We survived Hurricane Charlie on that August Friday the 13th.
We were in a suite at Wilderness lodge.
The day the weather changed we had dinner reservations at Artist point for 5pm.
We were celebrating our 15th wedding anniversary and the daughter was in the cubs den.
All of a sudden they announced that the kids den was closing.
The Husband went and got daughter and I got in line for dinner.
When he arrived back and we were ready to be seated the manager came to us and made an announcement to us and everyone else in line that Artist point is now closed.
I said to the manager, I go I do not care about me and my husband, but can you please give our daughter something to eat.
This is after everyone behind us left the line.
He goes OK, follow me.
Gave us 6 carryout containers and lead us to a food line.
He left us there with instructions to leave quietly once we had our food.
The daughter filled the one container with 6 filets, we got beans, potatoes, fish, butter and rolls salad. Not intended to be greedy, just nervous energy.
On the way out we stopped at the bar and got "doubles"
Back to the room, we found two flashlights inside the door.
About an hour after dinner, an attendant knocked on the door and evacuated us to a stairwell, our room had a lot of glass windows.
We watched the horizontal rain from the stairway when we opened the door.
When we allowed back in our room, there was no damage.
The next day, we found out MCO would close for 3 days.
We got the last rental car at Disneyworld and drove to Tampa and got a flight that was just added on to get home.
We were safe.
We buy travel insurance,
We were reimbursed for lost Disney Days, resort, tickets, meals, and hardship.
The insurance company would not reimburse us for the rental, they told us they would pay for 3 more Disney days, but not the rental.
Safe travels to all and to the residents of Florida be prepared, be safe.
