I'm a former Disney CM who lived through Charley. While the park opened again quickly, Charley did some serious damage to thr airport. If Milton is like Charley your flights might be delayed.

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Anonymous wrote:We’re supposed to be flying in Thursday night. We just booked a refundable Friday morning flight, as we expect the Thursday night flight will be cancelled.

The weather looks completely clear in Orlando after Thursday afternoon.

The weather is the least of your problems. Bring your tent and generator

exactly.

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Anonymous wrote:Not exactly the same but sort of reminds me of hurricane Charley in 2004 that went across the state hitting Orlando. I believe the parks only closed for one day, which is pretty miraculous, considering all the damage in central Florida from that storm. I think a bigger issue depending on when travel is- is the ability to get there.

I think you're spot on, Disney will be up and running by this weekend.

It doesnt mean you should go.

This. It’s just gross.

No it isn’t. Once an area is determined to be fully operational, businesses would actually like to conduct business. Otherwise, they would stay closed.

The business owners , absolutely!!!! Money!!! The thousands of Disney employees who would like to tend to their destroyed homes and help their neighbors find their missing pets? Not so much. If numbers at the parks stay low, more employees can stay home and actually recover their lives.

This seems a little naive. I mean, disney is I think the largest tax payer in Florida. Florida runs off the back of disney so a prolonged disney shutdown is not positive for the finances that the state will need for ongoing relief and rebuilding. And I’m not at all sure that the disney employees will be in this situation — if it weee Sarasota, yes, absolutely. But it’s 50/50 whether Orlando is gojng to have a major problem or not. Disney has a lot of hourly employees that would like to work inless there’s a real reason not to. As we saw with Covid, forced shutdowns are not necessarily what the workers want.

My adult dc castmember at Disney is currently hiding in their bathroom under a tornado warning.

My friend in Orlando has prepared for power outages and potential flooding.

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Anonymous wrote:Not exactly the same but sort of reminds me of hurricane Charley in 2004 that went across the state hitting Orlando. I believe the parks only closed for one day, which is pretty miraculous, considering all the damage in central Florida from that storm. I think a bigger issue depending on when travel is- is the ability to get there.

I think you're spot on, Disney will be up and running by this weekend.

It doesnt mean you should go.

This. It’s just gross.

No it isn’t. Once an area is determined to be fully operational, businesses would actually like to conduct business. Otherwise, they would stay closed.

The business owners , absolutely!!!! Money!!! The thousands of Disney employees who would like to tend to their destroyed homes and help their neighbors find their missing pets? Not so much. If numbers at the parks stay low, more employees can stay home and actually recover their lives.

This seems a little naive. I mean, disney is I think the largest tax payer in Florida. Florida runs off the back of disney so a prolonged disney shutdown is not positive for the finances that the state will need for ongoing relief and rebuilding. And I’m not at all sure that the disney employees will be in this situation — if it weee Sarasota, yes, absolutely. But it’s 50/50 whether Orlando is gojng to have a major problem or not. Disney has a lot of hourly employees that would like to work inless there’s a real reason not to. As we saw with Covid, forced shutdowns are not necessarily what the workers want.

My adult dc castmember at Disney is currently hiding in their bathroom under a tornado warning.

My Disney intern flew home a few days ago.

Per the latest weather channel map, Disney is only expected to receive 3-5" of rain. Winds are also supposed to be down to the 75mph range (Cat 1) by the time it reaches the middle of the state.

https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/2024-10-09-hurricane-milton-forecast-landfall-florida-storm-surge-wind

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Anonymous wrote:Not exactly the same but sort of reminds me of hurricane Charley in 2004 that went across the state hitting Orlando. I believe the parks only closed for one day, which is pretty miraculous, considering all the damage in central Florida from that storm. I think a bigger issue depending on when travel is- is the ability to get there.

I think you're spot on, Disney will be up and running by this weekend.

It doesnt mean you should go.

This. It’s just gross.

No it isn’t. Once an area is determined to be fully operational, businesses would actually like to conduct business. Otherwise, they would stay closed.

The business owners , absolutely!!!! Money!!! The thousands of Disney employees who would like to tend to their destroyed homes and help their neighbors find their missing pets? Not so much. If numbers at the parks stay low, more employees can stay home and actually recover their lives.

This seems a little naive. I mean, disney is I think the largest tax payer in Florida. Florida runs off the back of disney so a prolonged disney shutdown is not positive for the finances that the state will need for ongoing relief and rebuilding. And I’m not at all sure that the disney employees will be in this situation — if it weee Sarasota, yes, absolutely. But it’s 50/50 whether Orlando is gojng to have a major problem or not. Disney has a lot of hourly employees that would like to work inless there’s a real reason not to. As we saw with Covid, forced shutdowns are not necessarily what the workers want.

My adult dc castmember at Disney is currently hiding in their bathroom under a tornado warning.

Tornados are isolated though. The latest hurricane track is well south of Orlando and the northern side of the storm is the calmer side so that's good news.

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Anonymous wrote:Not exactly the same but sort of reminds me of hurricane Charley in 2004 that went across the state hitting Orlando. I believe the parks only closed for one day, which is pretty miraculous, considering all the damage in central Florida from that storm. I think a bigger issue depending on when travel is- is the ability to get there.

I think you're spot on, Disney will be up and running by this weekend.

It doesnt mean you should go.

This. It’s just gross.

No it isn’t. Once an area is determined to be fully operational, businesses would actually like to conduct business. Otherwise, they would stay closed.

The business owners , absolutely!!!! Money!!! The thousands of Disney employees who would like to tend to their destroyed homes and help their neighbors find their missing pets? Not so much. If numbers at the parks stay low, more employees can stay home and actually recover their lives.

This seems a little naive. I mean, disney is I think the largest tax payer in Florida. Florida runs off the back of disney so a prolonged disney shutdown is not positive for the finances that the state will need for ongoing relief and rebuilding. And I’m not at all sure that the disney employees will be in this situation — if it weee Sarasota, yes, absolutely. But it’s 50/50 whether Orlando is gojng to have a major problem or not. Disney has a lot of hourly employees that would like to work inless there’s a real reason not to. As we saw with Covid, forced shutdowns are not necessarily what the workers want.

My adult dc castmember at Disney is currently hiding in their bathroom under a tornado warning.

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Anonymous wrote:Disney just announced they will be closed all day Thursday. No update about Friday, so as it stands now, they will be open.

For those of you going on Friday... let's see.

I posted on Sunday that I would wait and see….theres no real advantage too cancelling Sunday as opposed to cancelling Thursday. Orlando could be totally fine, especially disney which does hurricane better than anyone. The biggest issue is likely to be whether the flights are all backed up because I’m sure they are cancelling all flights for today and tomorrow. I guess maybe they will need to divert food from disney to send as disaster relief? I don’t think that’s ever happened but I could see that happening in this case—like a Jose Andres style effort by WDW to divert castermembers and food to relief efforts.

This. Everything has been moved to free cancellation. If I were planning to arrive Friday, I would wait until the absolute last minute to decide, because it could very well be fine in Orlando by then. Tampa is a completely different story, but Orlando or the East Coast beaches should be fine.

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Anonymous wrote:Not exactly the same but sort of reminds me of hurricane Charley in 2004 that went across the state hitting Orlando. I believe the parks only closed for one day, which is pretty miraculous, considering all the damage in central Florida from that storm. I think a bigger issue depending on when travel is- is the ability to get there.

I think you're spot on, Disney will be up and running by this weekend.

It doesnt mean you should go.

This. It’s just gross.

No it isn’t. Once an area is determined to be fully operational, businesses would actually like to conduct business. Otherwise, they would stay closed.

The business owners , absolutely!!!! Money!!! The thousands of Disney employees who would like to tend to their destroyed homes and help their neighbors find their missing pets? Not so much. If numbers at the parks stay low, more employees can stay home and actually recover their lives.

This seems a little naive. I mean, disney is I think the largest tax payer in Florida. Florida runs off the back of disney so a prolonged disney shutdown is not positive for the finances that the state will need for ongoing relief and rebuilding. And I’m not at all sure that the disney employees will be in this situation — if it weee Sarasota, yes, absolutely. But it’s 50/50 whether Orlando is gojng to have a major problem or not. Disney has a lot of hourly employees that would like to work inless there’s a real reason not to. As we saw with Covid, forced shutdowns are not necessarily what the workers want.

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Anonymous wrote:Not exactly the same but sort of reminds me of hurricane Charley in 2004 that went across the state hitting Orlando. I believe the parks only closed for one day, which is pretty miraculous, considering all the damage in central Florida from that storm. I think a bigger issue depending on when travel is- is the ability to get there.

I think you're spot on, Disney will be up and running by this weekend.

It doesnt mean you should go.

This. It’s just gross.

No it isn’t. Once an area is determined to be fully operational, businesses would actually like to conduct business. Otherwise, they would stay closed.

The business owners , absolutely!!!! Money!!! The thousands of Disney employees who would like to tend to their destroyed homes and help their neighbors find their missing pets? Not so much. If numbers at the parks stay low, more employees can stay home and actually recover their lives.

money doesn’t grow on trees … and Disney doesn’t actually enslave its employees.

Anonymous wrote:Disney just announced they will be closed all day Thursday. No update about Friday, so as it stands now, they will be open.

For those of you going on Friday... let's see.

I posted on Sunday that I would wait and see….theres no real advantage too cancelling Sunday as opposed to cancelling Thursday. Orlando could be totally fine, especially disney which does hurricane better than anyone. The biggest issue is likely to be whether the flights are all backed up because I’m sure they are cancelling all flights for today and tomorrow. I guess maybe they will need to divert food from disney to send as disaster relief? I don’t think that’s ever happened but I could see that happening in this case—like a Jose Andres style effort by WDW to divert castermembers and food to relief efforts.

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Anonymous wrote:Not exactly the same but sort of reminds me of hurricane Charley in 2004 that went across the state hitting Orlando. I believe the parks only closed for one day, which is pretty miraculous, considering all the damage in central Florida from that storm. I think a bigger issue depending on when travel is- is the ability to get there.

I think you're spot on, Disney will be up and running by this weekend.

It doesnt mean you should go.

This. It’s just gross.

No it isn’t. Once an area is determined to be fully operational, businesses would actually like to conduct business. Otherwise, they would stay closed.

The business owners , absolutely!!!! Money!!! The thousands of Disney employees who would like to tend to their destroyed homes and help their neighbors find their missing pets? Not so much. If numbers at the parks stay low, more employees can stay home and actually recover their lives.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone else canceling because of hurricane Milton!? Looks like it might be going right through Orlando Wed/Thurs.

I would cancel. Orlando will be open but there will be a lot of evacuated Floridians in Orlando. If you cancel your airline seats will go to aid workers and blue collar workers flying into the state for relief.

alternatively don’t cancel and keep the Orlando economy going strong…

Anonymous wrote:Anyone else canceling because of hurricane Milton!? Looks like it might be going right through Orlando Wed/Thurs.

I would cancel. Orlando will be open but there will be a lot of evacuated Floridians in Orlando. If you cancel your airline seats will go to aid workers and blue collar workers flying into the state for relief.

Anonymous wrote:I mean why go?????!? Disney will be up and running but still. Why go when things will still not be 100% there?

because the crowds will be SO low! I definitely would not have flown in prior to the hurricane but if I was already there, or scheduled to arrive Friday? heck ya!