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Originally Posted by Normal
We aren’t safe from Hurricane Damage in the Bubble, that’s just a fact. Hopefully insurance companies are slow to react and in modest fashion.
Some house in The Villages just weren’t built correctly. Hopefully there is a sit down with roofers and an explanation that shingles shouldn’t be leaving homes in 60 mph winds.
Anecdotally just from this thread, we see demonstrated problems.
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The Villages at some minimum distance of about 40 miles from Crystal River and longer for typical storm path is certainly at lower risk from straight wind and flood damage. Tornados and downbursts are another story to my amateur mind. We did not have a tornado. However, the scattered damage pattern of suggests funny twisting winds that seemed to damage "weakened installations".
The shingles should be good for 120 mph or so and the measured winds at our house were less than 50 for Milton and 70mph for Irma several years ago.
Irma did not produce shingle loss in our neighborhood. Milton had one house with damage to nearly every gable surface with nothing damaged at adjacent houses.
Regarding flooding, our distance from the Gulf and the extensive stormwater handling systems should prevent major house flooding. Yes, there can be tunnel flooding and some pond flooding that may cause some damage especially in the Historic area. However, we have no large streams that can erode the hillsides and wash our homes away as in NC.
I have done a fair amount of research on the stormwater facilities near my home in Southern Osceola Hills near Rohan Rec Ctr.
Our area stormwater discharges to a pond which has a discharge into the adjacent wetlands area. This discharge is at least 10 ft elevation below our Lanai. The pond is defined as an AE flood elevation (aka 100yr).
In turn this wetlands has a discharge path under Morse Ave to the wetlands surrounding Lake Deaton.
In turn Lake Deaton has a flow path under Rt 44 towards Lake Okahumpka and beyond eventually reaching Hogeye Sink via various surface and reported below ground drainage.
As long as the CDD maintains their current vigilance on these under road drainage facilities and removes any potential blockages, Rohan Rec Center and the new Walmart will flood before our neighborhood.