You must know by now that there are folks on TOTV that will pounce on any little thing. Don't worry about them. Ignore them. Next the cheer leaders will roll out in force. Ignore them too. The ones to reckon with are the girls posse. They will squirt gun you into submission quickly and you will go along peaceful like. :crap2:

Of course you would dear lady.

Easy for YOU to be so cavalier. It isn't your town. YET. But when you live here, you will love it like most of us do. I can just tell that about you. AND you TOO will be a cheerleader.

You just wait and see. Where is that evil laugh smiley????...........:icon_twisted::loco::evil6::e vil6::evil6:

And I am not a lady. Girl is fine, if you have to call me something. I go by princess at home.

RAIN could be bad for the new course under construction (Evans Prairie).

The sun will be back in a few days. It will be OK. :loco:

even if only 10 pct soaks in the ground thats 10pct less in the pond, you are not adding water you are redistributing the water that 'ranoff' quickly into the ponds.

In a couple of days the sun will be out burning up lawns and you'll be watering you lawn. It don't take long for a lawn to need water no matter how much it got.

at least with the sand the water drains away from the house

Just received an email from the district:

e-Notification
Subject: What's Happening - Special Edition
Date: 6/26/2012

IRRIGATION FOLLOWING RECENT RAINFALL

Following many recent inquiries from concerned residents the District would like to address the irrigation currently running on golf courses and public areas througout The Villages. This practice is necessary to minimize or prevent the possibility of flooding due to recent heavy rainfall and help lower the rising retention pond levels which collect stormwater runoff.

We hope this information addresses residents' concerns regarding the running irrigation.

Thank you, Carm310, for posting that notice. Guess it ends the discussion.

Notice was also in the Daily Sun.

Time to start beating the dead horse! :laugh: Bill, bring that trailer full of popcorn!

I guess I'm a tad late in trying to set the situation to rest! :D

The many retention ponds throughout TV are the source for the water used to keep the public areas, fairways and whatnot appropriately irrigated. When we have the occasional abundance of Mother Nature's water (like the last couple of days), there is an admittedly small chance that the retention ponds will overflow, flooding neighborhoods and causing a whole lot of undesireable negative publicity!

To preclude any such chance, the system turns on the irrigation systems to keep the ponds' level down.

As strange as it is to be driving along in the pouring rain, all the while observing the irrigation system working in full force, there is a reasonably logical explanation for it!

I learned this years ago, when there was no TOTV and few places to find out such stuff!

SWR
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Is there an echo in here??