Carlow town floods - 11th January 2008

SpitfireIV

A few snaps taken this morning of the floods in Carlow town. The river Barrow burst its banks yesterday morning after the heavy rains the previous day. There was a few roads closed off around town resulting in chaos come 5/6pm, meant thought that there was parts of time 'car free' and nice and quiet


Enjoy......

mike65

Looks like a white-out to me.

Mike.

Danno

Heck, that is bad. The local river burst its banks here too, nice to see swans in the middle of the field - swimming! :P

mike65

Did'nt they spend several million a few years back to stop this sort of thing?

Mike.

gurramok

You'd think that the magical engineers can sort of divert this type of thing away nowadays, seems the council nor govt have not learnt any lessons.

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/after-the-rain-comes-a-euro10m-cleanup-bill-1262745.html

indo wrote:

Mr Ahern said they were also trying to ensure that planning rules and regulations were in place to prevent future developments from hampering flood-relief programmes.

"This will be a two-pronged approach, bolstering up weak spots, learning from mistakes of the past and making sure planners are far more vigilant in granting permission in areas that might be at risk from flooding," he said.

Yeh right, developers have built loads of estates on flood plains, the horse has already bolted!
I'd be pissed if i lived in one of those towns like Carlow/Kilkenny/Clonmel, tis sad state of affairs.

Great pics Croppyboy1798, that fella parked his jeep on the bridge which looks like it was going to be submerged, foolish i think.

Btw,did you find any fish?

SpitfireIV

Flooding will happen no matter what, its nature, somewhere has to flood once there is excessive amounts of rain/water. The river was dredged a few years back, and probably only for that the current floods and many previous floods would be a lot worse, at least here in Carlow town anyway, I've seen lots of bad floods when I was younger.

No fish I'm afraid gurra