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

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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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SeaFields

An absolute tool just drove past my house with two kids in the back.

Paully D

Are the people who claimed all was fine when it was relatively calm this morning starting to grasp the reality of the situation facing us now?

ellieh1

ESB Powercheck website seems down...is it the same for anyone else??

HONKEY TONK

randylonghorn wrote: »

Yeah, we should, because they're people just like us.

But I'd be awful tempted to get them to shore and then bury my size 12s halfway up their arseholes for being stupid fking mutts!!

Not me. They know exactly what they are doing so off they go.

These are not accidents.

These stupid ****s are purposely being reckless pulling others into a dangerous situation

So off they go

[Deleted User]

Really glad work was cancelled. The area where my workplace is (northside Cork City) seems to be getting the worst of it. Cork Safety Alerts has some good info...

kippy

LordSutch wrote: »

Getting so many mixed messages!

Some say its not as bad as expected, others saying it's howling ......

What's the story?

I really don't know why people have to ask this question......

The wind isn't just ON or OFF in a specific area. Different areas will experience different sets of weather features at different times.

Based on the northerly track of the esb outages and some of the photos I am seeing this is as bad an event as predicted with at least another 12 hours before the worst of it has left the general vicinity of the country.

Stay indoors, keep safe and worry about who got what right and wrong and what someone said tomorrow.

Claregirl

Very wild in Ennis now :eek:

Sierra Oscar

Straffan1979 wrote: »

live from Dingle - relatively calm

Ah Minard, a beautiful spot - I'd say it must be fairly bleak there today though! :eek:

angeldaisy

just outside limerick city, top of hill, fairly exposed, really bad here now. power has gone, gate blown down, part of fence gone. some slates gone off roof.

squarecircles

Tree fallen on car,Waterford,2 trapped inside

Cianos

Anyone else have an odd craving for a few bottles of beer today for all of this

:pac:

radharc

Power out in Carlow and its starting to really blow

Del.Monte

Ted_YNWA wrote: »

Wind after seriously picking up in Wexford town in last 10 mins.

ME were bang on for 12:00 hitting.

Water level high at the moment in harbour & southerly winds will mean flooding I reckon.

Funny, I was just going to ask was the "event" over as there's nothing to report from Enniscorthy at 12.11.

iamwhoiam

LastLagoon wrote: »

Out for a walk on the beach with dog in donegal,he’s not bothered ,I reckon the dog posters are seeing what they want to see. Nothing special here yet,some ominous clouds,and yes I’ll be in before it hits so no need for the high horse

They are not in Donegal maybe but in areas where it had ACTUALLY hit .

Straffan1979

live from Dingle - relatively calm

Irish_rat

Just after a couple of scary gusts in Limerick now, house rattling mad. Must be crazy on higher and more exposed areas.

Ted_YNWA

Wind after seriously picking up in Wexford town in last 10 mins.

ME were bang on for 12:00 hitting.

Water level high at the moment in harbour & southerly winds will mean flooding I reckon.

JaMarcusHustle

Kite surfers had to be rescued.

Selfish ****ers should be left to drown, putting other people's lives at risk :mad:

Birdnuts

I'm in Kill Village Kildare atm(parents) and some big gusts now starting to come through!!

Guy Sajer

spookwoman wrote: »

where abouts

near Aglish

klose

Getting rough in clonmel now.

uck51js9zml2yt

LordSutch wrote: »

Getting so many mixed messages!

Some say its not as bad as expected, others saying it's howling ......

What's the story?

Turn on rte 1 tv

spookwoman

Shanee. wrote: »

Aglish

Poor bugger

Burial.

LordSutch wrote: »

Getting so many mixed messages!

Some say its not as bad as expected, others saying it's howling ......

What's the story?

Go on Twitter and search Cork or Kerry and you'll find dozens of photos and videos. See for yourself.

Shanee.

spookwoman wrote: »

where abouts

Aglish

Mooooo

Straffan1979 wrote: »

nothing major on Dingle peninsula tbh- is this over hyped

Centre of the storm is closer to ye, it's east of the storm getting the worst winds

LastLagoon

Out for a walk on the beach with dog in donegal,he’s not bothered ,I reckon the dog posters are seeing what they want to see. Nothing special here yet,some ominous clouds,and yes I’ll be in before it hits so no need for the high horse

Gorgeousgeorge

very quiet in baldonnell area of dublin

spookwoman

Irish_rat wrote: »

Tree after falling hitting a car in Waterford.

where abouts

fred funk }{

Serious wind gusts now in Arklow.