Kerry bogslide

kerry1960

Just 3km from me (straight line) , a lot of rainfall around here recently , also work on a new windfarm had just started days ago right where the slide started, (ahem , a complete coincidence im sure )

In the meantime not funny for the people who are now completely cut off on 'the other side' , only way out is 1km walk over the wettest roughest bog in ireland.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2APg-QfRtA

nacho libre

So this probably explains the lack of Kerry fans in croke park over the weekend:pac:

kerry1960

nacho libre wrote: »

So this probably explains the lack of Kerry fans in croke park over the weekend:pac:

:DAh yes , the western humour

Actually i thought kerry were very 'clean, this weekend.........:D

twud take more than some dirty stream to block the road to ''Croker'' for us Kerryfolk

In the meantime hope no Cork fans reading this.......:rolleyes::rolleyes:

mike65

Saw the report on the news, worse than I imagined and teh threat of another 70 acres to come.

Mike

ch750536

Got back from hols to 2 local events:

1. Local businessman got worker preggers, then blabs to the press.
2. Local mudslide.

Both similar, lots of **** flowing.

kerry1960

Just back from the area earlier , locals and council keep allnight watch , roads now closed completely and all machinery pulled away , Friday's slide took away 25 acres but they reckon a much bigger slide to come , the mountain is on the move , anything between 60 to 90 acres could slide , that is going to make a fine mess if it gets into the Smearla and Feale rivers , fishkills bad enough but the feale provides drinking water for listowel .

The source of all this trouble is right alongside an access road which is under construction for a new windfarm , this road consists of stone which is 16ft high in places , put a 40ton track machine on top of that + a 20 ton tipper and you have some weight .

Dont know what the rainfall totals would be this past month for this area , but it's a lot , there has been times it was pi55ing rain here and almost nothing shown up in the ME radar , i can't understand that .

Danno

Damn windfarms. Put them out to sea like they done in Arklow. They're an ugly blight on the landscape.

The Raven.

Danno wrote: »

Damn windfarms. Put them out to sea like they done in Arklow. They're an ugly blight on the landscape.

Too right! And look at the consequences. They seem to be ignoring what happened in Co. Galway in 2003:

http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/0703/derrybrien.html

http://www.esb.ie/main/news_events/press_release242.jsp

kerry1960

Well it looks like we got lucky this time , a few dry days seem to have dried out the area enough to stabilized the bog , in the meantime another deluge of rain this W/E and it would be panic stations again.

As for the people still stranded on the wrong side of the slide well the fun and novelty has well worn off by now , and what happens if there is an emergency ???.

I agree 100% with above posters , there are far too many of these turbines popping up , esp here in kerry , they are starting to dominate the skyline around my location , i can count 5 (completed) windfarms from my loc (incl 2 in limerick) and yet more to come over the next few years .

Ok rant over, on a lighter note i would like .......ahem.......to point out (and with the utmost modesty of course) :rolleyes: my walk on part in the first RTE news report from 24/25AUG .......,(not interviewee) no dear friends i shall not allow fame go to my head , but i am available for further film work at a reasonable rate , autographs also available from my hollywood agent.:cool:
http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/0824/9news.html
http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/0825/9news.html