I live in North York. Power out almost 23 hours.
Thursday Aug. 14, gave the car to DD to do last minute errands and packing for trip to WDW (prepaid Fairytale pkg). She picked me up at work at 4 pm and about half way home the traffic signals weren't working. No mention of power outage on car radio, we thought it was just the traffic signals until we reached home. DH found a battery operated radio and we found out what was going on. Had a cold supper, luckily I had some leftovers, and finished packing in the dark. Kept listening for Airport news.
Friday Aug. 15, woke up at 4:30 am and kept phoning Air Canada departure line. Every time I called they said the flight was leaving on time. Radio reporting that there are flights leaving from Pearson. We arrive at the airport a little after 6. What a mess. Bodies and luggage everywhere. Finally get to the check in counter and we are the last people they check in. All Air Canada flights scheduled to leave before 10 am are now cancelled. They let us through U.S. Customs and Immigration because we have a 10:15 flight. We get to the gate at 9 am, boarding is at 9:40. At 9:20 they announce all flights from 10am to 12pm are now cancelled, follow the AC clerk to collect your luggage and go home. Phone AC from home to get information. After 2 hours of dialing the AC number I am put on hold in queue. After 1 3/4 hours on hold I finally speak to a booking agent who offers me a flight the next day, if I don't like it I can't fly out until Tuesday! Power finally comes on at 3 pm. Go to bed at 10 pm and try to sleep.
Saturday Aug. 16, woke up at 3:30 am and called to check flight. Flight is leaving on time. Arrive at airport at 5 am. Ask 2 different AC employees which line I should be in as I need to get a ticket as arrangements were done over phone and I need to show why I wasn't on flight the day before. They direct me to a line that is about a city block long. The line doesn't move for 40 minutes. I see an airport rep helping people in the line and decide to ask if I am in the right line. She tells me no and wants to know who told me to stand there. She takes me to the United Airlines counter and literally moves me to the front of the line where a lovely agent looks after me. She is surprised I was told to go to the line that I was sent to. After checking in the computer she sees that I was booked out of TO to Chicago but not on the Chicago to Orlando leg of the flight! Luckily we were early enough for her to make the necessary changes and get us assigned seats and boarding passes for both. Others were not so lucky and stayed in that first line for 2 hours only to find out that they were in the wrong line and ended up flying stand-by as the flights were overbooked. We are through U.S. customs and security by 7 am. Flight is delayed by 1 hour due to thunderstorm. We have a layover in Chicago for 2 hours and then on to Fla. We arrive at MCO at 5 pm. Andy from FLTours picks us up, does grocery stop and we arrive at ASMovies at 6pm. We are finally checked in and in our room (Love Bug building 7) by 7 pm. We decide to grab a quick bite in the food court and then catch Fantasmic. Get to MGM at 8:30 (Fantasmic is at 9) to find out that it is completely full. Go to DTD and check out Once Upon a Toy.
Monday Aug. 18, At the Contemporary for Chef Mickey's for dinner and a storm blows in. There is a power surge. The monorail cannot move and is sitting inside the Contemporary. They shut down the air conditioning in the concourse area. There are tornado warnings. The lightening is spectacular. The lights keep flickering. It's like a recurring nightmare with power outage as the theme.
Thursday Aug. 14, gave the car to DD to do last minute errands and packing for trip to WDW (prepaid Fairytale pkg). She picked me up at work at 4 pm and about half way home the traffic signals weren't working. No mention of power outage on car radio, we thought it was just the traffic signals until we reached home. DH found a battery operated radio and we found out what was going on. Had a cold supper, luckily I had some leftovers, and finished packing in the dark. Kept listening for Airport news.
Friday Aug. 15, woke up at 4:30 am and kept phoning Air Canada departure line. Every time I called they said the flight was leaving on time. Radio reporting that there are flights leaving from Pearson. We arrive at the airport a little after 6. What a mess. Bodies and luggage everywhere. Finally get to the check in counter and we are the last people they check in. All Air Canada flights scheduled to leave before 10 am are now cancelled. They let us through U.S. Customs and Immigration because we have a 10:15 flight. We get to the gate at 9 am, boarding is at 9:40. At 9:20 they announce all flights from 10am to 12pm are now cancelled, follow the AC clerk to collect your luggage and go home. Phone AC from home to get information. After 2 hours of dialing the AC number I am put on hold in queue. After 1 3/4 hours on hold I finally speak to a booking agent who offers me a flight the next day, if I don't like it I can't fly out until Tuesday! Power finally comes on at 3 pm. Go to bed at 10 pm and try to sleep.
Saturday Aug. 16, woke up at 3:30 am and called to check flight. Flight is leaving on time. Arrive at airport at 5 am. Ask 2 different AC employees which line I should be in as I need to get a ticket as arrangements were done over phone and I need to show why I wasn't on flight the day before. They direct me to a line that is about a city block long. The line doesn't move for 40 minutes. I see an airport rep helping people in the line and decide to ask if I am in the right line. She tells me no and wants to know who told me to stand there. She takes me to the United Airlines counter and literally moves me to the front of the line where a lovely agent looks after me. She is surprised I was told to go to the line that I was sent to. After checking in the computer she sees that I was booked out of TO to Chicago but not on the Chicago to Orlando leg of the flight! Luckily we were early enough for her to make the necessary changes and get us assigned seats and boarding passes for both. Others were not so lucky and stayed in that first line for 2 hours only to find out that they were in the wrong line and ended up flying stand-by as the flights were overbooked. We are through U.S. customs and security by 7 am. Flight is delayed by 1 hour due to thunderstorm. We have a layover in Chicago for 2 hours and then on to Fla. We arrive at MCO at 5 pm. Andy from FLTours picks us up, does grocery stop and we arrive at ASMovies at 6pm. We are finally checked in and in our room (Love Bug building 7) by 7 pm. We decide to grab a quick bite in the food court and then catch Fantasmic. Get to MGM at 8:30 (Fantasmic is at 9) to find out that it is completely full. Go to DTD and check out Once Upon a Toy.
Monday Aug. 18, At the Contemporary for Chef Mickey's for dinner and a storm blows in. There is a power surge. The monorail cannot move and is sitting inside the Contemporary. They shut down the air conditioning in the concourse area. There are tornado warnings. The lightening is spectacular. The lights keep flickering. It's like a recurring nightmare with power outage as the theme.
What a time you had! I hope it gets better after the storm on Monday! Did you finally get to see Fantasmic?
). Wow Maryann, that must of been SO frustrating!!!! 
). Brides were also on my mind. I wonder how many couples had to cancel their wedding plans over that weekend? 
