The flooding thread. Read post 1.

Celly Smunt

anybody know how the weather is for the tonight?

G_R

Hey guys, anyone living in or around Coolock? Will be heading over there for work tomorrow, wondering if I should bring a car or a boat!?!

starbelgrade

homer_simpson wrote: »

wheres that taken?

Donegal.

Cool_CM

billymitchell wrote: »

I'm very uneasy about that, especially since there is no confirmation

Why wait for something trivial like confirmation when they can be first to report it.
Plus, even if it turns out to be false, they can write a 20 word retraction and "apology" the next day.

Local-womanizer

homer_simpson wrote: »

wheres that taken?

Castlefinn, it was posted in the Donegal forum by another member!

ShooterSF

ShagNastii wrote: »

The missus is a doc in the mater. She's on in the morning. Does anyone know if it should be plain sailing re: passable roads from the griffth college area?

I'd drive to be on the safe side. Don't want to get a boat stuck there!

randylonghorn

fullstop wrote: »

A fee cars got through but one got stuck, an 11 reg Skoda with Ruairi Quinn in the passenger seat and a highly (un)skilled (Garda presumably?) driver at the wheel.

I thought they had gone to civilian drivers at this stage?

Ginny

Killer Pigeon wrote: »

No, I'm not too far from there. All clear. Be weary of that stream down near the castle though.

It looked ok at 11pm, dunno about the buses in the morning hopefully. The flooding near the port tunnel recedes or the 41x is going the long long way since santry is flooded at the Swiss cottage

randylonghorn

ladycam wrote: »

Gave his name as well, surely all his family wouldn't even know yet.
Very sad

I've snipped it in the post above yours ... let's leave it a while until more is confirmed, even if Browne didn't have that decency, thanks.

TheUsual

mikemac wrote: »

You should write a letter to his superintendent, these sorts of things go far
Might help his annual appraisal

I will but ...
How would I know where he works, or would Garda HQ Harcourt Street or the Garda in the Phoenix Park be the better bet ?

Esoteric_

Grand_Rajnah wrote: »

Hey guys, anyone living in or around Coolock? Will be heading over there for work tomorrow, wondering if I should bring a car or a boat!?!

Hi there, I'm living in Coolock and it's pretty bad right now. Parts of it are ok, do you wanna PM me and let me know what area of coolock you're headed to and I can let you know the least flooded ways to go?

iguana

I live right next to the Dodder in Templeogue but about 20ft above it, thankfully. By this evening it had burst it's banks here and the river side path, which normally runs about 7ft higher than it was several feet under water. The speed and power of the water was frightening. I doubt anyone caught in it would have stood a chance.

If that rain had continued overnight I'd definitely have had flooding by morning, which has never happened in these houses in their 102 years. Apparently the last time the water came as high here as it did tonight was during Hurricane Charlie in 1986.

Thankfully the water level has dropped now. It's about 3ft lower, the footpath is still completely flooded but at least you can tell where it is now, earlier the whole valley area just looked like one big river.

Killer Pigeon

Killer Pigeon wrote: »

Now, that's one thing I don't understand. Why the hell did they endanger people's lives by leaving the electricity on.

"Ah, sure they'll be grand"

No electricity, no lights!

All circuits would be protected and would trip out in wet - I would imagine that all the low level sockets would have tripped out as the water rose.

Little chance of getting electrocuted, unless you grab something live while standing in the water.

Killer Pigeon

Has anyone thought about the rats and other rodents? There probably everywhere now. Ew.

V_Moth

Far too much excitement for one night! Looks like there won't be any rain on East coast for next few hours but some more rain for south Munster in next hour.

longhalloween

Attached some pics of the Londis across from the bus depot in Drogheda.

Paparazzo

Killer Pigeon wrote: »

This is why when you buy a house, it's always a good idea to make note of its elevation.

Was doing that with my journey home! Was trying to avoid roads with dip in it where water could gather.

fullstop

randylonghorn wrote: »

fullstop wrote: »

A fee cars got through but one got stuck, an 11 reg Skoda with Ruairi Quinn in the passenger seat and a highly (un)skilled (Garda presumably?) driver at the wheel.

I thought they had gone to civilian drivers at this stage?

Not sure but he had an I.D badge on anyway, not the brightest of sparks for a professional driver. Where he got stuck only the top half of his lights were visible.

patrickc

longhalloween wrote: »

Attached some pics of the Londis across from the bus depot in Drogheda.

presume buses will be sticking to the M1 if they're still running

Cameron Poe

Just had a wander up to London Bridge in Ringsend. The water is barely able to pass under the bridge, about half a foot to spare. The new flood defences seem to be doing their job.

http://p.twimg.com/Acjuu5gCAAAfHW9.jpg

Killer Pigeon

"Sure, the same thing happened in Tullamore last week..."

Joseph

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/291994_10150333478281300_275796011299_8641042_808896022_n.jpg

mosi

thehamo wrote: »

Anyone know anything of the tolka? I know it was very high earlier today but not sure if it breached its banks

Was overflowing in parts around Drumcondra. Breached its banks in Griffith Park...some crazy rapids in there. Also down at junction of Botanic Avenue and Drumcondra Road. Not sure what happened further up or down.
Botanic Avenue was flooded earlier and cars were floating down the road. Water went in the front door of some houses but didn't flood them. Millmount Avenue was bad as well for a while

hidinginthebush

JustAThought wrote: »

psycho-hope wrote: »

anyone know what the m50 form the airport to wicklow is like?

Almost 4 hour trip from red cow northbound to Malahide exit; from 530pm til after 9. Over two hours of this was the 5 minute drive from Woodies near red cow to slip onto top of M50. Clare Hall at least four if water, Malahide road up past Charlie Haugheys place savage flooding up to 9pm; a river running through it. Cars racing on one side only to try & get through; some getting stuck in the floods and others having to get out & help the wirh a push x 2 cars in front of me. Kettles lane Kinsealy impassable. Campions pub right turn at tbe field sjunction to Belmayne totally flooded and impassible to jeeps; up last the bonnet ( top of). M50 from red cow to Malahide; whole chunks of the ("slow!") lane totally impassible and seriously dangerous; wash onto other lanes over the roofs of cars; that was 9 ish. The rain has stopped but seriously would t do it.
( normally not cautious!)

Yep it took me an hour to get from Clare hall to portmarnock, tried every possible route and eventually went all the way around the coast. Even then had water over the bonnet at spar in Malahide. This was between 10 and 11pm.

Kintarō Hattori

Bought a house this year. It's on a big hill near the top. Yay!

themandan6611

Killer Pigeon wrote: »

Has anyone thought about the rats and other rodents? There probably everywhere now. Ew.

Fianna fail died a long time ago

SeanPammer

longhalloween wrote: »

Attached some pics of the Londis across from the bus depot in Drogheda.

What camera were these taken with? they look great.

YipYipU

Kintarō Hattori wrote: »

Bought a house this year. It's on a big hill near the top. Yay!

That'll be fun when the snow comes

longhalloween

SeanPammer wrote: »

What camera were these taken with? they look great.

They're taken from pressphotos.ie

Apologies for any plagiarism

starbelgrade

longhalloween wrote: »

Attached some pics of the Londis across from the bus depot in Drogheda.

Holy cow... that's where KeithM89 sleeps most nights.

I hope he's OK.