DISNEY World has been blasted for its bizarre decision to sell $10 ‘sandwich kits’ to visitors stranded during Hurricane Milton.
The theme park was abruptly closed this week as 160mph gales hurtled toward Florida, leaving a devastating wake of death and destruction.
Disney sold sandwich kits to stranded guests while Hurricane Milton raged[/caption]
Disney guests were offered peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for a ‘special price’[/caption]
Guests walk through Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World in Florida on Wednesday before the theme park closed early[/caption]
A flooded street due to Hurricane Milton in Siesta Key on October 10[/caption]
But some Disney guests, who were already staying at the resort and unable to leave, were forced to ride out the hurricane there.
On Wednesday, they were offered the chance to spend $10 on a stash of sandwich supplies.
Video from inside shows a table laid out with loaves of bread and stacks of Disney-branded bags.
They can be seen to contain a jar of Jif peanut butter, a jar of jelly and some knives and forks.
Viewers were quick to react, and blasted the mega corporation for profiting off the packs.
“I was thinking oh how sweet! Then saw they were charging $10,” one person wrote online.
“First 5 seconds I think aww what a lovely thing to do Disney. Then see $10 wow don’t you have enough money Disney,” another said.
“Disney should have given them FREE!” a third raged.
“The way my mouth DROPPED when I saw they were charging for these,” a fourth wrote.
“I’m sorry WHAT?! They are CHARGING YOU?!” someone else said.
“Unbelievable! They should be giving this away!” insisted another.
“Not only is it $10, but they have the nerve to call it a ‘special price,’” someone else wrote.
The resort was also reportedly selling board games and puzzles for a quarter-a-piece for stranded visitors.
The U.S. Sun has reached out to Disney for comment.
What is a hurricane and how do they form?
A HURRICANE is another name for a tropical cyclone – a powerful storm that forms over warm ocean waters near the equator.
Those arising in the Atlantic or eastern Pacific are called hurricanes, while those in the western Pacific and Indian Ocean are dubbed typhoons or cyclones.
North of the equator they spin anticlockwise because of the rotation of the Earth, however, they turn the opposite way in the southern hemisphere.
Cyclones are like giant weather engines fuelled by water vapor as it evaporates from the sea.
Warm, moist air rises away from the surface, creating a low-pressure system that sucks in air from surrounding areas – which in turn is warmed by the ocean.
As the vapour rises it cools and condenses into swirling bands of cumulonimbus storm clouds.
The system grows and spins faster, sucking in more air and feeding off the energy in seawater that has been warmed by the sun.
At the center, a calm “eye” of the storm is created where cooled air sinks towards the ultra-low pressure zone below, surrounded by spiraling winds of warm air rising.
The faster the wind, the lower the air pressure at the center, and the storm grows stronger and stronger.
Tropical cyclones usually weaken when they hit land as they are no longer fed by evaporation from the warm sea.
But they often move far inland – dumping vast amounts of rain and causing devastating wind damage – before the “fuel” runs out and the storm peters out.
Hurricanes can also cause storm surges when the low air pressure sucks the sea level higher than normal, swamping low-lying coasts.
At least 12 deaths have been reported due to Hurricane Milton so far.
The deadly storm made landfall in Siesta Key, Florida, as a Category 3 storm on Thursday night.
The hurricane brought multiple tornadoes to the state and left millions without power as the heavy winds and rain raged.
Florida governor Ron DeSantis said Milton wasn’t the “worst case scenario,” but said the worst storm surge was in Sarasota County.
President Joe Biden deployed thousands of federal personnel, including over 1,000 Coast Guard members, to areas affected by the storm before Milton touched down.
Footage showed the Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ home stadium almost completely underwater on Wednesday night – and a nearby stadium had its roof ripped off in the strong winds.
Visitors walk through a shopping center at Disney World in Orlando on October 9[/caption]
