whats the weather like in your area?

Conmaicne Mara

Driving home from Galway this afternoon, storm hit while I was in Oughterard getting waterproofs and supplies from the vet. 60kph most of the way home and that was pushing it. Lots of branches down, saw Eircom poles snapped in half (glad I didn't get to buy some of those). Car was being pushed off the road either side of Maam Cross. Lakes through Recess were like something possessed, water literally being sucked up off the surface and thrown horizontally with the wind.

RNLI had to rescue 4 fish farm workers in Clifden bay, when the storm struck up suddenly.

Reggie.

biddy2013 wrote: »

was out there, roof off bull pen gone, lucky there was no one in the yard when it blew off. think fbd will be mental tomorrow

I know a girl that's training with them at the minute and all trainees were told today that they will be manning phones tomorrow as they are expecting a large influx of claims

biddy2013

was in the local centra this evening all the motors in the fridges etc where running on half power, that ruins a motor, atms where not working either:o

bbam

Getting away so far here in Cavan..
Bouts of extreme gusts and a few trees down but nothing major.. We had worse closer to christmas..

Greengrass1

15 big beach trees down here.
Big ones that you wouldn't get your arms around.
Effort of getting them off the cow roads tomorrow

Greengrass1

delaval wrote: »

Two roofs gone here, one still precarious but too dangerous to make safe tonight. I have shed man coming to quote for replacement in the morning and then let FBD take it from there.

I was in Kk this afternoon and it was the first time I remember being nervous in wind it was savage.

Try cod them and say the roof blew off the topless cubicles too :D

mahoney_j

Never ever want to see an afternoon like that again.never saw wind like it.ropped off the galvanise off the side of my hay barn/calf shed and knocked 6 rows of blocks and galvanise off the side of another.no power till 8 and only in now.some mess to clean up tomorrow

have2flushtwice

The fence blew down in the back garden, as bad as it got here in dublin. neibour at home in nrth tipp in hospital, tree fell on him. Dont know how he is, hopefuly not bad. Severe wind earlier, quiet now.

Conmaicne Mara

Greengrass1 wrote: »

15 big beach trees down here.
Big ones that you wouldn't get your arms around.
Effort of getting them off the cow roads tomorrow

Is beech any good for burning, how much € a bag, sharpen the saw

Conmaicne Mara

Reggie. wrote: »

I know a girl that's training with them at the minute and all trainees were told today that they will be manning phones tomorrow as they are expecting a large influx of claims

Baptism of fire comes to mind.

whitebriar

Greengrass1 wrote: »

15 big beach trees down here.
Big ones that you wouldn't get your arms around.
Effort of getting them off the cow roads tomorrow

Ditto here outside Arklow.
Powers off here,Genny running.
Between two and four it was ferocious,fully grown large trees bent down on the ground like they were just bushes.It was seriously like something you'd see on cnn when a hurricane was moving through.
Huge 50 ft oak trees,there for hundreds of years came down behind my house,luckily not on it.
We will be taking another one down ourselves tomorrow before the next storm or ASAP.
This is one in the attached picture that went down in my yard severing the power line ,so that's us on the Genny for a few days as it's unlikely the Esb will be out soon to it.

zetecescort

Never seen anything like it, 5 or 6 big full size trees down, pulled from the roots on all. Main sheds thankfully intact bar a couple of sections of gutter, roof gone on the shed for timber but it was near being knocked anyway.

No fallen trees on the boundary of the road, a couple down either side of my section of road frontage. Lucky escape.

Hope everyone is safe and well. Property can be fixed, stock replaced but people can't.

Greengrass1

Conmaicne Mara wrote: »

Is beech any good for burning, how much € a bag, sharpen the saw

Its okay. Needs to be seasoned though.
Tough wood to cut and split. It'll give the father a chance to use his latest purchase.
Bought a semi pro husqvarna with a 16" bar.
Serious saw to eat wood

TheFarrier

Roof off the stables is gone, as is the roof of the forge, along with the gable end of the cubicle shed. 25+ trees down on the avenue and around the house with loads more down on the roads nearby. Electricity out too. :-(

I said

Frost on the cars now here

Damo810

It's gotten really crazy here in the last hour!

Conmaicne Mara

Damo810 wrote: »

It's gotten really crazy here in the last hour!

Christ it must have, it's still bright !

Miname

Greengrass1 wrote: »

15 big beach trees down here.
Big ones that you wouldn't get your arms around.
Effort of getting them off the cow roads tomorrow

if you can get the trees out in 14 ft lenghts and they are of reasonable size i may be interested in buying them.

RobertKK

The storm was very violent in Kilkenny. Trees down everywhere damage to buildings.
My sister went and got the children from school, as she returned home a large tree fell just after she had passed under it.

Worst storm since Christmas eve 1997.

Conmaicne Mara

More rain on the way according to the weather forum, just what the doctor ordered, must be FedEx delivering it because it wasn't ordered here.

Greengrass1

Miname wrote: »

if you can get the trees out in 14 ft lenghts and they are of reasonable size i may be interested in buying them.

Done that craic before not easy to load them lengths up. A lot easier to log em

hugo29

serious thunder here at the moment

td5man

hugo29 wrote: »

serious thunder here at the moment

That what you get for eating spicy food and pints god help your oh

Conmaicne Mara

Bright here but cool and windy. Took a walk around the farm and no damage done thank God. Hear plenty of chainsaws going though.

RedFormanFITA

Settled down a lot in the past few hours, was out and it is dry and less windy now. Sun is out too from time to time. Not as cold but I'm sure that will change as the evening goes on.

Conmaicne Mara

Has turned blustery here again after being nice for a short while, nasty showers around.

Damo810

Holy .... Just saw this on facebook..

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10201244485466892

Conmaicne Mara

Damo810 wrote: »

Holy .... Just saw this on facebook..

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10201244485466892

Peeled off like the skin of an orange.

Base price

Every cloud has a silver lining or in my case - a storm.
A elderly neighbours pine trees were blown over during the storm yesterday, thankfully into a field and not his yard. However the upside for me, is that they can no longer block the afternoon sun into my late uncles house
They were planted before my time and block out most of the sunlight except during mid summer when the sun is high in the sky.
I hope he will not replace them, any suggestions on how to dissuade him?
I am in his good books, as I took some excellent pictures last weekend of a bull he had for sale and placed an ad for him on Donedeal. He has never advertised on Donedeal and would not be "with it" when it comes to modern technology. I bought him a mobile phone 8 years ago (his first) and it took him several months before he would answer it.
He sold the bull the next day for a good price

Odelay

Base price wrote: »

Every cloud has a silver lining or in my case - a storm.
A elderly neighbours pine trees were blown over during the storm yesterday, thankfully into a field and not his yard. However the upside for me, is that they can no longer block the afternoon sun into my late uncles house
They were planted before my time and block out most of the sunlight except during mid summer when the sun is high in the sky.
I hope he will not replace them, any suggestions on how to dissuade him?
I am in his good books, as I took some excellent pictures last weekend of a bull he had for sale and placed an ad for him on Donedeal. He has never advertised on Donedeal and would not be "with it" when it comes to modern technology. I bought him a mobile phone 8 years ago (his first) and it took him several months before he would answer it.
He sold the bull the next day for a good price

Tell him you have got a good price for some beech stems, would make a lovely hedge, offer to keep them topped? Bit of work on your part but better them him planting them feckers again.