One weather guy I saw said, "Run from water, hide from wind." By that, he was saying that if you live in an area that has a decent chance of flooding, get out of town. However, if what you're going to get is mostly wind, find a safe place in your home or community and hunker down. Now, I'm sure there's an upper limit on the wind that it would be safe to stick around for. Most of the hurricanes we've been through here have come up either straight from the south or at an angle, so they really had time to have the passage over land kick the feet out from under them. This one seems to be coming straight across, so it's going to probably hit here harder, wind-wise, than most we've had in several years. The Villages has fantastic water management and all the houses built in the last decades are up to stringent hurricane codes, but we could still lose power for an indefinite period of time.
That all being said, if officials recommend evacuating The Villages, we already have plans on where we're going to go and what we'll take.
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