UL River walk

MarkR

May want to bring your wellies.

Last week.


Today

Insect Overlord

Hope it's cleared up before the weekend! Parkrun only just went ahead last Saturday. I'd say the owners of the huts up there are fairly worried.

MarkR

Insect Overlord wrote: »

Hope it's cleared up before the weekend! Parkrun only just went ahead last Saturday. I'd say the owners of the huts up there are fairly worried.

I'm going to try to reach the huts from the other side tomorrow.

Insect Overlord

MarkR wrote: »

I'm going to try to reach the huts from the other side tomorrow.

I'm hoping to get over there for a game of tennis in the morning too, depending on how this yellow snow/ice warning hits us. Should be a good opportunity for a bit of photography. Silver linings!

osarusan

That path can be divided into two sections, one of which is the Corbally side of the Guinness Bridge over the canal, and the other section being the UL side.

The Corbally side is completely impassable because of flooding at the bottom of Irish Estates - this flooding may well extend for most of that section, as it's all pretty low-lying, but I'm not sure about that.

The other side, the UL side, is now seeing short sections of the path submerged. In a couple of cases it's just an inch deep or so, but there is one place (just on the UL side of that curved resurfaced bridge) where it's now 3-4 inches deep and about 3 metres long, and not really walkable.

MarkR

Risky lunchtime walk. Had to walk along the wall




Cottages down this way



Braver lady than I, and her dog near the boat club.



Black bridge

carbonceiling

Thanks MarkR, great photos.

I've been walking around there for years and I don't think I have ever seen it that bad.

Poxyshamrock

The last time it was this bad was in 2009. It was the flooding then that caused the black bridge to be closed in the first place.

Insect Overlord

Did anybody get pictures of the flooding on Plassey Park Road? Sounds like traffic was absolutely mental over there for the last few hours.

Berty

Insect Overlord wrote: »

Did anybody get pictures of the flooding on Plassey Park Road? Sounds like traffic was absolutely mental over there for the last few hours.

Went through the flood at 8:20am, Pallas foods truck didn't make it, went too deep. Traffic was also driving around the wrong way because of it.

Then after work we left early because it was closed. Mental mental mental. Then there was a crash outside the UL exit. Mental again. Lol

One guy drove the wrong side of the road against traffic from the three building to the next exit by Hamilton house area and skiddded up on to the cycle lane as a car was coming out of the one way he tried to drive in illegally. What a dickhead.

What really makes traffic mental out there heading to work is honestly the school by Chawkes as it's drawing so much traffic from all routes.

As for the flooded roundabout, the council won't drain it because it's a private road apparently.

Berty

Roundabout remains closed in Plassey. Wow, you should have seen the traffic. With how busy the roundabout on the Dublin road by annacotty was you'd miss the road closed signs , trying to keep an eye on traffic, which caused myself and many to drive down before having to turn back.

It's only going to rain more as well.

BobMc

Missus left cook medical at 4pm, got home 6.55 ! was pure bonkers Guards less than useless to try direct some traffic

Berty

Traffic was pretty bad alright but I think, correct me If I'm wrong, the entire road from CASA all the way to the roundabout by J&J is either IDA, Shannon Development Authority or somebody else, nothing to do with the Council so I imagine the Gardai would treat it the same.

I sat in traffic and was annoyed by how slow it was but had to keep reminding myself whilst I comfortably sat in a warm car with music playing that a road was closed and my house wasn't flooded like some others affected much worse by the flooding.

MarkR

You've the patience of a saint Berty. :-)

UL sent out an email advising that they expect additional flooding of the river, but believe no building will be affected. It is also advising against going anywhere near the river walks.

My next report will be from the living bridge. :-)

Mc Love

Limerick ParkRun isnt going ahead this weekend

Cookiemunster

https://twitter.com/LimerickCouncil/status/1233407017194328066

Berty

My office window looks out towards the main road and I can see the traffic. It was bumper to bumper at 2:45pm, moving slowly now but not stopping. Guess those on Fridays finish early and others finished even earlier because they were allowed because of the delays.

Patience of a saint, people let me out in rush hour around here, I let other people out as well. I can honestly say it's the only stretch of road I've seen near consistency in politeness of letting people into traffic in front of you(I was on the road as a rep for about 15 years). Any other road I'm not the same.

Mc Love

You sure? I was always faster going up by the Kilmurray instead of going the other way, has that changed now?

MarkR

Went for a walk over the bridge today.

https://imgur.com/a/YgA7pAn

Eire-Dearg

I got a good chuckle at the footpath closed sign.

Insect Overlord

MarkR wrote: »

Went for a walk over the bridge today.

https://imgur.com/a/YgA7pAn

Great pictures. Beautiful scenes to look at, but a bit of a disaster for anyone who has to live near it.

MarkR

Really brings into focus the whole flood plain thing. Amazing difference in the volume of water.

Brennans Row

Ecofact - Lower River Shannon, University of Limerick

Kevin Sage - Flooding on the River Shannon near UL boathouse