We've been at WDW several times in summer when we've had storms roll in and just disrupt everything with blowing rain and lighting for about a half hour or so. But, even after the heavy stuff cleared out, it would keep drizzling for the rest of the afternoon into evening. We always carry ponchos, so no worries with the lighter to medium rain, but, we always took cover for the heavy stuff.
I've posted this a coupla' times before, but, the last time I posted, I'm pretty sure a few of y'all weren't on this thread yet.
Anyway, we were in EPCOT Center
on our July of '04 trip (oldest DD had her 13th birthday while we were there
) one afternoon when all thunderstorm heck broke out. We were near Innoventions East at the time so we took quick cover there.
We found a spot on the floor to just hang out, ride it out, and discuss what we were going to do after the deluge...no biggie. As it continued it intensified. The automatic doors kept opening with guests running in followed by blowing rain, and crashes of lightning every few seconds. Our springs here are notoriously known for severe t-storms, so we're pretty used to it. Us and the kiddos just took it in stride, and were trying to figure out the rest of the day from there.
But, there were several children, and even a few adults, crying during the worst of it.
Felt so bad for them. And, not judging. We live in a place were from about mid April to about mid June all t-storm heck can break out at any time so we're more used to it.
After about 30 minutes it relented.
But, it was still drizzling, so we donned our ponchos and headed back out to a pretty empty Park compared to a half hour before...!
