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Originally Posted by Waltdisney4life
Love the fear! Make sure you stay in front of the television and believe everything they tell you!
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Oh stop. It is legitimate for new people to wonder what are the usual preparations for a named storm.
Most people who have lived in Florida for five years or so would not think to evacuate The Villages. We don't have storm shutters here. We usually fare pretty well. The huge oak tree next to Laurel Manor Rec Center did fall during H. Irma. It is wise to have food that can be eaten without refrigeration or heat and to have enough clean water during Hurricane season here in central Florida, although The Villages usually do not have prolonged power outages. (In Irma the older sections did lose power and did have flooding)
The old saying..."You can hide from wind, but you need to run from water". The Villages flooded their own golf courses with their immense pumping system in order to keep homes safe from flooding, during Hurricane Irma.