Hurricane Matthew Closes WDW - Reopens Saturday, October 8th

[llrain]

I don't doubt this for a second. SSR, in my 10 or so visits ( mostly now due to a last resort available) they are persistant at being this way in non emergency situations, nevermind what you are going through now. its strange really, this resort has an operations mentality no other one has, and its not a positive thing.

I maintain that here at SSR we drew the shortest of short straws. I am reading the other reports of the other hotels, and comparing how it was dealt with here. Individual CMs were of course polite and enthusiastic. Organisation, communication and provision were appalling. I would have loved many of the experiences in the other hotels. Here, it was mostly a trial. I am grateful we are all safe of course.

 

[Accident]

Is this your photo? It looks like the clock states 5:30. Are you saying it was 5:30 am, before PPO?? What time was sunrise?!?

The clouds look like it was 5:30 in the evening to me.. that's about what the area was like from about early afternoon on. some showers here and there.

 

[hiroMYhero]

Is this your photo? I saw it somewhere else, but they said it was 5:30 pm on Thursday. Are you saying it was 5:30 am, PPO today?? What time was sunrise?!?

Not my photo. Just flying around Fb without being credited to anyone.

 

[North of Mouse]

Is this your photo? I saw it somewhere else, but they said it was 5:30 pm on Thursday. Are you saying it was 5:30 am, PPO today?? What time was sunrise?!?

Aren't those christmas decorations? Can't be now!

 

[hiroMYhero]

Aren't those christmas decorations? Can't be now!

Those are Halloween decorations on the lamp posts.

 

[North of Mouse]

Those are Hallowen decorations on the lamp posts.

Oh!!!

 

[kaci]

Not my photo. Just flying around Fb without being credited to anyone.

It's from thebryanperri on Instagram. #11 on here.

 

[loves to dive]

For the person driving down who said they had room reservations in Savannah, don't. Even if your hotel was inland people who needed to evacuate will need the room, if it wasn't inland, they are going to get hit bad. The storm is far from over for people on the north Fl coast, Ga coast and SC coast. It is also possibly spawning tornados in the area. You are better off going further inland in Georgia and from what I understand a lot of the hotels along 75 are full. There should be rooms if you go on the state highways west of 75. We are in northeast Georgia about 45 min. north of Atlanta and the weather is fine, just a few sprinkles this afternoon but I would bet southeast Georgia is not doing as well.

 

[HopperFan]

@HopperFan any word yet on your house?

No. Thank you so much for asking

If you are watching the news ............. I am St. Augustine Beach and the videos coming in from St. Augustine are devastating and heartbreaking. The Old City is one of my favorite places, right up there with Disney. It's just a really special place. The last few years it has had all the empty stores and restaurants revitalized, so much new construction and renovation of the old places. It truly has it's own soul. Even getting a new Embassy Suites on the beach - which will then let the secret out. As a Hilton Honors person we were always hunting for hotels on beaches to use points before we had our own spot.

We found one picture up A1A from us about a couple of blocks and wind damage but no standing water ... but not sure if it was before or after eye came by. The videos just have put all kinds of bad thoughts in the head. Uncharted territory for St. Augustine, I think nothing huge since the 60's. A short time ago the mayor of St. Augustine Beach (we are technically a mile south) said "catastrophic surge damage" ....... am sure part is referring to the beach. The beaches there are so pretty especially in Anastasia State Park.

They will not let anyone (videos were sneakers during the storm) on the island until they check all out, probably sometime tomorrow. We are a townhouse in a condo community so we are depending on management to make assessments then give us the news. Hoping tomorrow or Sunday. On the plus side we are on a strange ridge of land that actually is not required to have flood insurance - how you can be 250 yards from the beach and not have it - but we have it anyway. When I checked NOAA Surge Predictors, we show as safe. Of course not from wind and driving rain, and there is a cool pond behind us that I think is built to not overflow but when there is that much water you don't know.

I just replanted my garden, even using the ferns at AoA by the Nemo buildings to make it look Under the Sea. They needed to be watered, but not this much ............ FINGERS CROSSED!

My garden and our piece of beach aka heaven.

 

[Dismama2boys]

No. Thank you so much for asking

If you are watching the news ............. I am St. Augustine Beach and the videos coming in from St. Augustine are devastating and heartbreaking. The Old City is one of my favorite places, right up there with Disney. It's just a really special place. The last few years it has had all the empty stores and restaurants revitalized, so much new construction and renovation of the old places. It truly has it's own soul. Even getting a new Embassy Suites on the beach - which will then let the secret out. As a Hilton Honors person we were always hunting for hotels on beaches to use points before we had our own spot.

We found one picture up A1A from us about a couple of blocks and wind damage but no standing water ... but not sure if it was before or after eye came by. The videos just have put all kinds of bad thoughts in the head. Uncharted territory for St. Augustine, I think nothing huge since the 60's. A short time ago the mayor of St. Augustine Beach (we are technically a mile south) said "catastrophic surge damage" ....... am sure part is referring to the beach. The beaches there are so pretty especially in Anastasia State Park.

They will not let anyone (videos were sneakers during the storm) on the island until they check all out, probably sometime tomorrow. We are a townhouse in a condo community so we are depending on management to make assessments then give us the news. Hoping tomorrow or Sunday. On the plus side we are on a strange ridge of land that actually is not required to have flood insurance - how you can be 250 yards from the beach and not have it - but we have it anyway. When I checked NOAA Surge Predictors, we show as safe. Of course not from wind and driving rain, and there is a cool pond behind us that I think is built to not overflow but when there is that much water you don't know.

I just replanted my garden, even using the ferns at AoA by the Nemo buildings to make it look Under the Sea. They needed to be watered, but not this much ............ FINGERS CROSSED!

My garden and our piece of beach aka heaven.

What a lovely spot. Praying for the best for you and your community.

 

[Lisa F]

No. Thank you so much for asking

If you are watching the news ............. I am St. Augustine Beach and the videos coming in from St. Augustine are devastating and heartbreaking. The Old City is one of my favorite places, right up there with Disney. It's just a really special place. The last few years it has had all the empty stores and restaurants revitalized, so much new construction and renovation of the old places. It truly has it's own soul. Even getting a new Embassy Suites on the beach - which will then let the secret out. As a Hilton Honors person we were always hunting for hotels on beaches to use points before we had our own spot.

We found one picture up A1A from us about a couple of blocks and wind damage but no standing water ... but not sure if it was before or after eye came by. The videos just have put all kinds of bad thoughts in the head. Uncharted territory for St. Augustine, I think nothing huge since the 60's. A short time ago the mayor of St. Augustine Beach (we are technically a mile south) said "catastrophic surge damage" ....... am sure part is referring to the beach. The beaches there are so pretty especially in Anastasia State Park.

They will not let anyone (videos were sneakers during the storm) on the island until they check all out, probably sometime tomorrow. We are a townhouse in a condo community so we are depending on management to make assessments then give us the news. Hoping tomorrow or Sunday. On the plus side we are on a strange ridge of land that actually is not required to have flood insurance - how you can be 250 yards from the beach and not have it - but we have it anyway. When I checked NOAA Surge Predictors, we show as safe. Of course not from wind and driving rain, and there is a cool pond behind us that I think is built to not overflow but when there is that much water you don't know.

I just replanted my garden, even using the ferns at AoA by the Nemo buildings to make it look Under the Sea. They needed to be watered, but not this much ............ FINGERS CROSSED!

My garden and our piece of beach aka heaven.

I understand how you feel. I live on martha's vineyard and the amount of erosion on the glorious clay cliffs that has occurred even in the 6 years I've been here is heartbreaking. it's still beautiful and nature always finds a way to revive itself but when you remember the glory it was before it is very sad. Hoping your condo survives unscathed (sounds like it very well might) and hopefully whatever is damaged/destroyed will be rebuilt. It will take time but it will happen.

 

[HopperFan]

WELL ....................

11 pm and in about 8 hours much of Disney World will be back to almost normal.
Everything should be open and operating.
Airports should be open.
Folks will be leaving and checking in.
By Sunday/Monday no new guests will know it was anything other than magical.
There may be some food variations, I have heard that restaurants in Orlando were cleaned out.
SO the food delivery trucks will be working overtime.
If driving, take extra care - lots of unusual traffic out there.

LOTS of CMs were as scared or more than the guests, worked hard long hours on their feet.
Had to do what the Mouse said, even if it might not have been the most productive option.
They are exhausted.
Thank them.
Ask how their homes are.
Ask how they are.
Promise, it goes a long way in their day when guests care.

We tried to keep everything updated and loved how all those with info came together.

Everyone enjoy the rest of your vacation, your upcoming vacation and locals hope everything is normal soon.

And I hope to be there the end of the month (I was one who cancelled this week), hopefully Matthew didn't add too much to my "To Do" list. I will check back in but I don't think you need my "what's happening posts anymore."

 

[SaintsManiac]

Bless you @HopperFan! Hope all is well for you.

 

[OnceUponATime15]

@HopperFan if you believe in karma, know that the good you did here helping others will come back to you.

May that karma be in the form of an intact home after Matthew's visit!

Wishing you luck & wishing you well...

 

[Irish_Mike]

Fun is a bad word choice, but it sure was an event helping to cover some of the hurricane news and updates.

Just don't let this happen in the near

 

[otten]

Do people want to list which characters were at which resorts? I'm curious. We we're at AoA and saw Jessie,Chip and Rafiki.

 

[muffyn]

for those of you who went to disney springs.
did they ask anyone if they were resort guest sbefore allowing them in?

 

[mikedoyleblogger]

@HopperFan, you and this thread were the DIS at its best!

 

[bbjunkie]

No. Thank you so much for asking

If you are watching the news ............. I am St. Augustine Beach and the videos coming in from St. Augustine are devastating and heartbreaking. The Old City is one of my favorite places, right up there with Disney. It's just a really special place. The last few years it has had all the empty stores and restaurants revitalized, so much new construction and renovation of the old places. It truly has it's own soul. Even getting a new Embassy Suites on the beach - which will then let the secret out. As a Hilton Honors person we were always hunting for hotels on beaches to use points before we had our own spot.

We found one picture up A1A from us about a couple of blocks and wind damage but no standing water ... but not sure if it was before or after eye came by. The videos just have put all kinds of bad thoughts in the head. Uncharted territory for St. Augustine, I think nothing huge since the 60's. A short time ago the mayor of St. Augustine Beach (we are technically a mile south) said "catastrophic surge damage" ....... am sure part is referring to the beach. The beaches there are so pretty especially in Anastasia State Park.

They will not let anyone (videos were sneakers during the storm) on the island until they check all out, probably sometime tomorrow. We are a townhouse in a condo community so we are depending on management to make assessments then give us the news. Hoping tomorrow or Sunday. On the plus side we are on a strange ridge of land that actually is not required to have flood insurance - how you can be 250 yards from the beach and not have it - but we have it anyway. When I checked NOAA Surge Predictors, we show as safe. Of course not from wind and driving rain, and there is a cool pond behind us that I think is built to not overflow but when there is that much water you don't know.

I just replanted my garden, even using the ferns at AoA by the Nemo buildings to make it look Under the Sea. They needed to be watered, but not this much ............ FINGERS CROSSED!

My garden and our piece of beach aka heaven.

I've been thinking about your worry and your home throughout all of this. Your home is beautiful; your slice of heaven looks perfect. I hope when you are able to make it home soon and find everything is ok. I hope you'll keep us posted. (Although I know it's none of our business and I kind of feel like a strange stalker for asking. Honestly, I'm not!)

 

[wilkeliza]

for those of you who went to disney springs.
did they ask anyone if they were resort guest sbefore allowing them in?

Based on twitter and the fact some Disney bloggers were there who did not stay on site, no they didn't check at least not for food and movies. Some complained when they were being told by Disney that officially it was closed as it had been opened only to resort guests.