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MorTech 10-09-2024 03:53 AM

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Originally Posted by JRcorvette (Post 2377073)
Watch out for the Village Looters group

Did you mean Hooters?

Altavia 10-09-2024 06:23 AM

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The Storm water management system may get a good test.

The system is required to handle at least 10"/24h in ponds, and can remove 7"/24h from those ponds through inlets.

Irma had 12-15" with some spillover into golf courses and localized flooding in low spots

https://www.districtgov.org/PdfUpload/Storm%20Water.pdf
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Latest modeled precipitation accumulation. 12" to 24".

coffeebean 10-09-2024 06:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Aces4 (Post 2376977)
Yeah, people used to evacuate to Ashville, NC too. Let's not assume anything, use common sense.

Ashville suffered flooding. The Villages has great protection from flooding with the water management system in place. Let's all hope this water management system works like a charm.

oldtimes 10-09-2024 07:32 AM

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Originally Posted by coffeebean (Post 2377329)
Ashville suffered flooding. The Villages has great protection from flooding with the water management system in place. Let's all hope this water management system works like a charm.

Also Asheville, NC is in a valley getting all the runoff from the surrounding mountains.

MrFlorida 10-09-2024 08:11 AM

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Originally Posted by GreggC69 (Post 2376815)
I understand this current track is different from many past storms in that it looks like a more direct hit. Do many consider evacuating with a storm such as this?

NO, better to be here , than stuck on the road in traffic.

Jim1mack 10-09-2024 09:56 AM

Yesterday, Tuesday, I transplanted three bushes so I could put something more to my liking where they were. I dug the transplant holes first then dug out the first bush to be transplanted. Then I put the new bush in its place. Carried the transplant bush to one of the holes I had dug about 45 minutes earlier. There was about 1-2 inches of water in it. Shows how saturated the ground is with just the little bit of rain we've had in the previous days.

Now that they are emptying the retention ponds onto the golf courses and the expected rains, they may not be dry enough to golf on for many, many, many days. Can’t get tee times for Saturday right now because they are apparently closed. Will find out tomorrow if there are Sunday tee times.

Papa_lecki 10-09-2024 11:09 AM

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Originally Posted by Jim1mack (Post 2377420)
Yesterday, Tuesday, I transplanted three bushes so I could put something more to my liking where they were. I dug the transplant holes first then dug out the first bush to be transplanted. Then I put the new bush in its place. Carried the transplant bush to one of the holes I had dug about 45 minutes earlier. There was about 1-2 inches of water in it. Shows how saturated the ground is with just the little bit of rain we've had in the previous days.

Now that they are emptying the retention ponds onto the golf courses and the expected rains, they may not be dry enough to golf on for many, many, many days. Can’t get tee times for Saturday right now because they are apparently closed. Will find out tomorrow if there are Sunday tee times.

We are getting at least 12” of rain.
I would put the over/under on the first set of golf courses opening at 10/24 - maybe even Halloween.

maybe 10-09-2024 11:20 PM

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Originally Posted by asianthree (Post 2377263)
Debbie dumped almost 10” of rain in our pool. Our lawn was squishy, but water didn’t come close to our home.

It depends on if your local pond had already been over-full or not, and the elevation of the houses.

PugMom 10-10-2024 12:25 PM

No. I remind myself the house is superior construction with hurricane windows, and we have the best drainage system known. We'd have nowhere to go anyway, and i can't imagine myself in a noisy, school gymnasium with the Pug and pet gerbils

tophcfa 10-10-2024 12:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Jim1mack (Post 2377420)
Now that they are emptying the retention ponds onto the golf courses and the expected rains, they may not be dry enough to golf on for many, many, many days. Can’t get tee times for Saturday right now because they are apparently closed. Will find out tomorrow if there are Sunday tee times.

Using hurricane Irma in 2017 as a guideline, I wouldn’t expect golf courses to be opening up for at least a couple of weeks and probably much longer for many of them.


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