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Red Alert

  • 18-12-2013 12:32PM
    #1
    caustic 1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,314 ✭✭✭


    Ok Met Eireann have upgraded the storm heading this way to red alert. I'm beginning to get scared now, seriously, I don't ever remember a red alert EVER, and Donegal to be worst hit... we're doomed I tell you doomed.

    Anyone else scared? What should we do?

    Have thought on getting absolutely bladdered in the hope of passing out till it's over not really helpful to the kids though. Maybe we should get on a plane now.


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  • #2
    Red_Dwarf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 236 ✭✭Red_Dwarf


    meh.....


  • #3
    Alf Veedersane
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,796 ✭✭✭✭Alf Veedersane


    Wind Warning for Donegal, Galway, Leitrim, Mayo and Sligo

    Warning update.
    It will become stormy later today and for a time tonight, in coastal counties of Connacht and west Ulster, with severe southwest winds with mean speeds of 70 to 90km/h and damaging gusts of 120 to 150km/h, strongest in exposed coastal areas. Very high seas also.



    Well, that's a bit disappointing for a red alert.


  • #4
    johnayo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,717 ✭✭✭johnayo


    I say, get under the bed now real fast.:mad:


  • #5
    yeppydeppy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,167 ✭✭✭yeppydeppy


    I wish I was in Achill for this.


  • #6
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 24,867 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Shields up!


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  • #7
    RikkFlair
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,111 ✭✭✭RikkFlair


    Great weather for a walk on the beach, that'll blow the cobwebs away.


  • #8
    mickydoomsux
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,287 ✭✭✭mickydoomsux


    Alf Veedersane wrote: »
    Wind Warning for Donegal, Galway, Leitrim, Mayo and Sligo

    Oh no, it'll do untold damage to all the nothing that they have over/up there!!!!!!!!!


  • #9
    wretcheddomain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,094 ✭✭✭wretcheddomain


    They'll be besides themselves with excitement over in the weather forum - they bask in storms that have the potential to destroy infrastructure and lives.


  • #10
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 4,520 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Go to nearest DIY store.
    Purchase hatches.
    Batten said hatches down.
    Problem solved.


  • #11
    Artful_Badger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,339 ✭✭✭Artful_Badger


    *falls out of bunk*


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  • #12
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    It wont hit Dublin so who cares


  • #13
    smurgen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,933 ✭✭✭smurgen


    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    It wont hit Dublin so who cares


    people who don't live in Dublin - the majority of people in Ireland.


  • #14
    AgileMyth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,746 ✭✭✭AgileMyth


    I'm going to be out on a bike in Sligo at 11 tonight. I'll post here if I die.


  • #15
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,219 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    smurgen wrote: »
    people who don't live in Dublin - the majority of people in Ireland.

    They don't count.


  • #16
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,920 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    When I was younger, I would lift my jacket up backwards in the air, with my arms still in it, and create a sail of sorts. Stuck in a high wind, it was great craic! I can only imagine how much fun that'd be now.


  • #17
    Aglomerado
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,792 ✭✭✭Aglomerado


    caustic 1 wrote: »

    Have thought on getting absolutely bladdered in the hope of passing out till it's over not really helpful to the kids though. Maybe we should get on a plane now.

    You might not need a plane if you stand the right way and employ BoneyArsebogman's technique. Wheee!:pac:


  • #18
    Maximus Alexander
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,080 ✭✭✭✭Maximus Alexander


    smurgen wrote: »
    people who don't live in Dublin - the majority of people in Ireland.

    It won't hit Wexford either, will they care?


  • #19
    Daqster
    Closed Accounts Posts: 723 ✭✭✭Daqster


    This might just be the day Johnny Utah gets his guy.


  • #20
    Duiske
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,086 ✭✭✭Duiske


    wretcheddomain wrote: »
    They'll be besides themselves with excitement over in the weather forum - they bask in storms that have the potential to destroy infrastructure and lives.

    What Boards should do is close that forum and ban anyone with an interest in weather. Coz we all know that storms are just attention seekers and will feck of somewhere else if they think no-one is interested.


  • #21
    caustic 1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,314 ✭✭✭caustic 1


    eh?


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  • #22
    slippy wicket
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 693 ✭✭✭slippy wicket


    Maximus Alexander wrote: »
    It won't hit Wexford either, will they care?

    Wexford says NO.
    ;)


  • #23
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


    I will buy some beer and crisps and sit in front of the window watching people struggling out there :D

    Recent storm in Norway


  • #24
    Banjo String
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭Banjo String


    The Mrs and me are gonna enjoy an Indian takeaway, then have a marathon sex session tonight.

    The weather man predicts it's gonna be wet and windy in places. ..

    Weather man bang on ;)


  • #25
    wretcheddomain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,094 ✭✭✭wretcheddomain


    Duiske wrote: »
    What Boards should do is close that forum and ban anyone with an interest in weather. Coz we all know that storms are just attention seekers and will feck of somewhere else if they think no-one is interested.

    Here's a salad of posts from the thread concerning this 'storm':
    Office windows starting to rattle a bit in Mayo
    Leeson Street, Dublin and the leaves on the trees are starting to flutter...
    And so it begins, wind starting to pick up in Galway, pity I have work later.

    So we're not missing much. The more people die and the more chaos and national destruction a storm will bring - you'll hear an orgy of celebration from the weather forum.


  • #26
    razorblunt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


    Ah but great drying weather.
    Don't hang the duvet out though that would be a whur to take down in a rush.


  • #27
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    It's a bit like the guards and the warnings they will be out in force over Christmas.

    Sun shining here in Malin Head, I've just put a washing out and going to sun myself on the roof for a while.


  • #28
    Auldloon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,241 ✭✭✭Auldloon


    Deleted User wrote: »
    When I was younger, I would lift my jacket up backwards in the air, with my arms still in it, and create a sail of sorts. Stuck in a high wind, it was great craic! I can only imagine how much fun that'd be now.

    I used climb the huge sycamore trees nearby and pretend I was on a ship on a stormy ocean :) I miss the wild storms of west clare.


  • #29
    dmc17
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,840 ✭✭✭dmc17




  • #30
    BBDBB
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,899 ✭✭✭✭BBDBB


    time to panic buy like a mad eejit


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  • #31
    dmc17
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,840 ✭✭✭dmc17


    High tide just before 6 this evening. Could be interesting


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