Carlow Town Floods - 18/08/08

SpitfireIV

A fair swell on the Barrow, which led to.....


....a soggy town park.


Which side is the river on?




Walking the plank!








At least someone made the most of it....



Alas, never fear, seems the vacuum from the Teletubbies has come to our aid! :pac:

hellboy99

Good pics.

Some clean up to be done there, rain has just been mental.

StratoQ

Good Pics Croppy. Like the Noo Noo!

Kilkenny City was spared the worst of it. The expensive flood relief scheme is doing its job.

Looks like Carlow needs something similar. I heard Gormley was down there today. What with a green party TD here now, they should be able to do something.

M.T. Cranium

Do you have mosquitoes in Ireland? I was there once upon a time and I don't recall seeing any, but that could have been on account of the force eight gale that was blowing much of the time.

If you do, then you'll have a nasty crop of those in about a week or two.

omb0wyn5ehpij9

Holy crap :eek: That was some bad flooding!

Stephen

No, we don't get mosquitos here. Plenty of spots I recognise there from living in Carlow in my college days :eek:

Jemmy

Guys it was like that earlier this year while i was in college (i lived in an apartment over the river) anyway it was like that and there was no big hype made about it!

Ive pics on my phone and all from it! Unless the do something about it it wont change!

:rolleyes:

Stephen

Stephen wrote: »

No, we don't get mosquitos here. Plenty of spots I recognise there from living in Carlow in my college days :eek:

Yes we do get mosquito's in Ireland.I'm sure mothman will detail.Most people can't tell the difference between them and flies though.
They are here and they bite.

Top quality stuff croppy by the way.

SpitfireIV

Cheers guys!

As for the mosquitos, yup we do have them, even in Carlow . Lots of people who have visited the forest walks in Oak Park have been bitten by mosquitos, in fact at one stage people were warned not to go as there was so many of them!

True Jemmy, it was pretty similar earlier in the year and there wasnt much about it. I've lived here for all of my 24 years (:p) and in that short period I have seen the floods a LOT worse, and it was the norm, people just accepted it was almost an annual event and got on with it. No matter what you do you cant prevent flooding, its gonna have to spill out somewhere, if not here, then further down the line.

Here's a vid of the natural disaster that was the 'Great flood of 2008!!'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YX1VNnAiPQ

GhostInTheRuins

Nice pictures croppyboy, I especially like the forth and fifth ones.

Peteemax

well the swans are enjoyin it.

Peteemax

cool vid croppyboy