Most of the infrastructure in the villages is buried, and therefore, somewhat shielded from the rather of mother nature. However, ALL of the lines feeding the substations that serve the villages area are OVERHEAD and therefore subject to the full fury for the storm called IRMA. As long as these are temporary faults, that the power will be restored quickly (seconds to minutes). If there is relatively minor damage, power can be restored soon (minutes to hours), If a line is severely damaged, then outages may be substantially longer. From what I have seen FL utilities seem to understand heavy wind and and have designed their lines for these conditions.
IMHO, yes, I would expect short outages, and hopefully short restoration times. For this reason, we do not have a generator, left it up North.
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Pennsylvania, for 60+ years, most recently, Allentown, now TV. 
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