Originally Posted By vbdad55 Weather.com showing winds in the 40 - 50 mph range for Monday afternnon forecasted. The positie news is being on the 'clean' side of the storm as it goes thru- at least according to projected path today
Originally Posted By wahooskipper It shifted further South for landfall. Expect some gusty winds and rain in Orlando for a day or less tomorrow and then a beautiful week.
Originally Posted By Jim_n_Ruth I will be there this coming Friday. Where I live, we will be seeing what's left of Wilma Monday and Tuesday. With my luck, since I missed Wilma, I'll undoubtedly hit Fred. (or maybe Barney) Hopefully, it won't be BAMBAM!
Originally Posted By SuzieQ Disney has announced that the parks will all be closed tomorrow morning. However, they may open in the evening once the hurricane blows through. Fort Wilderness people have been relocated to hotels as a precaution. Looks like Orlando may get tropical storm force winds. Our tornament is going to start a day late and we'll just make the days more full so we can have finals on Sunday as scheduled!
Originally Posted By Labuda According to the "breaking news" headline on cnn.com right now, "Hurricane Wilma makes landfall in Florida, with storm's eye hitting near Cape Romano, according to National Hurricane Center."
Originally Posted By SuzieQ It's on to the east coast now. CNN has been covering it well. I fell asleep with it on last night and woke up about 4 am (pacific) and it had made landfall not too long before that.
Originally Posted By TDLFAN Well, it's about 11:20am and we have had steady wind and gusts that I would estimate at about 50-70 miles per hour, plus lots of rail... Earlier this morning at about 3am, we had lots of tornado warnings and thunder storms that hit to the east of greater Orlando... I understand that Disney and Universal are closed and Sea World was supposed to be opened... Not sure why anyone would want to be out there watching Shamu but he is already wet in the water so He's not bothered by all the rain.... I am hearing a fire truck alarm in the distance so there must be so kind of emergency going on in this area... Again... still windy and rainy and looking out the window...I don't see signs of damage anywhere... My neighbors' houses do not seem to be missing shingles or anything.... Hopefully it will become a bit better by mid afternoon.
Originally Posted By Crazy4WDW Take care of yourself TDLFan. I have the Swan and Dolphin web cam up and it does looks pretty yucky.
Originally Posted By pheneix TDLFAN, what part of Orlando do you live at down here? Over by Universal and Millenia the storm hasn't been too bad at all. It sure has gotten kinda cool outside though.
Originally Posted By TDLFAN I am 15 mins east of WDW in South Orlando, and we were spared damage as well... BYT... For everyone's FYI... Orlando saw winds of up to 65mpr according to news reports. Wind blew and it rained hard all morning alng until about 1pm, when the rain stopped. By 2:30pm the Sun was already out and the clouds were parting nicely. Right now at 6pm, we are having a mostly sunny afternoon with some windy conditions and cold temperature... like the 60s. Orlando only reported some minor damage, like a bit of flooding and some power lines out, but it's sporadic. My area never lost power. In fact...I went into DTD at 3pm after the sun came out and lo-and-behold, the Village was PACKED! with shoppers. On my way out, I noticed the traffic signs to DAK and MGM showed their parking lots to be "FULL". Hmmm.... Anyways... we MADE IT thru Wilma.
