Photo's of our Disney Resort after Hurricane Irma hit the area.
Sep 16, 2017 13:50:54 #
Every year we go on vacation to Walt Disneyworld and thought we would go in September this year as last year we went in October when Hurricane Matthew hit the area which closed the theme parks for 1 day.
Little did we know that Hurricane Irma was heading our way. We arrived on September 4th and had some nice days at the parks then September 9th Disney announced that they would close all 4 theme parks, on the 10th and 11th of September. When Irma hurdled her way through our area I think they said she was a Catagory 2 with wind speeds of 70+ miles per hour.
We were able to stay at our resort but had a curfew where no one could leave the resort. We had Fema and DMAT (Disaster Medical Assist Team) from Hawaii, New Mexico, North Dakota based at our resort so we were safe, we didn't lose power but had a lot of tree damage and debris in the swimming pools. We were so much luckier than other parts of Florida and the islands.
Little did we know that Hurricane Irma was heading our way. We arrived on September 4th and had some nice days at the parks then September 9th Disney announced that they would close all 4 theme parks, on the 10th and 11th of September. When Irma hurdled her way through our area I think they said she was a Catagory 2 with wind speeds of 70+ miles per hour.
We were able to stay at our resort but had a curfew where no one could leave the resort. We had Fema and DMAT (Disaster Medical Assist Team) from Hawaii, New Mexico, North Dakota based at our resort so we were safe, we didn't lose power but had a lot of tree damage and debris in the swimming pools. We were so much luckier than other parts of Florida and the islands.
Announcement on our Resort room TV
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Emergency Food Bags They were selling at the Resort food court
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This is our resort with alot of debris everywhere
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The main swimming pool area was littered with branches but it did not take them long to clean branches out of the pool and clean up the pool area.
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A view of the approaching storm through our room window.
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North Dakota Medical Assist Team that were staying at our resort to help with the clean up effects.
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A victim of the hurricane
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So many trees down at our resort but thank goodness none fell on the buildings
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Ripped netting and more trees down
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Daisy and Donald had a rough night but survived with just debris around their feet
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Sep 16, 2017 14:18:22 #
Sep 16, 2017 15:04:03 #
plessner wrote:
glad you all are OK
Thank you. It's good to be home I can tell you that. :)
Sep 17, 2017 06:41:52 #
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Sep 17, 2017 10:21:44 #
jaymatt wrote:
Some nice aftermath shots--happy that you rode it out ok.
Thanks. So are we.
Sep 17, 2017 12:26:07 #
Did you stay at a hotel in the park or out side? Great to see they only had to clean up and not rebuild. Thanks for posting.
Sep 17, 2017 12:29:28 #
Lorima wrote:
Every year we go on vacation to Walt Disneyworld a... (show quote)
I don't know why a medical rescue team would be involved in a cleanup operation. Disney, I'm sure has a chunk of change to pay for the cleanup of their private property.
Sep 17, 2017 19:51:58 #
Wow! You certainly had and exciting and eventful vacation, didn't you Lori?!! Good images showing the damage.
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Sep 25, 2017 09:20:48 #
Ched49 wrote:
Did you stay at a hotel in the park or out side? Great to see they only had to clean up and not rebuild. Thanks for posting.
Thank you. Yes we stayed at a Disney Resort and were well taken care of.
Sep 25, 2017 09:22:11 #
Mary Kate wrote:
I don't know why a medical rescue team would be involved in a cleanup operation. Disney, I'm sure has a chunk of change to pay for the cleanup of their private property.
I think they were expecting the storm to be worse and needed these team to help clean up around the Orlando area as well.
Sep 25, 2017 09:32:14 #
sailorsmom wrote:
Wow! You certainly had and exciting and eventful vacation, didn't you Lori?!! Good images showing the damage.
Thank you and your welcome. It really is good to be home
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