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Old 04-24-2020, 10:12 AM
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Default There are multi-day outages in The Villages

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Originally Posted by Dilligas View Post
Generators are not necessary in TV. The electric lines are under ground, so are not bothered by storms. Even in hurricanes, any outage is very short lived (less than a hour) and caused at a sub station or other general area.
In September of 2017hurricane Irma struck The Villages. In my neighborhood power was out fo 2-4 days depending on the street you lived on. Make no mistake, hurricanes can wreak havoc on the infrastructure and cause multi-day outages of power.