Resorts WDW brief power outage

[Tom Morrow]

Brief power outage at Walt Disney World

Walt Disney World feels power crash for a few minutes Orlando Sentinel As a precautionary shutdown of a nuclear power plant south of Miami caused domino-effect power outages throughout Florida, some Walt Disney World resort hotels and a few backstage areas lost power for 20-30 minutes. None of the theme parks was affected. Universal Orlando and SeaWorld Orlando reported no power outtages. For more on the power crash, which affected more than 3 million Floridians, check out the Orlando Sentinel on-line, or Wednesday's Orlando Sentinel newspaper. The affected Disney World hotels included parts of the All Star Resort, Port Orleans Resort and Key West Resort, and part of the Walt Disney World Dolphin Resort Convention Center. There also were two traffic lights that went down for a few minutes, but they switched to automatic stop lights, and no sheriff's deputies had to be dispatched to direct traffic, said Ray Maxwell, administrator of the Reedy Creek Improvement District, which provides electricity to Disney World. The impact to Walt Disney World is over, Maxwell said. "You have your priorities set of what things will go down first. We have it so it is backstage first," Maxwell said. Then the few hotels went down. The actual power outage lasted 19 minutes, starting at 1:09 p.m.. But once Reedy Creek's full power was restored, it took another 10 minutes or so to get power switched back on for some of the affected areas at Disney World, he said. Scott Powers

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[xfkirsten]

Ah, they did get affected by that! Sounds like a few parts of Orlando got hit by outages... none up here at my place, though.

We get get a nice thunderstorm tonight, though.

You know what would be interesting, would be to find out what kind of backup power sources they have at the parks.

For instance, do they have huge generators to run the parks when they lose power, and if so, what kind? Diesel, etc.... ?

Glad everyone kept power going to the park, and I am very happy that no nuclear accident of any kind happened!

Have a good one.

[JonathanWoodliff]

Wow! I wonder what woud have happened if it had shut the Magic Kindgdom down. Does anybody know what kind of procedures they use when a ride like "Pirates of the Caribbean" loses power?