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Old 12-17-2020, 06:10 PM
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Originally Posted by biker1 View Post
Well, that is simply not true. There were a few homes in the northern part of The Villages that experienced some flooding. The vast majority of The Villages was fine as the water management system, which includes the retention ponds and golf courses, worked as designed. The golf courses are designed to take up the overflow.
We are south of 466 and many of the tunnels were flooded and impassable. The golf courses did take up the overflow and were closed for quite a while because they were so saturated.