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

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  • #4472
    adox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,038 ✭✭✭✭adox


    Starting to pick up here now in Portmarnock North Dublin.


  • #4473
    KCAccidental
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,492 ✭✭✭KCAccidental


    Shadylou wrote: »
    Calmed way down in cork city.....id say we're over the worst thank goodness and we still have power

    Will strengthen again apparently. So don't think that it's over yet.


  • #4474
    d'Oracle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,025 ✭✭✭d'Oracle


    Straffan1979 wrote: »
    not trying to be inflammatory but we need to have a national/global discussion about this type of hype and mass hysteria that's now part of day to day life- nuclear wars and global warming and hurricanes - much worse in Feb 2014 ; it really has gone too far

    If the discussion needs to be national, then why the feck are you looking at the weather out your window and using that as a basis for your point?


  • #4475
    kippy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,207 ✭✭✭✭kippy


    Straffan1979 wrote: »
    not trying to be inflammatory but we need to have a national/global discussion about this type of hype and mass hysteria that's now part of day to day life- nuclear wars and global warming and hurricanes - much worse in Feb 2014 ; it really has gone too far

    I think it's best to wait till after the event has passed to make the determination of whether this was "overhyped" or not.

    There's already one unfortunate person dead and one one badly injured.......


  • #4476
    amadangomor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,148 ✭✭✭amadangomor


    Spend yesterday and this morning making the place/garden as storm proof as possible then walk into the bathroom and the other half has the skylight wide open.

    Hmm smelly bathroom or no roof, she obviously went with the latter :rolleyes:


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  • #4477
    BumperD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,681 ✭✭✭BumperD


    One dead Waterford https://www.rte.ie/


  • #4478
    [Deleted User]
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    Anyone that goes out swimming today is a f*cking idiot. Hearing reports of people down in Blackrock in Galway.

    Anybody that is rescued from the sea by the coastguard should be made pay for the costs of saving them.


  • #4479
    MJohnston
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,724 ✭✭✭✭MJohnston


    A very sad statistic to add to the thread - a woman has died in Waterford after a tree fell on her car:

    http://www.bbc.com/news/live/uk-41633276?ns_mchannel=social&ns_source=twitter&ns_campaign=bbc_breaking&ns_linkname=news_central&ns_fee=0#post_59e49f46e4b0df0fea8c33e1


  • #4480
    LeinsterDub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,229 ✭✭✭LeinsterDub


    sryanbruen wrote: »
    Storm Darwin brought 25m waves.

    Storm surge is still to come . This is a different beast than most people in Ireland have ever experienced


  • #4481
    Lucreto
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,017 ✭✭✭Lucreto


    The power has been reduced. Tv still works but oven and lights are not working.


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  • #4482
    fxotoole
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,661 ✭✭✭fxotoole


    Wind has really picked up in North Kildare. Our doormat has just blown away. Not risking going out there to recover it


  • #4483
    JaMarcusHustle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,719 ✭✭✭JaMarcusHustle


    Dublin 18 - very windy but nothing here so far that warrants much concern. Though I've read that the worst of it is yet to come.


  • #4484
    titan18
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,052 ✭✭✭✭titan18


    Straffan1979 wrote: »
    I'm not belly aching but I'm not a fan of this mass hysteria and culture of fear that's part of day to day life- I don't buy it and it's not just hurricanes - just my opinion

    Considering that there are idiots in our country who decided to go out for a swim or to surf in it, there clearly wasn't enough hysteria


  • #4485
    2Mad2BeMad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,792 ✭✭✭2Mad2BeMad


    Guarda just pullled up outside my neighbours house, asked him to move his car (parked right beside a tree)
    Fair play to them

    Dunno why he has it parked their, any other day it wouldn't be.


  • #4486
    Donal55
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,023 ✭✭✭Donal55


    ellieh1 wrote: »
    Lamp post outside is moving about quite a bit here in the outskirts of Limerick city....getting scary now


    Same here. P & T pole in the back garden looks dodgy. Wish it would fall now while the wind is blowing away ftom the house.


  • #4487
    taytobreath
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,811 ✭✭✭taytobreath


    its very scary here in Tramore now


  • #4488
    cros13
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    13:15

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  • #4489
    Colibri
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 654 ✭✭✭Colibri


    soap1978 wrote: »
    Biggest overreaction in the history of Irish weather lol

    ?!!!?!???!
    1 person has died already, and the storm hasn't hit most of the country yet.


  • #4490
    TomOnBoard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,133 ✭✭✭TomOnBoard


    signostic wrote: »
    Met Eireann webcam...Roches Point Automatic Weather Station

    Very well spotted!


  • #4491
    spookwoman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,059 ✭✭✭✭spookwoman


    Tree down outside belle Lake on the Dunmore East Road.


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  • #4492
    Shadylou
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 254 ✭✭Shadylou


    Definitely a storm in a teacup.....ive seen a few branches off trees but nothing worth keeping the kids off school for and losing a days wages


  • #4493
    noah45
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 426 ✭✭noah45


    Web Graphic Designer wrote: »
    General update (infographic) 13:00:

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    Looks very informative, what site is this?


  • #4494
    smurgen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,933 ✭✭✭smurgen


    Roof gone off Douglas Community School.Roofs gone off some north side houses.Turner's Cross stand roof damaged and lots of power lines down in Cork.


  • #4495
    Assetbacked
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,969 ✭✭✭Assetbacked


    Blowing quite hard in Malahide but not so hard that one wouldn't go outside. Some of the gusts are quick powerful but barely lasting. Early days.


  • #4496
    horsefarm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 222 ✭✭horsefarm


    soap1978 wrote: »
    Biggest overreaction in the history of Irish weather lol

    Theres nothing more infuriating and disrespectful than this sort of comment. One woman has already lost her life. Would you be happier if more people died?


  • #4497
    spookwoman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,059 ✭✭✭✭spookwoman


    Tree down at Belle Lake On the Dunmore East Road Co Waterford


  • #4498
    smokingman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,773 ✭✭✭smokingman


    Shadylou wrote: »
    Definitely a storm in a teacup.....ive seen a few branches off trees but nothing worth keeping the kids off school for and losing a days wages

    You want to tell that to the family of the lady that's dead this morning as a result of this storm yeah?


  • #4499
    TeaBagMania
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,192 ✭✭✭TeaBagMania


    I've got weather envy, id give anything to be in the west of Ireland riding this out in a pub with a cold Guinness, survived the floods in the north back in September in the same fashion

    Hunker down and be safe people


  • #4500
    TeaBagMania
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,192 ✭✭✭TeaBagMania


    double post, interweb is mighty slow from the states to Ireland


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  • #4501
    Arcade_Tryer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,021 ✭✭✭Arcade_Tryer


    Straffan1979 wrote: »
    not trying to be inflammatory but we need to have a national/global discussion about this type of hype and mass hysteria that's now part of day to day life- nuclear wars and global warming and hurricanes - much worse in Feb 2014 ; it really has gone too far
    Agree with this to an extent, but mostly in relation to the reaction in Dublin. Work was closed today in a new, state of the art building while builders continued on as normal outside, shopkeepers etc. But sent home for the employer's safety...


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