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Old 08-28-2023, 06:12 PM
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Originally Posted by asianthree View Post
The developer thought very long and hard about the ability to move water, to keep your house dry.

Last hurricane, tunnels were flooded, our pond was up by 15-20 feet, it crested the top but never did it reach our home. Why because they ran every sprinkler on every common area, and every golf course to remove as quickly as possible the water, before it reached homes. Courses were flooded but not our home.
Brilliantly engineered the removal of water to prevent floods. My hat is off to the engineers who designed this system.