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Cork City Centre Flood Warning!

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    ABajaninCork
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,411 ✭✭✭ABajaninCork


    Gosh, thanks Mr F! We're going out for dinner later and was thinking of taking the car in as we didn't want to wait for a taxi. Methinks the car'll be staying right where it is...


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    MrFrisp
    Registered Users Posts: 2,201 ✭✭✭MrFrisp


    ABajaninCork wrote: »
    Gosh, thanks Mr F! We're going out for dinner later and was thinking of taking the car in as we didn't want to wait for a taxi. Methinks the car'll be staying right where it is...



    Your welcome ABajanin.

    Maybe you could still bring the car. Just be very careful where you park it.
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    hoodwinked
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    well high tide has just gone so id say it will be fine if it hasn't flooded by now....


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    MrFrisp
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    hoodwinked wrote: »
    well high tide has just gone so id say it will be fine if it hasn't flooded by now....


    Yeah, there's a good chance nothing will happen.

    I think it's more of a precaution than anything.
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    beer enigma
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    hoodwinked wrote: »
    well high tide has just gone so id say it will be fine if it hasn't flooded by now....

    It's all those navy ships in the docks, pushes up the water level don't ya know !

    Seriously it looks safe enough now, suspect the council are getting rightly sensitive to floods, but surely by now we should be 'flood proof'.


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    evilivor
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    Parts of the city have flooded again this afternoon.


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    dibkins
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    evilivor wrote: »
    Parts of the city have flooded again this afternoon.

    There is a hell of a lot of water in the usual spots along the quays.


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    who_me
    Registered Users Posts: 3,669 ✭✭✭who_me


    Saw some photos on Facebook of Penrose Wharf badly flooded (live nearby and never even noticed!). The weird thing is - the river level was quite low in those photos. Looks to me to be entirely a drainage issue, not "rising sea levels / global warming" etc.


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    Faith
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    I was in town on Saturday when the rain hit, and it seems to be the sheer volume of rain falling in such a short period. You could see the water on Oliver Plunkett street rising by the minute, and my fiancé had to pull over the car on his way into town because the windscreen wipers just couldn't work fast enough. So I think poor drainage had a lot to do with it alright.


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