Flooding alert!

boneless

As I type, parts of Cabra are under about two feet of water. If the rain keeps up I'm building an arch !!

Any where else get hit?

BendiBus

I got hit in Chapelizod. Top of St Laurences Rd, 2nd floor apartment and I spend the heaviest period of the rain bailing out my balcony!! This was after I got caught outdoors in it. Utterly soaked, like I've never been soaked before

Dyr

as I'm typing i can hear the people on the ground floor sweeping water out of their apartments. Im on the second floor and the landing is completely ruined, it looks like all the water came from my neighbours apt. the landing carpet is soaked. ive no idea how water got up here

Wishbone Ash

boneless wrote: »

If the rain keeps up I'm building an arch !!

Would an ark not be better?

boneless

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

Would an ark not be better?

Stop picking on the dyslexics yah fkecer! :P

mikemac

BendiBus wrote: »

I got hit in Chapelizod. Top of St Laurences Rd, 2nd floor apartment and I spend the heaviest period of the rain bailing out my balcony!! This was after I got caught outdoors in it. Utterly soaked, like I've never been soaked before

The Steeples?

bren2002

Bambi wrote: »

as I'm typing i can hear the people on the ground floor sweeping water out of their apartments. Im on the second floor and the landing is completely ruined, it looks like all the water came from my neighbours apt. the landing carpet is soaked. ive no idea how water got up here

Sounds more like a leak in the roof / guttering / walls to me.

forbairt

Ended up without a coat in town heading back to Blackhorse Avenue ... decided feck this .. grabbed a taxi ... there was some seriously flooding going on as we were going by and we'd have gotten VERY wet if we'd walked from the bus to our place ...

Jim

Santry is pretty ****ed as well. Loads of cars stuck up to their windscreens in floods etc.

Port Tunnel is closed to.

Winters

Dublin's ****ed.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2008/0809/breaking128.htm

Nevyn

Sections of clonsilla are flooded with cars being abounded and people driving on the paths.
Just waiting to hear about the tolka breaking it's banks.

Esel

Tolka burst its banks about 2 hours ago at bridge beside Botanic Gardens.

Interesting fact: name Tolka comes from Irish 'toilceadh', meaning 'flooding'!

Dyr

bren2002 wrote: »

Sounds more like a leak in the roof / guttering / walls to me.

Its an apartment complex all i can think of is that the neighbour left a window open or, as you say, something leaked.

i was walking the dog when this started lashing down, when i got back to me old mans about 20 minutes into it his neighborhood was under water as it always is once the downpours start. Its looking bad for dublin if this keeps up tbh

Degsy

I live on top of a hill so i've never been flooded!:D
Just managed to get back from the gym in castleknock in time,the water was two feet deep over three hours ago.What it must be like now..

Nevyn

esel wrote: »

Tolka burst its banks about 2 hours ago at bridge beside Botanic Gardens.

Interesting fact: name Tolka comes from Irish 'toilceadh', meaning 'flooding'!

Last time it burst it's banks at this end and the N3 was under 5 ft of water.

boneless

esel wrote: »

Tolka burst its banks about 2 hours ago at bridge beside Botanic Gardens.

Interesting fact: name Tolka comes from Irish 'toilceadh', meaning 'flooding'!

The ancients knew a bit more about the landscape than our present town planners!

An older name for the Liffey was "Tempestuous", I will look up the Gaelic later but it's the reason the weir was put in at Chapelizod in the 17th century.

Degsy

Thaedydal wrote: »

Last time it burst it's banks at this end and the N3 was under 5 ft of water.

That was the time Bertie was photographed standing up to his waste outside the local off-licence.There were cars floating around teh yard of a mechanics!
Is it safe to go for a nosey and get some pics??

Degsy

boneless wrote: »

The ancients knew a bit more about the landscape than our present town planners!

An older name for the Liffey was "Tempestuous", I will look up the Gaelic later but it's the reason the weir was put in at Chapelizod in the 17th century.

AND that was in the days when there was ample soil to absorb the water,not like now where everything is concrete and the drainage rivers are all culverted.We've nobody to blame but ourselves!

Nevyn

boneless wrote: »

The ancients knew a bit more about the landscape than our present town planners!

An older name for the Liffey was "Tempestuous", I will look up the Gaelic later but it's the reason the weir was put in at Chapelizod in the 17th century.

Degsy wrote: »

AND that was in the days when there was ample soil to absorb the water,not like now where everything is concrete and the drainage rivers are all culverted.We've nobody to blame but ourselves!

Yep which is why it was soooo clever that they have built on the tolka flood plain on the edge of tryell's town.
Funnily enough google maps seems to think the Tolka rises at the botanics as it's only on the maps from there to the sea.

boneless

Thaedydal wrote: »

Yep which is why it was soooo clever that they have built on the tolka flood plain on the edge of tryell's town.
Funnily enough google maps seems to think the Tolka rises at the botanics as it's only on the maps from there to the sea.

I said it before and I will say it again, Capitalists don't give a sh!te about the environment or the generations to follow. Money now is the philosophy.

On topic, I just walked down to the New Cabra Road. It's bad. And I just recalled the ancient water course the Bradogue runs under part of Cabra...

Ste.phen

Jesjes took a video up here in Beaumont:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zo2sPtHu_hg

tetsujin1979

I just walked back to Tyrellstown from Westpoint gym in Blanch. Traffic wasn't moving in the shopping centre at all, and passing over the bridge over the N3 I saw why. The river has burst its banks on to the N3, and traffic is backed up inbound as far as I could see, couldn't see any cars heading outbound at all.

Stargal

Hmmm, I was hoping to get a bus into town this evening:(

Edit: Igy, that clip is mad! Can't believe how bad it is.

Jip

Hi neighbour (waves @ tetsujin1979). I was in the centre myself earlier before the rain got really bad and the roof in the centre itself started leaking and then some of the stores had to close because of flooding, staff were wiping up massive pools of water. Then as I was in M&S the water came up under a door from a back room or passageway and staff tried to block it off. One said there was about 2 feet of water in the basement. I knew then it would be a good idea to leave the place, fire brigade were there when I was leaving. As I passed over the N3 bridge I could see the outbound carraigeway flooding, it was down to one lane at the time.
From looking at the Dublin City traffic cameras it appears to be still a no go now. Friends were to pop over to us from Clonee a little while ago but had to turn back as they couldn't get out of their estate.

lostexpectation

http://www.dublintraffic.com/Site0Camera89.jpg

boneless

DFB and DCC are on the New Cabra Road at the moment unblocking drains and shores. Funny thing is they were asked to do this in Cabra a month ago when there was a wee flood. A little bit of action then could have possibly taken some of the rain away but I do realise that it is exceptional today.

flogen

Jimeatsmenu wrote: »

Santry is pretty ****ed as well. Loads of cars stuck up to their windscreens in floods etc.

Port Tunnel is closed to.

What parts of Santry are that bad? I've seen plenty of parts where the water's a few inches deep but nothing that bad yet!

nocal

It took me about one hour to get home from Croke Park and I only live just over one mile away.

Collins Avenue East is flooded and the junction with the Malahide Road is just about passable. Some tarmac on the Malahide Road have been churned up by the water.
Griffith Avenue is flooded, the N3,3 the N1....

Think I will get my scuba gear ready to go. I might even sleep with it on tonight!!!:eek::eek::eek:

robby^5

esel wrote: »

Tolka burst its banks about 2 hours ago at bridge beside Botanic Gardens.

Interesting fact: name Tolka comes from Irish 'toilceadh', meaning 'flooding'!

The Tolka House (pub) is completely flooded, the place is ruined!

There is sporadic flooding up and down Griffith avenue, knee deep and higher.

Ste.phen

flogen wrote: »

What parts of Santry are that bad? I've seen plenty of parts where the water's a few inches deep but nothing that bad yet!

jimeatsmenu's based over near me, near the Kilmardinny pub,
My brother works in the cinema in omni and he said 2 screens are flooded and they've closed the entrance to the shopping centre

lostexpectation

i thought there were supposed to fix the tolka there

irlirishkev

Phoenix Park is well flooded too.
The main road through it is completely submerged.

arybvtcw0eolkf

irlirishkev wrote: »

Phoenix Park is well flooded too.
The main road through it is completely submerged.

Just listening to my scanner, the Ashtown gates are closed due to flooding.

Sundew

Got caught out in Dun Laoighre today. It was beautiful up until 4.30.I was soaked like I,ve never been soaked in a quick dash back to my car.
Travelling back to D10 there was flooding everwhere. The Stillorgan dual carriage way had some major flooding. floods near Goatstown and Dundrum. Ballerfermot under water too. Cars stuck on the Kylemore Rd and Sarsfield Rd closed off by the Gardai. saw the emergency response vehicle thundering down the Kylemore rd obviously heading to Chapelizod.

tk123

esel wrote: »

Tolka burst its banks about 2 hours ago at bridge beside Botanic Gardens.

Interesting fact: name Tolka comes from Irish 'toilceadh', meaning 'flooding'!

Ah can only laugh - the pumping station is flooded too!

Degsy

lostexpectation wrote: »

i thought there were supposed to fix the tolka there

They obviously did a bang-up job!:D

CrazyRabbit

Some pics of the N3 in Blanch curtesy of boards user EF.

https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/uploads/attachments/84334/61067.JPG

https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/uploads/attachments/84334/61068.JPG

https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/uploads/attachments/84334/61069.JPG

(Taken from http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=56846220&postcount=13 )

tribulus

Santry at the turn off for Santry Avenue had two cars badly flooded on the road and nearby housing estates were pretty bad too.

One small estate had houses whose doors were right on the ground, about six guys were going crazy trying to brush away as much water as possible.

At one point I was literally up to my knees in water coming home from work.
Although I have to say walking through oily water in my bare feet isn't all that bad, just smelly!

gurramok

Anywhere not flooded?

Thats mad about the Tolka, same happened in Nov 2000 and Nov 2002 and yet the incompetent councils are lazy enough to clear the drains again.

CrazyRabbit

On a related note, I'd like to thank Met Eireann for the incredibly accurate weather forecast for today...

Saturday 09 August 2008

Today's Weather
Bright intervals and scattered showers for the rest of the evening, some heavy and locally thundery. Breezy but staying very mild or warm.

tribulus

CrazyRabbit wrote: »

On a related note, I'd like to thank Met Eireann for the incredibly accurate weather forecast for today...

Saturday 09 August 2008

Today's Weather
Bright intervals and scattered showers for the rest of the evening, some heavy and locally thundery. Breezy but staying very mild or warm.

Lol, someone should make that into some sort of fail pic.

tk123

Has anybody got a link to pics of the 2002 floods? I remember looking at them a while back but can't seem to find the site now? There was even one of Bertie taking a look up at Fagans.

robo

Took my friend over 2 hours to get from O'Connell St to Blanch area...mad!!!

flanzer

Was out earlier getting a bottle of wine (cuz there was no chance of me going anywhere tonight!) and laughed when I saw the amount of recovery trucks on the road. Of the 5 I saw, 3 of them were carrying cars that obviuosly weren't involved in any prang of sort

gurramok

tk123 wrote: »

Has anybody got a link to pics of the 2002 floods? I remember looking at them a while back but can't seem to find the site now? There was even one of Bertie taking a look up at Fagans.

Yeh, but not of Bertie.

Here's one from 2002, notice how its the exact same spot where it happened today.

Better flood defences, yeh right.

DanOB

2 hours on the bus from constitution hill to botanic avenue.. craaaaaaazy traffic!

DanOB

Mairt wrote: »

Just listening to my scanner, the Ashtown gates are closed due to flooding.

i call that eavesdropping

Degsy

Heres some pics from the photography forum

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055352223

Ruthie-Roux

I live in Finglas and we thought we were going to have to evacuate our apartment block. The Tolka burst its banks with the terrential rain and flooded a car park above the apartment complex which in turn created a waterfall down the hill and into the grounds until the whole area was flooded like a feckin lake. The water covered the entire car park leaving some of the cars half-submerged and came through into the hallway of our apartment block and covered half the corrider. All of the apartments dowwn that end were destroyed. One of the neighbours showed us inside their place and it was under a few feet of water throughout the apartment. It was the same with a lot of the others too. To make matters worse, aparantly the majority of manholes in the area had burst open as well leaving a river of sewage flowing amongst the river and rain water so the stench in the place is absolutly sickening. The corridor is like a marsh and smells like faeces.
You can hear water gushing down through the lift shaft and the electricity keeps on flickering. My flatmate and a neighbour both called the property managment company and they said "what do you expect us to do about it?" Drainage specialists were in the grounds for a while but then gave up and went off. Noone has bothered to check and see if the building is actually safe. Electicity and water...hmmmmmmm??
I had no food in the apartment and couldnt even get a takeaway because the roads were blocked and they couldn`t deliver to the area.

I got a text message from a friend saying he was out digging earth into bags because the fire debt had run out of sandbags.

Nightmare

Ruth

Dirk Gently

I take it you're in the apartments right on the tolka at the junction of the old finglas road and the finglas road?

It's not the first time cars floated out of that car park. Have been problems with that building since it was built. Did they ever reinforce the foundations of the block closest to the river? Was talk of that side sinking a few years ago.

Bartronilic

Complete traffic standstills, rivers bursting, cars breaking down and some burning out (4 fire engines passed and 1 tow trucks with a burnt car). Saw a car going up in smokes myself from the revving after driving through a flood.

My car broke down twice, couldn't find a way home.

Was meant to do 45 minute drive to Drogheda, ended up 5 hours stuck in Smithfield/Cabra/Castleknock area. My 2 attempts to get to Chapelizod ended with my car breaking down (road was a river in itself). Never made it to Drogheda, really ****ed off. Also my own back garden has flooded.

Saw few car crashes too and Hard shoulders opened as lanes.

Is this normal? Im not experienced with dublin driving.

Avoid following roads:
Blackhorse Avenue.
M50.
Blanch Bypass.
River Road, Finglas.
Roads around Fort Lucan.

THANKS to all the people who helped me. I am young so I don't know if this has ever happened before? It was seriously quite scary.

EDIT: Why do they not tell you in Driving Lessons/Tests NOT to drive through massive puddles. I saw ALOT of the flooding stuff today. Was total disaster.