Originally Posted By CMDad Bad news is that Hurricane Irene is keeping me stranded here for an additional 4 days. The good news is that "here" is WDW! My AP is about to get an unexpected additional workout!
Originally Posted By CMDad Happily the weather here was terrific on the day of the wedding and it was able to be held outdoors (at the Boardwalk) as planned. A day later and that would not have happened.
Originally Posted By Fe Maiden Lucky you! I'm stranded here at the office. Route 73 N(a popular route to and from the shore here in South Jersey) is a virtual parking lot. Looks like I'll be winding my way through the back roads of the Pine Barrens to get home this evening.
Originally Posted By TP2000 ....I'm so very thankful to be living in Southern California, for a long list of reasons. But climate and weather is right up there on that list.
Originally Posted By GOB >> ....I'm so very thankful to be living in Southern California, for a long list of reasons. But climate and weather is right up there on that list.<< Ironically enough, I'm thankful to be living in Central Jersey for the same reasons. I find SoCal weather to be too boring, with few variations in seasons. We deal with the occasional nor'easter or hurricane, but we don't have to deal with cataclysmic earthquakes, wildfires, mudslides, and the like. Don't get me wrong, I find California and its weather to be useful, but like Hawaii, I believe if I lived there I'd get too satiated. We get snow, rain, beautiful spring, and the bite of autumn. To each his own, I guess.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros GOB, I completely agree with you. I've been living in SoCal for about 5 years now, and it's just driving me insane. It's great to visit, since you know it will always be nice, but I just need the occasional thunderstorm in my life. Sigh. And it's been a while since I've lived in hurricane country, but it seems to me like they're really blowing Irene out of proportion. I'm sure it will be bad (it is a hurricane, after all), but it seems like they're thinking it will be the next Katrina if it hits NYC. I lived a couple hours inland in NC, and got plenty of 'hurricanes', but they really weren't too bad, as they had lost all of their power by the time they made it that far. I suspect that by the time it gets up there, it will basically just dump a whole bunch of rain, and be like any other storm. I know that they rarely get hurricanes up there, so they might be justly scared, but the reaction just seems so weird to me. But if I had to be stranded somewhere as a result of a hurricane, WDW seems like a pretty good place. That is, assuming it's not directly in the storm's path, because that would be significantly less fun!
Originally Posted By CMDad Difference is - NYC isn't "a couple of hours inland" ... 4 of 5 boroughs are islands in the water! But I hope you are right and this is just an overblown thunderstorm. I am hoping my house (and my son's in the mandatory evacuation area) are safe when we are able to return. Meanwhile I am CM-less (no silver pass to the parks - she is on her honeymoon) but do have a new AP (was part of wedding package that my daughter obviously didn't need) so that is taken care of.
Originally Posted By Liberty Belle I hope you don't arrive home to much damage, CMDad, but what a great place to get stranded - especially with an AP!
Originally Posted By debtee Sorry to hear you have been stranded CMDad but I do agree with Liberty Belle, what a great place to be stranded!
