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Originally Posted by tomjbud
My concern is that The Villages poor response to this relatively minor disaster shows that they are certainly not prepared to respond to a major hurricane or other disaster.
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What? -- "relatively minor disaster"?
Hurricane Irma was an extremely powerful and catastrophic hurricane, the strongest observed in the Atlantic since Wilma in 2005 in terms of maximum sustained winds.
It was the most intense Atlantic hurricane to strike the United States since Katrina in 2005, and the first major hurricane to make landfall in Florida since Wilma in 2005.
Hundreds of thousands of Floridians evacuated, making it the largest evacuation in the state's history.
Irma caused widespread and catastrophic damage throughout its long lifetime, particularly in parts of the northeastern Caribbean and the Florida Keys.