live a lot of stuff gets flooded I dont live near the water so our house and my school is usually fine but I have family that live downtown near the bay and it floods so its usually bad for them floors get we and everything. I havent really had to sit through a really harsh hurricane because when a bad one comes we have to evacuate. Tornados really scare me though because they come out of no where and now we even get them down in the south which is creepy. I still dont know the answer to the CP question though lol

 

[Scully12]

Heavens forbid one should happen but I was reading someone past CP blog and she mentioned a tropical storm and it made me wonder
what is the situation if there is hurricane warning (work wise and housing complex wise)? I only ask because we will be there during the hurricane season.


p.s. sorry I come up with the most random questions

They lock down the hosing complexes 24 hours in advance i think of a hurricane warning. By that I mean you can not visit any of the complexes. You can only get into yours.

If it's bad enough they can shut the parks. Each park has a different plan for hurricanes and/or severe weather. I worked at Hollywood Studios on the Great Movie Ride. GMR is considered a shelter so if weather is bad enough they shut down the ride and let people stay inside the building to get out of the bad weather. They also had different teams you could apply for for hurricane season. Like clean up, stay in the park to ride out the storm, and something else...

That's all I can remember. There was never a hurricane while I was there 9We did have bad thunderstorms though that we'd go 101 for) but this is what they told us.

 

[stephanie1755]

It may be horrible of me, but I think it would be pretty neat to experience a hurricane. (One where there's limited damage and no serious injuries/loss of life, obviously).

I'm from the Midwest, so I've got lots of experience with tornados. Comparing a hurricane to a tornado sounds like comparing Summit Plummet to a playground slide. Definitely exciting.

P.S. You may have noticed that I didn't have any answers for you either, savannahjean85. Sorry about that.

Where in the Midwest are you from?? I live in Iowa and we get Tornadoes all the time. I have never experienced a bad one personally but I have seen tornadoes take out entire towns ( last year this happened).

Also Sierra, you have SOME warning definitely not as much as a hurricane, but when it thunderstorms here and gets windy there is likely a tornado will form somewhere(and the TV weather people do a good job of show you where possible tornado in the storm will form and the path it will most likely take), but because there is more field land than city land its really hit or miss on how much damage one will cause.

I love thunderstorms, and I have never experienced a hurricane but as long as it do damage around me I think it would be cool to experience!

 

[SiSiMonique2009]

Where in the Midwest are you from?? I live in Iowa and we get Tornadoes all the time. I have never experienced a bad one personally but I have seen tornadoes take out entire towns ( last year this happened).

Also Sierra, you have SOME warning definitely not as much as a hurricane, but when it thunderstorms here and gets windy there is likely a tornado will form somewhere(and the TV weather people do a good job of show you where possible tornado in the storm will form and the path it will most likely take), but because there is more field land than city land its really hit or miss on how much damage one will cause.

I love thunderstorms, and I have never experienced a hurricane but as long as it do damage around me I think it would be cool to experience!

Ok Im glad there is some warning when theres a tornado I guess I just seem to miss it when they warn us here lol One tore up a wal-mart about a year ago and there were people inside they were all fine though. I guess I'm just used to a longer warning period when it comes to a hurricane because down here news people get so excited about them so the storm can be 2 weeks away and they'll already be reporting on where they think it might hit. My uncle is a weather man in Jacksonville floriida about 2 hours away from orlando they dont get hurricanes too often because they are in the northern part of florida so Orlando may be the same way. I'm scared to death of thunderstorms which sucks because it rains here everyday at some point lighning just freaks me out though lol

 

[DisSisters]

Hey! I was on the CP during Hurricane Fay. I was taking my lifeguard course while the weather was going crazy. They would not allow us to go to other apartment complexes for that day/night and cancelled the pool party scheduled that night. I also was working when there was a tornado warning. Your job will have specific locations to go to for extreme weather. For my location, I sat in a storage closet for 2 hours.

 

[DisneyLover0526]

I don't have really much experience with CP and hurricanes (im in the process of applying for Fall Advantage 2009), but I have been living in Florida all my life. I currently live in South Florida (Miami to be exact), so I've been through practically every hurricane that has coome our way. Very rarely do hurricanes hit Central Florida. If a hurricane does hit up there, all you get is lots of rain. I've been in Orlando plenty of times when hurricanes would hit South Florida, and the only thing that Central Florida would get is lots of rain. But actually getting the strong force winds, the lots of rain, thunderstorms, and damage...you guys won't have to worry about that.

 

[savannahjean85]

SiSiMonique2009 - Hey I am not too far from you, my hometown is near Dothan (the otherside of the state at the bottom).

I have had my share or hurricanes: Opal, Georges, Frances, Ivan
I live about 2 hours away for the beach so they hit and spin over us for a while.
Then 2 years ago in the town over, Enterpise got hit by a really bad tornado that hit a high school killing 9.
So I am use to the bad weather here


It is interesting to hear what they actually do in the parks.

 

[SiSiMonique2009]

SiSiMonique2009 - Hey I am not too far from you, my hometown is near Dothan (the otherside of the state at the bottom).

I have had my share or hurricanes: Opal, Georges, Frances, Ivan
I live about 2 hours away for the beach so they hit and spin over us for a while.
Then 2 years ago in the town over, Enterpise got hit by a really bad tornado that hit a high school killing 9.
So I am use to the bad weather here


It is interesting to hear what they actually do in the parks.

Do you go to Auburn right now? I went there my first 2 years of college then I came back home I miss it alot! But yea Dothan is close to me I've been there a few times i didnt know yall got hit with the hurricanes though but then again it is close to Florida. But yea I was at school in Auburn when that tornado hit Enterprise me and my roommate were watching it on tv with our suite-mates I remember what we were talking about and everything

 

[savannahjean85]

Do you go to Auburn right now? I went there my first 2 years of college then I came back home I miss it alot! But yea Dothan is close to me I've been there a few times i didnt know yall got hit with the hurricanes though but then again it is close to Florida. But yea I was at school in Auburn when that tornado hit Enterprise me and my roommate were watching it on tv with our suite-mates I remember what we were talking about and everything

(sorry OT)
yea we get the nasty-ness here, the bands with the damaging winds, tornados
I am currently going to Auburn. Fall was my first semester here...it is such a small town though so I am very excited for Orlando in the fall.

 

[CelebrationNM]

As others have said, the worst of a hurricane doesn't hit Central Florida too often. A few years back Orlando got hit by several hurricanes pretty hard one after the next and it caused considerable damage--including park evacuation--but there was not really a precedent for that, from what I've heard. The goal is to clean up the parks and get things operating like normal as quickly as safely possible.

 

[jewjubean]

You dont want to experience a Hurricane they arnt that great. I was in Katrina and Rita...not good :S

 

[DisneyLover0526]

You dont want to experience a Hurricane they arnt that great. I was in Katrina and Rita...not good :S

Yeah....but I've been through so many...it doesn't phase me anymore.....other than Andrew, I went through Wilma (one of the worst...almost as bad as Andrew)...

 

[christiemarsh88]

Where in the Midwest are you from?? I live in Iowa and we get Tornadoes all the time. I have never experienced a bad one personally but I have seen tornadoes take out entire towns ( last year this happened).

Also Sierra, you have SOME warning definitely not as much as a hurricane, but when it thunderstorms here and gets windy there is likely a tornado will form somewhere(and the TV weather people do a good job of show you where possible tornado in the storm will form and the path it will most likely take), but because there is more field land than city land its really hit or miss on how much damage one will cause.

I love thunderstorms, and I have never experienced a hurricane but as long as it do damage around me I think it would be cool to experience!

I'm from Southwest Missouri. We've had several towns around our area get pretty much leveled in the last few years.

The other good thing about tornados as opposed to hurricanes is that there's much less damage. In a hurricane, EVERYONE is affected because there's just so much water everywhere. In a tornado, it usually only affects a very localized area, depending on where the tornado hits. It's when you get multiple tornados that you really have to worry.

 

[SiSiMonique2009]

I'm from Southwest Missouri. We've had several towns around our area get pretty much leveled in the last few years.

The other good thing about tornados as opposed to hurricanes is that there's much less damage. In a hurricane, EVERYONE is affected because there's just so much water everywhere. In a tornado, it usually only affects a very localized area, depending on where the tornado hits. It's when you get multiple tornados that you really have to worry.

My dads from Indiana and he used to talk about tornados a lot and he said once that a tornado happened in his neighborhood and hit his neighbors house but jumped over his, I've never really experienced tornados b4 except for that time in Kansas(True story not the Wizard of Oz! lol). When I see tornados on tv it always seems so much worse to me than hurricanes I guess because thats what im used to seeing but yea the water damage from hurricanes is really devistating for a whole lot of people my dad still has to go to mississippi and rebuild beaches and diffrent water ways there because everything is still messed up from Katrina.

 

[christiemarsh88]

When I see tornados on tv it always seems so much worse to me than hurricanes I guess because thats what im used to seeing

It's also because they show the really huge, crazy tornados on TV. I've never seen one like that, so, yeah. For all of my tornado experience talk, I've never been through one of those huge tornados. Those scare me, too!

 

[SiSiMonique2009]

It's also because they show the really huge, crazy tornados on TV. I've never seen one like that, so, yeah. For all of my tornado experience talk, I've never been through one of those huge tornados. Those scare me, too!

Well its good to hear from some one who knows because the news makes it seem like every tornado is a million feet across especially the news around here I guess because we don't really get them!

 

[reborn120]

Heavens forbid one should happen but I was reading someone past CP blog and she mentioned a tropical storm and it made me wonder
what is the situation if there is hurricane warning (work wise and housing complex wise)? I only ask because we will be there during the hurricane season.


p.s. sorry I come up with the most random questions

No, this is such a good question. My mom (of course) was worried about this and I was a bit. I actually asked my interviewer about the hurrican situation. She said that because Orlando is located in central Florida it usually isn't hit as hard and people that live in Florida actually go to Orlando to be safe from the hurricanes. Also, she (my interviewer) said that Disney rarely if ever closes the parks due to inclement weather. I hope this helps.