[maybe]

We have lots of lakes around, but I don't know of any significant streams flowing out of here. Offhand, it looks like once the retention ponds fill up to adjoining roads, the nearby streets and homes will flood. The ponds I see are already as full as we usually see them.

How many inches of rain can we receive before they fill and flood over? Has this ever happened? Reports I see estimate we will get 5 to 8 inches on Thursday.

Anyone know of a Villages topographical elevation map online?

[RickeyD]

Tomorrow will be a Good test for the river that runs through Osceola Hills and the varied terrain in Pine Hills.

[villagetinker]

Here is a link to the Sumter county map, on the right hand side click on the 100 year flood button, enjoy.

Sumter County - Geographic Information System

[WhoDat]

It would take a lot of rain to fill the ponds and before that happens they will turn on all the sprinkler systems. Last year the ponds were much higher than they are now and nowhere near flooding the streets much less homes.

[justjim]

Trying to remember flooding and I believe some Villa's flooded one year in the Village of Duval. They backed up to 466A. I could be wrong---perhaps someone else remembers.

[rivaridger1]

Have seen four inches of rain come down in an hour or so without a problem

[TNLAKEPANDA]

You're more likely to get flooded from Street Flooding then pond overflowing

[graciegirl]

The intersection by Mallory Country Club had standing water after we got more that 20 inches of rain in three days about seven years ago.

[2BNTV]

Originally Posted by graciegirl

The intersection by Mallory Country Club had standing water after we got more that 20 inches of rain in three days about seven years ago.

What's standing water?

[Carla B]

Originally Posted by justjim

Trying to remember flooding and I believe some Villa's flooded one year in the Village of Duval. They backed up to 466A. I could be wrong---perhaps someone else remembers.

I think the flooding happened because there was sand clogging up the storm drains in that neighborhood. Don't know of any other flooding here.

[Sandtrap328]

I have played golf at Hilltop executive course and noticed some homes at the bottom of some of the hills that look as though running rainwater might be a problem.

In general, though, I have not seen or heard of homes being flooded in The Villages.

[buzzy]

When the lakes and catch basins get too high, The Villages just runs the sprinkler systems continuously. The ground can absorb the excess water.

[ColdNoMore]

Originally Posted by 2BNTV

What's standing water?

The same thing as when water just 'sits' there.

[Barefoot]

Originally Posted by maybe

Offhand, it looks like once the retention ponds fill up to adjoining roads, the nearby streets and homes will flood.

You will sometimes see rain pouring down and all the sprinkler systems going.
Thankfully the people in charge seem to know what they're doing.

[John_W]

We had a huge thunderstorm around August 11, 2011. I remember it was a Thursday and I was getting ready to watch some preseason football game and my Directv went out. I checked the online radar to see how bad it was and saw a cell right over TV. The cell never moved for two solid hours, the rain came down in buckets without letting up. Finally the storm moved slowly to the west.

The next morning I was playing the executive course Sand Hill at Buena Vista and St. Charles for the first time. When we got to the course at 9am, all you could see what tees and greens, eveything else was under water. My neighbor had played the course before, so he could tell me what the hole was really like, but we played every hole as a water hole. When we finished the round the starter said we were lucky, the course is closed. The next day I read in the Sun that about a half dozen executive courses were closed until Tuesday.

I don't remember any homes flooding, but Bonifay Golf Course was due to open soon and it was pushed back to late November. Only Destin and Ft. Walton nines then opened and Pensacola nine was pushed back another nine months to late 2012 because they said it had received extensive damage from the storm.