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Originally Posted by Rainger99
I have always heard and read about how The Villages has a great flood control system where, in the event of a hurricane, they can flood the golf courses and save the houses.
Does anyone know the specifics on this? How much rain can they handle before they are overwhelmed? Would they have been able to handle the 18-24 inches that were forecast? Or would many homes have been flooded?
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According to a person working at Belle Glade, when Irma came through she dropped 18 inches of rain in that area. The system worked and there was no flooding in the residential areas. The golf courses were flooded. The sprinkler system on the golf course was turned on to reduce the levels of water in the ponds/lakes and ran continuously for 26 hours. I had a house in LaBelle South at the time and there was no flood or wind damage to any of the houses in our neighborhood that I am aware of.
There was some good drone footage of Evans Prairie where the cart path seemed to go into the water and come out the other side about 100 yards away. Much better than seeing that running through our streets and houses.
As is all too familiar, there were those who found a reason to complain and wanted a refund of some of their amenity fee because the could not play some or all of a certain golf courses for two or three weeks. Meanwhile, in Puerto Rico, people had no power for months.