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Originally Posted by DEETAMAC

Does anyone know which service / station or 'company' that The Villages uses for it's weather information? I've noticed that they are either forward thinking, lucky or have a great service because for rain or storms in particular, they lower the retention ponds days before any storm so as to allow 'storage' space for runoff.
There are other times when a storm is predicted & no retention pond 'activity' is taken, leading me to believe that they have better information than any of the weather 'fraudcasters' we have access to are giving out.
The typical 'fraudcasters' we have access to, for a long time, have been subscribing to the "Chicken Little.... The sky is falling, the sky is falling" line of forecasting. I don't know about anyone else, but.... when Irma came thru a few weeks ago, those were the 2 best days of weather that week! All that buildup about our destruction here, & for us here in The Villages..... Nothing.
Any information, ideas, preferences, recommendations?? I have tried all the sites I know of.
Thanks

Irma was in 2017 and was pretty intense here in The Villages. We are in the Fruitland Park portion of the Villages and lost power for approximately 21 hrs