Hurricane Matthew

[AEfx]

You are no different than that person (and I deleted the first term I was going to use to describe her) who is outraged that she was moved to a Value Resort from a Fort Wilderness cabin

For crying out loud, she wasn't OUTRAGED. She has also came back and made several follow up postings to explain more in depth to those that mischaracterized what she said.

And a day later you people are STILL on top of her as some poster child for bad behavior.

People in this forum need to get a grip sometime and actually review the thread they are commenting upon before posting such silliness and looking foolish by making up things that never happened.

 

[fosse76]

It was an unfair blanket statement. You, @Nemo14 , and @JenniferS , all need to go back to sleep and wake up again. Even with what is going on right now in Daytona, this is a GOOD day.

Yeah, I'm sure the people in Daytona are dancing in the streets. I've been reading this thread and quite frankly, I find you to be a rather disingenuous, uniformed person of questionable moral character. The simple fact that you personally avoided a disaster from the hurricane does not mitigate its danger or the damage its currently causing. Your proclamation that everyone was wrong about the storm's impact is vile and dangerous. Your victim-blaming to the tourists who, for whatever reason, only started "preparing" on Thursday for the impending storm is AT BEST ignorant. You offer fake sympathy to the victims of this hurricane while celebrating the little-to-no-impact on your privileged life, and dismiss the seriousness of the hurricane. We get it. Stop denigrating those who aren't as fortunate.

OMG do you guys realize what COULD have happened?

Did you not imply in several of your earlier posts that everyone overreacted (the media was wrong, the governor was wrong, etc.)? It must be hard playing both sides.

No, we wouldn't have had Haiti level destruction, because contrary to belief on this board, our living conditions are a little bit different.. so the loss of life and property will thankfully never hit the kind of numbers that their's so sadly do.

You have absolutely NO IDEA whether or not that statement is true. None. The best anyone can say is that construction standards have changed to mitigate known damage caused by hurricanes. But that still leaves you with unknowns.

I'll give you a bit of a pass because maybe you were up all night watching the news?lol Seriously though, we should all be relieved and happy..there's nothing wrong with that. No need to come on this thread and be nasty on a day that could have been so devastatingly different from what is.

No one should be happy. Relieved, yes. But damage is occurring. Lives are being lost. Yes, let's go out and celebrate.

 

[LAKid53]

this is why when people like @Ratatouille argue it's someone's right to stay in an evacuation zone, it's a flawed argument:

when you don't evacuate, you're willingly putting other lives in danger for your own selfishness. that is pretty much the biggest jerk move a human being can make.

And LE will tell those individuals, so sorry, we won't be able to come rescue you because we don't want our officers risking their lives to come get you...you should have evacuated. But even that statement falls on deaf ears.....

 

[R W B]

Several friends in Orlando have dumped their porch furniture into the pool. Safest place for them.

Ehhh, why not just bring them inside?

 

[AEfx]

Except that I said I was grateful, so you do have comprehension problems.

I apologize for how unfairly you have been treated here. My advice is to ignore the trolling and just keep enjoying your trip. Those of us who are sane, alert, and rational understood your postings from the beginning.

 

[21stamps]

uhh...why are you dragging @Nemo14 and @JenniferS into this convo?

It wasn't a one on one convo, that's why I specifically tagged them, it was directed to all 3. Now granted I'm sure they weren't the only ones, just the most recent 3 posters who had nothing to say in a comment besides something completely negative.

For those of us who have lived thru terrible hurricanes and their aftermath, as well as plenty of hurricanes that have missed us, and for those that have never been through one - but were scared and uncertain of what would actually happen today, and for those at WDW who may have been moved from their accommodations, I think we all have a reason to feel relief, and there's no need for people to post nasty comments.

 

[JennSmith]

I can make such a blanket statement. The clientele of a high-end hotel are absolutely more entitled than anything you may have personally observed. You obviously take offense to it, so you must be one of them. You are no different than that person (and I deleted the first term I was going to use to describe her) who is outraged that she was moved to a Value Resort from a Fort Wilderness cabin, describing room conditions that, quite frankly, I find unlikely to be true. You seem to have no hesitation making a blanket statement demeaning the Value Resort guests, but resent a blanket statement directed towards people like yourself. That's very hypocritical (and typical of pretentious entitled people).

You can call me what you want. You are also literally no one to me. I am only responding to point out the fact that I never said I was outraged...I said I hated the room. Again comprehension problems.

 

[LAKid53]

It is their right to stay.
It is not their right to receive help during a storm because of their decision to stay.

True, but I bet you some will scream "why didn't you come get me?!" and threaten to sue if they suffered an injury....

 

[Andrew C]

For those of us who have lived thru terrible hurricanes and their aftermath, as well as plenty of hurricanes that have missed us, and for those that have never been through one - but were scared and uncertain of what would actually happen today, and for those at WDW who may have been moved from their accommodations, I think we all have a reason to feel relief,

not sure what these two individuals have to do with above...but ok...

 

[JennSmith]

I apologize for how unfairly you have been treated here. My advice is to ignore the trolling and just keep enjoying your trip. Those of us who are sane, alert, and rational understood your postings from the beginning.

Thanks! I've managed to avoid it for the past couple of years and am honestly kind of surprised that my initial comment has brought out such nastiness...only slightly though. Most people on here are awesome though!!!

 

[TeriofTerror]

uhh...why are you dragging @Nemo14 and @JenniferS into this convo?

Feel free to drag me in. List of Disney resorts in which I've stayed:
Camping at FW - more times than I can count
All Star Sports - Once
Pop Century - Twice
Caribbean Beach - Three times
Coronado Springs - Twice
PO-R - Twice
PO-FQ - Six times
SSR - Once
AKL - Once
Yacht Club - Twice
Boardwalk - Twice
Contemporary - Twice
BLT - Once
Polynesian - Once
Vero Beach - Once
GCR - Once
So where exactly do I fit on the "Snob Scale"? I've run the entire gamut of resort tiers. Am I a slob or a snob?

 

[Andrew C]

Feel free to drag me in. List of Disney resorts in which I've stayed:
Camping at FW - more times than I can count
All Star Sports - Once
Pop Century - Twice
Caribbean Beach - Three times
Coronado Springs - Twice
PO-R - Twice
PO-FQ - Six times
SSR - Once
AKL - Once
Yacht Club - Twice
Boardwalk - Twice
Contemporary - Twice
BLT - Once
Polynesian - Once
Vero Beach - Once
GCR - Once
So where exactly do I fit on the "Snob Scale"? I've run the entire gamut of resort tiers. Am I a slob or a snob?

with that list, you're off the charts in both the snob and slob category...

 

[Goofyernmost]

I think it was Gilbert Gottfried that said "it's the media's job to make a mouse's fart sound like a nuclear explosion." They are pretty good at it too. Given a real event like this they can go non-stop. Still dark here in Kissimmee (at 7:08 am EDT) but from what I can tell looking out my "accu-window" it's presently just very windy with some rain. I think we might have gotten lucky here as the radar show folks to the north are getting beat up a lot worse (at least right now). I don't think you can be too prepared or over react to something like this. A lot easier to stand down than ramp up too late. We are pretty well prepared as are my neighbors I spoke with in the last few days.

Unless, I missed something in school, isn't the highlighted part exactly what a hurricane is? Very windy with rain. Is there some other element to a hurricane that I am not familiar with?

That said, it is so much better to be over prepared then to ignore it. Those things have been known to kill many people.

 

[LAKid53]

We rarely lose power where we are as all of out lines are underground. We occasionally get a flicker, but that is about it.

The only time we ever lost power for any period of time in the last 16 years was when a car crashed into the substation.

In this day and age I would be more inclined to buy a Tesla Power Wall vs a generator.

That's an intriguing alternative to a fossil fuel powered generator. No concerns about CO fumes, stocking up on fuel to run the generator, no annoying your neighbors with the sound of your generator running day and night. I'm going to be doing some major renovations to the house in a month and was considering installing a whole house generator. This sounds like a greener alternative. Plus, I can be somewhat off the grid.

 

[DisneyJeff]

Feel free to drag me in. List of Disney resorts in which I've stayed:
Camping at FW - more times than I can count
All Star Sports - Once
Pop Century - Twice
Caribbean Beach - Three times
Coronado Springs - Twice
PO-R - Twice
PO-FQ - Six times
SSR - Once
AKL - Once
Yacht Club - Twice
Boardwalk - Twice
Contemporary - Twice
BLT - Once
Polynesian - Once
Vero Beach - Once
GCR - Once
So where exactly do I fit on the "Snob Scale"? I've run the entire gamut of resort tiers. Am I a slob or a snob?

You probably feel like you are entitled to low-end stuff!

 

[TeriofTerror]

with that list, you're off the charts in both the snob and slob category...

In truth, it probably depends upon how much alcohol I've consumed.

 

[5thGenTexan]

That they were not blown into oblivion.

It is stupid, but there will be a non-zero number of people that instead of being happy that we dodged a bullet, will complain that we prepped for nothing.

I myself kind of want to hang out at Home Depot tomorrow morning to witness all of the people trying to return generators tomorrow.

I must think differently. I want to buy a generator to hook up to the house permanent like. I can't imagine returning one because it wasn't as bad this time.

 

[R W B]

300+ people dead in Haiti with this storm, she can suck it up and be happy with the steel and concrete around her instead of the manufactured home material of the "cabins."

Why do people always bring up the devastation in Hati, The Dominican Republic or anywhere in the Carribbean? That literally has nothing to do with the impact a storm will have if it makes landfall anywhere on the U.S. Coast. Most of those islands down there aren't properly equipped to handle hurricanes like the state's are and plus most of the deaths always come from under developed areas with very few if any real structures to support such storms.

 

[21stamps]

Yeah, I'm sure the people in Daytona are dancing in the streets. I've been reading this thread and quite frankly, I find you to be a rather disingenuous, uniformed person of questionable moral character. The simple fact that you personally avoided a disaster from the hurricane does not mitigate its danger or the damage its currently causing. Your proclamation that everyone was wrong about the storm's impact is vile and dangerous. Your victim-blaming to the tourists who, for whatever reason, only started "preparing" on Thursday for the impending storm is AT BEST ignorant. You offer fake sympathy to the victims of this hurricane while celebrating the little-to-no-impact on your privileged life, and dismiss the seriousness of the hurricane. We get it. Stop denigrating those who aren't as fortunate.



Did you not imply in several of your earlier posts that everyone overreacted (the media was wrong, the governor was wrong, etc.)? It must be hard playing both sides.


You have absolutely NO IDEA whether or not that statement is true. None. The best anyone can say is that construction standards have changed to mitigate known damage caused by hurricanes. But that still leaves you with unknowns.


No one should be happy. Relieved, yes. But damage is occurring. Lives are being lost. Yes, let's go out and celebrate.

Yeah, um ok... I don't even know why I'm responding but here I go, point by point-

1. The moral character thing- thanks for making me smile
Privileged life? Ok, don't know what that's about.
Attacking tourists? Don't know when that happened.

2. Finally something that I can answer!! Oh, maybe not..
Can you find one post where I criticized the Governor? One?

3. YES! I can answer this one!
No, it is not possible for the same thing to happen here. That is 100% a certainty. NOT POSSIBLE. Not even in 2005.

4. Yes, people can be happy, grateful, and sad for others all at the same time. It isn't a difficult thing to do. Shouldn't be anyway...

 

[rawisericho]

So what things will open tonight?