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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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I've been here a few years and we've had a few hurricanes and they've done almost no damage at all. A few years ago we had Irma, which was one of the largest hurricanes ever to hit Florida come right up the middle of the state. The eye literally came right over my house. I woke up at about 1:00am and I could hear the wind and rain whipping against the west wall of my house. I awoke about three hours later and it was whipping against the east wall of my house.
The damage to The Villages was minimal. I live in the historic district and am in a newer site built home. Some of my neighbors had some damage to their manufactured homes, but it was mostly carports and lanais.
We did lose power for about three days. I later found out that it was because the power station that serves this area was built in a low lying area and it flooded. I wonder who the genius was that decided to build it there.
I do know that we had some tornadoes about ten years ago that destroyed a rec center but I've never experienced one since I've been here.
The thought of a tornado terrifies me. A hurricane fifty miles inland, not so much. We don't basements so there is no place to hide.