10pm update Sunday: It rained most of the day today (Sunday) and from time to time we had some pretty good wind gusts. The harder rain and wind started about 9:00pm. According to the weather channel we are seeing gusts up to 45 mph right now. The hardest wind and rain (possible up to 90 mph) will be happening about 1am Monday morning and hard winds will last till about 4am. Irma has lost its well defined eye and wind possibilities have diminished substantially over the last couple hours. The storm has also turned due north and is set to basically come right over The Villages in a couple hours. It may be a long sleepless night for many (me) who have a hard time sleeping with rain pounding on the windows. Tornado warnings associated with this hurricane have been going off all night. Praying we don't have any of those here. While Irma is a very large storm it appears we are weathering it pretty well thus far but the worst is yet to come in a few hours.
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