Pipe burst at Contemporary

[Daniela Rose]

Ugh. My friend is there now. What a mess. They got moved from the tower to the garden wing. ruined a good amount of their stuff. The ceiling in the hallway caved in from the 14th floor....and this happened in the middle of the night.

 

[SaintsManiac]

WDW seems to have a curse on it right now.

 

[Daniela Rose]

It really has been quite the week at WDW

 

[1lilspark]

I was wondering if things were in the clear after last week I guess not.... they should just close WDW for a week say it’s cause of health concerns but do a full maintenance check

 

[Future_WorldPhonencian]

Unfortunately deferring infrastructure maintenance is one of the easiest corners to cut when you are trying to maximize profits (especially things no one sees) but when it breaks its even more expensive to fix. With the Japanese and Chinese parks now closed Im sure Disney corporate is scrambling to make up costs any way they can. There are plenty of wonderful things that they are upgrading and improving at the parks, but they still have a long way to go... I keep wondering when we are gonna see parts of the monorail literally fall off with the shape that they are in.

 

[disneydreamer1980]

Ugh. My friend is there now. What a mess. They got moved from the tower to the garden wing. ruined a good amount of their stuff. The ceiling in the hallway caved in from the 14th floor....and this happened in the middle of the night.

Hope they get well compensated for this

 

[Daniela Rose]

Hope they get well compensated for this

they did. Free vacation to use for future....

 

[starry_solo]

they did. Free vacation to use for future....

Ooh how many days?!

 

[Daniela Rose]

Ooh how many days?!

I think they got a refund of this week long vacation...in a credit form?

 

[dieumeye]

Wasn’t there another water/pipe issue at Contemporary recently? I may be mistaken but I seem to remember something similar within the last 12 months or so.

WDW does seem to be having some out of the ordinary troubles lately.

 

[DisneyRobin]

Wasn’t there another water/pipe issue at Contemporary recently? I may be mistaken but I seem to remember something similar within the last 12 months or so.

WDW does seem to be having some out of the ordinary troubles lately.

I remember sonething similar happening at bay lake in November.

here’s the post:
https://www.disboards.com/threads/no-water-at-bay-lake-tower.3779005/

 

[seashoreCM]

How would they prevent a sudden pipe burst? Summarily replace pipes on a time schedule like every 20 years?

Not sure whether cities should but cities don't dig up the streets and replace the water mains every 40 years or so, a different street or po9rtion scheduled every week. So every once in awhile it makes the news that a water main burst. People were unable to take showers and/or traffic was snarled and/or basements were flooded, etc.

One condominium complex I have owned a unit at had frequent leaks due to unusually acidic (town) water. For each leak they would replace as much of the pipe they could see and reach rather than just cut out just a 6 inch section with the leak and replace that. Still, there were not too infrequent dry mornings.

For Disney I am sure they fix leaks as soon as possible, Heck, they were out replacing the frozen flowers in a garden the very next day after a cold snap night one December when I was there.

 

[mshanson3121]

How would they prevent a sudden pipe burst? Summarily replace pipes on a time schedule like every 20 years?

Not sure whether cities should but cities don't dig up the streets and replace the water mains every 40 years or so, a different street or po9rtion scheduled every week.

I guess speak for yourself (as in it clearly varies by area), but that's just what they do here in our local area. They keep track of the age of pipes and will replace the aging pipes to prevent large disasters. A local town just spent the last two years redoing all their pipes.

Smart home and business owners do the same - they replace their plumbing, electrical, roofing etc... before issues arise. Sometimes things just happen, definitely, but, there are often tell-tale signs that a system is aging and needs maintenance, they just often get missed out of ignorance, or ignored due to $$$.

 

[only hope]

Yep, a city near us has a plan now to replace old pipes. They should have been replaced decades ago; they’re finally dedicating resources to it because of the high annual expense of fixing them.

 

[extreme8]

I guess speak for yourself (as in it clearly varies by area), but that's just what they do here in our local area. They keep track of the age of pipes and will replace the aging pipes to prevent large disasters. A local town just spent the last two years redoing all their pipes.

You're local area is more forward thinking than most areas.
Some places are still using wooden water mains. NY Times article from 2009

 

[oceanmarina]

It really has been quite the week at WDW

Wasn’t there another water/pipe issue at Contemporary recently? I may be mistaken but I seem to remember something similar within the last 12 months or so.

WDW does seem to be having some out of the ordinary troubles lately.

Hi curious what else has happened lately?

 

[dieumeye]

Hi curious what else has happened lately?

Flooding at Bay Lake as mentioned above, a Jungle Cruise boat sank, a swat team was called for a false alarm, skyliner mishaps... can't think of everything but look around the boards and you'll see posts.

 

[mshanson3121]

Hi curious what else has happened lately?

- cars collided on Peoplemover
- SWAT team lock down at a couple of the resorts
- three major IT mishaps in the last 2-3 weeks (FP+ fiasco after an update, the entire site was down/glitching for 24-36ish hours, then the boarding group screw up)
- a Jungle Cruise boat sank

 

[Jimmy Mouse]

ROTR closed down today and didn't re open.

 

[Dutch Inn '76]

Situation normal on The Dis: THE SKY IS FALLING!

WDW is a massive complex with millions of things that can (and will) fail at any given moment. It's like expecting nothing at all to go wrong in a city of 300,000 people in the course of a day. Things happen. There's nothing The Mouse can do about it. Try to enjoy yourselves anyway?