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AMWAY CENTER The Amway Center is a major sports arena and entertainment venue in Orlando, Florida, located in the Downtown area of the city. It is part of Downtown Orlando Master Plan 3: a plan that also involves improvements to Camping World Stadium and the completion of the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts.[4] The arena is home to the Orlando Magic of the NBA, the Orlando Solar Bears of the ECHL,[5] the Orlando Predators of the National Arena League, and hosted the 2012 NBA All-Star Game and the 2015 ECHL All-Star Game. (Wikipedia) DOWNTOWN Downtown Orlando is the historic core and central business district of Orlando, Florida, United States. It is bordered by Marks Street in the north, Mills Avenue (SR 15) in the east, Orange Blossom Trail (US 441) in the west, and Kaley Avenue in the south.[citation needed] There are several distinct neighborhoods in downtown; "North Quarter" to the north, "Lake Eola Heights Historic District" just north of Lake Eola, "South Eola" contains Lake Eola Park and continues to the east and south of Lake Eola, "Thornton Park" in the east, "Parramore" in the west, "Lake Cherokee Historic District" to the south, and the "Central Business District" (or the "Financial District") between Colonial Drive and Lake Lucerne in the center. In 2010, the estimated population of downtown was 18,731.[2] The daytime population was estimated to be 65,000 (in 2010). The 5-mile radius population of downtown is 273,335. (Wikipedia) LAKE EOLA PARK Lake Eola Park is a public park located in Downtown Orlando, Florida. Lake Eola is the main feature of the park. Also located in the park (on the west side) is the Walt Disney Amphitheater, which hosts many community events and various performances year round. On the east side of the park is a Chinese pagoda, and a playground. The park is surrounded by four streets: East Robinson Street (State Road 526), Rosalind Avenue (SR 527), East Central Boulevard, and North Eola Drive. (Wikipedia)
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http://www.buzzfeed.com/alisonvingiano/insane-pictures-of-the-detroit-metropolitan-area-underwater As you may or may not know, Metropolitan Detroit was in the center of some life threatening storms Monday afternoon. I'm here to tell you guys my side of the story from a first-hand encounter. Firstly i must say that i work in the GM technical center on thirteen mile road East, which unfortunately was the greatest impacted area (and IMHO , the epicenter) of all the watery destruction monday night. Everyday i walk two miles to work, thirty five to forty minutes, from just east of schoenherr ( Pronounced Shay-ner- for anyone wondering) across the area which is littered with small streams and ponds that no one would have ever thought would become so dangerous. The day started pretty normal for me with the exception of a little rain. the rain was a very light drizzle by the time i made it to work (around 2). Since im still in training at work I was placed in a small windowless classroom in the center of the building so i had no idea what was going on outside. My first inclination that something was wrong was that we had a rolling power-out across the building at 5:30ish. then about 7 the glass roof in the cafeteria came crashing in (with rain) from about 25 feet above. Still i chalked it up to the building being slightly on the older side and didn't think much of it. things really got serious about 8:30 when the teacher said she would release us an hour and a half early, at 10 from our 11:30 class. when ten oclock came around we were informed that we were being barricaded On the GM campus unintentionally by a Semi (Yes, an eighteen wheeler) that had stalled right in front of the gates. my superiors came down and said that basically (because the campus is on higher ground than the surrounding areas slightly) we were surrounded by water on all sides, basically we were an island in the middle of warren. Since i wasn't driving anyway i was free to leave. I thought to myself "its only a little bit of water. Im 6'6, what can possibly happen"? At first - the water was high but still maneuverable. it came up to the mid part of my shin. after the quarter mile walk (from the Chicago entrance of the GM center to Van dyke) the water shallowed out slightly. I was able to cross the street with no problem but when i got to the other side mass hysteria had broken out. Right along the side of the Lowe's a small storm drain had completely overflown just recently and was stranding people in about five feet and the half feet of brown murky moderately fast moving water. after i realized i couldn't cross it i doubled back to the parking lot of the lowe's where i was met with about 75 - 150 new faces of people who had been stranded on their way home. Some of them were talking about making a swim for it across Van dyke ( which was submerged in about 5.5 feet of murky dark brown water. Granted, that isn't bad for me because im 6'6 but for the average person who isn't a strong swimmer that's hell). I tried.... i really tried to persuade people to stay put and not to try to make that swim ( there was a small current that i was particularly worried about that pulled you out near the storm drain) but some people were so adamant on it. Once i had crossed the big lake that was once van dyke by straddling the gate down for about half a mile I tried to save at least three cars from being submerged by flagging them down and telling them that the water was a lot deeper than expected just a few hundred feet ahead but they also didn't listen. I don't know if any of the people i warned are okay or not, and i feel bad that i wasn't able to save or influence anyone. after two and a half hours of walking around trying to direct people to safety while looking for an area of van dyke that wasn't submerged so that i could cross behind it safely i was completely and utterly exhausted both physically and mentally. The whole ordeal was very reminiscent of the last scenes of titanic when the boat is still going down, and they're playing the sad song on the violin. My only wish now is that everyone affected by this ( all the south east michiganian's, as well as other Mitten simtropolites Such as Nofunk, Jasoncw, Theol'Michiganian, and myself) crisis is now somewhere safe.
