First, if you’re going to the parks this week, please keep the cast members in your thoughts. Many of them have had damage to their homes or their families homes but they are still reporting to work to make sure you have a pleasant Disney day. This is from a cast member who works at… Read More »Further WDW Damage Report
More Stories from Celebration: Barb, of the excellently written Celebration Blog, posts about the worries of owning a property but being away from it at the time. Then follows up with a damage report on Celebration (including a few picks of damage to her property). Tom of Celeb96.com posts a number of photos providing an… Read More »Celebration Round Up
Here’s the first report I’ve got from someone who claims to have been inside Disney’s Animal Kingdom. It’s not bad. Just messy. We tried really hard to get the park open for guests today, but there was just too much cleanup to do. There is no major structural damage, but Charley did a lot of… Read More »Report from Animal Kingdom
Forced to make budget cuts with the end of the year a ways off and no new films in production, Miramax cuts 13% of its staff. The decision as to the Weinstein brothers future with the company and with Disney remains clouded. But the stock level is not, Disney’s stock sunk to near $20 on… Read More »The Miramax Diet
Found a site with some pictures from a morning drive (and monorail ride) around Disney World. Lots of debris and signs down. Some minor damage. (owner says “no bandwidth limit…so click away”) Here’s another site with pics of the tie-down process in the parks and some of the aftermath.
I’ll skip the mundane landscape damage here. But I will post what ever damage I hear was done and confirm it when possible. The first report in was of the tent covering the Cirque De Soliel building in Downtown Disney was torn and an 80ft section is missing. I believe that tent was just cosmetic,… Read More »Damage Reports from WDW
Disney World has 3 of its four parks open today. Animal Kingdom remains closed today due to staffing issues. There was only minor landscape damage reported. Of the water parks Typhoon Lagoon is closed today but Blizzard Beach is open. Downtown Disney is scheduled to be open. Universal Studios and Seaworld both have major debris… Read More »Themepark Roundup
As the day goes on and we discover the true extent of the property damage and terrible loss of life that Charley brought to central Florida, please keep the American Red Cross in mind when you want to make a donation for disaster relief. Or you can make a donation to the ARC Disaster Relief… Read More »American Red Cross Needs Your Donations