Hurricane Irma

[MisterPenguin]

And here we go....

Just spent a week at WDW. Couldn't help but hear that in Peter Pan's voice...

 

[LAKid53]

I'm in Kissimmee, about 20 miles southeast of WDW property.

Ok. Stay safe - we're thinking about you.

Tornados are what worry me most.

 

[lazyboy97o]

Weather apps are screaming but may not be accurate in terms of your location and the locations of warnings.

http://kamala.cod.edu/svr/

List of all active warnings and their area. Very accurate and updated in real time.

Many of these warnings stem from radar indicates circulation, so there may not be an actual tornado, but it is still no reason to ignore it. Please be careful.

I was going off of the National Weather Service's map that shows much of southwest Orange County under a Tornado Warning. The page for 32830 does not show a Tornado Warning.

 

[psherman42]

It is indeed a bunch of CPers working 14-16 hr shifts for double their usual pay.

My friend is a full time Cast Member and she's part of the ride out team at the contemporary.

 

[disney4life2008]

Officially under tornado warning here in Orange County until 7:15. Lights just flickered on and off. Winds are picking up. And here we go....

I am sitting in the dark waiting for this to past. But Miss America starts soon I guess we cannot watch

 

[Figment82]

Ok. Stay safe - we're thinking about you.

Tornados are what worry me most.

Thank you!

And same here! Every time my phone goes off, I jump a little. We have our "panic room" set up in the laundry room just in case...

 

[disney4life2008]

Tornados at UCF now heading towards I-4/disney area

 

[disney4life2008]

Tornado warnings are going off like crazy now. Wind and rain are really picking up here.

I am not hearing any sirens

 

[esskay]

Just saw on Wesh that theres tornado warnings right above the seaworld area

 

[MisterPenguin]

The whole state of Florida is nearing 40% power outage. The southernmost counties are at 60% - 90% outage.

From: https://poweroutage.us/Area/State/Florida

 

[esskay]

Three of the i4 video feeds are out but the one remaining one looks pretty bad (Keep refreshing till the page loads - took me a minute or two to get on): http://71.43.245.206/mjpg/video.mjpg

 

[Gabe1]

Disney Charades anyone?

 

[psherman42]

I am sitting in the dark waiting for this to past. But Miss America starts soon I guess we cannot watch

Where are you? Stay safe!!

 

[Gabe1]

The whole state of Florida is nearing 40% power outage. The southernmost counties are at 60% - 90% outage.

From: https://poweroutage.us/Area/State/Florida

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Lordie! We still have power at the Wilderness Lodge but we did find a new flashlight in our rooms yesterday.

By yesterday afternoon there were hundreds and hundreds of Electric Company vehicles planted and ready to hit the roads in the Epcot parking lot. Comforting.

Image Credit: Donna U @ Shop Theme Parks

 

[esskay]

Couple of tweets saying a tornado just touched down at MCO

 

[disney4life2008]

Where are you? Stay safe!!

I stay on the east side off the 408. I am in my living room. Unfortuantely, I have very high windows

 

[Ismael Flores]

My sister was watching CNN and the reporter in Naples had to yell at a guy in the street walking his dog while they were in the eye. From the interaction you could tell that they had warned him to get inside before but he didn't care.

I don't remember the name of the storm but I do remember that in that storm a beautiful Bach of people went out and back to check on their homes in the middle of thebeye of the hurricane. Little did they realize a few minutes later the eye moved and surge came in and lots of people got hurt and some killed because they didn't listen to warnings.
Now we hear of people doing the same and others that foolishly left their pets behind tied to trees and poles.

 

[esskay]

Live feed of a camera pointing at epcot ( you can usually see spaceship earth in the distance): http://216.239.164.3/view/viewer_index.shtml?id=12749

Disney Springs live feed: http://216.239.164.4/mjpg/video.mjpg

Both are up and down constantly - might need to hit refresh a few times.

 

[ToTBellHop]

My friend is a full time Cast Member and she's part of the ride out team at the contemporary.

I didn't say it was ONLY CPers.

 

[Ismael Flores]

I'd like to hear the source of this. I've been following the METAR for Naples airport, and 109 is the highest I saw. There's a big difference between 109 and 142

CNBC was also showing live gusts as high as 150 in some areas while other areas of Naples showed the meatoralogists in awe that there was winds at much less. Really depends on wether the area was north or east of the eye at the moment. The south side of the hurricane was actually not as strong as parts of the northern side