What to buy for the severe winter weather week ahead?

rebelchick2

What are you adding to yourshopping list this Weekend in preparation for the week ahead?

bazermc

Condoms

punisher5112

bazermc wrote: »

Condoms

Is that just to blow them up for some entertainment¿

The Backwards Man

Sunglasses, a parasol, and Tennent's.

While Dublin is crippled by five millimeters of snow, we will be basking in glorious Siberian sunshine. Hopefully bring forward the turf cutting by a few weeks.

punisher5112

If people haven't learnt from any other previous weather event such as what is expected then no matter what the roads will be in sh1te and crashes everywhere.

If it does turn bad best thing is a good blanket, water, some bites to eat, something to place under tyres to get grip, make sure to fill up on fuel and check all levels in car including tyres.

kneemos

Often wondered why folk panic buy until I had reason to visit some of these places miles down a boreen or half way up a mountain.
Now I wonder why they don't panic all the time.

Mint Sauce

Some windscreen de icer. Can't wait for all the Dublin posters crying over the inch of snow leaving them house bound, Dublin airport shutting down, and the Dart/Luas grinding to a halt.

The west coast had it nearly a week in 2010, but no word of it till it hit the East. Any one would think we were in northern Canada, or the depths of Siberia.

Lia_lia

I just came back last night from 3 weeks in Thailand where it was mid 30's the whole time. F-this!! I'm contemplating getting the bus to work for a few days instead of driving. Roads will probably be a state.

Harry Palmr

Guns and tinned food.

If you're in the sticks a portable gas cooker and heater would be a good idea if you don't have them

Trigger Happy

Some people have gone all survivalist this week. Lad on our street seems to be expecting the big freeze to last until june.

Ajsoprano

Spent 30euro in a good pair of snowball throwing waterproof mountain climbing gloves.
I’ll be king of the kids.

NIMAN

You'll not need to buy anything out of the ordinary, its not like we will all be trapped in our houses.

If the OP is asking seriously, then it shows how media hype can scare people unnecessarily.

kneemos

I'll fill in for youtube guy. https://youtu.be/KZqS1hkQl1I

Trigger Happy

All though there is some good (and bad) advice on this thread over on the weather forum.
https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057844895

brevity

Gin, tonic and limes.

Collie D

Mint Sauce wrote: »

Some windscreen de icer. Can't wait for all the Dublin posters crying over the inch of snow leaving them house bound, Dublin airport shutting down, and the Dart/Luas grinding to a halt.

The west coast had it nearly a week in 2010, but no word of it till it hit the East. Any one would think we were in northern Canada, or the depths of Siberia.

Usually only takes a few posts before someone gives out about Dublin people potentially giving out

The Backwards Man

Collie D wrote: »

Usually only takes a few posts before someone gives out about Dublin people potentially giving out

Not giving out, I love it. Whenever I was at school, if there was a couple of hailstones in Malahide or Blackrock or somewhere we got the day off school. In Donegal. Teachers went playing golf, we went to the beach. It was great.

Roger Hassenforder

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Sunglasses, a parasol, and Tennent's.

While Dublin is crippled by five millimeters of snow, we will be basking in glorious Siberian sunshine. Hopefully bring forward the turf cutting by a few weeks.

Trag will be jammers

Oldtree

have a small camp gas cooker and a few spare gas canisters that will see the cooking and tea sorted out if things get bad, and dog food so they don't eat me.

Must get in the medications, as things could go horrible wrong if I get house bound

Zaph

I'm not taking any chances, what's the best site to buy a couple of tickets for the Canaries, departing tomorrow?

Yer Da sells Avon

As always, I'll start worrying about the weather when and if M.T. Cranium posts an update at a time other than 7am in the Daily Forecasts thread. That's when you know shit is getting real.

Mint Sauce

Collie D wrote: »

Usually only takes a few posts before someone gives out about Dublin people potentially giving out

The west coast has had snow during every event this winter, okay granted, we don't have the same level of population, or infrastructure, but I don't recall any talk of panic buying, with the worst that happened was a few trucks not being able to make it up a hill, or jack knifing on icy roads, or a plane having to circle over knock whilst they cleared the runway. As far as I know, buses and trains ran as normal, with only country roads facing real issues.

Now this event is heading from the east, and people are talking about panic buying, and not being able to go to work. That's not giving out about them, but making an observation.

harry Bailey esq

rebelchick2 wrote: »

What are you adding to yourshopping list this Weekend in preparation for the week ahead?

Nothing I wouldn't normally have. If you feel like you need more winter clothes, stay away from TK Maxx. You'll walk away with a bargain don't get me wrong, but stylish as they may be, nobody wants to to be wandering around in a hawaian fuccin shirt in the middle of a bleedin blizzard.

CelticRambler

Bunch of wimps, ye are over there on the Emerald Isle, and don't be giving the Dubs a hard time. I'm one of them, but even I couldn't manage the mass hysteria that decends on Paris when it snows. A few weeks ago, they managed to create 750km of traffic jams around the city one evening after a couple of cm fell and stuck.

Out here in the sticks, we just take the day/week off and build snowmen. Once you've spent a decade or more living in a country where shops and offices close at lunchtime, and at weekends, and for the school holidays, and for the days in-between bank holidays (that are rarely on a Monday), and because there's a strike, or "just because" ... well, a bit of winter weather has a hard time disrupting things any further!

Badly Drunk Boy

Mint Sauce wrote: »

The west coast had it nearly a week in 2010, but no word of it till it hit the East. Any one would think we were in northern Canada, or the depths of Siberia.

Ye were never very popular. Even Cromwell, with his "To hell or Connaught" comment, wasn't a fan... :pac:

ToddyDoody

I didn't buy anything additional but may pull out my woolly hat, now that you've suggested it.

Tsipras

Buckfast

Whispered

I'm just going to buy some extra bread and milk because they're something I usually buy every second on the walk to crèche. That way if crèche closes or if I don't feel like going out in the cold, I won't have to. Couple bottles of water in case it freezes and coal.
I got some fat balls for the birds today too. I'm really worried about our little family of robins and the other small birds that visit the garden. I can see them busy with springtime things, the buds are coming up in my garden now too. I'm excited about the snow and looking forward to my boys reaction but I wish it came a few weeks ago, before the springtime growth started.

dxhound2005

Never mind the weather. St Patrick's Day is on a Saturday and the Monday will be a public holiday. I have got my supplies in already to avoid the panic.

Ajsoprano

How hard would it be to get a few sled dogs? Just for a week or two.

corner of hells

Mint Sauce wrote: »

Some windscreen de icer. Can't wait for all the Dublin posters crying over the inch of snow leaving them house bound, Dublin airport shutting down, and the Dart/Luas grinding to a halt.

The west coast had it nearly a week in 2010, but no word of it till it hit the East. Any one would think we were in northern Canada, or the depths of Siberia.

Shouldn't you be out watching for polar bears , marauding timber wolves and blood thirsty Cossack horsemen ?

Guy:Incognito

punisher5112 wrote: »

Is that just to blow them up for some entertainment¿

Your don't Just have to blow them up.





You can draw faces on them too.