PaSig, I hope you guys enjoy your vacation. It's all panic and hand-wringing until the thing veers up the coast offshore or dissipates into nothing. My sister texted me a few weeks ago asking where to visit in Miami and I told her "not my circus, not my monkeys. I stuck to central." Then she wanted to know what I thought about Dorian and if she should cancel and I said "You wanted to host a bachelorette's party for our cousin in Juarez. I'd feel safer with the fucking hurricane. Where's your sense of adventure?" She went to Aruba instead. So, enjoy, my friend. You're spending dollars in one of our best tourist attractions and I wish you all the very best weather Florida can offer.

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So if he makes it here and the weather is bad head over to the new shooters Word

It’s right by Universal Studios brand new 25-50-100 yard lanes indoors with A//C

You can rent most anything from 22lr to 50 BMG to full auto it’s a shooters delight

https://www.shootersworld.com/orlando/

And leave the kids at the hotel? I think this guys wife even tells him what time he can brush his teeth.

You don't have a wife and kids, so maybe you don't understand it, but that's pretty much no-go territory in fuck-fuck games with another man. It's a good way to skip all the niceties and go right to the bottom of the ladder into the dark parts of another man's mind who has invested all of himself in a family. Don't do that. Don't be that guy.

I'm an asshole, we're all assholes at some level, but don't go there.

Glad it worked out for you, luck played a big part in this. Just hope you don't get too much of the "I told you so" from everyone else.

When you leave, can you take the humidity back with you?

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When you leave, can you take the humidity back with you?

Best post in the thread, far and beyond.

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Yes, we are here at Universal’s Cabana Bay Resort and had a great day at the pool and the coming week is looking better and better the more Dorian moves away from Florida.

PASig, enjoy your stay. I'd say you definitely lucked out as many of the folks here did. Though the weather may be quite breezy, having a couple nice sip's poolside will make it all worth it!

I would not count my chickens before they hatched and I would keep a strong eye on what the storm is doing over the next two days. They are slowly shifting the cone West and at the 11am forecast it now includes Orlando. Keep an eye on it and stay safe.

From the NWS Orlando forecast:
https://forecast.weather.gov/M...81.3774#.XWv1NuM3nIU

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From the NWS Orlando forecast:
https://forecast.weather.gov/M...81.3774#.XWv1NuM3nIU

This link automatically updates forecast to reflect current conditions.

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I would not count my chickens before they hatched and I would keep a strong eye on what the storm is doing over the next two days. They are slowly shifting the cone West and at the 11am forecast it now includes Orlando. Keep an eye on it and stay safe.

I told you to stay out of my thread.

PASig,

If you like BBQ, there's a place in Groveland called James BBQ that's pretty damn good. Little bit of a drive from Disney. We live an hour away and go about once every 1-2 months. Definitely worth the commute.

Just saw on TV Disney's closing early tomorrow, Tue, Sep. 3.

Hard to tell from the map on TV, but the newly-announced evacuation zones, if they don't include Orlando, look to be damn close.

I think Disney is opening earlier than normal, 8am or 7am if you are staying there.

Orange County has no evacuations.
Seminole and Osceola Counties have voluntary evacuations for people living in manufactured or mobile homes and people in low lying areas.
A quick perusal of Florida evacuations show the mandatory ones are for barrier islands, mobile homes, and low lying areas of coastal counties.

No need for PASig to panic.

PASig is probably having the vacation of his life. I cannot even begin to imagine the amount of times he is going to hear "told you so" from his wife and in laws over the years.

As locals, to escape the constant barrage of news, we went to Universal's Island of Adventure on Saturday evening. The park was less crowded than normal. And considering it was a holiday weekend, really less crowded than it should have been.

We went to Hollywood Studios last night (Labor Day) and were able to get on the new Millennium Falcon ride, in the new Star Wars land, on opening weekend.

My wife looked on some of Facebook groups last night. At Magic Kingdom last night during Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween, someone took a picture looking down Main St. and it was empty. And when I say empty, I mean there were two people in the picture. Two! She saw pictures of the same thing at Universal Studios and Islands of Adventure.

We are actually heading over to Magic Kingdom shortly to enjoy the day before they close early.

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PASig is probably having the vacation of his life. I cannot even begin to imagine the amount of times he is going to hear "told you so" from his wife and in laws over the years.

Me neither - he's going to hear about it pretty much forever.

But it's one of those cases where it was better to be lucky, because that's all it was. Pure luck.

Maybe luck, but, historically, Orlando is city second safest from hurricanes, tropical storms, and flooding in Florida.



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Maybe luck, but, historically, Orlando is city second safest from hurricanes, tropical storms, and flooding in Florida.

Of course, because it's not on the coast.

I was just speaking to the path of this storm, lol.

Parks closed today, Disney early, Universal all day, for families to get home, prep etc. Even though the storm has grown weaker, and moved Northerly.

Good day for BBQ and guns, provided the gun ranges are still open...

Weather is supposed to get a bit worse starting this afternoon/evening ie wind and rain...

Can't complain about the warning and advice, getting ready is the right thing to do and people here take it for the most part seriously, you always have the one guy that won't leave his home that should, but that is common all over the world.

The good thing is the wife stocked up on chips, cookies, ice cream, beer, I stocked up on cigars, ice tea, meat products and gas, we have plenty of everything we need...

Probably put on 10 pounds.....

Shoot Straight was open today. Went there to look around after a quick trip to work. Co-worker had his P365 and wanted to try it out, I had my G32. He said let's get some range time in, I said I left my debit card at home and only had $10 cash. He said he had me, I tried to warn him. 50 round box of S&B .357 SIG was $30 there.

It was my first time there, nice shop!

We went to Sanford on Saturday, 417 was eerie with how few cars were on the road. Seminole Towne Center was light in traffic.

If I had known yesterday would've been light for Disney, I would've went. Friend of ours works there, he gets guests passes each year so we don't pay.

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Parks closed today,

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Parks closed today, Disney early, Universal all day,

Most Disney Parks closed at 2-3pm. Epcot was open until 7pm.

Universal Studios and Islands of Adventure were open normal hours though.

All parks plan for normal hours tomorrow / Wednesday. Which kind of surprises me since tomorrow morning seems like when it should be the worst weather.

I am looking forward to PASig's report, because he has gotten to experience the parks with their smallest crowds ever. 80% of the rides have been a 5-10 wait, which just does not happen anymore.