Will The Rain Ever Stop

[DrummerAlly]

On the plus side - 4 great days in the forecast beginning tomorrow with 0% rain chance and 80F temps.

Good to hear! This time tomorrow I'll be arriving at the Animal Kingdom Lodge! It's currently snowing here, so just about anything is better.

 

[Edeyore]

yes...snow is worse than the tornadoes that blew through here. my mistake. :lookaroun

You are forgiven. Don't do it again.

 

[GOT2SAMMIES]

We've had a lot of rain here too, in VA.

RIGHT WITH YOU NEIGHBOR! 3 DAYS OF RAIN! Where did the nice weather go? Then again, that's Va for ya!

 

[sublimesting]

If there were Tornado warnings while I was in disney world i would still enjoy the parks. If they were calling for a foot of snow and high winds that a different story. Have you ever been through a blizzard. They really are not much fun.

Wait a second, have you ever experienced either of those events??? Your statement is enigmatic to me. Tornadoes are terrifying events. Blizzards are kind of fun if you have nowhere to go. And you mentioned the high winds in the blizzards...does that not apply to tornadoes as well? A tornado can destroy the Magic Kingdom, a blizzard can not.

 

[devoy1701]

Wait a second, have you ever experienced either of those events??? Your statement is enigmatic to me. Tornadoes are terrifying events. Blizzards are kind of fun if you have nowhere to go. And you mentioned the high winds in the blizzards...does that not apply to tornadoes as well? A tornado can destroy the Magic Kingdom, a blizzard can not.

that made me laugh out loud while sitting in my office cube... :lol:

 

[devoy1701]

If there were Tornado warnings while I was in disney world i would still enjoy the parks. If they were calling for a foot of snow and high winds that a different story. Have you ever been through a blizzard. They really are not much fun.

you do realize that a tornado warning means that rotation/cyclone has been spotted in the immediate area and that you should seek shelter immediately...right? A tornado watch is one thing, but you're a damn fool if you shrug off a warning if the location your in is identified as being within the path of the warning.

 

[rustysgirl]

i'm with u devoy! those things are no joke! i'm hoping for sunny skies when we get there! fingers crossed

 

[v_misses_epcot]

I would not be out in the parks in a tornado or such, but I've been in the parks working and playing with horrible rain. (The type that stings your face real bad.) We put on our rain boots, the ponchos and make memories and still ride some of the indoor rides. I'll be visiting again in July so I'll be looking forward to more rain and the oh so lovely humidity.

 

[Patrick_Ears]

RAIN? I PRAY for rain . We live in MI - frozen wasteland of the North. It's April, and some forcasters are saying more SNOW !

Thank GOD Sandy and I are booked May 10-18. And if it rains? No problem - it will terrify the locals & the parks will be less crowded .

Yeah i don't know on how you all deal with all that snow. They said Spring was near and the groundhog was not telling the truth. :shrug:

 

[WelshBatman]

Having experienced both blizzards (as I used to live in New England) and now the severe weather down here (as I live about 6 miles from Disney) I've gotta say that neither one is any fun. It's all relative but I've gotta say, at least you know the snow is definitely coming and more or less what it can do so you can prepare. The other day 9 tornadoes touched down in this area. There may have been more but I've talked to people who have lived here for decades and they said they have never been as scared as they were the other day. That's how extreme it was. If you're gonna be nonchalant about a tornado watch that's your funeral man, and I will say that the tornadoes weren't the only dangerous thing the other day. What about the lightning? I'm surprised no one mentioned that. I realize that central florida is the lightning capital but thursday was beyond nuts.

Either way, for the record, a blizzard could do significant damage to the Magic Kingdom. Most people just think snow and wind and no one thinks of the ICE associated with blizzards (unless you've lived through a blizzard, then you understand the ice). That's where the danger lies.

 

[pumpkin7]

our last trip it rained a lot. we even missed probably 70% of MSEP because it started late and we had to leave. it rained the entire day we went to AK too. that kind of sucked because we decided to go on kali first, so ended up being soaked for the entire day.

 

[Edeyore]

One of my most memorable and favorite trips had a fair amount of rain. My wife and I went in 1988. It was pouring our first morning and the golf time I had was cancelled. We decided to go straight to Epcot. We saw Captain EO first. When we came out the sun was out. We went over to Spaceship Earth. No sooner were we under cover and it began to rain again.
It did this for most of the day. The funny thing was it seemed to stop when we planned on being in the open. We went to lunch inside and it rained. We walked to Universe of Energy in the sun. (God that ride was boring back then.) It was pretty amazing. People were walking all around in rain ponchos and yet somehow we stayed dry.

 

[The Mom]

I've experienced (as an adult) blizzards, hurricanes, and tornadoes. The first made me nervous enough to stay where I was (which was a good decision - I would have been stuck in traffic) the second scared me, but I did as much as I could to stay safe. The third terrified me because I knew that even though my children and I were huddled in the safest room in our house, covered with cushions and blankets, if we took a direct hit we might not survive. The tornado passed within 1/2 mile of our house. Once you have seen the warning signs (the sky a strange green/gray color, freight train noise that sounds different from the thunder, and a perceptible change in the way the air felt) you will never forget them.

 

[docdebbi]

i was there all week last week. monday and thursday horrid rain all day, but the lightning thursday was tons of fun.
intermittent rain the other days. i thought i was going to get blown away, literally, wed night. as long as we were inside it was actually fun to watch.
but guess what, kept the parks pretty empty, did everything we had hoped to do, as most people were too intelligent to go out in the rain. apparently we are not!!! ponchos, stroller covers, extra shoes at the hotel, a little rain (monsoon) isn't that bad.

 

[R W B]

I live in New Orleans and I got hit with the same storm you all are talking about a day or 2 before central Florida did. We had a good bit of Tornado's around here, a few even touched down in some well populated urban areas, not just in the "farm land". One thing that had me worried was the GOLF BALL-BASEBALL size hail we were having. Granted there was more of the golf ball size then baseball but a good amount of people reported seeing baseball size hail, a few even took pics or it. It was on the news. A friend of mine who is a police officer was responding to a help call and driving on the interstate at 10 MPH because he couldn't see and he had his passenger side window busted out by hail. Every place around here had hail damage.

Oh yeah, guess what. The news is reporting the same strength of storm is coming to us within the hour. Hail storm round 2, lol. I hope it dies out before it reaches central Florida within the next few days.

 

[Patrick_Ears]

I live in New Orleans and I got hit with the same storm you all are talking about a day or 2 before central Florida did. We had a good bit of Tornado's around here, a few even touched down in some well populated urban areas, not just in the "farm land". One thing that had me worried was the GOLF BALL-BASEBALL size hail we were having. Granted there was more of the golf ball size then baseball but a good amount of people reported seeing baseball size hail, a few even took pics or it. It was on the news. A friend of mine who is a police officer was responding to a help call and driving on the interstate at 10 MPH because he couldn't see and he had his passenger side window busted out by hail. Every place around here had hail damage.

Oh yeah, guess what. The news is reporting the same strength of storm is coming to us within the hour. Hail storm round 2, lol. I hope it dies out before it reaches central Florida within the next few days.

We are from Marrero. :wave:

 

[devoy1701]

I've experienced (as an adult) blizzards, hurricanes, and tornadoes. The first made me nervous enough to stay where I was (which was a good decision - I would have been stuck in traffic) the second scared me, but I did as much as I could to stay safe. The third terrified me because I knew that even though my children and I were huddled in the safest room in our house, covered with cushions and blankets, if we took a direct hit we might not survive. The tornado passed within 1/2 mile of our house. Once you have seen the warning signs (the sky a strange green/gray color, freight train noise that sounds different from the thunder, and a perceptible change in the way the air felt) you will never forget them.

I agree. One of those 9 tornados that blew through our area last Thursday was about a mile from our house and left a trail of mangled buildings, blown down trees, and thrown aluminum about 3/4 mile long. This is twice now since the new year that we have been in the projected path of a spotted funnel cloud/tornado. You can prepare for blizzards and do your best to weather proof your house and family for a hurricane, but you're at God's and Mother Nature's mercy when it comes to tornadoes. Luckily both times now the tornado has disappated before reaching our neighborhood. I hope we continue to be as lucky.

I guess some people from out of town don't realize how dangerous storms in Central Florida can be. Just because you're on vacation doesn't mean you should let your guard down. You should always take Tornado Watches seriously and seek shelter immediately if you are in a Tornado Warning.