Watch out for the Village Looters group

Not sure if this is right but it looks like we're in for winds over 74mph...that seems pretty breezy. We've been here since 2020 and haven't had anything scary yet....but 74mph + wind sounds serious. On a completely different topic....are we in for a fight with the insurance company for storm damage to the roof?

Hurricane Milton – Update #6 – 10/8/24 >> UF Emergency Weather Updates

Joe

Most of the infrastructure in the Sumpter County part of The Villages is underground, which helps tremendously with the loss of electricity. Those of us in Lake and Marion County aren't so lucky because we depend on our electricty, cable and internet on above ground poles just outside our gates.

All mobile and manufactured homes should have required hurricane tie downs and shouldn’t be an issue. Just make sure they are there.

Hurricane Miltie
 

For the most part, we live where people from the coast go to get away. There's a lot of good advice here.
Outdoor furniture should be brought in, or at least tied to something very secure.
Pick up anything that can become a missle.
Planters, if they're low and heavy, should be okay as long as the plants are not tall. See the earlier posting about heavy planters.

It's the roofs and damage when the sub-standard windows shatter from debris and wind, that's the problem here. Not the structure being blown away.

A 70+mph wind can easily break the fragile glass windows and rip the walls apart, or tear a metal roof right off the ceiling.

We have a metal roof, but we have double-hung double-pane windows (installed a year after we moved in). So it'll be a crap-shoot if we get that kind of wind here.

No.

I ended up leaving for this one - I’m up in Hilton Head SC for a few nights.

I’m 2000 miles away myself (not because of the hurricane) but my heart is with The Villagers as we go through this.

No one has mentioned the fact that TV is not perfectly flat. Once the local retention pond fills, water will start coming out of low lying street drains, not going into them. The result will be, for example, rain hitting a 100 acre neighborhood will drain onto the lowest 2 acres, then the lowest 4 acres, etc. If we get only 4" of rain, I suspect no one gets a flooded house. A different story with 12". And those with ponds already flooding the trees on the banks, like mine, are at higher risk.

Debbie dumped almost 10” of rain in our pool. Our lawn was squishy, but water didn’t come close to our home.

Milton shifted more south and this is going to be a nothing burger in TV.

Are you holding a Sheldon sign, or referring to the gypsies that was discussed on TOTV being a problem for a few years.

According to the Florida building code, TV is one of the safest places to be in Florida for hurricanes. there is a narrow strip from Leesburg north that generally receives the least wind velocity. 85 MPH gusts are very rare. IIRC, Irma hit 82 MPH.

According to windy.com, the 5 major weather trackers have Milton landing all over the place...still. They will probably start to converge by about noon today.