⚠️ Storm Éowyn - Fri 24.01.25 (**Please read Mod Instruction in OP.**)

2024

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123104863#Comment_123104863

Is it worth it thou as if it's only a thousand or two, don't the insurance companies put your following years insurance up and ya lose out in the long run. TBH I know nothing about it but was always said to me there's no point claiming for anything that's a grand or two. Your just best taking one out in finance and in the long run it'll be cheaper.

yagan

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123105579#Comment_123105579

I'm still stunned that the government is sleep walking through this as if it's just a bit of damage.

When communications are fully restored I reckon they'll be plenty of voices asking where their government was the whole time.

Rebelbrowser

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123105549#Comment_123105549

the point he is making is that for the stations that we still have and were also around dating back to Debbie in 1961, this wasn’t the strongest storm. It’s possible therefore that had Mace Head been around in 1961, 1974, 1990, 1997 or 1998 it might have recorded a, say, 190km ph gust. But this doesn’t mean this was wasn’t a helluva storm and indisputably the strongest since 1998 anyway ( and maybe in actuality our strongest since records began).

purplefields

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123104028#Comment_123104028

That'll just make generators even more expensive for normal people. Like SEAI 'grants'

coillsaille

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123104432#Comment_123104432

What about if you put in your MPRN and it tells you there is no known fault at your address even though the power is gone everywhere within a 30km radius of my address?

Edit: That’s not aimed at Wompa by the way. Just making the point that the powercheck is a joke this time when it tells you there's no fault and you've had no power since Thursday night.

CruelSummer

Towns with large populations like Oranmore, ClareGalway, Athenry, have had no water for days. The government have decided tough luck? The media are silent and posturing on Gaza and politics. At this stage, I’d be happy to head to Dublin and sit down in the middle of the city with many others to stop traffic and make them listen. We all pay plenty of taxes. Disgusted at them.
The majority in the Galway area still have no power, no connectivity, no phone signal, no internet and the authorities are asking you to post online, ring numbers, keep up to date with social media. It beggars belief.

goldsparkle

I do remember a Xmas eve storm in the late 90s and other big winds. This was worse for sure. Nearly every second neighbour has walls/trees/ gutters down and other damages but I don't remember this many trees down for so many people before during other storms. This was worse. We had power cuts before but never for this long.

konman

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123105791#Comment_123105791

Maybe try reporting the fault, it might be possible that everybody thinks someone else has reported the fault.

goldsparkle

I was lucky to get a signal bar on my phone Saturday morning and got through to my partner who was in the city who said that there was power and internet connection in the city and told me to go into the city.

From that point onwards I was travelling to Galway city every day to charge my phone- power bank (just a mini one), and get internet and signal and communications, a warm meal, warm drinks, seeking out fireplaces in pubs. I refused to sit at home in the cold power cuts.

I have an aging parent who is not very old and does go into the city but she refused to go into town and sat it out. I would imagine there's more older people just sitting this out.

It made sense to me to go to where there was power and connection and heat. I really think there should have been some sort of a gib advisory advising people to get warm meals in cities.

The government response has been shocking.

I was sick last night with the cold.

Discodog

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123105570#Comment_123105570

Maybe they already new - my power came back :)

coillsaille

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123105799#Comment_123105799

This!

Went to one of the water tanks today that they placed at the side of the road and it was feckin empty, drove around but couldn't find another one. Rang Irish Water and the nice lady told me there was no interruption to my supply.

This is after Powercheck telling me there is no fault at my addresss.

Beyond a joke.

coillsaille

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123105827#Comment_123105827

I did. That was yesterday, nothing back. Tried powercheck again today and still no fault at my address.

pureza

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123105549#Comment_123105549

I think the point he was making is there are more recordings in more places now than then

To which you can counter maybe so but no storm in modern times on any track across Ireland has done as much damage

Ergo it’s reasonable to assume this storm in unrecorded places was unprecedented

The 118mph hand held recording tweeted earlier in this thread being a typical example of fixed stations not showing the full picture,it was stronger than mace heads and a lot further south

This was during daylight hours

https://x.com/weatherradar_uk/status/1882728091098693798?s=46

littlema

South Sligo and still no esb water or Internet signal. Some parts of the town have power back but not the other 2.

We are again on a 5th Feb date.

Will be back home weds to the mess of the fridge, the freezer and all my green leafed babies. (the heating was set to come on for an hour or so each day) 😐

Small problem in light of everything I know, but still...…

pureza

Crews from Austria and the Netherlands are to join French Finnish and Uk teams with the ESB-RTE News

zell12

parts of Galway city is grappling with electricity cuts still. Council have made showers and power sockets available

https://www.galwaybayfm.ie/galway-bay-fm-news-desk/galway-city-council-make-community-centres-available-for-public-facilities-186678

adocholiday

Just given the damage reports from Longford, Mullingar and that general area I find it hard to believe that the highest gust recorded was 60kts according to the Mullingar AWS and Ballyhaise AWS stations on WOW. They're the closest I suppose, but that's just about into warning territory there. Based on pictures and videos I've seen from family there, and even just the description of the noise of the wind which terrified people, I can't really accept that those measurements are accurate.

greenpilot

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123105769#Comment_123105769

Normal people?

greenpilot

Its very clear that all of us here outside the M50 who have been affected by the storm are both shocked and disgusted at the lack of response from both the Government and its agencies, including the media.

The question we need to ask ourselves now is, what are we going to do about it?

I suggested a huge tractor drive, with the help of the Farming Communities as they are by far the most powerful lobby group, to block up the M50 for the same amount of days it took for the government to respond. That would focus some smug minds.

We absolutely need to get organised, quickly, efficiently, and take both our local so-called representatives, and the Leinster House crowd to task because of this.

The sheer incompetence of having some squeeky-voiced, Gen Z intern at the end of a dubious phone line suggesting one should check online for updates, after being told there's neither power nor Internet access.

That's the level we're working with here.

Carb

In relation to Powercheck and my previous post of an estimate of 5th of February (I'm in mid Monaghan) . We were the 28th, then the 5th, then the 28th, then this morning it went to the 31st. Each time I checked with my MRPN it said there was no known fault, even though I reported it each time and the whole area was in darkness.

Regardless, power came back on an hour ago, which is a huge relief. Followed by a notification 30 mins later that power would be restored on the 2nd of Feb.

In summary, I think Powercheck is an exercise in managing expectations at the moment rather than any level of accuracy (which is maybe to be expected)

Dazler97

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123104008#Comment_123104008

Oh I won't don't worry

pureza

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123106186#Comment_123106186

Track of a sting jet maybe,there could have been tornadoes also

No weather statio under either but Mace head could have been near

mykrodot

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123106259#Comment_123106259

interestingly on the 6pm News the Northern Ireland assembly/Government have been working all weekend due to the storm. Michelle O Neill and her deputy were interviewed both today and yesterday and said it was being treated as a national emergency so it was "all hands on deck".

Talk about showing up our Government here in the Republic, all our gang are either at home resting after the elections, or in Poland (apart from Darragh Calleary). Shameful

greenpilot

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123100731#Comment_123100731

No. What you should be saying is that there was less BS from the Green Party, who tried to convince a population that we didn't need what is a basic human right, and need: The right and ability to light a fire to heat your family.

In the 80's a tree fell down, my auld fellow handed myself and my brother a chainsaw each and we went to the farmer, asked for the tree, sawed it up, tractored it home, and that was our Stanley Range fuel for a year. In exchange, we culled a few foxes and rabbits for him, and sorted him out with a ham and a turkey.

No meddling from the Greens. Simple.

Then, fires were deemed to be bad. Let's ban fires. That became the zeitgeist.

Now, we have folks in fireplace-less homes, powered by electric heat pumps, that have quickly become colder by the day because all the stored energy went out the front door as soon as it was opened on a windy day.

Even the psychology aspect of an open fire has been erased by this idiotic move to ban open fires.

My brother has a tv screen in his Fireplace-less house that shows an image of a fire burning brightly in the spot where a fire would normally be in his house.

He has no electricity. The house is freezing and he has moved in to my sisters house in wexford because it's warm.

Some people have some serious waking up to do.

BrianD3

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123106186#Comment_123106186

Mullingar recorded 109 km/h that's a high Yellow warning. That's pretty bad for Mullingar, it usually records Green level gusts for named storms. The readings for the big 1961 to 1998 storms were much higher though, several well into Red.

With so many named storms and warnings now and the likes of Mullingar usually experiencing Green results, people equate Green experiences with Yellow or even Orange warnings. That is one reason why I was so concerned about this storm and the preparedness beforehand as there is no upper threshold on the gust speeds in the Red category and the forecasted gusts for many places were way above the lower threshold.

Anyway, 109 km/h gusts in somewhere like Mullingar are frightening (more so when it's dark) and damaging. That's more than enough gust to bring down diseased Ash trees and rotten utility poles. No evidence IMO that the measurements were inaccurate.

beggars_bush

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123106328#Comment_123106328

If they had invested in solar panels, batteries and an electric car they wouldn't have an issue the last few days

What's your point? Except blaming the Greens for something that's in your head

beggars_bush

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123106312#Comment_123106312

Surely it's the local council's job to do that work, not central government

coillsaille

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123106286#Comment_123106286

Yeah I had come to the same conclusion myself about Powercheck. Have always found it good in the past but now looks like it just doesn't work with this scale of outages.

Same can be said about Irish Water. We lost water supply after the storm, they placed tanks of water at points around the area. Then they got a generator into the pumping station Saturday and supply was restored. Last night the supply went again, today I went to get water from one of the tanks. Could only find one, all the others had already been removed, and that one was empty.

I drove 10km to get enough signal to ring Irish Water. I gave the person who answered my Eircode and she said there was nothing showing up on their system and there shouldn't be anything wrong with my supply.

Later I spoke to a friend who does some work for the council and tends to be in the loop on these things. He said the generator in the pumping station had broken down and wouldn't be replaced until tonight or tomorrow. So I had to find this out through the grapevine while Irish Water's fault system was completely oblivious to it.

greenpilot

Some folks were wondering why we haven't seen the army out helping resolve the crisis at the moment.?

They've been busy installing bird boxes.

This article is typical of the tone-deaf, absurd apathy shown by journalists and the media east of the Shannon, to the disaster in the West.

Whomever wrote this headline needs to be dragged over to Mayo, Sligo, Galway and Donegal to show them exactly where the Army response should be.

https://www.kilkennypeople.ie/news/local-news/1713991/defence-forces-in-kilkenny-praised-for-swift-response.html

kennethsmyth

if the employer shut the premises but staff were available to work and would of been rostered on then employer must pay. If premises was open but staff didn’t turn up then no pay. However a red warning essentially would bean employer would neeed to pay as opening premises would be dangerous and leave them open to legal action if anyone was injured not just on premises but on way to work