Not sure if this needs to go in another thread, but I would really like to hear stories from people that were in the parks 9-11-01.
I was in Animal Kingdom with my wife and son. They had gone to the restroom and I was standing at the t-rex bones outside of the dinosaur ride. A cast member came up to me and told me that there had been an incident, and that they are asking all the guests to head to the front of the park. While walking out, I overheard someone saying that a militia group had blown up a building in New York, and that is why we had to leave the park. Once we got to our rental car and turned on the radio, we heard what was happening. This occurred around noon time. When we pulled up to our resort, we could no longer use our key to the world, to open the gate and had to show a drivers license to get in.
I found this interesting because they did not compare my id to anything, they just looked at it, looked at me, and opened the gate. So I called the front desk and asked why the check was being done. They said well there was an attack and they needed to check id's. I said that was fine, but explained that looking at my drivers license, and comparing it to nothing, and then opening the gate, was false security. After all the terrorists had to have shown id to get on the planes that day. The cast member said oh that makes sense, please hold on and I will get the manager. I spoke with the manager for a little while and she admitted to me that they were not sure what to do. I guess if you "make someone feel safe" it is as good as real safety.:lookaroun
The pool at the resort was packed that day, and the clorine level was high enough that your eyes would burn when you got ~10 feet near it.
The next day they had temporary security checks at the gates of all othe parks to look into bags, etc... Security at Disney is still a joke to this day, but whatever. As long as people "feel" safe, that's what matters.
