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Originally Posted by Stuart Zaikov
New to the villages, how often does a hurricane or strong tropical storm come this way?
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Based on what I’ve read about hurricane damage in the past forty years in the tri-county area and quite a bit beyond, nearly all the houses destroyed are mobile homes, and nearly everyone killed while in a dwelling was in a mobile home. The concrete houses at The Villages are extra safe. However, there could still be power outages or shortages of things people buy before storms, and gasoline for cars and generators.
Hurricane Irma dropped a LOT of rain on The Villages. There’s a YouTube video in which a drone flies around the next day showing the results. I saw no houses with water in them at all, except a huge house not far from the polo fields where I think a Morse family member lives. There were a few golf course cart paths under water here and there. The places with no houses were covered with water. The water control system in The Villages is very well designed and pretty amazing.