Storm Lorenzo Chat Thread.

mickdw

I believe myself since the tv forecast started showing kmph instead of mph that everyone has lost the run of themselves.
Elderly in particular who would have been used to 50 mph winds are now scared when they see 80 on screen. Now you could say there is not much you can do about that but it seems to me the media are now practically treating km as miles too in the way they report this.
I don't think people really need to worry about storm until it hits around 100 mph in terms of structural damage etc. So stay in, Have food and heat organised in case of power cut but your house will be ok.
The media though seem to treat 130 kph as the end of the world and it really is worrying people where they really shouldn't.
Flooding is a major worry for certain areas and this should be reported accurately but again, the news channels seem to muddle it all together.

physioman

Captain Snow wrote: »

Brilliant its Captain Birds Eye .

Poor man got stage fright. Green party blaming climate change. Christ. Storms happen every so often. Greens will bring in a storm tax

Man Vs ManUre

This is why the weather people are celebrities now and appear on the late late show, and get in free to Lillie Bordelos. They need to keep themselves in the limelight. They’ll be spouting on about global warming for the next 10 years before they retire and get replaced by the new batch.

easypazz

The coastguard guy was awful bad.

buried

Eoghan "no major incidents" Murphy lol

CH3OH

At least it is deflecting the heat from the minister for the housing crisis

Sardonicat

'Stay high'?

Okey dokey.

NIMAN

We had terrible rain last week, my drains were overflowing for an hour.

There was no coloured rainfall warning then. Why not?

TheRiverman

I think Mr.Murphy should be trying to solve the homeless crisis,he is talking ****e right now.

Ashleigh1986

It's getting serious .... Where's me purple iodine tablet !!!

SEPT 23 1989

Can’t take him seriously without his sleeves rolled up

Captain Snow

physioman wrote: »

Poor man got stage fright. Green party blaming climate change. Christ. Storms happen every so often. Greens will bring in a storm tax

I felt sorry for him. Volunteer s do great work.

Say my name

I blame Brexit!

Man Vs ManUre

The minister of Housing and Storms can not afford to buy socks. Either that or he had to take them off cis they got wet from having to wade through a flood in the way to RTÉ.

Hooter23

Ah jaysus 50-60 mph winds a few branches down and the odd tree and rte are preparing for the Apocalypse...:rolleyes:

Bigboldworld

Watching Prime Time, if there ever was a more fitting example of Fake News, completely overhyped this but still going along with the charade

TheRiverman

easypazz wrote: »

The coastguard guy was awful bad.

Embarrassed to be there,perhaps.

lee_baby_simms

For Eoghan Murphy this is a welcome distraction from the 10,000 homeless in Dublin. He can reel off this script without having to answer any difficult questions.

RTE are truly shameless.

ednwireland

this is an episode of brass eye isnt it ???

Roger_007

Ashleigh1986 wrote: »

It's getting serious .... Where's me purple iodine tablet !!!

Purple?..........Jaysus mine is green........should I be worried?

auspicious

It's Eoghan Murphy TD on Prime Time! I've actually just lost my hearing. Please let me know if he says anything worthwhile! Ever.

lawred2

Minister Eoghan Murphy trying to appear all business like, efficient and on his brief.

Pity he's not so hot on the rest of his brief

Storm 10

Untold damage done to future storm warnings

Snow Garden

Prime Time was cringeworthy. They wont make that mistake again.

Doctors room ghost

Coast guard lad did grand.
Probably his first time on Telly.
If I was him I’d have rage vomited live on tv listening to your one blowing sh1te about climate and poor us in Co Clare.
Typical Green Party.

odyssey06

Hooter23 wrote: »

Ah jaysus 50-60 mph winds a few branches down and the odd tree and rte are preparing for the Apocalypse...:rolleyes:

They are hoping tree falls on rte hq and they can claim on the insurance to pay off their deficit.

Grandeeod

If you didn't buy in to the drama of the build up on this forum?

If you ignored all the crap on social media?

If you laughed at the so called mainstream media over hyping it?

If you actually followed the ME forecasts (as in read them)?

Your day both work and social was not affected anywhere in the country.

ME did feck all wrong. The media and some weather enthusiasts added fuel to a fire that sheep like people embraced.

lola85

lee_baby_simms wrote: »

For Eoghan Murphy this is a welcome distraction from the 10,000 homeless in Dublin. He can reel off this script without having to answer any difficult questions.

RTE are truly shameless.

Of which 2000 are non eu nationals who rocked up illegally looking for a gaff.

Meh,

nmacu

I hope that the media realise that this fear mongering is probably causing more harm than this fairly average storm. I'm in Galway and am getting texts from elderly relatives in Dublin that they're praying for us ... FFS ... it's obvious that the RTE newsroom are raging that this didn't go red.

Ashleigh1986

Roger_007 wrote: »

Purple?..........Jaysus mine is green........should I be worried?

Ah you must be a dub ... Dads army gave us the **** ones down whest