So this Hurricane

RobbingBandit

Serious question folks is Dunnes still closed tomorrow I need my fix of their donuts.

snowflaker

Wexford was fairly hammered, my sister is still without Electricity and likely to be for a while.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

maryishere wrote: »

Am in Dublin and I am after ringing some friends and relatives down the country to see if they are ok, and nobody thought it was that windy. No worse than some other storms.

And we're fine in our house too thank goodness, as we stayed put all day. But, a young father we know died when his car hit a fallen tree only four kilometres from here. So, yes, no worse than some other storms except it's the most severe and widespread in over 50years. :rolleyes:

Salvation Tambourine

Junkyard Tom wrote: »

It's really weird that people are trying to downplay the severity of the storm because they personally didn't experience it.

It's like when a small child hides behind a cushion and believes if he can't see you you can't see him, this is stage of child development known as ego-centrism and children usually start growing out of it by the age of five or six.

If there was a terrorist attack in a city that killed three people would they try and down play it because it didn't affect them?

Extreme example but the images and facts are there to show that some areas were massively affected.

Like others, I am delighted that schools were closed and other services cancelled. The number could have been much higher. Think if the Cork City match was to go ahead and the stand was to collapse on people.

Dr Turk Turkelton

noaddedsugar wrote: »

My polytunnel is perfect, no damage at all. I have a few thousand euro worth of plants in it so I was really concerned that it would get destroyed but I went out to check on it earlier and just one plant was toppled over inside. It's still fairly windy outside at the minute though and now I am scared I have jinxed it.

You grow cannabis plants cocoa plants and opium poppies?
There the only plants I can think of worth a few k.

murpho999

Watched the RTE 9 o'clock news reports and seeing areas of the country getting battered.

Don't see how anybody can downplay this event.

PARlance

Dr Turk Turkelton wrote: »

You grow cannabis plants cocoa plants and opium poppies?
There the only plants I can think of worth a few k.

A few dozen roses can fetch 2k on Valentine's Day.

retro:electro

Can people not give updates of how things are going for them in their areas without being reminded that 3 people have died elsewhere?

Yes we know that and it's very tragic but people can still share their experience of the storm and how they found it. Yes there are some smug gits here but Jaysus people can't say tis grand here without someone jumping down their neck over it.
Personally I was very worried about this one and am grateful it wasn't as bad as predicted in my area.

OldMrBrennan83

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Cortina_MK_IV

RobbingBandit wrote: »

Serious question folks is Dunnes still closed tomorrow I need my fix of their donuts.

One_Of_Shanks

Augme wrote: »

When you say you are running a service and plan to run it all day only to decide at 10am that all services are being cut straight away then you need to take a big portion of the blame. As I said, this weather event wasn't a surprise.

You're right. It wasn't a surprise. So everyone knew already what was coming.

If you want to blame the guys who tried to run a service for as long as they could then fine.
But the people intending to use that service knew fully in advance that it wouldn't work out, weather pending.

Good intentions on the service providers behalf. But you didn't need to be a genius to watch the TV or listen to the radio and see what was likely to follow.

Sometimes its sort of obvious whats gonna happen. Even if they dont wave big flags saying it in advance.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

anna080 wrote: »

Can people not give updates of how things are going for them in their areas without being reminded that 3 people have died elsewhere?

Yes we know that and it's very tragic but people can still share their experience of the storm and how they found it. Yes there are some smug gits here but Jaysus people can't say tis grand here without someone jumping down their neck over it.
Personally I was very worried about this one and am grateful it wasn't as bad as predicted in my area.

There's a huge difference between a clear clean comment on the current conditions where you are, as you just did, and some of the poor attempts at humour and the troll like 'non event' 'they got it wrong' 'why couldn't schools open/buses run' etc nonsense that has been posted today, with no other purpose than to strip the pot.

freshpopcorn

anna080 wrote: »

Can people not give updates of how things are going for them in their areas without being reminded that 3 people have died elsewhere?

Yes we know that and it's very tragic but people can still share their experience of the storm and how they found it. Yes there are some smug gits here but Jaysus people can't say tis grand here without someone jumping down their neck over it.
Personally I was very worried about this one and am grateful it wasn't as bad as predicted in my area.

See the thing is it wasn't grand. Those who were saying it's grand were doing it Yesterday and were just encouraging people to take risks!

Billy86

Zayn Red Carpentry wrote: »

There's a huge difference between a clear clean comment on the current conditions where you are, as you just did, and some of the poor attempts at humour and the troll like 'non event' 'they got it wrong' 'why couldn't schools open/buses run' etc nonsense that has been posted today, with no other purpose than to strip the pot.

Worst of all was someone actively trying to convince others that the images being shared of damage were photoshopped fakes and basically encouraging others to follow suit with them by going out and about as if nothing was the matter, even after people had died.

The mind really does boggle at times, the lengths some people will go to in order to get some attention.

Outlaw Pete

:P

https://twitter.com/SeanSheehanBA/status/919966583010848769

tigger123

Am just waiting for someone to say Hurricane Ophelia was a false flag operation.

Ulysses Gaze

tigger123 wrote: »

Am just waiting for someone to say Hurricane Ophelia was a false flag operation.

HAARP....

RobbingBandit

Honestly thought my windows were gonna blow in earlier, had a panic attack took some pain killers to deal with headache and slept through a few hours of it. It's just a usual windstorm now but from about 2:15 pm today until about 3:30 pm it was loud and scary. This 115 year old with an autistic spectrum disorder felt like a 5 year old. I'm never moving to any hurricane affected area of America as this was really just a cat 2/3 exhurricane event if I had to deal with the real deal I'd don't know what I would do.

retro:electro

Zayn Red Carpentry wrote: »

There's a huge difference between a clear clean comment on the current conditions where you are, as you just did, and some of the poor attempts at humour and the troll like 'non event' 'they got it wrong' 'why couldn't schools open/buses run' etc nonsense that has been posted today, with no other purpose than to strip the pot.

I may have missed some of the more inflammatory posts as I wasn't following the thread all day

dbagman

I can't speak for everyone but me personally was in no way down playing conditions in any part of the country. I was commenting how surprised I was at it being a bit of a non event in my own area. As were plenty of others. This was a thread to discuss the storm, and anyone who wasn't suffering from the worst of it and did just that was berated and accused of all sorts. Iv been called a gob****e, an infantile and a dick (by a mod no less) to mention some of the crap thrown my way. Not to mention the absolutely ridiculous accusation of attempting to belittle the 3 deaths that have occurred today. Don't know what the repercussions are going to be as I'm not meant to post here but the mod has chosen to ignore me since so take from that what you will.
I can't help but feel some on here were only to delighted to find something to be outraged by. Im sorry if some of you felt I was trying to be a wind up merchant regarding people's lives but I can' begin to fathom why you would think so. All I was doing was commenting on my own experience of the storm and just because it wasn't the doom and gloom of other parts of the country people automatically assumed the worst. How me saying it wasn't bad (where i was at least!!) got twisted into me somehow trolling the deaths that occurred today is nothing short of ridiculous. And shame on the people that have even suggested so.

Junkyard Tom

This is all very real down here. A brick wall between my Sister and her neighbour's house was blown over. There are trees down all over Cork including in front of my folks' house. My folks lost their electricity and were out of bread and milk so I delivered it to them earlier and felt worried for them because they're getting on in years.

The Gardai are currently dealing with newly downed power lines and trees in Douglas (south Cork City). My Sister is worried sick because her husband is out in the car. There are 17 enormous trees blown over on Centre Park Road, parked cars were crushed at Fitzgerald's Park from falling trees. The roof was blown off a school sports hall in Douglas. The Cork City football stadium roof collapsed - if it had blown the other way it could have wrecked homes and caused casualties.

Let's get one thing straight here, if this storm had 'sneaked' up on us like the 1986 1987 one that hit Britain there'd have been an awful lot more casualties.

McMurphy

We got it pretty bad here today (Wicklow/Kildare border) wind started right on cue according to forecasters (1230/1300)

Have had a few things banjaxed around the yards, nothing that can't be mended or replaced though.

Wind died down a good bit for an hour or two at around 1700, but has fairly kicked off again in the last few hours.

I reckon we're in for a rough night.

LordSutch

Junkyard Tom wrote: »

Let's get one thing straight here, if this storm had 'sneaked' up on us like the 1986 one that hit Britain there'd have been an awful lot more casualties.

Was it 1986 or 1987?

I keep hearing conflicting views.

Junkyard Tom

LordSutch wrote: »

Was it 1986 or 1987?

I keep hearing conflicting views.

Yeah, 1987, my mistake.

shaunr68

LordSutch wrote: »

Was it 1986 or 1987?

I keep hearing conflicting views.

1987, the year Sevenoaks became Oneoak!

Mrcaramelchoc

sonofenoch wrote: »

As long as the leccy don't go I'm content.....beers and footy in the eye of a storm, life doesn't get better

Electricity.

qwerty ui op

Deusexmachina wrote: »

The usual lot have decided to take the day off tomorrow at taxpayers expense. I know I sound like a killjoy but we really do take the piss in this country.
I have to drive from Wicklow to Letterkenny tomorrow morning for work. I'm self-employed. Nobody will pay my bills if I don't work.

Deusexmachina wrote: »

People are relying on me. It's going to rain and be windy. I'll survive somehow.

how was work? Did you get much done with all that wind and rain?

LollipopJimmy

BillyBobBS wrote: »

Yeah how dare they assess the situation and make a judgement. They should have stuck to the 7pm plan filled the double deckers with people and to hell with the outcome.

That's a call that was made after the worst of it had passed Dublin though, people were told to stay in work if they were there already, decisions would have been made based on the fact DB said they'd be back at 7pm then changed their minds late in the day after the storm had passed. I've been out and about since 5ish and it's nothing more than a wind since then.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

shaunr68 wrote: »

1987, the year Sevenoaks became Oneoak!

30th anniversary today. It was late on the 15th in to 16th October 1987

BillyBobBS

LollipopJimmy wrote: »

That's a call that was made after the worst of it had passed Dublin though, people were told to stay in work if they were there already, decisions would have been made based on the fact DB said they'd be back at 7pm then changed their minds late in the day after the storm had passed. I've been out and about since 5ish and it's nothing more than a wind since then.

Sure.