We went for a walk around the Highlands Reserve Golf Course Community which is next to the park. About 99% of the homes have a pool, enclosed, of course. It is warming up (25C, 77F) very muggy and getting windy. Our morning walk was 5.65Km.
Back at the park, 30 - 40 mph winds are forecast, so everyone is closing down their awnings and putting away anything that may blow away.
After lunch, we decided to go shopping in Clermont, about 18 miles north of our park. It is still cloudy.
When we completed our shopping at Winn-Dixie and finished scanning everything at the Self-Checkout, the power went out as a severe thunderstorm hit suddenly. It was a torrential downpour, with strong winds and hail. We had to wait for the registers to reboot, but after waiting 20 minutes, ours didn't come back up. We moved to another checkout, re-scanned everything & paid. Ran quickly to the truck, getting soaked on the way!
On the way back, we stopped at Wal-Mart, where we sat in the truck for a few minutes, waiting for the rain to ease up.
At 3:45, we were heading back south on Hwy 27 when we encountered a traffic back-up north of Lake Louisa State Park.
Coming around a corner, we saw that 8 - 10 hydro poles were either leaning or snapped off 1/2 way down. 
We heard later that the winds topped out at 80 -90 mph and it may have been a tornado that touched down in the Lake Louisa area. Near miss for us!
At least it stayed away from the trailer park! All was well when we got back there.
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