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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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road_high

Cork Lass wrote: »

Pathetic announcement by Leo. Too little and too late.

Oh ffs get a grip!

Knex*

Has Ireland every experienced 170km+ gusts, on record anyway?

Akrasia

from_atozinc wrote: »

Seems like the storm is about 2 hours behind what was predicted.

Any reports yet of it actually hitting land in Ireland.

Weather alerts always take effect a few hours before the actual event is due to happen, it's to make sure people have a chance to get home because most people will leave it to the last minute.

road_high

_Kaiser_ wrote: »

This is an extremely rare and serious national weather event with potentially very damaging and even life-threatening consequences.

In most other places (especially as this doesn't happen here for the most part) a state of emergency would have been declared, a pre-arranged plan implemented, and clear instructions and guidance issued by Government (rather than leaving Met Eireann practically pleading for people to take it seriously!)

You think that's too much to expect? We already know our current Taoiseach isn't media shy, yet on this occasion he's vanished like his predecessor did in times of crisis (or scandal)

Don't travel and go out. How much clearer do you want it? Do you need a personal call from Leo to get it through to you? Because that's what it sounds like...

_Kaiser_

Pelvis wrote: »

Where was this announcement from Leo? Newstalk had no mention of it.

Hasn't been on RTE yet either

Gidea

Itssoeasy wrote: »

Why ?

They brought everyone who relied on public transport to work and have now cancelled service until at least 7. Most likely they wont resume service. Shouldn't have been running at all today

[Deleted User]

Windy alright in Cork city. Not constant thought, comes and goes. Was on the phone to my Mother in Kerry she says it's only really starting to get bad now. She has to drive home from work at 11.30am..

Pelvis

Where was this announcement from Leo? Newstalk had no mention of it.

Gael23

caff wrote: »

And if a gust toppled a double decker noone would blame them?

They have effectively imprisoned workers in Dublin City centre

Minister

dark crystal wrote: »

Mine was sent home by 9 - morning hurricane delight already had... ;)

Awww, two little Ophelias to welcome at end June 2018!! Congrats😇

DellyBelly

Trees still have plenty of leaves so they are heavier at the moment and we just had one collapse here about 20 mins ago. Luckily no one under it

GhostyMcGhost

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Will the windfarm owners be rubbing their hands or their heads today?

No, because wind turbines are all turned over a certain wind speed

noah45

Wind picking up here in Athlone

legrand

track here https://www.ventusky.com/?p=52.45;-8.80;6&l=gust
toggle parameters left and timeline below

Cork Lass

Pathetic announcement by Leo. Too little and too late.

marvin80

Getting gusty here in the Midlands now

Atlantic Dawn

I suppose the biggest lesson so far is don't allow trees to be planted within falling distance of roads.

Surreptitious

server down wrote: »

So how bad is it there at the moment?

Unreal winds, trees looking unstable, front door seems unsafe. Not much rain but flying debris and it will get worse. There's no traffic passing at all here and emergency services are out. Cork City.

uck51js9zml2yt

Leo checking his notes regularly. He even checked them as to ensure it was a "dangerous " event.

antodeco

Anybody who says "it's not as bad as what they were saying" or "non-event/overhyped" or anything similar should not be allowed post in this thread. Saying things like that, could put someone's life in danger if they believe you.

UsBus

No. 1 Stay in doors
No. 2 Check on your neighbours :-)
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snotboogie

It's fairly feckin windy in Cork city now, two medium sized trees down in the garden behind me already.

_Kaiser_

road_high wrote: »

What are you on about? It's been allover the bleedin news for the past 3 days. Non stop updates and warnings. Typical idiotic nit-picking and senseless blame culture that has engulfed certain sections of Irish society.

This is an extremely rare and serious national weather event with potentially very damaging and even life-threatening consequences.

In most other places (especially as this doesn't happen here for the most part) a state of emergency would have been declared, a pre-arranged plan implemented, and clear instructions and guidance issued by Government (rather than leaving Met Eireann practically pleading for people to take it seriously!)

You think that's too much to expect? We already know our current Taoiseach isn't media shy, yet on this occasion he's vanished like his predecessor did in times of crisis (or scandal)

road_high

UsBus wrote: »

No he has more authority and influence than met eireann. What do you think the leaders role should be, sharing socks with other leaders..??

Tripe. For me anyhow, I prefer listen to actual EXPERTS, ya know Meteorologists and the like. Is the Taoiseach a Meteorologist? I wasn't aware he was anyhow....
Political point scoring is all the likes of you are after, just using the storm for political opportunism to have a whine about the Govt.

Green&Red

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Will the windfarm owners be rubbing their hands or their heads today?

They'll all be on lock down

Lumi

Met Eireann have posted a nice graphic of the projected storm track
https://twitter.com/meteireann/status/919854359403552768

Paully D

It's a bit late now Leo!

from_atozinc

Seems like the storm is about 2 hours behind what was predicted.

Any reports yet of it actually hitting land in Ireland.

Meteorite58

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

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Don’t say you weren’t warned!!

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Green&Red

road_high wrote: »

That "boss" is an absolute plonker...is he trying to score browny points with the upper echelons?

He owns the company!