Bad Weather.. Dublin needs to "man up".

starbelgrade

It started snowing in the North West of Ireland before Christmas Eve - since then we've had more snow, extremely treacherous roads with most secondary & backroads ungritted for over 2 weeks. Parts of Sligo were without mains water for several days. Our house had no water or heat for 3 days & we couldn't get out of the house due to the roads, or even get any supllies of water, food or fuel delivered for the same reason.

While the rest of the country has had it bad for over 2 weeks, Dublin has had a relatively easy time of it. Yet, the media have little to say about it. The first time I saw TV coverage of Sligo was on yesterday's news, when guess what? Yup - part of the Sligo to Dublin road was partially snowed over.

Then, today it snowed in Dublin. And all bloomin' day, all I've heard on the radio & TV - reports of "atrocious" weather & "horrific" conditions... and why? All because people spent an hour or two extra trying to get home.

Well, try living without water, try living without heat - or try living in a rural area where you are essentially cut off - then try combining all those 3 & then start complaining.

No-one is arguing that the weather isn't bad in the capital, or that the roads aren't bad, but Dublin, you seriously need to man up.

Davidius

This sort of thing would never happen if we lived in space but nobody wants to put money into that.

El Weirdo

Don't forget the fact that the LUAS still isn't working down here in Sligo either.

JangoFett

Dublin needs to man up for a lot of reasons and get over itself!

admiralofthefleet

starbelgrade wrote: »

Well, try living without water, try living without heat - or try living in a rural area where you are essentially cut off - then try combining all those 3 & then start complaining.

where do you live, mongolia?

Further proof that only Dublin matters :P

TheZohanS

starbelgrade wrote: »

No-one is arguing that the weather isn't bad in the capital, or that the roads aren't bad, but Dublin, you seriously need to man up.

I read somewhere that Dublin doesn't play by the rules OP.

JJ

It seems your internet is working fine though.

thegen

Deleted User wrote: »

Further proof that only Dublin matters :P

Finally you all realise that it is only Dublin that matters;)

bonerm

starbelgrade wrote: »

No-one is arguing that the weather isn't bad in the capital, or that the roads aren't bad, but Dublin, you seriously need to man up.

Eh you do realise it's just the meejaa making all that stink right? Dubliners actually put up with this shít and get on with it just like the rest of the country. I usually get a nice handy bus ride home at the end of the day but today I had the novelity of a nice brisk 90 minute uphill walk in the cold on icy paths for a change. I just started walking and got on with it. So did everybody else.

starbelgrade

JJ wrote: »

It seems your internet is working fine though.

It seems that internet waves are less likely to freeze than water.

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater

+1 OP.

Dublin gets a bit of lying snow and slush and Six-one news has a massive caption "THE BIG FREEZE"!!! There are people around the northwest who havent been able to leave their homes since before christmas, but now because Dublin has got a splutter of snow, the world will end. I know more people are affected when it happens in the capital, but looking at the news, if some people learned to drive in slippy conditions, the congestion wouldnt be as bad. Revving the crap out of the car!

Bandit12

Your right. I'm going to man up right now.

Captain Havoc

While I was living in Zürich one year they had the worst snow in about 50 years, it was above my knee :eek: but they just get on with it. They only get about a week of snow a year and don't feel the need to shut up shop.

starbelgrade

deccurley wrote: »

if some people learned to drive in slippy conditions, the congestion wouldnt be as bad. Revving the crap out of the car!

Yeah - I've seen that on the news.. cars in Dublin sliding up hills, around ungritted backroad bends around flat, gritted roads.

wolfpawnat

The whole country needs to man up. You'd swear that we had the worst weather in the WORLD. All we need to do is look at other countries and how they cope with snow for 5 months of the year and be grateful we don't have it as bad as them

thegen

I think it may be our country cousins who need to man up. The Dubs get a bit of coverage on the news and ye all get crying we got no coverage, we had to get on with it. Those Dubs get all the sympathy. Poor Culchies;)

Dirk Gently

In fairness sligo probably doesn't have half the country living or working in it every day. Would anyone really notice if the north west fell into the Atlantic some day? Would probably be weeks before it got a 2 line snippet in the bottom corner of page 27 in the paper.

projectmayhem

I just cannot get over the lack of planning for snow. It's not a huge amount of snow. Sure, more then we're used to, but having SOME buses with tyres to tackle the ice would be beneficial

Dudess

wolfpawnat wrote: »

The whole country needs to man up. You'd swear that we had the worst weather in the WORLD. All we need to do is look at other countries and how they cope with snow for 5 months of the year and be grateful we don't have it as bad as them

Yeah, but they have provisions in place for it, which Ireland doesn't have.

epgc3fyqirnbsx

bonerm wrote: »

Eh you do realise it's just the meejaa making all that stink right? Dubliners actually put up with this shít and get on with it just like the rest of the country. I usually get a nice handy bus ride home at the end of the day but today I had the novelity of a nice brisk 90 minute uphill walk in the cold on icy paths for a change. I just started walking and got on with it. So did everybody else.

You're right in fairness, tis always the meeja that gives the dubs a bad name whether its when dublin win a football match or get a bit of bad weather. Them and the lazy public servants in dublin bus :eek:

biko

During all the flooding in the South and West there wasn't a single AH thread on it, afaik. Peoples houses under water, lives destroyed.
Put some inches of snow on the ground and the Jackeens just can't shut up about it in AH.
Sissies.
Bohoo, my bus won't come. Try living in the country you emos.
In the Galway county forum there is a thread on the pipes has frozen since weeks and there no water for days.
Not a single complaint in AH.
Bohoo, my BMW skidded today. It was awful.. Try not being able to actually drive for snow and slush up to the doors.

Riddle101

I don't think it's a case of people from Dublin needing to man up. People have been in work all day long and are tired, and then finally get out of work at 5pm or 6pm, nobody likes being stuck on the M50 or any other road for another 2 or 3 hours. It's just annoying is all.

On an irrelative note, i've been joking with my friends about how the Government should call a state of Emergency and give the whole country the day off until the snow clears, because apparently a little bit of snow causes the country to close down.

starbelgrade

clown bag wrote: »

In fairness sligo probably doesn't have half the country living or working in it every day.

Neither does Dublin. In fairness.

thegen

Magnus wrote: »

During all the flooding in the South and West there wasn't a single AH thread on it, afaik.
Put some inches of snow on the ground and the Jackeens just can't shut up about it in AH.
Sissies.
Bohoo my bus won't come. Try living in the country...

But your in a City;)

Beasty

starbelgrade wrote: »

Well, try living without water, try living without heat - or try living in a rural area where you are essentially cut off - then try combining all those 3 & then start complaining.

No-one is arguing that the weather isn't bad in the capital, or that the roads aren't bad, but Dublin, you seriously need to man up.

You culchies had your day last week, and now you are back whining!

If you want water, melt the snow

If you want heat, cut down the trees and burn them

If you want to get somewhere, get the tractor out

At least those of us who live in and around Dublin have got something real to complain about :P

Jay D

Dublin needs to man up? I think you need to wake up, to be honest and realise the media are irritating cliche orientated fcukers. Blanch to Ashtown took two hours, I didn't start a book on it did I? Nor did anyone else I know ring home to China to report on it, although the media might have mentioned it.

I am sick to the skin of people going on about our little pathetic 'cold snap' that our government is so desperately incapable of doing much, if anything about!

All I will say is having been to Poland over the Christmas, it really highlights the nation of bloody losers and drama queens we really are, not to mention completely and absolutely unprepared for anything REMOTELY serious or extreme. Believe me the snow was much heavier there for much longer. Didn't see anything grind to a halt and it was not even the capital, which of course would have been a priority :rolleyes:

If it's not too cold it's too warm. So while you write a book on your hard knock life, self pitty etc, start to realise that Dublin does not need anything but decent Government who can handle a mild snow storm and it's citizens are fully aware of this.

starbelgrade

Maximilian Fierce Radial wrote: »

You're right in fairness, tis always the meeja that gives the dubs a bad name

I think they're well capable of doing that themselves, never mind the fact that most of the country's media is Dublin based (and Dublincentric).

seanbmc

Think the OP needs to man up and get over himself :rolleyes:

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater

Beasty wrote: »

You culchies had your day last week, and now you are back whining!

If you want water, melt the snow

If you want heat, cut down the trees and burn them

If you want to get somewhere, get the tractor out

At least those of us who live in and around Dublin have got something real to complain about :P

This might shock and astound you, but not everyone living outside the greater Dublin area has a tractor parked outdside their gaff!!! Nor do we each own our own private land where we can simply chop down our trees for firewood.

Having a bit of snow on the ground shouldn't shut the city down! They get on with it in cities much larger and colder such as Toronto, New York, Chicago, Montreal, Oslo, Moscow etc. Although Dublin's infrastructure is shíte in fairness.

drkpower

Maybe if ye bitter jealous moaning attention-seeking culchies didnt come up here clogging up our roads (aswell as stealing our wimmin and jobs), the traffic would have been grand and I would have been home in time for my coddle and Fair City.

thedoc46

deccurley wrote: »

+1 OP.

if some people learned to drive in slippy conditions, the congestion wouldnt be as bad. Revving the crap out of the car!

Agreed 100% when i left for work earlier people were doing about 5kmh, folks this is what has the city brought to a standstill, Learn how to handle your car in this weather and it will not take 2+ hours to get home, Today hasn't a patch on new years morning.

seven-iron

Maybe if ye bitter jealous moaning attention-seeking culchies didnt come up here clogging up our roads (aswell as stealing our wimmin and jobs), the traffic would have been grand and I would have been home in time for my coddle and Fair City.

Thats incorrect. Dublin women dont like culchies.

poochiem

It is a complete joke. The city is at a standstill and I was walking through it thinking "it's not even freezing, it's been worse than this every day for a month in Galway". Nobody can say "it's the media not the dubs" because it was the dubs that all left work at lunch time because of the 'blizzard' and clogged every road in the city.

RTE deserve credit they did an outside broadcast from Bective, that's practically the countryside. ffs.

lol5605

4 hour drive from santry to maynooth!

drdeadlift

thedoc46 wrote: »

Agreed 100% when i left for work earlier people were doing about 5kmh, folks this is what has the city brought to a standstill, Learn how to handle your car in this weather and it will not take 2+ hours to get home, Today hasn't a patch on new years morning.

I think it was a lot worse,if it does hit -6 tonight good luck to people getting to work in the morning.

yosser hughes

Dublin is the capital city and more people live and work here and therfore IT IS more important. Besided that,the whole country has failed pathetically to deal with mild winter conditions. THAT is the issue! Not some Dublin versus Country crap. Get over it.

twinytwo

its like dublin people when they go into the country... like deers in a headlight havnt got a clue... try to go down a single lane road with a truck coming against you and try to make the truck reverse:pac:

starbelgrade

seven-iron wrote: »

Thats incorrect. Dublin women dont like culchies.

And vice versa.

wolfpawnat

projectmayhem wrote: »

I just cannot get over the lack of planning for snow. It's not a huge amount of snow. Sure, more then we're used to, but having SOME buses with tyres to tackle the ice would be beneficial

+1 - nothing a few tyres for the buses won't sort out!

Dudess wrote: »

Yeah, but they have provisions in place for it, which Ireland doesn't have.

Our country hasn't the cop on to be ready for flooding (clearly), snow (obviously) or drought. We are being led incompetently regarding climatic provisions.

Nothing a bit of grit/salt/tyres/community unity wouldn't sort out

Hank_Jones

Why don't you all stop whinging and get on with it.

What a bunch of whingers.

P.S...I'm aware of the irony of this post, so please don't point that out...

thegen

twinytwo wrote: »

its like dublin people when they go into the country... like deers in a headlight havnt got a clue... try to go down a single lane road with a truck coming against you and try to make the truck reverse:pac:

Or Culchies caught in a one way system in Dublin;)

twinytwo

yosser hughes wrote: »

Dublin is the capital city and more people live and work here and therfore IT IS more important. Besided that,the whole country has failed pathetically to deal with mild winter conditions. THAT is the issue! Not some Dublin versus Country crap. Get over it.

its the fact thats it "mild" winter conditions for an extended period of time

drdeadlift

poochiem wrote: »

It is a complete joke. The city is at a standstill and I was walking through it thinking "it's not even freezing, it's been worse than this every day for a month in Galway". Nobody can say "it's the media not the dubs" because it was the dubs that all left work at lunch time because of the 'blizzard' and clogged every road in the city.

RTE deserve credit they did an outside broadcast from Bective, that's practically the countryside. ffs.

Dublin is a little bigger than galway& there are a hell of alot more people commuting long distances.

starbelgrade

yosser hughes wrote: »

Dublin is the capital city and more people live and work here and therfore IT IS more important..

There's old folks around where I live that have been isolated for 2 weeks now - if it weren't for neighbours getting them food & supplies, go knows what state they'd be in.

Compare that to a 4 hour journey home from Santry to Maynooth. You could starve to death in that time.

Oh yes, Dublin is more important because majority rules, not just at election time.

twinytwo

thegen wrote: »

Or Culchies caught in a one way system in Dublin;)

cant say that happens alot.. most country people know what a one way sign looks like... Dubliners however can be left in awe at what they believe to a magical animal ie... the cow

epgc3fyqirnbsx

starbelgrade wrote: »

I think they're well capable of doing that themselves, never mind the fact that most of the country's media is Dublin based (and Dublincentric).

Well the media wherever its from is probably responsible for most of the fighting that goes on here in AH

The Dublin/Country divide is exageratted when every time they venture outside the capital they pick the greatest bogarsed gombeen they can find to interview hence the dublin opinion that everyone outside they pale is an ignorant bogtrotter.(and don't get me started on that miserable pr1ck Jim Fahey)
Then when they interview dubs its either a posh wanker like d1ckhead from the meteor ad or some rats from the flats

No wonder they love David McWilliams in Montrose, it's all about pigeon holing everyone

sorry for going off topic, needed a vent

twinytwo

drkpower wrote: »

Maybe if ye bitter jealous moaning attention-seeking culchies didnt come up here clogging up our roads (aswell as stealing our wimmin and jobs), the traffic would have been grand and I would have been home in time for my coddle and Fair City.

tut tut... dont you no all the dublin women spread out from dublin looking for some real men?

Hank_Jones

Maximilian Fierce Radial wrote: »

The Dublin/Country divide is exageratted when every time they venture outside the capital they pick the greatest bogarsed gombeen they can find to interview hence the dublin opinion that everyone outside they pale is an ignorant bogtrotter.

Wait a second....

Everyone outside ''town'' isn't a complete muck savage?

When did this come about?

rossie1977

drdeadlift wrote: »

Dublin is a little bigger than galway& there are a hell of alot more people commuting long distances.

and new york is ten times bigger than dublin and a little snow and ice doesn't close down that city, i was there during the blizzard of 2004, i couldn't see my hand in front of my face the snow was so strong and yet everything was moving. 26 inches inches of snow fell in central park one night a few years back and they had it cleared by morning on most roads, imagine 26 inches falling here, there would be people dying in the streets by the hundreds

Dempsey

Hank_Jones wrote: »

Wait a second....

Everyone outside ''town'' isn't a complete muck savage?

When did this come about?

You commute, dont you? :pac: