Storm Callum Chat/Non Technical Discussion (Including Travel)

spookwoman

Ardnaree Ballina and derrybeg donegal power out

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Try_harder

Storm woke me up!
Anyone else think of Callum Best when they hear Storm Callum?

Try_harder

Ultimate Seduction wrote: »

Bigger winds have passed through the cheeks of my arse!

Id get that checked!

fred funk }{

Try_harder wrote: »

Storm woke me up!
Anyone else think of Callum Best when they hear Storm Callum?

No.

Reiketsu

Raining sideways here in Co Derry. Blustery too. Well, I'm off to Belfast International to see if my flight actually materialises...

Pangea

Wind getting noticable just now SW Donegal

Gremlinertia

The powercheck map is :eek:

sunflower3

Location: Kilkenny
Type of service interruption: Fault
Number of customers affected: 31490

That's a lot of people affected...

dacogawa

Callum registering on the traffic speed tracker!

https://twitter.com/DavidCostelloDC/status/1050579406232702977

corks finest

Try_harder wrote: »

Ultimate Seduction wrote: »

Bigger winds have passed through the cheeks of my arse!

Id get that checked!

Cheeked even

o1s1n

A big gust actually just broke the lock on one of my windows and it flung open. (I'm up quite high in a Dublin apartment)

Luckily no huge gusts came in the time it took me to wake up suddenly, notice what was going on and on running downstairs to pull it closed. It was at a 90 degree angle to the wind so would have blown off.

Had to break out the tool kit to remove the lock and refit it while gusts kept trying to catch the window open again. Mad stuff.

bassy

spookwoman wrote: »

Ardnaree Ballina and derrybeg donegal power out

add enniscorthy to the list

Is that you small feet

Roger_007

Just got out of bed. Ran down stairs all excited to see if Calum had been, or had left anything......alas, nothing:(. I had even left a glass of milk and a carrot on the porch..........untouched:(.

KingBobby

I think i'll make a giant sand castle today with my spare 250 kg of sand

Colonel Claptrap

No DART between Bray and Greystones or between Howth and Howth Jct.

Pelvis

Power cut here in D6. Though I've had quite a few outages in the last few weeks so may not be storm related.

Artane2002

Someone left a Tesco trolley at the edge of a road. Watch it get blown into a car...

screamer

Well that was a non event here in north kilkenny/ south laois. I looked out to see an empty coal bag I'd forgotten to pick up last night in the garden..... This morning it's still there. I understand forecasters for their best and weather is unpredictable at best, and some areas are/ were hit badly, but when there are warnings and nothing much materialises it just undermines the whole warning system.

Graces7

screamer wrote: »

Well that was a non event here in north kilkenny/ south laois. I looked out to see an empty coal bag I'd forgotten to pick up last night in the garden..... This morning it's still there. I understand forecasters for their best and weather is unpredictable at best, and some areas are/ were hit badly, but when there are warnings and nothing much materialises it just undermines the whole warning system.

No it doesn't as most folk are aware of variations

Macy0161

Kilkenny under a yellow warning anyway, I'm not really sure what you were expecting tbh. We get loads of yellow wind warnings per winter.

Rhineshark

screamer wrote: »

Well that was a non event here in north kilkenny/ south laois. I looked out to see an empty coal bag I'd forgotten to pick up last night in the garden..... This morning it's still there. I understand forecasters for their best and weather is unpredictable at best, and some areas are/ were hit badly, but when there are warnings and nothing much materialises it just undermines the whole warning system.

Well, what's the alternative? As you said it was worse elsewhere and your region had a yellow warning. The people for whom it does merit an orange should get said warning even if S Kilkenny doesn't specifically get badly hit. System worked as intended. You got yellow and nasty but not awful weather. Other regions have trees and power down.

Same goes for Dublin. You'd think from listening to complaints from Dublin that it's just plain insulting that a storm should be warned at all when Dublin isn't going to be the epicentre! Sure who cares about the entire Atlantic seaboard..

Harry Palmr

Harry Palmr wrote: »

I'm not taking this at all seriously, maybe I should but it just feels like it'll be nothing more than a standard issue windy night with rain.

My suspicion proven correct! Total non event in Waterford.

sryanbruen

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Sitting in a car park in Tralee. The lamp post is moving considerably.

Kingswood Rover

Galilea Dead Translator wrote: »

Sitting in a car park in Tralee. The lamp post is moving considerably.

Thats the gargle

Colonel Claptrap

Galilea Dead Translator wrote: »

Sitting in a car park in Tralee. The lamp post is moving considerably.

Is your handbrake up?

Roger_007

Harry Palmr wrote: »

My suspicion proven correct! Total non event in Waterford.

Non event everywhere, Harry.
Met Eireann knew 24 hrs out that Callum was going to miss us by a good margin, but having issued their Orange warnings they couldn't withdraw them without seeming to be scaremongers.
It was gas listening to the news reports on radio this morning where they trying, unsuccessfully, to pretend that there was a big storm overnight.

YFlyer

My location in Limerick city got away lightly.

jackrussel

Roger_007 wrote: »

Non event everywhere, Harry.
Met Eireann knew 24 hrs out that Callum was going to miss us by a good margin, but having issued their Orange warnings they couldn't withdraw them without seeming to be scaremongers.
It was gas listening to the news reports on radio this morning where they trying, unsuccessfully, to pretend that there was a big storm overnight.

Non event because you were asleep & missed it all. If it happened 12 hours earlier/later, you certainly wouldn’t be calling a non event.

Sycamore Tree

They should have called this one Storm Calm.