About this time last year, our vacation trip had an uninvited guest: Tropical Storm Fay. We had planned our Walt Disney World trip months earlier, only to question whether we would be going at all.
Every time we checked The Weather Channel, the forecasters predicted rain. We had two choices: stay or go. We bought rain parkas and went ahead with our plans. All of our flights went fine, but the first three days of our trip were very rainy. We had to let our shoes and socks dry out each night. The parkas did a fairly good job of protecting everything else.
For three days, the crowds at Walt Disney World were lighter than I had ever seen them. Some attractions were closed and a parade had to be called off because of the weather. Rain in Disney World is like snow in the South -- they don't know what to do with it. I remember walking on curbs because the walkways were flooded with several inches of water. There isn't a lot of shelter at Disney World either. This is something you don't realize until you're looking for a roof to stand under for a few minutes while deciding where to go next.
On the fourth day, the skies cleared up, the rain stopped and the temperature started to climb. The rest of the trip was pretty uneventful, yet we'll probably remember those rainy days for a long time.
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