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Stay safe in the storm

  • 06-12-2021 8:59pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,447 ✭✭✭


    Stay safe everyone and hope no fatalities or much damage done.

    extra silage in this evening so not planning to go near sheds tomorrow at all.



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  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Have to go feeding a few ewes tomorrow some time, but I loaded up the van with hay so like yourself I won't be near sheds.



  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 9,041 Mod ✭✭✭✭greysides


    On the safer side of the country but took the option of not arranging testing for tomorrow. I've had enough of testing in bad weather to do it when I don't need to.

    The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress. Joseph Joubert

    The ultimate purpose of debate is not to produce consensus. It's to promote critical thinking.

    Adam Grant



  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 9,041 Mod ✭✭✭✭greysides


    The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress. Joseph Joubert

    The ultimate purpose of debate is not to produce consensus. It's to promote critical thinking.

    Adam Grant



  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 9,041 Mod ✭✭✭✭greysides


    The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress. Joseph Joubert

    The ultimate purpose of debate is not to produce consensus. It's to promote critical thinking.

    Adam Grant



  • Posts: 1,344 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    All joking aside........ I forgot to get a packet of smokes on way home.........down to last 5......some serious rationing going on here



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,545 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    Cattle feeders all topped up today. Good for a few days so they are on their own.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,044 ✭✭✭I says


    Cattle fed, check. Anything loose tied down or in shed, check.

    24 cans of Guinness for €20s in the fridge, check.

    Stay safe everyone.



  • Posts: 1,344 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    2 x chainsaws fueled, primed & ready to go.

    Fresh batteries in 2torches.

    Phone charged 100%.

    Plenty of fuel/coal inside for stove.

    Generator fueled up& primed.

    Let's hope for the best......but thus lady ( barra) ain't drawing on for the 'slow set' she's coming for a 'rave'



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,611 ✭✭✭Mooooo


    Tis fcuking bad already down here.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,611 ✭✭✭Mooooo


    The start of west Cork. Id imagine its worse proper west



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,526 ✭✭✭FintanMcluskey


    It's rough in Roscommon as well

    If a storm hits its the final straw for this place!!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,214 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Wind picking up here in louth and raining



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,998 ✭✭✭farawaygrass


    Not a puff of wind in Galway yet. I think this is all a conspiracy theory 😅

    eye of storm is 115 nautical miles off galway it just said on the news.

    and just as I finish typing this I can hear the wind picking up



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,718 ✭✭✭✭_Brian


    feeding for few days in with cattle

    Have battery out of spare tractor charged up and a 350w inverter on standby.

    it will charge phones, run laptop, lamps etc if needed.

    workers told to find something inside to do or swap a day for the future

    weve had snow flurries for last hour or so but heavy rain now, not blustery but nothing really. 600ft above sea level so we always expect a battering, we are usually sheltered from the southerly aspect but when it swings round to the north we will take a beating.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,225 ✭✭✭straight


    Very gusty here now. Better get the cows milked before the power goes.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,344 ✭✭✭Grueller


    Have you no generator straight? Our power is about as reliable as in a 3rd world dictatorship so I couldn’t do without one.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,989 ✭✭✭✭Danzy


    Be slow to go out with the chainsaw till conditions are favourable.


    We often take too many risks.



  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 3,357 Mod ✭✭✭✭K.G.


    By the look of things it's not the severity of the wind that's the issue today its the length of time it's going to be at it.looks like 10 or 12 hours of it



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,545 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    Nothing too bad here in the Midlands yet. Good drop of rain already and wind is blustry



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,044 ✭✭✭I says


    Went to work left at six nothing to frighten ya yet getting blustery now last hour. Fingers crossed it won’t get much worse for everyone.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,225 ✭✭✭straight


    My power is very reliable in general. I Put in a generator last year just in case and I have used it once. I thought it was great until my neighbours told me power was only off a few mins. Great to have it for the odd time I may need it.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,225 ✭✭✭straight


    Ya, I often think of that poor man that got killed in the clean up a couple of years ago.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,718 ✭✭✭✭_Brian


    Been looking at power outages during the morning and they are steadily growing in numbers, and it’s early days yet.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32 matt.v


    Someone please join me in a few prayers there that the sheds will still have their roofs in the morning



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,123 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe


    Never seen the Barometer hanging in our hall, go so low. Dropped well below stormy. I was awake most of the night with the sound of wind. Water pressure dropping in the taps. Must fill a few barrels in the yard. We're near enough to Limerick City so a bit of the bite gone out of it when it gets to us. Kerry seems to be getting some battering.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,082 ✭✭✭enricoh


    Have a lot of jobs to do on the sheds here, I was never as busy with work n the oul lads laid up and got nothing done. I'm on tender hooks here.

    The last couple of storms were non events where I am but this is the real deal.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,778 ✭✭✭Dakota Dan


    North Cork was a bit windy earlier only a breeze now.



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Appears to have calmed down a little here in Connemara now. I assume it's the start of the eye passing over or near us. Soon time to go feed sheep.




  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Great to have people around looking out for you. I told herself I was thinking of going to the island later (by bridge..) when it get's proper windy. I was told in no uncertain terms I could......... after I'd made a will 🤣



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,225 ✭✭✭straight


    Has the storm been linked to farming yet? Must be the farmers fault surely. A day without constant covid headlines at least.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,718 ✭✭✭✭_Brian


    Eamon Ryan on way into work this morning said this storm was climate change.

    Now, im no climate change denier but accrediting every sideways fart to climate change is silly, it puts people off the real conversation about our climate.



  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 9,041 Mod ✭✭✭✭greysides


    Comments like that would make you question anything they say... even things they would actually know about. So, very counterproductive.

    The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress. Joseph Joubert

    The ultimate purpose of debate is not to produce consensus. It's to promote critical thinking.

    Adam Grant



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,611 ✭✭✭Mooooo


    In fairness there was a meteorologist on the the radio and was asked about comments like that and he said you couldn't put storms like this down to any one reason, its basically a normal winter storm coming from newfoundland that just got energised.

    Was nice to hear, what else would you expect from the likes of Ryan. Between talk like that and yer man Cuff shows the greens to be full of ****



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    There was some on facebook yesterday at the same rubbish. I corrected the record. I remember when I was quite young, must be back in the early 80's heading out in the dark with Dad on a bad bad night looking for a tractor tyre to put between the fishing boat and the quay. Much like today the wind direction coincided with the high tide and himself and the uncle were concerned the boat would be put up onto the quay itself.

    As for the greens, may they keep spouting it, louder and louder would hasten their demise.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,826 ✭✭✭StevenToast


    Whats all the hype about...ive often been out in way worse in the middle of the night, bringing in a pair of newborn lambs in both hands while their mother was pucking me....

    Stay safe?...you may aswell tell farmers that everyday

    "Don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining." - Fletcher



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,333 ✭✭✭✭wrangler


    does he not remember hurricane Charlie leveling half of England in 1986, the town of Sevenoaks in south east england only has one oak since then 😎



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,327 ✭✭✭emaherx


    Ah but _Brian nowadays every sideways fart has a name and a favourite colour.



  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 9,041 Mod ✭✭✭✭greysides


    The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress. Joseph Joubert

    The ultimate purpose of debate is not to produce consensus. It's to promote critical thinking.

    Adam Grant



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 984 ✭✭✭Still stihl waters 3


    More than likely an improvement in safety tech weather forecasting and better boats



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 984 ✭✭✭Still stihl waters 3


    Gilmore??? Steady on there jj no need for the insults, I wasn't trying to be a dick but you just threw out a random fact with no context other than saying its an improvement, which I took to mean Improvement in weather maybe I took you up wrong tho



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,807 ✭✭✭Birdnuts


    Climate science continues to be dragged threw the muck by Cabbage Ryan and his type🤬



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 984 ✭✭✭Still stihl waters 3


    Grand here again now but a couple of trees blocking the road which the fire brigade are out too, I see one of the gates gave up with the wind but was on its last legs anyway



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,082 ✭✭✭enricoh


    What's the story if the fire brigade are out to shift a tree that fell onto the road. Do you get a bill off them as landowner? Is it covered as standard by fbd if they do bill u anyone know?



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Don't know but it's often lads out clearing trees that get hit by the next tree to fall, would leave it where it is until safe. Saw a post from Kerry CoCo saying as much, trees would be cleared when safe.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 984 ✭✭✭Still stihl waters 3


    That's right, wasn't there vineyards in the south east in the 11th century and various mini ice ages even in Ireland up until the 18th century



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 984 ✭✭✭Still stihl waters 3


    No idea but the same lad who owns the land took it upon himself to knock a tree one early Saturday morning at this time of year maybe 3 or 4 years ago and it fell out onto the main road, road blocked for a couple of hours until he had it cleared, guards and all on the scene but to say he's not the full shilling would be a compliment to him



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,662 ✭✭✭20silkcut


    They used to sacrifice children and animals etc to please the weather gods in ancient times. Thankfully those days are long past.

    Now we just sacrifice industries and ways of life to please those same weather Gods.

    After the demise of the Catholic Church in this country it seems weather Gods are once again filling the void.

    Our parents and grandparents used to get through storms and bad weather with a few decades of the rosary.



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