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

Mav11

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123109027#Comment_123109027

And yet we pay some of the highest standing charges on our electricity bills in part, to prevent against this kind of collapse. Somebody is having a laugh!!!

Condor24

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123107781#Comment_123107781

We were here before it started and it was superbly modelled by the GFS ECM etc, no one was in any doubt it would be more damaging than Darragh so this Minister is talking the political guff. Just tell the truth, ye were hoping it wouldn't be, but you gambled the wrong way.

blanch152

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123108432#Comment_123108432

Well, ok, I will change that to the following:

This can only be fixed by either changing the settlement patterns and significantly curtailing one-off housing or by huge increases in electricity prices to fund the upgrading of the network in rural areas for one-off housing on an extremely inefficient basis.

Mav11

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123109151#Comment_123109151

or by huge increases in electricity prices to fund the upgrading of the network in rural areas

We have been paying premium first world prices over the years for a functional first world network and what do we get…………?

blanch152

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123109169#Comment_123109169

"Ireland has almost one-third the number of transformers as in the UK despite having a total distribution network of just half the size and 6% of its population. The inefficiency and length of the network has significant financial costs."

Those are the reasons for the high cost of electricity. Making it better will prices up further.

crusd

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123109151#Comment_123109151

It is disingenuous in the extreme to contend this is a problem caused by the rural nature of the network.

Galway City and suburbs with many faults already restored:

Athenry County Galway - with many faults already resolved

Tuam County Galway with many faults already resolved

Claremorris County Mayo with many faults already resolved

Should I continue?

Mav11

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123109177#Comment_123109177

We are already paying for it and getting very poor value for money.

obi604

extremely unlikely, BUT would anyone in Galway happen to have a gas canister 250 A4 that slots In the side of a portable gas stove?

Cluedo Monopoly

The government have indeed been useless. But I don't think we expected anything else.

I thought RTE Radio 1 could have dedicated a few hours on Friday-Sunday to spread information. It was the only Comms channel we had. If there was a Leinster match on, we would have got the gory details for 3 hours.

Our water has gone very brown today. I guess its unsafe to drink now. At least we have water. No sign of any ESB crews and downed/broken poles untouched since Friday.

Pa ElGrande

Review on the storm from UK Met office.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYAFptpqJFE

_Puma_

I just managed to pull the recordings from my cameras from before the powercut. The noise is incredible and this is at 2 30am. It sounds like what I'd imagine a hurricane to sound like.

It peaked around 4am for us.

Gaoth Laidir

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123105477#Comment_123105477

If only we had a station in Mace Head in 1945, when we got just 1 kph lower at Foynes, 35 km inland. Who knows what Mace Head got that day.
During Éown, Shannon Airport, near Foynes, got nowhere near the speeds of Mace Head. The setup in 1945 suggests that Mace Head possibly got stronger winds than Foynes.

How do I embed an X post here?

https://x.com/BadWxStations/status/1883249226769145873

Meteorite58

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123109518#Comment_123109518

Take out the x and insert the word twitter if memory serves me correct.

Purple Mountain

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123109270#Comment_123109270

Your best bet is to put it on a Galway Facebook page or the Galway thread here on Boards.

Esel

'Eurogiant-rype 'pound shops' often have those cartridges. Hardware shops too.

I do know they are probably scarce at present.

magicbastarder

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123109151#Comment_123109151

are there any indications of how many faults are 'individual' faults or faults affecting say fewer than 10 customers?

or another way of looking at it - for every 100,000 customers affected, do we know how many individual faults need repair? e.g. how many are due to downed power lines on rural laneways, for example.

obi604

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123109726#Comment_123109726

thanks, got sorted in the end, rang about 10 places and lo and behold, the local no name 'pound shop' had them.

I reserved 3.

They had about 50 out on a shelf when I went in to pick up the 3, I had to go back again about 25 minutes later for something else and they were all gone again!!!!

blanch152

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123109738#Comment_123109738

The point is that the network is huge, so a better question to ask is whether the faults per km of lines is higher than the faults per km elsewhere.

standardg60

Power gone and mobile coverage in and out in Dublin the last hour and a half.

Revenge of the culchies!!!😁

PixelCrafter

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123109177#Comment_123109177

The figure I heard to day is that Ireland has roughly 6x more km of power lines per head of population compared to EU average.

We just have an extremely low density scatter of housing in rural and quasi rural areas, which results in these meandering infrastructural networks. It was the same with broadband. DSL simply didn’t work as so many of the lines were very long. We’d something like half the number of telephone exchanges (mostly tiny ones) as the UK, serving a population 1/13th the size!

It’s basically decades of bad planning and an expectation of services in what are very out of the way locations — most countries have populations in and around villages and towns, not scattered to the four winds — you can see the issues when something like this hits.

Dazler97

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123109890#Comment_123109890

Ah Here you've had it lucky lol it's always us that is without power in most storms , as a dub myself living in the northwest we always have a higher chance of power cuts , good that very little of Dublin got knocked out but even in the last storm , Darragh Leitrim was left last with some people having no power for 2 weeks especially those away from towns and villages

FishOnABike

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123109126#Comment_123109126

When one considers the average network distance to a customer in Ireland is somewhere between four and six times that of our nearest neighbours it's understandable that standing charges would be higher.

goingmadted

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123108736#Comment_123108736

Horseshit. What do you want them to do? Do you want the taoiseach to come down and fix your electric for you.

Thats what the ESB is for.

Thank god our electorate are a bit more mature than the likes of you or we would have the likes of paul murphy and mary lou running the show.

Esel

I posted this in another thread.

The authorities couldn't even arrange to have foreign electricity crews actually landed here on Thursday 23rd last, instead of them arriving 4 days after the storm. They had enough notice, and they must have known how bad it was going to be.

odyboody

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123109970#Comment_123109970

It was the pissing match that the opposition began to stop the government being installed that prevented any actions from being initiated.

Esel

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123110032#Comment_123110032

I have heard it all now.

greenpilot

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123109674#Comment_123109674

Every farmers co-op or agri shop has them. The same cartridges are used for de-Horning guns.

Or Mary Harney guns, as we used to call them.

Both had same effect.

odyboody

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123110039#Comment_123110039

You are blaming the government.

What government would that have been the old one had been desolved and the new one was being prevented from forming

goldsparkle

I have a camping gas and gas cartridges. I have a gas cooker too though. I have a superser in my attic but I don't go into my attic because I am afraid of heights. But a neighbour may be able to go there if they want. My power is back on since yesterday and I want to offer this stuff up to neighbours who may need this stuff but I live at home with an aging parent who is just minding this stuff and doesn't want me to lend it to anyone. I want to help others if I can.

I did take a neighbours power bank and charge that today and I lend out my mini power bank too.

Esel

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123110060#Comment_123110060

I blamed the authorities - i.e. the relevant authorities.

Are you really trying to hang this on the opposition?