[NYGUY]

Rain and some breeze here in The Villages. No major damage on the coast reported. A fairly mild storm.

[Kahuna32162]

Unfortunately, it hasn't even gotten here yet, so don't let your guard down.

Severe Weather Advisory For Marion County for 11:00 am. :Marion County Emergency Management Officials would like encourage our residents to take caution with the approaching severe weather that will begin to affect Marion County at around 11:00 on Friday morning. We encourage residents to stay off the roads and seek safe shelter at this time. If you would like to report any non-life threatening storm damage, please call the Citizen Information Line at 352-369-7500. If you have an life- threatening emergency, please call 911.

[tuccillo]

The track is further east than expected so our winds are less than expected. The forecast, when the call was probably made to close the clubs, was for the kind of conditions you don't want employees out in and most likely few customers would venture out in. Decisions are made on the best available information at the time.

Originally Posted by ajbrown

Two major issues in Mallory for me personally...

1. The news media is in full frenzy driving me nuts, where do all these field reporters go when this is over? Are there that many jobs?
   
2. The country clubs are closed for reasons that I cannot understand. I was looking forward to my Friday pizza at Mallory, but I guess wind and on and off rain is way too dangerous.

[bbbbbb]

Well, we are feeling like going back to the Oregon Coast. You do not have to travel to Oregon folks, this is it,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, November to May, light wins, some rain, some clouds and just find some indoor projects to do or play games.

Been here several months and love it.


bbbbbb

[Dr Winston O Boogie jr]

Like most of the storms, the coast gets hit hard. The people in The Villages all get into panic mode and we get a little bit of wind and rain. The storm is currently off the coast of Daytona Beach. The next couple of hours appears to be the height of it for us.

I'm not saying that we shouldn't be prepared but I hear some people in total panic mode when the fact is that it's very rare for a hurricane, even one as severe as this, to do major damage this far inland.

Tomorrow we will be back to our normal lives as those along the coast will be in recovery mode for several weeks.

[kittygilchrist]

Originally Posted by Kahuna32162

Unfortunately, it hasn't even gotten here yet, so don't let your guard down.

Severe Weather Advisory For Marion County for 11:00 am. :Marion County Emergency Management Officials would like encourage our residents to take caution with the approaching severe weather that will begin to affect Marion County at around 11:00 on Friday morning. We encourage residents to stay off the roads and seek safe shelter at this time. If you would like to report any non-life threatening storm damage, please call the Citizen Information Line at 352-369-7500. If you have an life- threatening emergency, please call 911.

This site can pinpoint your location...click on the map.
In lower right corner is wind chart by hour.
National Weather Service

[ajbrown]

Originally Posted by tuccillo

The track is further east than expected so our winds are less than expected. The forecast, when the call was probably made to close the clubs, was for the kind of conditions you don't want employees out in and most likely few customers would venture out in. Decisions are made on the best available information at the time.

I do understand why, I just disagree with it. I have watched with great interest all of the models of this storm. I never saw any model that predicted great danger for The Villages.

It is not a big deal, I am grateful we are safe, I am just stating an opinion for conversations sake.

It is getting to be time to see how fast I can get my cart going with a good gust helping me...

[John_W]

This is a good site for a radar view. The controls on top will allow you to bring up clouds plus radar. It's set on just radar, and you can put in motion with controls at the bottom and on the left zoom in and out. It's centered on Orlando, but you can move it with the mouse.

Intellicast - Weather Active Map

[Pamela4God]

Originally Posted by bgnn54

Thanks for the news, coming to TV OBG next week for the first time.
Bob
BGNN54

what is OBG??

[tuccillo]

There was always a low probability of "great danger" to The Villages. However, the forecasted winds approaching 45 MPH would have been enough to call it a day as they would have probably struggled with staffing the restaurants only to have few customers show up. Asking employees to potentially go out into harm's way is just not done anymore. It sends a bad message to employees and customers alike.

Originally Posted by ajbrown

I do understand why, I just disagree with it. I have watched with great interest all of the models of this storm. I never saw any model that predicted great danger for The Villages.

It is not a big deal, I am grateful we are safe, I am just stating an opinion for conversations sake.

It is getting to be time to see how fast I can get my cart going with a good gust helping me...

[GolfGirl122]

Ok aj, I'll bite. I think it may be the possibility of tornado's that keeps everyone on edge. They tend to pop up and we really don't have a warning system like most of us are used to - and at night, you can't see it coming. - just for conversation sake. Glad to see daybreak!

[chuckinca]

Originally Posted by Pamela4God

what is OBG??

Village of Orange Blossom Gardens, one of the three villages in the historic section in Lake County east of 441/27.

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[ajbrown]

OK, I am glad the restaurants are closed

Nice summary here:

Tropical Storm Warning for Sumter County, Florida

[Polar Bear]

Originally Posted by ajbrown

I do understand why, I just disagree with it. I have watched with great interest all of the models of this storm. I never saw any model that predicted great danger for The Villages...

Personally, I don't think imminent great danger (although I think that was/is a possibility too) is a requirement to justify closing things down for a day. Some models predicted tropical storm conditions for this area. Is that not enough?

Above average wind and rain for most of the day was a near certainty. If everybody just routinely goes about their business in conditions like this...with the possibility of worse...you're just inviting trouble.

I totally agree with the closures.

[ColdNoMore]

Originally Posted by tuccillo

There was always a low probability of "great danger" to The Villages. However, the forecasted winds approaching 45 MPH would have been enough to call it a day as they would have probably struggled with staffing the restaurants only to have few customers show up. Asking employees to potentially go out into harm's way is just not done anymore. It sends a bad message to employees and customers alike.

Well stated.

Florida has been lucky SO FAR, due to the eye staying off of the coast further than feared. Let's hope the same continues as it gets up to Georgia/SC/NC.

Regardless if we had nothing more than a heavy thunderstorm occur here, just the wind/rain right now in TV means very few, if any, golfers would be out right now.

So the decision of closing all courses and letting employees be with their families and homes...was a wise one.