Did the eyewall pass directly over The Villages?
 

I wasn't awake during the night for the worst part of the storm so was not watching the live updates of the storm track. To those who watched the storm tracking during the night, did the eye wall pass directly over The Villages? What were the wind speeds during the night? Thanks for any information to satisfy my curiosity.

The eye disappeared around 4am.

Yes and no. It did come over but it had broken apart so no eerie silence just high winds.

I stayed up until 4:30, after it had passed our area. I posted on one of the threads at 1:00AM that on radar I could see it crossing I-4 at Lakeland and was directly south of TV and was still heading due north and was on a direct path for TV.

A little after crossing I-4 it did what they called on channel 9, 'blow it's top'. The eye wall that would of cut a path of about 30 miles wide with wall speeds of 95 had disentegrated into a what could be called a squall line. The good news it lowered it's top speed to 85 but spread out to about 60 miles wide from it's 30 miles. This allowed it to include areas east of us such as Apopka, Tavares, Winter Garden, Kissimmee, etc. The good news was it would pass much quicker since it was more of a thin line.

It started coming through around the Rohan Hwy 44 area about 3:45 and crossed 466 about 4:00. I live in the Seabreeze area and really couldn't tell any difference after 4:00 but on radar it the line has passed. The really good news was SECO did a great job and with over 5 million in Florida lossing power, almost no one with SECO lost power. Duke Energy did show some outages in Sumter County.

Thanks to all for your replies and thanks to John for the detailed report.

the coordinates that the weather channel showed for Irma, indicated it was about 20 or so miles west of us, but it was pretty broken up and depending on how wide it was, it may or may not have passed over TV.

I think SECO has a great management team and employees.
But, just wondering why they did a great job? Did they do some special response or what?
To me a great job is when there are hundreds of people with out power and they were put back on line in extraordinary time

But you really don't know what they may or may not have done... I am sure they were carefully monitoring their systems all day and night.

We still have no power in Mission Hills after 13 hours.

I believe Summerhill as well.

Did the really strong winds in the middle of the night sound like a freight train? I remember hearing that train sound during Hurricane Andrew when we lived in South Florida. I must have been sleeping very soundly not to hear those severe winds last night.

I was watching Directv as it went over us..... the eye widened (like a fisheye) and was over us and at 4pm the wind gusts were 116 mph. At 4:30 the winds were starting to pass us. This was according to the news.

Leesburg Electric needs to be better prepared for storms. 19 hours without power

I don't think there is a company called Leesburg Electric.

AND I think all involved are peddling as fast as they can.

Summerhill came on at exactly 11:17pm last night. But, there was one street in Summerhill that never lost power.