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Gap mutes weather radios in Villages.
Byline: Christine Dellert
May 15--THE VILLAGES -- When a tornado packing a 160-mile-per-hour punch socked neighborhoods nearly two miles south of Lou Damis' home in early February, he heard thunder and rain -- but not his little white weather radio.
The device was in the kitchen, where it generally gets the best reception. But that morning, it made no noise, sounded no warning, gave no information.
His radio's silence wasn't a fluke, say National Weather Service meteorologists, who broadcast hazardous-weather radio alerts nationwide. Spotty weather-radio coverage plagues Central Florida's largest retirement community; parts of The Villages, particularly in Sumter County, aren't covered at all.
That means most Villages residents with the weather-alert systems got no warning in the early morning of Feb. 2, when three devastating tornadoes touched down in Central Florida, killing 21 people.
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Source: HighBeam Research, Gap mutes weather radios in Villages.