Tropical storm Eta
 

Just hoping some folks in the Villages could let Villagers who are currently not at their homes know how things were as the storm passed by earlier today. Was there any evidence of wind or flooding damage? I would be personally interested in a report from someone in the greater Tierra Del Sol area between Lake Sumter Landing and Spanish Springs.

I live 1 mile from TDS, and the "Storm" was just some winds (maybe 30mph) and some rain (4 inches). Pruned some palm trees, but that's it.

Non issue just south of Lake Sumter Landing. Some clean up of palm fronds needed but that is it.

Reporting from Village of LaBelle. The tropical storm Eta was of no consequence in our neighborhood.

Just another over-blown media driven event.

Other than my plants got watered, things were not a big deal. However we did move all of our outdoor furniture out of the birdcage, to the lanai, next to the wall of the house. Around 3am rain and wind gusts enough that it moved our love seat 11 feet back into the bird cage, along with both rugs that were rolled up.

Could have been tornadoes as we have had in the past. I’d vote for media being over protective.

This would be the 2nd hurricane I slept through.
We got a lot of rain (the lawn was squishy this morning). But aside from that... not much to say.

Thanks for all the reports. Sounds like we have very little to worry about. I did not get my usual Thursday service ticket e-mail from TD pool service, so I guess the storm delayed their schedule. Hopefully the outdoor furniture we left in our birdcage in late October did not wind up in the pool (it is all stored in the garage during the typical hurricane season). When we left our home we figured hurricane season was behind us and it was safe to leave it out until next July.

Not much happened here in the Villages of Lynnhaven but some other parts of FL and the East Coast of the USA were hit hard by this storm.

You mean the only one that happened in The Villages in 2007?

You ever wonder why there are no tornado warning sirens in The Villages? Because there are NO TORNADOES.

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Can't contribute details about your village but there was a lot of street flooding in my area and found out there's holes around the peddles in golf cart. HAHA Newbie with those things.

what area was the flooding? no flooding in Bonita.

We had more severe summer storms than what ETA was.

We didn't move any lanai furniture and everything stayed put. We are just south of Lake Sumter Landing so maybe we didn't have those gusts that your area experienced.

Look for more roofing contractor bellringers!

Wasn't Eta a tropical storm?

Depends on how sturdy your home is. Some friends had leaks.

I live in Tierra del Sol. It was rainy off and on on Wednesday. If there was anything on Wednesday night, I slept through it. Nothing on Thursday except I light breeze, then occasional sun. I brought all my outdoor cushions into the house from the open Lanai, but it wasn’t necessary. I haven’t seen any damage at all.

You said it all :bigbow:

No problems here. All we got was a gentle wind and a light sprinkle.

The 2007 tornado
 

destroyed my home here

I am east of Lake Sumter Landing and have a weather station. Highest gust was 17.4 mph early Thursday morning. Total rain Wed. night/Thursday morning was 2.16 in. Very little debris and no flooding that I have seen.

We live in Tierra Del Sol and there were some palm fronds down, nothing else I know of.

What storm. Just wind and rain.

Was mostly a rain event but a very strange storm path.

Storm
 

What storm?

Live 1/2 mile from Spanish Springs and 5-6 oranges fell off of two trees. Played golf in Tavares yesterday. Golf course was a swamp. They had 6 inches in rain. At TV less than an inch

Live near Seabreeze and traveled to Rohn at 6a Thursday. Very little branches down, the rain must have been before 6 am Thursday because only sprinkles after. Little windy but nothing unusal to a normal day after 6a nor did I see any evidence of damage (not even big puddles)

Orange Blossom.