Some weather, good time for a swim.

BeerWolf · 13-11-2014 10:39pm #1

So many cars parked on the sides of the roads to avoid stalling them going through severe flooding everywhere...

Seeing cars braving going through water up to the bonnet... meself being in a low lying Ford Puma I opted to park my car at a Church and walk home after trying all possible routes back... ALL OF THEM FLOODED... :pac:

Only took me 6 hours to get home... **** sake.

And it's still raining...

Fun times.

Fr_Dougal · 13-11-2014 10:41pm

Saft day.

Streetwalker · 13-11-2014 10:43pm

It's not raining indoors and that's all that counts.

Joeseph Balls · 13-11-2014 10:48pm

TheZohan wrote: »

Saft day.

Sure ya cant not expect it this time of year.

Fr_Dougal · 13-11-2014 10:53pm

Joeseph Balls wrote: »

Sure ya cant not expect it this time of year.

'Tis fierce mild out.

Candy_Girl · 13-11-2014 10:55pm

What amazes me is that the same places are flooded every year yet nothing is done to prevent it happening again...road tax me arse.

Joeseph Balls · 13-11-2014 10:55pm

TheZohan wrote: »

'Tis fierce mild out.

Tis close alright...

Fr_Dougal · 13-11-2014 10:56pm

Candy_Girl wrote: »

What amazes me is that the same places are flooded every year yet nothing is done to prevent it happening again...road tax me arse.

Yeah, there should be a water tax instead...oh wait...

13-11-2014 10:58pm

Candy_Girl wrote: »

What amazes me is that the same places are flooded every year yet nothing is done to prevent it happening again...road tax me arse.

Hardly worthwhile spending money on flooding though is it? How often does it happen? and no doubt it'd cost an arm and a leg to even get a 'consultant' to say "yup, you can fix that, alright!".

Candy_Girl · 13-11-2014 11:04pm

Deleted User wrote: »

Hardly worthwhile spending money on flooding though is it? How often does it happen? and no doubt it'd cost an arm and a leg to even get a 'consultant' to say "yup, you can fix that, alright!".

Every year the M1 and the M50 are flooded in the same locations surely there's enough money spent on road tax to put in a shore or two or whatever is needed...even dig a hole ffs. It's so annoying that they weren't done properly in the first place.

WoollyRedHat · 13-11-2014 11:07pm

Always have a raft in the back just in case.

toastedpickles · 13-11-2014 11:09pm

Tis grand washin weather out there

Gongoozler · 13-11-2014 11:09pm

I don't get how we live in a country where it rains quite a bit, and people moan about it all day long, but yet we have such **** drainage. The footpaths and roads are turned into rivers with a bit of heavy rain. It's almost embarrassing.

I also don't get how, as much as people moan about the rain, no one seems to look up the fcuking forecast before leaving the house. It's hardly fcuking rocket science! If you're not going to do that, don't be so surprised when it starts raining.

Candy_Girl · 13-11-2014 11:10pm

I'm saving for one of these

Mint Sauce · 13-11-2014 11:13pm

Candy_Girl wrote: »

What amazes me is that the same places are flooded every year yet nothing is done to prevent it happening again...road tax me arse.

15 minutes and no one picked up on it. AH, you disapoint me.

Candy_Girl · 13-11-2014 11:54pm

Mint Sauce wrote: »

15 minutes and no one picked up on it. AH, you disapoint me.

Oh somebody did alright

Sh1tbag OToole · 14-11-2014 12:32am

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Hardly worthwhile spending money on flooding though is it? How often does it happen? and no doubt it'd cost an arm and a leg to even get a 'consultant' to say "yup, you can fix that, alright!".

Did you know that there is a €10,000 finger lifting fee that must be paid to the civil servants involved before the government is allowed to lift a finger on any project no matter how trivial.

If you call up about a bulb in a street light being broken and it actually gets replaced that's 10k spent already on top of the actual cost of replacing the bulb.

10k minimum spend just to get to the point of 'someone has to physically get up and do something about this problem'. Then they may still decide to contract it out or do further consulting. During the tiger there were talks of raising it to 25,000

14-11-2014 3:32pm

Sh1tbag OToole wrote: »

If you call up about a bulb in a street light being broken and it actually gets replaced that's 10k spent already on top of the actual cost of replacing the bulb.

While I don't believe that for a second, I'm sure it would be rather pricy to get drainage issues fixed.

And the ones who'd complain most about the flooding would be the ones complaining about the ongoing road works.

Sh1tbag OToole · 14-11-2014 5:59pm

Deleted User wrote: »

While I don't believe that for a second, I'm sure it would be rather pricy to get drainage issues fixed.

And the ones who'd complain most about the flooding would be the ones complaining about the ongoing road works.

I was taking the piss