[Dr Winston O Boogie jr]

Originally Posted by MLBellis

Lived here for 12 yrs only had two huricanes hit us... TV never lost power, the locals around us did. We are not going to have a huricane hit us cause it is a tropical storm and it will blow out to the gulf...been here long enough to know better! I get a big kick out of everyone being so worried!! LOL

I agree. The odds of a hurricane doing a lot of damage this far inland are very slim. That being said, there is nothing wrong with taking a few common sense precautions and being prepared. The biggest threat to us from a hurricane is the tornadoes that it might spin off. But even then there have been very, very few tornadoes hit this area over the years and they usually have a very narrow path of destruction. Of course, you are in big trouble if you are in that narrow path, but we're talking about the odds of being seriously affected by bad weather and the chance of devastation from a hurricane or tornado in the Villages is very small.