Flash Floods

Sponge Bob

Hear tesco and dunnes on headford road have leaky roofs and that Bucky Plaza is Pissy Wet Plaza

Sherifu

Need moar pix!

BrokenArrows

was driving into town around 6:10 this evening and i swear the wellpark road onto college road was like a river.
The roundabout was a small lake. When i was driving onto lough atalia road where it splits onto college road the water was breaking over my bonnit. My engine started to cut out but thankfully kept going.

It was insanity. but also quite fun.

Not so fun were the sewers back flowing onto the streets down at the spanish arch. not a nice smell.

leninbenjamin

my estate flooded. it's pretty much on a hill and is damn near impossible to flood. that was quite possibly the heaviest rain shower I've seen in a long while. thankfully it didn't last too long.

Sherifu

Jeez, that's some quality rain.

fozzle

That was (is) an insane amount of rain. Was down in Dominick Street when the madness began - the poor bike shop is full of water. By sheer luck the water stopped rising when it was about an inch and a half below the door to Wired - mopping out computers is not fun.

Just arrived back in Sligo - it's just horrible amounts of rain the whole way up, with the added excitement of patches of heavy fog. I liked last month better - can we go back to that?!

Doodee

We were at a LAN and it got flooded due to the rain


Was fairly nasty, roughly 3 inches of water in the room.

fozzle

Doodee wrote: »

We were at a LAN and it got flooded due to the rain


Was fairly nasty, roughly 3 inches of water in the room.

That sucks man. Did the electricity stay? Ours flicked off briefly just after the storm had started to die down - cue hysterical gamers screaming at pcs.

Krieg

Why was my post deleted?

Anyway, in b4 "OMG Global Warming!!"

Sherifu

Krieg wrote: »

Why was my post deleted?

What the hell, why?

Mars Bar

We couldn't get out our back door!
I found it so odd watching the Derry and Fermanagh match and they didn't get a drop while the downpour out our back window was something else!

Fey!

The g/f arrived home around 11:30 last night, and told me there were 2 or 3 crashed between Dangan and Shantalla.

I dropped our housemated into town around 9, and the flooding on Shantalla Road was high when we were going in. Was gone by the time I got back 20 minutes later.

Couldn't get over the amount of drivers almost stopping in the middle of floods; I prefer the "drive it on" approach through floods (less chance of a breakdown!). The corpo had a load of trucks and people down at the aptly named Flood Street trying to clear the drains at around 9pm.

Saw a Garda van escorting 2 tinted VW minibuses and a Range Rover through traffic on College Road (Garda with blue lights, rest with hazards), probably the band, instead of letting poor Westlife face the traffic and the Gardai inside helping with the traffic flow.

Karl Hungus

Right. There are stickies posted across every single forum on boards.ie informing everyone here of the ban on MCD events. If you post has been deleted, it's because you've spoken about a certain event that we're not allowed to talk about here.

Any further mention of such events, and I'm closing this thread.

galwayrush

checked my workshop last night, 2 inches of water on the floor.incredible:mad:

Sherifu

*penny drops*

Toto Wolfcastle

Rain must have been bad so! It was pretty awful in Cork yesterday too. The kids in the Irish college I teach in were not happy.

We weren't flooded though! One of the times I was happy that I'm not in Galway anymore!

wet-paint

THe boys wer eall hitting the rivers in kayaks today, paddling rivers that usually take three days rain to rise. There was just the one day's rain in Galway, wasn't there? That shows ya.

gd1987

Our garden was flooded within about 10 minutes and the lightning killed our sky digibox, so no tv till thursday

Fey!

At least the nasty smell is gone from Cross Street today; was rank around here yesterday.

hairyfairy00

Didn't realise how bad it actually was in the city until i saw this on youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDD_btdewwk

wet-paint

Does anyone have any photos online of the floods in Galway that they could post here? I was away for the night, and missed it all.

Krieg

I was talking to my mate who works in argos. He said that there was a couple hundred grands worth of damage in there. All the big electronics got soaked, widescreen tv's, xbox/ps3 etc.

wet-paint wrote: »

Does anyone have any photos online of the floods in Galway that they could post here? I was away for the night, and missed it all.

I have some photo's but they dont really show how bad it was, I think the video that hairyfairy posted sums it up best

forestfruits

apparantly westdoc in lisb. ind estate got wrecked too- rain came in through roof and fried a few comps so they have had to move until all repaired!

john concannon

I hate that West Doc place.I nearly died one Christmas,enternal bleeding and bood was pouring out of my mouth and all I could hear when I passed out was...I think he is bleeding.Feckin students :mad:

Krieg

john concannon wrote: »

I hate that West Doc place.I nearly died one Christmas,enternal bleeding and bood was pouring out of my mouth and all I could hear when I passed out was...I think he is bleeding.Feckin students :mad:

wat