Batten down the hatches!

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Warning as hurricane heads for our shores

MOTORISTS and homeowners have been warned of a risk of flooding this weekend as the remnants of Hurricane Thomas head for the Irish coastline.

Forecasters are predicting high tides and winds of up to 100kmh, which could lead to flooding in Dublin, Galway and coastal areas.

Dublin City Council yesterday said that car parks at Clontarf and Sandymount would be closed on Sunday and Monday as a precaution.

Roads may also be closed over the weekend and the council has started deploying temporary flood defences across the city.

Concerns

"There are concerns these high winds coupled with high tides could lead to flooding," said a Met Eireann spokesman. "Although the hurricane will be significantly weaker by the time it hits us, we are predicting winds of up to 100kmh and very high waves which always set alarm bells ringing."

Meanwhile, fallen leaves caused delays for commuters in Dublin yesterday as trains were forced to travel at lower speeds to reduce the risk of wheel slip.

Iarnrod Eireann said that poor rail conditions were a feature of this time a year, and over the last couple of weeks they had been putting a type of abrasive grit called Sandite on rails throughout the country to reduce danger. Most delays had been around 10 minutes.

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/warning-as-hurricane-heads-for-our-shores-2408553.html

Maybe it'll wash away all the doom & gloom

skipz

Stupid fcukers, that weather system has nothing to do with hurricane Thomas. Good old media again:p

Princess Peach

Dublin, Galway, what about the rest of the country??

We matter!

strokemyclover

They named a Hurricane after Brummytom?

Duggy747

Those looking to emigrate it would be a good time now to get your umbrellas out and travel Mary Poppins style!


















Death may be inevitable

Brendog

Sorry lads..I farted

Ghost Train

No hatches or shutters to batten down

might watch a stormy movie, the ice storm, the perfect storm, the wizard of oz, twister, cast away

dsmythy

If that storm hit us on a different path it would have been historic in it's strength. We get away with something small this time though

My name is URL

skipz wrote: »

Stupid fcukers, that weather system has nothing to do with hurricane Thomas. Good old media again:p

It's not even called Thomas.. it's Tomas.

Falling leaves are causing havoc on the roads though, apparently. Will this horror ever cease?

ejmaztec

Duggy747 wrote: »

Those looking to emigrate it would be a good time now to get your umbrellas out and travel Mary Poppins style!

They'll still come after you for the €10.

jackiebaron

Maybe a constant wind will blow abruptly and we'll watch all our ports unfold.

alwaysadub

Oh great, the wind and rain finally stop, and now there's worse due.

Wertz

Spring tides this weekend as well which is going to make it even worse for coastal areas.

+1 on this not being Tomas either.

Overheal

Calling it a hurricane is laughable. Will it even still have tropical storm status by the time it reaches you?

Biggins

Jeasus, if its not one thing its another.... the poor swans are fcuked!

dsmythy

Overheal wrote: »

Calling it a hurricane is laughable. Will it even still have tropical storm status by the time it reaches you?

I don't think it came out of any former storm. It's just a freak depression.

jester77

Typical FF, send in a hurricane to take the heat off :rolleyes:

Biggins

dsmythy wrote: »

...It's just a freak depression.

Nothing new or freak then for Ireland.

Wertz

Overheal wrote: »

Calling it a hurricane is laughable. Will it even still have tropical storm status by the time it reaches you?

It's a remnant of Shary that has extra tropical storm status, that is in the process of joining forces with an arctic system off newfoundland. It won't even come from the normal direction ex-hurricanes come from here.
Wind gusts will may be above the threshold necessary to call it a "hurricane" (F12), but probably not sustained winds.

maxxie

calling it a hurricane so it might take our minds off the fianna fail filth for a few days!

Overheal

maxxie wrote: »

calling it a hurricane so it might take our minds off the fianna fail filth for a few days!

Fine: call it Hurricane Cowen

gbee

It's Tomas and not Thomas and in any event this hurricane is over Haiti and won't impact us this weekend.

We do have severe storm potential ~ but the worst will most likely miss us.

maxxie

Overheal wrote: »

Fine: call it Hurricane Cowen

hes done enough damage may aswell finish us off

gbee

skipz wrote: »

Stupid fcukers, that weather system has nothing to do with hurricane Thomas. Good old media again:p

I've emailled them but they have not changed their site. They even have the spelling wrong. It's Tomas and it's ~ but they do correctly say it's flooding Haiti currently.

Mint Sauce

Head down to strandhill with camera for monster waves

gbee

Actually the Indo has changed their report, they left out the Haiti part, the part that was correct as Tomas is lashing that place now.

gurramok

These floods(in Dublin anyway) tend to happen in Novembers. 2000, 2002 & 2008 i think it was.

Jaxxy

gurramok wrote: »

These floods(in Dublin anyway) tend to happen in Novembers. 2000, 2002 & 2008 i think it was.

Yup, exactly right. We got it especially bad in 2000 and 2002, six feet of water downstairs after a tributary of the Tolka burst its banks.

I hate storms.

Tom Cruises Left Nut

Biggins wrote: »

Jeasus, if its not one thing its another.... the poor swans are fcuked!

Hurricane's eat swans like the foreign people

Biggins

t|nt|n wrote: »

Hurricane's eat swans like the foreign people

The hurricane will chew them up and spit them out too.
Poor sods!

Celly Smunt

come on everybody! lets sing together!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XorFvYBnO8

DonJose

Ghost Train wrote: »

No hatches or shutters to batten down

might watch a stormy movie, the ice storm, the perfect storm, the wizard of oz, twister, cast away

During the last storm I rented, "The wind that shakes the barley." Big disappointment.

bnt

As the Met Éireann website says: "For the lastest information from Meteoalarm visit www.meteoalarm.eu"

(lastest?)

cherryghost

Hurricane Tomas has nothing to do with the storm we're due on Sunday evening. We'll be getting the remnants of that possibly next Thursday. For now the storm depression will be set right over the midlands, so coastal regions will get more of a battering with high tide due as well. If the depression nudges further east, however, the storm will be far worse than what Met are predicting

Duggy747

bnt wrote: »

As the Met Éireann website says: "For the lastest information from Meteoalarm visit www.meteoalarm.eu"

(lastest?)

It means it's their last report? That this is the big one!?! :eek:

We're doomed.................DOOMED!!!

admiralofthefleet

i thought the hurricane died a while ago?

Biggins

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

i thought the hurricane died a while ago?

Shouldn't speak of the dead.
Its an ill wind that blows no good!

Merzbow

Nothing will happen, small bit of rain, wind, etc.

BluesBerry

Merzbow wrote: »

Nothing will happen, small bit of rain, wind, etc.

yeah the phscyh us all up for a bit of extreme weather and the BAM nothing ever comes of it

damn you ireland and your mild weather damn you to hell

skipz

BluesBerry wrote: »

yeah the phscyh us all up for a bit of extreme weather and the BAM nothing ever comes of it

Its the media.
Same over the top dramatics with everything, swine flu, ash clouds, terror alerts, weather, x factor! everything is out to kills us and the world is fcuked until something new comes around:rolleyes: and we never see any of it....





Touch wood:P

ejmaztec

skipz wrote: »

Its the media.
Same over the top dramatics with everything, swine flu, ash clouds, terror alerts, weather, x factor! everything is out to kills us and the world is fcuked until something new comes around:rolleyes: and we never see any of it....





Touch wood:P

Touching wood will give you Avian-Flu-Dry-Rot, and according to the WHO it's fatal.

squeakyduck

SHIITE! I'm off to Galway tomorrow.....Better stay nice and safe in the pub then!

fryup

bet ya it'll all be an anti-climax....how many times have met eireann screwed up on forecasts

galwayrush

Brendog wrote: »

Sorry lads..I farted

Ye're totaly fecked if i do the same.. just had a hot curry.

expectationlost

Wertz wrote: »

Spring tides this weekend as well which is going to make it even worse for coastal areas.

+1 on this not being Tomas either.

its spring ?

W.Shakes-Beer

galwayrush wrote: »

Ye're totaly fecked if i do the same.. just had a hot curry.

you'll be living up to your name so.



I plan on getting the old camcorder out and doing a remake of twister.

Pherekydes

Biggins wrote: »

Jeasus, if its not one thing its another.... the poor swans are fcuked!

But the Poles aren't 'til the 25th.

msg11

Bring it on, few can's and watch the show for the rest of the night..

Sauve

Dublin today, the west tomorrow - how bad is it over there?!

Princess Peach

I can't wait! Movies and take away and laughing at the idiots who decide to go out in mini skirts and heels

El Horseboxo

what storm? just looks like a normal shíte day outside.