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Snowmagedagain

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,996 ✭✭✭✭gozunda


    dirtyden wrote: »
    If having to close for a couple of days has that impact the business is not viable. Coming from a small shopkeepers family what actually happens is a day like today we would be much busier than typical. The losses from 2 days closed would be regained quickly enough once reopened. In any small business there has to be an element of contingency planning. For every small business you will have some downtime, whether it’s a supply issue, a leaky roof, whatever. You need to be able manage these or your business was never a goer.

    Now if someone smashed a jcb through the wall we would have been in trouble alright.


    Well interestingly enough a number of Tesco stores have little if any deliveries today because their lorries cannot get out to make nationwide deliveries.

    Coupled with the fact that at least one of their mega stores was on lock down following the Jobstown Riot and supermarket attack last night. Security had the doors locked and were only permitting access on request and No cash - card only transactions.

    Shows how 'events' can scupper even the biggest business daily operations ...


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 84 ✭✭Clickbait


    I have no idea how people are walking and not slipping on the ice.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,983 ✭✭✭minikin


    Must have those new Clark’s with traction control.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    R de clubz opin 2ni ?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,544 ✭✭✭h7nlrp2v0g5u48


    Now that The Beast From The East has come and gone was there anything in particular you enjoyed durning this major weather event? For me it was spending some good quality time with the family which i normally wouln'd get to do. Also watching people scramble to get bread. It was if the country was going to be shut down for a month and their lives depended on a slice pan. Did you survive without Brennn's slice pan? Looking forward to hearing posters stories.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 772 ✭✭✭the dark phantom


    The air, It was fresh and didn't get into my bones like the normal bitter damp cold we get, Slept with the windows open, Loved it.. Nice to walk in it too.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,133 ✭✭✭Shurimgreat


    If something like this ever happens again, I will be getting the last flight out of the country to somewhere warm before it happens and returning when its all done and dusted. A bit tired of the completely OTT coverage on RTE at this stage. They seem to have absolutely nothing else of interest to talk about.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,814 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    What did youse have for breakfast?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,814 ✭✭✭harry Bailey esq


    The name was pretty snappy


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,544 ✭✭✭h7nlrp2v0g5u48


    The air, It was fresh and didn't get into my bones like the normal bitter damp cold we get, Slept with the windows open, Loved it.. Nice to walk in it too.

    I agree I had a touch of the flu and went out for a stroll yesterday and i must say the air was so crisp that I think it helped kill some of the flu bugs. I fell much better today.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,039 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    The starving wildlife was the highlight for me


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    I'm sorry, but we enjoyed nothing. Stranded in the house since Wednesday.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,129 ✭✭✭PucaMama


    The starving wildlife was the highlight for me
    That and the freezing homeless people.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 732 ✭✭✭DontThankMe


    I liked the snow.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,983 ✭✭✭minikin


    If something like this ever happens again, I will be getting the last flight out of the country to somewhere warm before it happens and returning when its all done and dusted. A bit tired of the completely OTT coverage on RTE at this stage. They seem to have absolutely nothing else of interest to talk about.

    I hear they’ve other channels now Ted, as many as a dozen more, in colour and everything! You’re dead right about getting away though :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,544 ✭✭✭h7nlrp2v0g5u48


    What did youse have for breakfast?

    Rashes, sausages and eggs with a cup of black tea as we had no milk. I had one slice of toast after having a fight with a crow in my garden to get the last slice of bread off him.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    natashaob6 wrote: »
    Rashes, sausages and eggs with a cup of black tea as we had no milk. I had one slice of toast after having a fight with a crow in my garden to get the last slice of bread off him.

    The rashes could be from scurvy due to a lack of fruit and vegetables.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,821 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    If no milk left, plain vanilla ice cream or baileys in coffee works... depending on the time day :)

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,821 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Clickbait wrote: »
    I have no idea how people are walking and not slipping on the ice.

    I'm using the clip on grips I bought after last snowmageddon... first time using them, they'd been sitting in drawer for years. Great grip, but in deep piles of slush I have to make sure I haven't left them behind. And walking on a clear stretch is actually awkward.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,005 ✭✭✭pilly


    YES Like most undiagnosed adhd, mild autism sufferers!?

    dirtyden wrote:
    If having to close for a couple of days has that impact the business is not viable. Coming from a small shopkeepers family what actually happens is a day like today we would be much busier than typical. The losses from 2 days closed would be regained quickly enough once reopened. In any small business there has to be an element of contingency planning. For every small business you will have some downtime, whether it’s a supply issue, a leaky roof, whatever. You need to be able manage these or your business was never a goer.


    If the business is manufacturing you will never get those days back.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,544 ✭✭✭h7nlrp2v0g5u48


    Now that The Beast From The East has come and gone was there anything in particular you enjoyed durning this major weather event? For me it was spending some good quality time with the family which i normally wouln'd get to do. We spent all of yesterday out in the snow and my three teenagers couldn't believe the amount of snow had fallen not just in our area but all over the country. We took some great photos and we now have great memories of the historical weather event. So how was it for you guys?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,166 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    The looting.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,544 ✭✭✭h7nlrp2v0g5u48


    Fr_Dougal wrote: »
    The looting.

    Very funny.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,431 ✭✭✭MilesMorales1


    I went up to Tesco airside there for when it opened at 11am, it was mental, you'd think it was the end of days the way some of them were carrying on! It'll be back to normal by Monday or Tuesday and there was some woman with 6 loaves of bread.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,046 ✭✭✭Berserker


    Is looting now the official pastime for disadvantaged Dubs when a bit of snow arrives?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 678 ✭✭✭WhiteMan32


    Collie D wrote: »
    Dublin Bus due to resume service on main routes from midday with updates from around 10am.

    Similar to previous occasions when the Dublin Bus service resumed following a number of strike days, will they be offering annual leap card holders a refund for the recent days that they did not operate a service due to the snow?


  • Posts: 4,501 [Deleted User]


    I went up to Tesco airside there for when it opened at 11am, it was mental, you'd think it was the end of days the way some of them were carrying on! It'll be back to normal by Monday or Tuesday and there was some woman with 6 loaves of bread.

    Supervalue Maynooth was fast outta the traps to open again this morning.

    Two teleporters clearing the carpark and doing a wild trade.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,102 ✭✭✭greencap


    Employer had been running me ragged.

    Then bang. loads of time off, and totally not my fault. Cant blame me for snow can ya. lol.

    Same employer thinks Im going to give it socks when I get back.

    Me hole. lol.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,183 ✭✭✭Trigger Happy


    It was like christmas without the crap tunes.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,431 ✭✭✭MilesMorales1


    It was a great reminder that the idea of doing nothing and watching tv/playing video games all day is never as good as you think it'll be.


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