Just close your eyes when you walk past the window, carry a brolly or newspaper to deflect rain on your run to the car (i would prefer the paper, the brolly takes forever to close and you get just as wet as you are putting it down as you would have running across the parking lot) - i thought you were a FL guy, lived here your whole life?? Didnt you sign the waiver saying you accepted the summer monsoon season?? We foreigners who move over here have to sign that waiver - why not the locals?
Anyway, think of it this way, how much more annoyed would you be if people were forever forecasting bad weather throughout most of the day, you change your plans to do stuff that wont involve you being stuck on top of a mountain during a thunderstorm (with a 2-3 hour hike to get back to the car) - only to find that whilst you are doing said safer activities it is a fine, sunny, wonderful day all along and the weather forecasters are just gloom and doom merchants sending fear through the TV sets on morning shows?? Well that spoilt at least 2 days of our recent trip - sure there are going to be huge storms sweeping into NY state after the torrential stuff to the west - in fact i think there was only about 1" of rain (overnight only, nothing in the days) over those two days - the days were in the 70's and very sunny - felt like such a waste of time. That is frustrating to spend your vacation time listening to people who cant interprit weather patterns nor do they actually show the data they are using to "predict" this weather. Grrrr [/rant] I would prefer the summer rainstorms over wasting time on vacation anyday.
BTW, we still hiked for 4 days (40+ miles) and had a bit of biking and kayaking which was nice - so the week wasnt a loss, only tuesday and wednesday.
I almost forgot, whatever comes in over the Gulf or Atlantic coasts seems to migrate inland and hang over Orlando for many hours - or at least that is the way the patterns seem to move - who put Disney World here anyway, surely there are places with better weather patterns??? We are getting the storms like clockwork already - they are guided up from Tampa via I-4 and in from the space coast on SR-528 - nice quick routes for the storms to follow!!
