[Pturner]

I was out doing choirs and when I made my last stop, at Publix in Mulberry Grove, it wasn't raining. The storm hit just as I was finishing at the checkout line. I tried to wait it out for a while, then got the bright idea to go on home. For those of us who decided to leave, a Publix employee loaned us one of those big Publix umbrellas, let us drive up to the curb and he came out with an umbrella to load our cars. Everyone who went before me made out fine.

As I was walking to my car, a gust of wind came and blew my umbrella inside out with the part that was supposed to cover me flying up straight above the shaft. I got thoroughly drenched. My flip flops slid off my feet, so I carried them the rest of the way to the car, walking barefoot on the soaked concrete.

The rain was beating down on me so hard! I was thoroughly drenched from head to toe. The thunder roared and the lighting flashed and I suppose I could have been scared. Instead all I could do was let out a hardly laugh because, well... it was so much fun!

[manaboutown]

It looks to me like it was just another beautiful day in The Villages.

[donb9006]

Originally Posted by Bogie Shooter

We are all adults here, I think, should know enough to not go out to the square when the weather is threatening. Don't ya think?

Some people need a "warning", an official statement, a law, to help them make decisions. Some people don't think too well...they have to be "protected".

[tv2016]

Can anybody in Virginia Trace/Sunset Pointe area tell me what it was like there?

[tv2016]

Bump

[2newyorkers]

Our house was hit by lightening and our weather radio never went off. Luckily we just need to replace a circuit breaker. Strange thing is that our home in NY was also hit by lightening this summer.

[Madelaine Amee]

We are on Glenview, there were three foursomes on the golf course in our area, the sky was absolutely black and they continued playing (but we see that all the time dumb dumb dumb), then the heavens opened and you could not see across the golf course, how they got back to the club house I'll never know. With the rain we had high winds, our back yard is covered in tree branches off the course, clean up day today. After the rain stopped we had thunder and lightening and then it started to rain again. Wild night, and our weather radio did go off to warn us about flooding, nothing else. A typical freak tropical storm.

[TraceyMooreRN]

Called my mom who is in the Sunset Pointe Area- no damage there to see other than some limbs.

[tv2016]

Originally Posted by TraceyMooreRN

Called my mom who is in the Sunset Pointe Area- no damage there to see other than some limbs.

Good to know. Thanks for sharing.

[Taltarzac725]

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[Pturner]

Originally Posted by 2newyorkers

Our house was hit by lightening and our weather radio never went off. Luckily we just need to replace a circuit breaker. Strange thing is that our home in NY was also hit by lightening this summer.

Oh my! I'm so glad you weren't injured. Hope you did not have much damage in either place.

[billethkid]

I am one that does not need a second or third party to tell me when danger is apparent/threatening or imminent.

I do not believe it is the responsibility of some automated piece of equipment to alert me to potential threats....sirens for example work as long as one is in it's cone of sound...and it is working as intended.

Weather radio for night time I think is adequate....

I know I certainly do not need to be tuned in to a television station with a weather person in their moment of fame and theatrics about all the impending red graphics and watch boxes with street by street arrival times....ridiculous at best.

The Villages has more people who totally ignore threatening weather while on the golf courses than any place I have ever lived. Maybe they think they are macho when they are in fact acting very, very stupid.

btk

[Dr Winston O Boogie jr]

Amazing how localized Florida weather can be. Im in Silver Lake, about 3 miles from LSL and all we got was a lot of rain. There may have been some wind, but nothing extraodinary.

I unplugged my weather radio. It was going off for every little thing. It was ridiculous being wakened up at 3:00am to read that they temperature had dipped below 32. It would also go off because there were thunderstorms in the "area" of Lake, Marion and Sumter counties, that were capable of producing tornadoes.

Because we live right on the border of those three counties, it was suggested that we have it tuned for all three. The problem is that because we live in the borders of those three counties the outer edges of those three counties are many miles from here. My radio would go off when it was bright and sunny here and we never even got rain.

As far as thunderstorms capable of producing tornadoes, I think that that includes pretty much every thunderstorm.

So, after this thing going of unnecessarily about twenty or so times including several times in the middle of the night, I just unplugged it.

Would I want to know if a tornado was heading into my area? Yes, of course. But, am I going to leave my home and head to a shelter at 3:00 am every time there is a thunderstorm "capable of producing tornadoes" 25 miles from here, or when the temperature dips below freezing? How many of you would?

It's a shame that these radios can't be programmed to be more local and to only go off when there is a real threat. Until then, they are just useless wastes of money promoted by alarmists.

[mulligan]

Just for the record, there are no nearby shelters.

[delima2000]

We live in Mira Mesa and boy did did we get the rain and the winds. Was so bad that we couldn't see across the street. Large branches from our tree were falling all over the place. The winds seem to come in waves. Our power blinked twice but no outages. The t v news did say it was coming to the villages. At first the path was north of us but then the wind shifted and was told it was heading to the villages but no tornado warning for us I have my alert set for Sumter county instead of lake since we live so close to Sumter and lake is so large that most of the time it doesn't effect us.