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Storm Ophelia - General Discussion/Local reports - See MOD NOTE Post #1

Samaris

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'Scuse me if I'm breaking any rules of Weather here with another thread, but didn't want to derail the main thread with too much chatter.

Guessing a lot of people (particularly us mostly-lurkers) might be in the same boat as me - not really sure what this all means on the ground in terms of preparation - and even if it's not too awful, I for one would prefer to be over-prepared rather than under-prepared! (At the moment, I don't feel that prepared at all!)

I'm living in a pretty exposed place for this particular set of indicators (on a narrow, south-west jutting peninsula off the Galway coast) and thus somewhat nervous about it. We're moving the bedroom to the sitting room as I've always been a bit dubious about the tall trees on that side of the house, but apart from that, sheltering the car (somehow) and ensuring there's as little potential debris as possible, I'm a bit at a loss. Water, candles might be an idea to get in.

Any more experienced people have ideas? Or what are others in the firing line doing?

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Romantic Rose

Flip sake, so now the west and north will be worse hit. They should have told us that yesterday. My husband has gone to work already. We were on orange alert up to late yesterday evening.

Rikand

Hastentoadd wrote: »

Would it not be fair to say that this storm is slowing/reducing?

Well Bill....

No. Not anymore than it was predicted to do (re: going ex tropical)

PixelTrawler

Romantic Rose wrote: »

Flip sake, so now the west and north will be worse hit. They should have told us that yesterday. My husband has gone to work already. We were on orange alert up to late yesterday evening.

They did. Red warning was issued nationwide at 8pm. It was all over 9 news.

frankythefish

Saw 2 cats airborne in tallaght. A bad gust surely

Belt

Romantic Rose wrote: »

Flip sake, so now the west and north will be worse hit. They should have told us that yesterday. My husband has gone to work already. We were on orange alert up to late yesterday evening.

They can't tell you if they don't know. The path isn't fixed days in advance

pilly

Theresa is on the radio from Galway!

_Dara_

Romantic Rose wrote: »

Flip sake, so now the west and north will be worse hit. They should have told us that yesterday. My husband has gone to work already. We were on orange alert up to late yesterday evening.

There’s been a nationwide red alert for 12 hours.

Romantic Rose

PixelTrawler wrote: »

They did. Red warning was issued nationwide at 8pm. It was all over 9 news.

I know but all along the south was to be worse hit. Until this morning!

redsteveireland

2FM playing "Brewing up a storm", ah Ireland

Elessar

We got an email last night to say work is open, and effectively everyone is expected in. I'm heading in now, wish me luck

Blingy

Necrominus wrote: »

I'm a new employee, only started 4 weeks ago. They gave us a list of contact numbers to contact in the event of being sick/emergency. None of them are being picked up

That's really bad form.

sashafierce

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El Horseboxo

Going to be nothing more than any of the usual stormy conditions on the east coast. Dunnes are going to regret closing big time and anyone who doesn't have approval but stays home from work will look foolish as you'll have been in work plenty of times in similar conditions. It has tracked further west and looks to have weakened.

TheDoctor

For those down in Kerry/Cork - what are the winds like now?

uck51js9zml2yt

masterbenji08 wrote: »

Anyone heard anything on Peoplepoint? I've seen that DPER have said all there offices are closed but I don't think we are under them anymore

Got a text from my sec gen last night. Emergency response team advised only essential staff and even they should work from home

stevek93

I can't skip to the last page

dball

eerily quiet here on th Dingle peninsula:eek::eek::eek::eek:

danoriordan1402

TheDoctor wrote: »

For those down in Kerry/Cork - what are the winds like now?

pretty strong wind out now - Im in Blarney, the worst is due in the next few hours though

A Battered Mars Bar

Places wheelie bin next to kitchen pvc patio door.
Boils cup of tea.
Pulls up a crying chair.
Sits and waits.

Necro

Basically just stated on Morning Ireland, 'don't go to work.' That's my mind at ease so

Giblet

El Horseboxo wrote: »

Going to be nothing more than any of the usual stormy conditions on the east coast. Dunnes are going to regret closing big time and anyone who doesn't have approval but stays home from work will look foolish as you'll have been in work plenty of times in similar conditions. It has tracked further west and looks to have weakened.

No-one will look foolish, when so much is closing down and there is a lot of uncertainty with public transport.

I know a lot of people want to be on the right side of "I told ya so" but really, just look at the news and you will see why people are right to not risk it. All information says it will be bad, and if it isn't, it doesn't matter.

uck51js9zml2yt

redsteveireland wrote: »

2FM playing "Brewing up a storm", ah Ireland

I'm going downstairs to brew some tea!

Romantic Rose

_Dara_ wrote: »

There’s been a nationwide red alert for 12 hours.

12 hours. It's lucky I have been following this thread and knew this storm was coming and we threw everything blow-awayable into the garage yesterday afternoon.

The south of the country have been on red alert since Saturday giving them plenty of time to board up. What are you going to do at 8.30 Sunday evening in the dark?

EPAndlee

The minister says employees stay at home

Samaris

Okay, that's kinda cool - there's a thick, heavy bank of dark grey cloud, but lighter at the horizon to the north-west. I can see the bottom of the bank being pulled from the north to the south-east at some speed. It's whipping along there at the base. In terms of wind, feels like an unusually windy day currently, but we're not due to get the worst of it until midday or so.

Ah, I see landfall is now first due right on top of us. That'll be..fun.

tashiusclay

flazio

El Horseboxo wrote: »

Going to be nothing more than any of the usual stormy conditions on the east coast. Dunnes are going to regret closing big time and anyone who doesn't have approval but stays home from work will look foolish as you'll have been in work plenty of times in similar conditions. It has tracked further west and looks to have weakened.

Source of that information?

mickger844posts

Max gust 71km/h here so far in Waterford City.

www.waterfordweather.com

marno21

First power outages now in West Tipperary and Kilkenny

Total of 200 without power

_Dara_

Romantic Rose wrote: »

12 hours. It's lucky I have been following this thread and knew this storm was coming and we threw everything blow-awayable into the garage yesterday afternoon.

The south of the country have been on red alert since Saturday giving them plenty of time to board up. What are you going to do on 8.30 Sunday evening in the dark?

When did your husband go to work? Storms are constantly changing.