Post Flood Pictures

Hotwheels

Ok lets be having yer pictures, so we can see how bad it is else where...


Here's a few from Moylough today....

Random

Keep them coming please.

ronnie3585

Greenmachine

We have a winner.

ronnie3585 wrote: »

CrowdedHouse

Taken a little earlier

Sponge Bob

If you must do lolcats try this instead!

businessboy

galwaybabe

A few from Menlo this morning

Hotwheels

galwaybabe wrote: »

A few from Menlo this morning

galwaybabe

Thanks hotwheels

Fuinseog

galwaybabe wrote: »

A few from Menlo this morning

that field floods absolutely every winter. you would think they would do something about it. menlo has seen worse in living memory.

dilallio

Fuinseog wrote: »

that field floods absolutely every winter. you would think they would do something about it. menlo has seen worse in living memory.

That's my friend's house behind the ESB pole.
The problem there, is the turlough - there's an underground channel to Lough corrib, so when the lake level rises, so does the turlough, and there's no place to pump the water to when it floods.

I wonder how the floods will affect the quality of the drinking water.

Fuinseog

Fuinseog wrote: »

that field floods absolutely every winter. you would think they would do something about it. menlo has seen worse in living memory.

Do what exactly? I know man is known for trying to conquer nature but low lying areas flood. Doing something about it just pushes the water elsewhere after lots of rain.

Having flooded fields is preferable to flooded roads and houses.

DRakE

has it been raining in galway then?

HoPpiE

Possibly, but it's pretty nice out there now.

Interceptor

teh envirnmint called, it sez ure carbin feetprint iz 2 bigz...

LOL.

'cptr

Hotwheels

A few more from today...

kinetic

Hotwheels wrote: »

A few more from today...

Typical merc driver in front there,leaning over the middle console and on the phone i see.

mercuroman

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Is that first guy on the phone? Nice responsible driving there!

Wompa1

mercuroman wrote: »

Is that first guy on the phone? Nice responsible driving there![/QUOTE]

Probably calling work to tell them he'll be late while he's actually going around to old woman O'Tooles house for a quick rodgering...dirty capitalist swine!

Yv

Bit of ingenuity on show here from one of my neighbours! Their driveway has been completely flooded since yesterday (the level has gone down a lot since last night, actually). Fair play to them!

dilallio

We've all seen the faces of those ravaged by the floods of Sri Lanka and New Orleans.

This award winning photograph of the recent flood waters rising in Galway captures the horror and suffering of the people.

Keep these people in your thoughts and prayers......

jj72

dilallio wrote: »

We've all seen the faces of those ravaged by the floods of Sri Lanka and New Orleans.

This award winning photograph of the recent flood waters rising in Galway captures the horror and suffering of the people.

Keep these people in your thoughts and prayers......

The poor B*****ds

mndgz

craugwell, n6, dublin rd, this mornin

greeneyedspirit

Claregalway this evening

CrowdedHouse

mndgz wrote: »

craugwell, n6, dublin rd, this mornin

Ah now I see why the road is closed

First pics of it I've seen -fair dues to ye

teepee

it was car free day in galway city today :rolleyes: no traffic . i like .

Acoshla

Ballinasloe tonight

Mars Bar

Yv wrote: »

Bit of ingenuity on show here from one of my neighbours! Their driveway has been completely flooded since yesterday (the level has gone down a lot since last night, actually). Fair play to them!

I LOVE that house, lovely stone on it! Pass it when going to my Granny's, always makes me drool a little!

that's a great photo though!

ukgalwaymcguire

very very impressed with the photos you guys are posting!!! there very professional. thank you for sharing

a123

http://www.flickr.com/photos/44814342@N05/with/4120170515/

Craughwell village today and Rahasane turlough on Killeeneen road

mndgz

a123, when was that tractor was passing that craughwell bridge???? today??? i thought the bridge is movin and all cracked, what an eejit!!

I think we should spare a taught for the locations in England hit just as bad and even worse.......

Sky News were just reporting on various towns, a little place i've spent many wonderful nights in, Cockermouth has been among the worst hit

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockermouth

blindpilot

Just saw some pictures on Sky there. They seem have it a lot worse. Roads collapsing and all.

a123

mndgz wrote: »

a123, when was that tractor was passing that craughwell bridge???? today??? i thought the bridge is movin and all cracked, what an eejit!!

That was yesterday before lunch, and he was called much more than an eejit by everyone there at the time!

He drove down through it and then turned and drove back for no apparent reason :eek:

Chris_533976

gilberto_eire wrote: »

I think we should spare a taught for the locations in England hit just as bad and even worse.......

Sky News were just reporting on various towns, a little place i've spent many wonderful nights in, Cockermouth has been among the worst hit

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockermouth

Dreadful as it is, its hard to take a disaster in a place with the name of Cockermouth seriously

The thing is, they are having flooded houses and areas which is terrible. We are having flooded houses, areas and main arterial roads. The fact that for a while, you couldnt get from Galway to Tuam, Dublin or Limerick (North, East or South) is ridiculous and shows how little forward planning there has been. This whole affair wouldnt have been anything like as bad for instance if the M6/17/18 had been done years ago.

Trouble is there is no money at all to build flood defenses.

HappyLady

mndgz wrote: »

craugwell, n6, dublin rd, this mornin

Thanks for posting these pictures. Hubby and I drive this road every day...hard to even imagine how bad it is...Pictures are worth 1000 words!!!

greeneyedspirit

More from Claregalway - this was this morning



Frank Fahy was there, too



Still, there was people trying to drive through. And they didn't give a **** about the band we put up. :mad:

AdamantApproach

Those Claregalway pics are crackers. Got any more? I'm over in London and it is good to see some familiar sights, even if they are mostly underwater! Thanks

Edit: Scratch that, just clicked on one and found several more. Cheers.

greeneyedspirit

AdamantApproach wrote: »

Those Claregalway pics are crackers. Got any more? I'm over in London and it is good to see some familiar sights, even if they are mostly underwater! Thanks

yep, look here: http://pix.ie/greeneyedspirit/album/361307/goto/1357135

It's mental out there. going back out now to help with the sandbags.

redsteveireland

Still a bit flooded around athenry

MissThang

Out my side of the country!

Corofin.

Hotwheels

MissThang wrote: »

Out my side of the country!

Corofin.

That's bad...

joeKel73

Ouch!!

hacktavist

greeneyedspirit wrote: »

Still, there was people trying to drive through. And they didn't give a **** about the band we put up. :mad:

Looks like he made it through fine, anyway you can hardly expect someone to stop after driving some distance through the water at your "band" did you think he could turn around or reverse?

Das Kitty

hacktavist wrote: »

Looks like he made it through fine, anyway you can hardly expect someone to stop after driving some distance through the water at your "band" did you think he could turn around or reverse?

The point is by going through he was sending waves and raising the water levels on people's houses and businesses. Basically he didn't care as long as he got where he was going. If it was his property I wonder how he would have felt if someone did what he did.

hacktavist

That's fair enough, but the tape should be at the start of the flood, maybe use traffic cones insead!

Killer_banana

Das Kitty wrote: »

The point is by going through he was sending waves and raising the water levels on people's houses and businesses. Basically he didn't care as long as he got where he was going. If it was his property I wonder how he would have felt if someone did what he did.

Apparently the manager of the Arches got so sick of this he stood out in the middle of the road stopping trucks!

hacktavist

Killer_banana wrote: »

Apparently the manager of the Arches got so sick of this he stood out in the middle of the road stopping trucks!

He should have sank a few lumps of wood with nails sticking out of them in there!

kinetic

Das Kitty wrote: »

The point is by going through he was sending waves and raising the water levels on people's houses and businesses. Basically he didn't care as long as he got where he was going. If it was his property I wonder how he would have felt if someone did what he did.

You could have asked the guards or fire service to put some cones up or something that looked official.TBh i would have driven through the tape myself.

Das Kitty

kinetic wrote: »

You could have asked the guards or fire service to put some cones up or something that looked official.TBh i would have driven through the tape myself.

I could have? Don't see how from Knocknacarra tbh

I'm sure the residents did ask but as you can imagine, emergency services were a bit stretched in the last couple of days.