Snow 2018

Ken.

Just attempted to go to work in Castledermott from Newbridge. Road from Athgarvan to Kilcullen very very bad. Especially the hollow about half a mile out of Athgarvan. Had to get towed out of it.

Ken.

Also a MASSIVE shout out to the taxi man I met going the other way. Left his house in Kilcullen at 4am to get to Newbridge for 6am to bring 2 people to Dublin for kidney dialysis. A hero.

knucklehead6

Anyone know if Naas Oil are delivering? I ordered oil off them on Monday, for delivery Tuesday and it was rescheduled to Thursday. I ran out yesterday and have a 6 month old in the house.

tabby aspreme

knucklehead6 wrote: »

Anyone know if Naas Oil are delivering? I ordered oil off them on Monday, for delivery Tuesday and it was rescheduled to Thursday. I ran out yesterday and have a 6 month old in the house.

Give them a ring , I saw one of there trucks delivering oil at 3.30 yesterday

beertons

Definitely ring them. My neighbours got oil yesterday from them.

knucklehead6

beertons wrote: »

Definitely ring them. My neighbours got oil yesterday from them.

I’ve been trying to ring them. Getting a voicemail message.

Ken.

From the banner at the top of their website
Please Note: Due to Met Eireann extreme weather warnings we are fully booked up until early next week. If you place an order please be advised that payment will be taken at time of placing your order.

A facebook search has a few people saying they are not delivering till Monday.

knucklehead6

Conspectus wrote: »

From the banner at the top of their website
Please Note: Due to Met Eireann extreme weather warnings we are fully booked up until early next week. If you place an order please be advised that payment will be taken at time of placing your order.

A facebook search has a few people saying they are not delivering till Monday.

I saw that too. Just a bit peeved that I ordered on Monday and they rescheduled it.

If it's anything like my area there isn't a hope of getting a truck out.

Bet bet is to get few litres off a neighbour.

mloc123

Any shops open in Celbridge? Suddenly I'd love a bag of crisps.. :rolleyes:

beertons

mloc123 wrote: »

Any shops open in Celbridge? Suddenly I'd love a bag of crisps.. :rolleyes:

We finished all our last night. I'll be heading out for a few multi packs later myself.

Niamhf

Trying to work that out too...SuperValu is closed but petrol station may open at 1pm, but keep an eye on their Facebook. Any shops in Leixlip open?

Coopaloop

Heard apple green on dublin road celbridge is open. And daybreak opening shortly.
Wouldnt say They will have much stock.

Niamhf

Spar in Barnhall is open from 12-30, was just in touch with them!

Ken.

My brother says all lidls are opening at 2pm. He's a manager of one. There will be no deliveries so whatever they have is whatever they have.

AttentionBebe

What's Captain's Hill in Leixlip like at the moment?

TG1

Anyone know what the roads around the curragh are like at the moment? I need to attempt to get somewhere I can commute to work from and am in two minds as to whether to try and get home from wexford, or just go to a friend's in Dublin for tomorrow? Any insight welcome!

long_b

TG1 wrote: »

Anyone know what the roads around the curragh are like at the moment? I need to attempt to get somewhere I can commute to work from and am in two minds as to whether to try and get home from wexford, or just go to a friend's in Dublin for tomorrow? Any insight welcome!

Road around the Bush are OK. Big hill in Curragh Camp is closed. (or was yesterday)

beertons

Kildare really got it bad. Was in Maynooth yesterday, heading to Naas. Single lane out towards Barberstown, only got to the Esb sub station, had to turn back. Drove back up to the m50, red cow and down the n7.

There should have been local lads employed to clear roads, instead of shouting code red and immobilizing everyone. Apparently that's what they did in 1982.

My mother has been stuck in her house, so the anger has been brewing. She said she'd rather someone out doing the roads, rather than extra pension money for coal.

Redsoxfan

I saw KCC tweeting last night that Maynooth to Straffan was passable and they were hoping to clear Clane to Sallins before end of the night. Didn't see anything on Straffan to Clane.

Zebra3

beertons wrote: »

There should have been local lads employed to clear roads

Randomers with no training, no equipment, no insurance, no instructions, no contracts?

aodh_rua

long_b wrote: »

Road around the Bush are OK. Big hill in Curragh Camp is closed. (or was yesterday)

The road from the Camp to Ballymany was open again last night. Some parts of the road from Suncroft to Brownstown still had pinch points due to drifts but everything should be passable according to KCC.

beertons

Zebra3 wrote: »

Randomers with no training, no equipment, no insurance, no instructions, no contracts?

You don't need lessons in using a shovel.

They got by in 82 with no problems.

Redsoxfan

I see KCC tweeting looking for assistance from the 'farming community and qualified machinery operators' in North Kildare and around Rathangan.

No contact details or other information so I guess it is just a case of 'get to it'?

Lepidoptera

There have been plows and gritters working hard all over the place. We're hardly 24 hours past the event. It takes time to move the huge amounts of snow that fell across Kildare. Main roads and re-establishing the transport network across the badly affected counties is the first priority so that people and deliveries can start flowing between towns and villages again.

alice carroll

I've been stuck in my house with only my dogs for company since Tuesday lunch time. In all that time I have not seen a person or had a face to face conversation. Stir crazy at this stage

granturismo

Sallins to Naas is single lane in some places due to cleared snow being pushed onto large drifts and these are now compacted. This will require a serious effort to clear today (Sunday) otherwise there will be severe traffic delays tomorrow.

Has anyone driven from Sallins to Clane - is it two lane all the way?

Mister Vain

granturismo wrote: »

Sallins to Naas is single lane in some places due to cleared snow being pushed onto large drifts and these are now compacted. This will require a serious effort to clear today (Sunday) otherwise there will be severe traffic delays tomorrow.

Has anyone driven from Sallins to Clane - is it two lane all the way?

I drove through Clane this morning. The main street is a fecking disaster. I had to go by the Westgrove hotel which is just as bad. I didn't notice any traffic coming from the Sallins road at the roundabout. I will have to go to work that way tomorrow as the Mondello road is closed.

Ken.

Newbridge main street is fairly good but all the snow is packed up to the side so be careful if parking. Seen one man getting a push from the spots in front of where Cafe Continental is.

Redsoxfan

Just seen a video of the Maynooth - Straffan earlier - my goodness. 'Passable' is right. Hard to see many of the R roads handling their usual volumes tomorrow unless there is a big improvement this afternoon.

Any word on schools - I have heard the secondary school in Maynooth isn't open tomorrow.

L1011

Maynooth-Staffan closed at 2 for heavier clearing.

The Maynooth-Celbridge road is still an utter mess; motorway is an option but it means the 67 is still terminating in Celbridge.

donspeekinglesh

Redsoxfan wrote: »

Any word on schools - I have heard the secondary school in Maynooth isn't open tomorrow.

The ET, Gaelscoil, and the boys' school are closed. Don't know about the girls' school.

Redsoxfan

By the way, went Maynooth to Liffey Valley and back yesterday afternoon and the M4/N4 were fine, all driving lanes open but bus lane was snowed over iirc.

Just seen a picture from the Gardaí on the N7 - shocked at how bad it still looks.

brian_t

donspeekinglesh wrote: »

The ET, Gaelscoil, and the boys' school are closed. Don't know about the girls' school.

Traffic will be bad enough with people trying to get to work, I shouldn't think that KCC will want to have parents and school children added to the mix.

beertons

Went from Kilmeague to Allenwood earlier. Some really high mounds around the car sales place before the traveller's rest. Saw a jcb moving snow off the hill of Allen, heard that was a no go. Is Caragh still blocked off from the Mondello side?

AttentionBebe

AttentionBebe wrote: »

What's Captain's Hill in Leixlip like at the moment?

Anyone? Or Confey Bridge?

knucklehead6

AttentionBebe wrote: »

Anyone? Or Confey Bridge?

Fine. I was up there this morning

strawberrie

Is the r407 barberstown to maynooth an option for getting to wotk in the morning? Coming up n7 usually take straffan exit across to maynooth. Just drove to Dublin and back on m7/m9 and that was all good thankfully!

AttentionBebe

knucklehead6 wrote: »

Fine. I was up there this morning

Thanks a million

granturismo

strawberrie wrote: »

Is the r407 barberstown to maynooth an option for getting to wotk in the morning? Coming up n7 usually take straffan exit across to maynooth. Just drove to Dublin and back on m7/m9 and that was all good thankfully!

I heard Barberstown to Maynooth is now open but that the N7 to barberstown was not passable this afternoon, I cant find any related links on the Kildare CoCo website.

strawberrie

Thanks, yeah I tried kildare county council page and couldn't figure it out. Will just have to see how far I get in the morning I suppose! This will be interesting!

granturismo wrote: »

I heard Barberstown to Maynooth is now open but that the N7 to barberstown was not passable this afternoon, I cant find any related links on the Kildare CoCo website.

Redsoxfan

Barberstown to Maynooth should be fine assuming they opened a second track this afternoon.

But, no word on Kill to Straffan or Clane to Straffan. Former road would be very hairy unless you knew it was sorted.

beertons

I wouldn't be travelling out the Straffan road from Barberstown. It wouldn't be high up the importance list I'd say, for clearing.

Redsoxfan

strawberrie wrote:

Is the r407 barberstown to maynooth an option for getting to wotk in the morning? Coming up n7 usually take straffan exit across to maynooth. Just drove to Dublin and back on m7/m9 and that was all good thankfully!

Better off going M50 to M4 I'd say.

Redsoxfan

beertons wrote:

I wouldn't be travelling out the Straffan road from Barberstown. It wouldn't be high up the importance list I'd say, for clearing.

I would have thought they would try and get a route from Naas to Maynooth clear. I would say Straffan to Clane would be the priority based on volumes.

strawberrie

Cheers!! Will head off early and try that m50-m4. Thank you

L1011

Redsoxfan wrote: »

I would have thought they would try and get a route from Naas to Maynooth clear. I would say Straffan to Clane would be the priority based on volumes.

R-Roads would be the councils priority for that, so Maynooth-Barberstown-Clane-Sallins.

However they have done an utterly deplorable job clearing R roads in the North of the county so far. Celbridge to Maynooth road, the two biggest towns in the North, is one lane cleared only.

brian_t

Redsoxfan wrote: »

Barberstown to Maynooth should be fine assuming they opened a second track this afternoon.
.

Still one lane in places so presumably will need to be closed again at some stage tomorrow to complete the work.

lordgoat

Just stick to the main roads today, N4, N7 M50. Safest, not worth trying to save a half hour

Redsoxfan

Cllr McEvoy advising M4-Kilcock-Clane-Sallins for Maynooth to Naas.

L1011

There is no way the Maynooth ETNS or gaelscoil could have opened today - paths impassable, road still on lane. Will really need to close tomorrow too if that isn't addressed

If the 67 can't get down the road school kids can't either.