Weather concerns upended the travel plans for passengers heading on a cruise to the Bahamas over the weekend.
Cruise ship MSC Meraviglia was set to sail toward the Caribbean when passengers were notified before departure that “unseasonable and rapidly worsening weather” would scrap their beach plans.
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“We thought we were being punked. But it’s just like Bahamas, Boston … it’s a huge difference,” passenger Val Montgomery said on NBC’s Today show.
The cruise line insisted that the weather in the Atlantic Ocean would have been unsafe to traverse from New York City.
A major storm with heavy winds and severe thunderstorms battered Florida and South Carolina last weekend and would have been in the path of the cruise ship. Charleston, South Carolina, broke daily rainfall records due to the tropical storm.
The cruise line offered alternatives of either going on the new stops of Boston, Maine, and Canada before returning to New York City or receiving a full cruise credit to be used at a later date.
The new stops had passengers quickly shifting from beach gear to bundling up for the colder climate of December weather.
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One mother said she had to run to Walmart to repack all of the family’s clothes.
“Imagine me having three kids to pack up. They were all packed with summer clothes. We immediately ran to Walmart because all our bags are already packed to repack all of the winter stuff,” Lakeya Allen said.
