THE BIG THAW***POSSIBLE FLOODING FOR TUE 11TH***

byhookorbycrook

Closed according to AAroad watch, anyone confirm?

Nead21

went for a walk down that way, and there is alot of surface water but its not too bad. was probably worse earlier on.

the barrow track is non-existent though

DO'Carlo/Wex

byhookorbycrook wrote: »

Closed according to AAroad watch, anyone confirm?

Fully expected. Has/Have the Council done nothing down there yet?
I thought I saw a story in Nationalist sometime this year about flood barriers or alleviation?
I was gonna look at an apartament there to rent in Centaur House courtesy of Asset Mngmnt. or St.Johns or Riverdell but if area isn't sorted, would tend to put me off.
Does the flooding get on to Haymarket? If not, access to Centaur House SHOULDN'T be an issue should it?
What about Riverdell or St.Johns?
Were they affected & is it a risk I take if I rent there?

slimjimmc

DO'Carlo/Wex wrote: »

Fully expected. Has/Have the Council done nothing down there yet?
I thought I saw a story in Nationalist sometime this year about flood barriers or alleviation?
I was gonna look at an apartament there to rent in Centaur House courtesy of Asset Mngmnt. or St.Johns or Riverdell but if area isn't sorted, would tend to put me off.
Does the flooding get on to Haymarket? If not, access to Centaur House SHOULDN'T be an issue should it?
What about Riverdell or St.Johns?
Were they affected & is it a risk I take if I rent there?

Anywhere around there is always at risk, there's been regular flooding there for eons. In the past it has even flooded up to the traffic lights across from the postoffice. You might get to Centaur St but you might need wellies or waders to get to your front door.

Super-Rush

The water was bubbling up through the manholes on Friday night. This what causes the flooding.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

it's gone down now, the water was up to the benches in the park yesterday but it has receded a few feet this morning

shame, I was looking forward to a good flood

byhookorbycrook

might get your flood tonight yet, more rain on the way.

ShayK1

ah man, I wanna cut my grass. Its starting to look like a jungle out the back.

Tom10

super-rush wrote: »

The water was bubbling up through the manholes on Friday night. This what causes the flooding.

Nah its more the heavy rain that causes the flooding :pac::pac:

SpitfireIV

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »

shame, I was looking forward to a good flood

Aww, sorry to hear that I guess you dont live in a flood risk area?

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

I live beside the rowing club :P

I just think floods are awesome

Nead21

any floods to report this morning people??

ALOT of surface water around....not looking forward to driving to dublin...that and people not using their light :mad:

sundydave

Down by Diceys all flooded this morning, road was closed

foggy_lad

sundydave wrote: »

Down by Diceys all flooded this morning, road was closed

thats the toilets in the pub backed up:)

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

well I got my wish

http://pix.sparky-s.ie/images/78526144639495186693.jpg

that was taken a little under twelve hours ago.. as it stands now, the two traffic cones there are completely submerged and the road barrier has floated away.

ill take more tomorrow morning when it's light out

Stevecw

Graigue seems to be suffering again. Was down there at about 10pm and roads were closed off. Main street on way to bridge from Carlow town was impassable. Walked down towards barrow and it looked a flooded mess. Dicey Rileys and all those ground floor apartments down that way must be ruined again, and worst is still to come.

It happened last year, why the hell a year later has nothing been done to prevent this??? So unfair on residents there, and businesses like Diceys..hard to take 2 blows like that in a year

honkytonk52

its a joke usually i got out the back road to kilkenny every morning, guess what it was flooded yet again with a car already stuck in in so had to do a u turn... had to go all back the way through graigue out the new rd and back down dublin st to get to the kilkenny rd, what a joke, when are they going to sort something out..btw i was late for work due to this:mad:

SpitfireIV

Watching the floods creep ever so slowly up my street! Thankfully today its to be a little drier, but, that doesnt mean the waters wont rise, as the rain waters seep down from higher ground it'll continue the rise. The weekend is to be very wet and windy unfortunately!

Sleatty Street, Maryborough Street are closed, I believe Graigue bridge is closed also, with the only access to this side of the town being via the new, Duggan, bridge.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

http://pix.sparky-s.ie/images/38505624936830546399.jpg

http://pix.sparky-s.ie/images/26154443088952880734.jpg

http://pix.sparky-s.ie/images/98947581389397758962.jpg

SV

More please!
That's bloody epic...

patrickc

saw the tractor and trailer out earlier ferrying people up and down the street.

across from the post office and right down the road is like a massive pool

tombull82

my grandfathers house has been flooded out over night in leighlin bridge, the whole ground floor is destroyed. Here's hoping the insurance will cover it

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

few more, from the other side of the building

http://pix.sparky-s.ie/images/68743878296046592836.jpg

http://pix.sparky-s.ie/images/13474705231027634648.jpg

http://pix.sparky-s.ie/images/47718526898354531108.jpg

http://pix.sparky-s.ie/images/71651038998306705752.jpg

http://pix.sparky-s.ie/images/94363177710445716324.jpg

SpitfireIV

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »

few more, from the other side of the building

http://pix.sparky-s.ie/images/68743878296046592836.jpg

http://pix.sparky-s.ie/images/13474705231027634648.jpg

http://pix.sparky-s.ie/images/47718526898354531108.jpg

http://pix.sparky-s.ie/images/71651038998306705752.jpg

http://pix.sparky-s.ie/images/94363177710445716324.jpg

Someones gonna have a slightly damp interior! :eek: Who the heck owns that car? Did it get stuck, or do one of the residents own it! Looks like a VW?

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

i dont know, but it wasn't there around 1pm yesterday when I took this picture

http://pix.sparky-s.ie/images/78526144639495186693.jpg

someone clearly thought their car was able for more than it actually was

flamegrill

Can you get out of there? :-). I hope you have an ample supply of beer and raw meat to get you over the next few days. There's more rain on it's way!

I have to say that it looks very peaceful there today with the Sun splitting the stones. Nice.

Morf

http://i45.tinypic.com/2zoeycw.jpg

'98 Street and Maryborough Street.

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Maryborough Street

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Taken from on top of the hill in the park.

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Centaur Street and the Rowing Club

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The park taken from near the bridge.

http://i45.tinypic.com/2eyc9w3.jpg

The Barrow Track

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Centaur Street

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The Burrin

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Burrin Bridge

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Burrin Street

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Kennedy Avenue

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Kennedy Avenue

http://i46.tinypic.com/31693dw.jpg

Maryborough Street

http://i46.tinypic.com/a5j9zr.jpg

The Barrow

http://i47.tinypic.com/2d8ibzr.jpg

Centaur Street

Villain

Up to 30mm could fall tomorrow we could have worse to come yet

SpitfireIV

Morf wrote: »

'98 Street and Maryborough Street.

http://i45.tinypic.com/2qk5nps.jpg

Thats just down the street from me, I'm watching the waters slowly, but surely inch there way towards the house!

Good set of pics by the way!

Morf

CroppyBoy1798 wrote: »

Thats just down the street from me, I'm watching the waters slowly, but surely inch there way towards the house!

Good set of pics by the way!

Very close to me too. We've never flooded, even in '47.

SpitfireIV

Morf wrote: »

Very close to me too. We've never flooded, even in '47.

'47, I've heard a few tales about that event, the snow sounded cool, but the resulting floods not so much so.

I'd say only for the pump up at O'Reillys the flooding would be much worse down here considering how bad it is in the rest of the town.

patrickc

http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/1120/weather.html

The Defence Forces have further increased their deployment due to the recent flooding.

The Defence Forces now have approx 175 troops, 24 vehicles, four flat-bottomed boats and well over 10,000 sandbags deployed.
They now have troops deployed in Cork city, Bantry, Clonakilty, Clonmel, Ennis, Ballinasloe and, most recently, to Carlow town

must be expecting it bad here so

Queen-Mise

Incredible pictures, thanks for them.

I love the one of Grill and Grape being reflected on the water, with the blue skies and sun shining. Very ironic

ShayK1

patrickc wrote: »

http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/1120/weather.html

The Defence Forces have further increased their deployment due to the recent flooding.

The Defence Forces now have approx 175 troops, 24 vehicles, four flat-bottomed boats and well over 10,000 sandbags deployed.
They now have troops deployed in Cork city, Bantry, Clonakilty, Clonmel, Ennis, Ballinasloe and, most recently, to Carlow town

must be expecting it bad here so

Gwan Carla!!!!

Super-Rush

I took a drive around Carlow town and surrounding areas on Friday night and tonight after work to see what conditions were like on the ground. As we know Centaur St, Haymarket, Kennedy St, Graigue Bridge, 98th St and the Milford Rd are all closed due to flooding. But there are other areas in the county affected by the recent conditions.

* The Burren is threathening to burst its banks particularly at Aldi and at The Italian Connection.

* Local access only into Leighlinbridge from the Carlow road and the car park in the Lord Bagenal is closed due to half a foot of water.

* The Bagenalstown to Leighlinbridge road is also flooded so take care or avoid.

* The river was about 2 feet from the bridge at the Royal Oak in Bagenalstown and rising.

* The Barrow track in all directions is covered by several feet of water.


With the weather to deteriorate even further over the next few days i thought that it would be useful for people to post reports of any changes in conditions in here and of course your weather pictures like Sir Digby and Morf have done. Also maybe our resident meteorologist Villain could keep us updated.

Some useful sites
Carlow Weather
Boards weather forum
Met Eireann

DO'Carlo/Wex

I were in Haymarket Area myself & UDC Car Park & Coxs Lane & Up on The Bridge Friday Night & took few photos.
Admittedly they were Camera Phone Quality & in quasi-dark with ondly street lights to iluminate the shots.
How do I upload to here from say my Bebo A/c or My Facebook or direct from my Laptop?
If no way, PM me & I'll e-mail em on to whoever wants them
Like I say they're grainey-ish but viewable enough. 7 in total.
What gets my goat is that PP was given to build on a floodplain!
Am I missing something? Too simplistic?

ShayK1

DO'Carlo/Wex wrote: »

How do I upload to here from say my Bebo A/c or My Facebook or direct from my Laptop?

Find the pic you want on bebo or facebook, right-click and go to view image.
copy that link and paste it into you post.
next ad after the link.

Done!

Alernatively, theres a "manage attachments" button under where you type your post here.
you can upload there

Villain

It's going to be very windy to extremely windy today with gusts to 70-80kmh. There is also some very heavy showers about although they aren't making it to East at the moment, I'll give a better update shortly and show how people can use the weather tools available to see what's coming

Villain

Downgraded the Wind warning a little as we will be sheltered from the worse, good sites for wind forecasts are Wind Forecasts XC Weather and WindFinder

Now if you want to see what showers or rain bands are coming you can view the Rain Radar and to see what kind weather systems are further out you can view the Satellite Images

You can see from the satellite images that center of the Low is over the North.

More updates later

Morf

The water seems to have gone down in most places i looked tonight. Burrin street was free of water and open.

SpitfireIV

After the heavy rain this morning the floods are the worst they have been in Graigue anyway, I'm not sure about the rest of the town. But the council are down here in Griague now extending planking, dropping more sandbags etc.

Queen-Mise

just seen floods first hand myself today. They are worse that they were last August.

The canal at Milford is ready to burst banks. The flow of the river is getting so high.

SpitfireIV

Definately worse than last August thats for sure. There was a fierce rapid rise thismorning and its still rising ever so slowly.

The last floods on a similar scale that I can remember were in 1994 or '95. I got a ride in a tractor and trailer though for the first time since those floods today!

Villain

The Slaney in Tullow seemed fine this evening but been one of the fastest flowing rivers in Ireland it does tend to rise and drop quickly.

The forecast for the West and South is quite bad but Carlow will escape the worst again, however we could see 10m to 20mm falling over the next 24 -30 hours which wouldn't be a big deal normally but with floods already in place it could cause some issues.

We will also miss the worse of the winds but it will still be very windy with 60kph - 80kph gusts

byhookorbycrook

The Slaney is gone right down,no risk here for the moment, I think.

Villain

Had a gust of 67.6kph in the past hour, pretty windy!!! Rain band crossing the country but should miss the worse of it.

Villain

Bit of rain heading our way now, its dying out as it moves East but still going to be wet for a while.

Orla K

I'm heading to carlow tomorrow from athy. I heard that the road was flooded but passable. Can anyone shed more light on it? Should I go another way? I'm going to be parking the car in the seven oaks. Also I'm not familar with street names in carlow but I do know the place.

ShayK1

I haven't heard any mention of flooding on the Athy Rd.
There's certainly no issue with getting from the Athy Rd roundabout to the 7 oaks.

Nead21

how is graigue looking today? any improvements from last couple of days??

pacman.podge

iv heard its worse around the boat house.. but havent seen it my self so not sure! its gonna take a good while for it to go bak to somewhat normal again