so, erm...yeah, let's go with Orange Alert

Charlie-Bravo

http://ciaranhayden.com/media/?p=513

You can get your sand bags at Mill Road.

High tide at 1.04am Monday morning.

Emergency Contact Number: 0404 44710

ArtSmart

cool. finally Ireland gets a 'code orange' alert thingy.

always the last we are

cuddlycavies

Oh! you mean the weather. I thought the wife and her friends were going to start marching through the town to some masonic hall.

Huntthe

“Due to media speculation of a hurricane for Sunday night/Monday morning it is felt that it might be reasonable to put the Greystones area on flood alert (Code Orange

)

Priceless !!

It's the media's fault that the tail end of a hurricane from the gulf of Mexico is heading this way.

On a less cynical note, Congratulations to Councillor Hayden on being pro active,very un-Fianna Fail Like ( there I go being cynical again)

d'Oracle

I swore I wouldn't post my opinion of Ciaran Hayden.

This prevents me from contributing to this thread.

Cookie_Monster

so what happened then,nothing?

d'Oracle

The hurricane that is going on a few thousand miles away is not affecting us.
Basically something of no concern caused nothing to be concerned about.

But seeing as we are all morons, there was a panic over a lazy friday news story.

The horrible thing is that "media speculation" (at weather events of all things) is now an acceptable basis for civil defence activity.

All aboard the hand basket.

LEIN

d'Oracle wrote: »

The hurricane that is going on a few thousand miles away is not affecting us.
Basically something of no concern caused nothing to be concerned about.

But seeing as we are all morons, there was a panic over a lazy friday news story.

The horrible thing is that "media speculation" (at weather events of all things) is now an acceptable basis for civil defence activity.

All aboard the hand basket.

Better safe than sorry imo.

Annasopra

Damo9090 wrote: »

Better safe than sorry imo.

Well yes but if media speculation is like this again then it basically won't be trusted in future and we will have a 'boy who cried wolf' scenario

LEIN

Johnnymcg wrote: »

Well yes but if media speculation is like this again then it basically won't be trusted in future and we will have a 'boy who cried wolf' scenario

I seriously doubt that Dublin city council and WW County Council acted on media speculation.

All of their info would have come from Met É which infant had us on code orange.

d'Oracle

Which would all be grand if Met Eireann had been warning of a storm.
But they weren't.

I remind you the wording of the blog post by Cllr. Hayden was "due to media speculation".

Huntthe

Met E where warning of a storm all weekend.

Blandpebbles

D'oracle plus 1 on that. I have to bite my tongue.

matt-dublin

methinks its arrived, not due to blow through till about 6am