Arizona mom reveals what it was like sheltering inside Disney World during Hurricane Milton
A Disney-loving family from Arizona rode out Hurricane Milton’s wrath on Wednesday from the comfort of their Disney World resort room as the park offered partial compensation amid the destructive and deadly storm.Sandra Guadarrama-Baumunk has made the trip from Phoenix to Orlando over the past three years and thought it would be a perfect time to go to the theme park after Hurricane Helene pummeled the area one week earlier.“Oh, thank goodness.We missed it by a week,” the married mother of two recalled in her essay for Business Insider.The family remained committed to their trip to the park even after learning of Milton barrelling toward the Sunshine State.Guadarrama-Baumunk, 53, her 58-year-old husband Brian, their two daughters Sofia, 21, and Mia, 25, along with Mia’s boyfriend Jeremy, 25, flew into Orlando on Oct.
5 for their vacation.“I thought positively that it was going to miss us,” Guadarrama-Baumunk added.“I also felt a resort was one of the safest places to be in a hurricane because they’d been through it before and knew what to expect.”Along with the rest of the country, the family monitored the powerful storm approach Florida.They enjoyed all the parks and the amenities they could until the park shut down at 2 p.m.
Wednesday ahead of Milton’s landfall on the western-central coast of Florida.After the parks closed, they made their way back to the resort, where staff prepared activities for the guests including crafts and s’mores, Guadarrama-Baumunk wrote.The storm made landfall as a Category 3 hurricane near Siesta Key in Sarasota County, 125 miles southwest of Disney.To pass the time, the family played games they purchased from the gift shop, including UNO card games and enjoyed the bar, but — like anyone else — being too close to others for an extended amount of time can cause problems.“When you’re with your family in such a confined space, you have to dig deep for patience sometimes,” she wrote.To accommodate the unfo...