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Leinster flooding - 24th October 2011

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    #152
    MilanPan!c
    Site Banned Posts: 4,415 ✭✭✭MilanPan!c


    thegen wrote: »
    Around in Butterfield Drive, I know the little stream, it between the gardens in the Park and Charleville.

    Exactly ;)

    Full of Xmas trees and lawn cuttings I think...


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    #153
    gbee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,388 ✭✭✭gbee


    This is the type of reporting me and Leahy and a few more were expecting to be delivering yesterday. :(


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    #154
    Su Campu
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    71 mm fell at Casement this afternoon, bringing the 24-hour total to 87 mm.:eek:
    51 mm fell at Dublin Airport, bringing its 24-hour total to 67 mm.

    http://www.ogimet.com/cgi-bin/gsynext?lang=en&state=Irel&rank=100&ano=2011&mes=10&day=24&hora=18&Send=send


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    #155
    lolie
    Registered Users Posts: 2,346 ✭✭✭lolie


    Monsoon season here since yesterday morning and looking at met.ie radar no sign of it easing up. Noticed on the radar its not showing any rain over northern half of wexford all day. Would it have anything to do with the wicklow mountains blocking the radar signal?


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    #156
    Trogdor
    Registered Users Posts: 2,310 ✭✭✭Trogdor


    32mm here so far today. Total of the last 2 days is up to 68.8mm. Can't remember the last time i've seen so much water in the dargle!


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    #157
    DOCARCH
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    Looking at radar, looks like a clearance in the next hour maybe.

    71.0mm now since midnight. 48hr total now 114.1mm. Peak rain rate of 87.2mm/hr at 19.09.


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    #158
    ninebeanrows
    Registered Users Posts: 12,778 ✭✭✭✭ninebeanrows


    Haven't seen continuous rain this heavy in well, ever. Maybe in the US but not in Dublin.

    It is still trucking it down.

    Roads are treacherous and quickly becoming impassible.


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    #159
    DominoDub
    Registered Users Posts: 1,572 ✭✭✭DominoDub


    Just had a crazy walk from Baggot Street to Pearse Street just now ...it is all down hill and the flow of water along the paths & roads unreal. Canal street is living up to its name.

    ps. why do so many crazy drivers feel the need to blow their horns , when they are not going to be going anywhere ?

    Felt so sorry for some poor folk with flooded basements on Pearse street trying to pump out water. Water now coming up via the sewage drians and flowing down a ramp into our underground car park.


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    #160
    Sierra Oscar
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    The underground car park in the Merrion Shopping Centre was flooding a few hours ago, wouldn't care to think what its like now!


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    #161
    DOCARCH
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    Weathercheck wrote: »
    Haven't seen continuous rain this heavy in well, ever. Maybe in the US but not in Dublin.

    It is still trucking it down.

    Roads are treacherous and quickly becoming impassible.

    Very Hurricane Charlie (having been around for that one).


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    #162
    neilthefunkeone
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    Friend just took this on N4.. Heading out towards parmerstown..:eek:

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    #163
    whiteandlight
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,359 ✭✭✭whiteandlight


    Anyone been on the leixlip to maynooth road lately? Some serious floods building there about 5pm


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    #164
    Su Campu
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    lolie wrote: »
    Monsoon season here since yesterday morning and looking at met.ie radar no sign of it easing up. Noticed on the radar its not showing any rain over northern half of wexford all day. Would it have anything to do with the wicklow mountains blocking the radar signal?

    Yes, the heavy rain near Dublin would reflect the majority of the radar signal, meaning that far off returns were minimal. The mountains had a shielding effect too


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    #165
    El Horseboxo
    Registered Users Posts: 5,339 ✭✭✭El Horseboxo


    Just drove out and back in Finglas. Some very deep patches around the estates and seems to be a good few pipes or mains broke that are spewing water up in the air. Seen a few down in the east. If you don't know how to drive in this please stay at home. You're gonna cause accidents or cause yourself or others to get stuck. Had some drivers in front of me that really shouldn't have been out in it.


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    #166
    glossy
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    whitemocha wrote: »
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmwtTcCw2CM

    this was blessington road now just to note i videoed this after i had been through the worst of it this was mild

    My car's undergarage cover has come away :(

    just seen that video on another site, not sure if it's you or they are claiming it is!


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    #167
    muletide
    Registered Users Posts: 1,506 ✭✭✭muletide


    Just off the N7 southbound it's down to one lane at kill. And I would not be surprised If it closes soon as that lane has about a foot of water in it.

    3 hours from Newlands cross to Naas


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    #168
    ninebeanrows
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    Still intensity is the thing at the moment.

    Radar would suggest a clearance soon.


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    #169
    whitemocha
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    glossy wrote: »
    just seen that video on another site, not sure if it's you or they are claiming it is!



    :):) nope we are the same person if the site is MM;)


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    #170
    emo72
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    I wonder how Lucan village will fare after the flood relief. Hell fire club post some pictures please.


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    #171
    smiler1990
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    huge parts of cabra getting severe flooding, up to people's knees in some parts!! Cant believe how bad it is! :eek:


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    #172
    Lucreto
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    muletide wrote: »
    Just off the N7 southbound it's down to one lane at kill. And I would not be surprised If it closes soon as that lane has about a foot of water in it.

    3 hours from Newlands cross to Naas

    That would explain why Naas was quiet and I had an easy trip home.


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    #173
    Wertz
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    Kicking up a notch again the North east rain wise (it never really stopped, just became less heavy for a while)... and the wind hasn't eased off at all. easily 40-45mph gusts. Road outside is flooded now, but nothing like the pics posted here...but it's not for the want of trying.


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    #174
    SEPT 23 1989
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    emo72 wrote: »
    I wonder how Lucan village will fare after the flood relief. Hell fire club post some pictures please.

    If any part of the city is underwater Lucan is a sure bet


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    #175
    emo72
    Registered Users Posts: 6,225 ✭✭✭emo72


    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    If any part of the city is underwater Lucan is a sure bet

    hope not. Kennys is my fave pub.


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    #176
    DominoDub
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    Now I know what RED on the met Rainfall Radar feels like.:o


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    #177
    ninebeanrows
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    wind is picking up here from the whest.

    A little low is forming around Dublin a forecast.

    Precip echoes intensify in the region on latest radar


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    #178
    BMSF
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    Is its going to be like this tomorrow morning/ afternoon in Dublin does anyone know?


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    #179
    Big Daddy Cool
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    well that was an interesting day :eek:. have a couple of fields under some water, and plenty of floods on the road


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    #180
    ninebeanrows
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    BMSF wrote: »
    Is its going to be like this tomorrow morning/ afternoon in Dublin does anyone know?

    No, if it was we would all drown!


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    #181
    drakshug
    Registered Users Posts: 216 ✭✭drakshug


    N7 at Kill was very bad not helped by drivers going too fast and causing huge bow waves. One car abandoned in middle lane and another at the Kill exit. The latter had water up to the wheel arches.
    Water was fast flowing too.
    Helluva lot of people speeding after the big ball. Wouldn't like to hit floodwater at 130 especially as visibility almost nil.


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