Sonw in Kilkenny City

road_high

Place is white, has to be a first for November. Did we get the thunder and lightning as well that other parts of leinster got? Didn't hear a thing...

Can Mods change the thread spelling to Snow!! Shouldn't be up this early Sat mornings!

Dan Chipowski

Was ambushed coming back from the shops this morning by a gang of hoodlums, only just thawing out now

shivkk06

didnt hear thunder but saw 2 flashes of lightening around mid night last night first one frightened life outta me just huge big white flash across sky

Deliverance XXV

Here's a few snaps from this morning.












And this is St. Kierans Graveyard from last year's snow.

Jinxi

Turning slushy now, but some of the slush has refrozen and is deadly on non-gritted roads. Passed out a merc on the slope up to my housing estate today(outside the Presentation) Reving and going nowhere but backwards, as my dinky car passed him out:D! Bad as well on the Kells Road out towards the ring road(outside Village Vet)

Threadhead

Anyone know how long it's down for?

Captain Havoc

I was coming out onto the Comer road there and I was going slow (10kph), braked to slow down, ineffective, pushed harder, the car kept skidding, out onto the Comer road just passed the edge of the cycle lane, thank God I didn't hit the uncoming car.

misterdeeds

Threadhead wrote: »

Anyone know how long it's down for?

yep until it melts !!

Threadhead

I should probably rephrase that as: When's the snow forecast to not fall anymore?

fabbydabby

Staying very cold for the next few days but generally not snowing, any precipitation which does occur will be falling as sleet (day) and snow (night).

Or 'seelt and sonw' if you prefer.

Wisco

Captain Havoc, the trick to stopping on ice is to tap your brakes repeatedly, not stomp hard on them
I'm loving the snow, but have a feeling my pipes will freeze if it stays this cold all week...not looking forward to that.

fabbydabby

Chadwick's jacked up the price of their water softener salt 25 kilo bags by 80% since this day last week, but I am sure that's just a coincidence.

PaulKK

Wisco wrote: »

Captain Havoc, the trick to stopping on ice is to tap your brakes repeatedly, not stomp hard on them

This is not correct. If you have abs, which most modern cars do, keep your foot planted to the floor until you stop if you are skidding. You will feel the pedal pulse as the abs does its thing.


However when driving on ice you should not use the brakes if possible, use the gears to slow down and drive in a higher gear than normal for the speed you are doing.

thetonynator

Threadhead wrote: »

I should probably rephrase that as: When's the snow forecast to not fall anymore?

round about christmas . .::P:P:P

Captain Havoc

I see the snow got fairly bad or good, depending on your view, over night. I'm off work for the next few days (was off anyway ) If anyone knows any people in and around the city that you can't get to and need something over the next few days, you can PM or skype me and I'll head out on the bike (link under my name), also think I'm working in Carlow on Saturday so if you need something brought up or down you can let know.

Dan Chipowski

fabbydabby wrote: »

Chadwick's jacked up the price of their water softener salt 25 kilo bags by 80% since this day last week, but I am sure that's just a coincidence.

Disgusting practice.

Dan Chipowski

Huge snowfall in Kilkenny city in the past hour, the most i've seen in my lifetime anyway

minxie

Dan Chipowski wrote: »

Huge snowfall in Kilkenny city in the past hour, the most i've seen in my lifetime anyway

Will ye send some to Galway ...

Jinxi

A full foot of snow fell last night over here in loughboy:D

Threadhead

Definitely the most I've seen in my lifetime. It sure is a winter wonderland out there.

Asphyxia

Threadhead wrote: »

Definitely the most I've seen in my lifetime. It sure is a winter wonderland out there.

I'm loving it I can't wait to walk through tomorrow

Cabaal

fabbydabby wrote: »

Chadwick's jacked up the price of their water softener salt 25 kilo bags by 80% since this day last week, but I am sure that's just a coincidence.

Supply and demand
Co-op in Callan is still selling the one I buy for about 8e odd a bag which is good
Course I use it for my water softner not for my drive way...

t63m

Cabaal wrote: »

Supply and demand
Co-op in Callan is still selling the one I buy for about 8e odd a bag which is good
Course I use it for my water softner not for my drive way...

even allowing for extra costs in emergency delivery situations -a hike like this is extortion and nothing short of.
To generalize it as "supply and demand" and let it go at that is facilitating the type of greed that got us into the financial malaise we are currently in.
I would suggest burying them in a sea of bad publicity and complaints thru the various consumers associations.

fabbydabby

Yeah so would I but that's a whole lot of effort. But knock yourself out. Can't remember the last time I bought in there.

I am a Universal man through and through. Cheapest in town AND you get to have a chat about the weather with the guy in the hut as he takes your pink docket every time you drive out the gate.

road_high

Thaw is at least underway. Just a word of caution on the motorway especially between Castldermot and Kilcullen, still bits of ice that you need to be wary of especially in the dark on the overtaking lane. They cleared most of it earlier but it was lethal up until then.

thetonynator

It's all gone in thomastown!! At last . .:D

:P

road_high

Still lots of slush/snow on the road in my estate. Pity it couldn't have got a run with the plough.