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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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ibarelycare

Does the storm cause the sun to be really bright and glarey?

marvin80

martinsvi wrote: »

I'm genuinely surprised about some of the posters here - just because it's calm and sheltered where you are doesn't mean it's the same for everybody. You could find the met forum on boards.ie yet couldn't find actual weather info from the stations? The internet is full of pictures of damage of various degree, how is this not a red warning for Dublin? The ignorance of some people knows no limits..

I'm not surprised - it's called ignorance and selfishness - if it hasn't affected
certain people they complain about the weather warning.

This post shows damage in Dublin:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=104990011&postcount=5026

The warnings were justified undoubtedly - worst winds to hit Ireland in decades.

Mervyn Skidmore

Government should have imposed a curfew.

km79

Power gone in east Galway and scary conditions
Really hope it moves on soon

emo72

Colby Tall Shootout wrote: »

You're in Lucan? There's trees down in Griffeen Park, Willsbrook Park and on the road to Leixlip.

wouldnt mind having a walk in lucan demesne. but i'll pass this time.

Slieve Gullion

No sign of anything near a storm in Limerick City. It started to get a little blowy around 12.30pm with the odd moderate gust and it seems to have gone away now and calmed down outside. I'm a bit disappointed.

Confucius say

well I'm glad I went walking in Howth it was great. Never felt in any kind of danger at all, there were loads of people out. Seems to have passed now in North Dublin, didn't seem too bad at all, and just a few trees over. Hope Cork etc are over the worst of it too.

lapua20grain

Just heard on RTE news, idiots swimming off the Salthill promenade fuppin clowns

Kermit.de.frog

https://twitter.com/megans_rambling/status/919933182899867648

randylonghorn

wonski wrote: »

If a monkey can do it, he can.

Don't rely on it!

Confucius say wrote: »

Definitely some leaves have come off some of the trees on my street in D5

Oh goodness gracious dude, you better hurry and gather them up! :eek:

Vizzy wrote: »

Apparently he was cutting a tree that was in danger of falling on his house when a second tree/branch feel on him.

That makes more sense in fairness.

I'd still have stayed indoors and taken the risk to the roof tbh.

But then, I've been abroad and seen people sit in quiet despair on the side of the road staring at the hole in the landscape where their homes, their lives, used to exist.

That's just not something we're used to in Ireland, for all we complain about the weather.

All day.

Every day!

The fooping weather, I can't point the finger at anyone else, I moan about it enough myself! :rolleyes:

Estrellita

murpho999 wrote: »

Strange logic, how would you know when to take them in? Only when they blow away?

murpho999

appledrop wrote: »

I know some parts of the country have been really badly hit but as I expected red warning for Dublin way off. Yes bit stormy here but no way did everything need to close down. Birds still feeding at seed feeder + bins haven't moved an inch. I'm near Malahide like other poster. We have had much worse coastly storms than this in North County Dublin when we just had to get on with it.

It's better to be safe than sorry as it's a dynamic situation.

Imagine if they did nothing and it was really bad.

Also, it can still get worse in Dublin area.

Jesus Wept

I've been out on windier days that didn't get a mention.

babyboom

I'm in Donabate, North County Dublin. So far we've lost our fence panel, there's debris from the building site behind us stuck in the trees and the local doctor's surgery has lost some roof panels. So it might be calm is some parts of Dublin bt not all.

Sparks43

storker

marvin80 wrote: »

I'm not surprised - it's called ignorance and selfishness - if it hasn't affected
certain people they complain about the weather warning.

The "I am the world" fallacy in action.

spookwoman

There may be a third fatality around dundalk

GoldFour4

Wind starting to pick up around rathmines/ranelagh now

Slieve Gullion

Limerick City.

No storm here.

A few moderate gusts.

Calm outside now.

Disappointed.

Mickeroo

Slieve Gullion wrote: »

No sign of anything near a storm in Limerick City. It started to get a little blowy around 12.30pm with the odd moderate gust and it seems to have gone away now and calmed down outside. I'm a bit disappointed.

There's trees down in Limerick city so it must have been a bit more than moderate.

Slieve Gullion

Limerick City.

No storm here.

A few moderate gusts.

Calm outside now.

Disappointed.

Sardonicat

Slieve Gullion wrote: »

Limerick City.

No storm here.

A few moderate gusts.

Calm outside now.

Disappointed.

Really? Not relieved?

tayto lover

spookwoman wrote: »

May be a third fatality up around dundalk

A tree fell on a car in Ravensdale.

https://talkofthetown.ie/emergency-services-attending-incidents-ravensdale-haynestown/

kabakuyu

Severe flooding in Salthill Galway, sea has reached back of seapoint and Toft park.

floorpie

How thick are people to ever 1) say this isn't bad because the 10 feet surrounding them aren't bad, and 2) go out walking on sea fronts when a) they don't normally do it and b) they were implored not to.

To the people who are posting "I went out walking on a cliff and it was grand" etc, you aren't coming across as brave or cool, you sound foolish.

MJohnston

Now we enter the phase of the hot takes that equate the fact that people in certain regions didn't get hurt or killed with alert levels being unnecessary.

People never think that the relative lack of injury (so far) is because of the alert levels, which it almost certainly is.

A good metaphor is the Y2K Bug - there was a huge info campaign getting everyone to update their PCs and electronic devices before the year 2000, with warnings that bugs may occur in them otherwise. So everybody updated their PCs and electronic devices. Cut to January 1st 2000 and there's a ream of idiots wondering where all the problems are, saying it was all a sham and overhyped. And they probably can never understand what logic they've missed.

frozenfrozen

I'm very near Limerick and it was really nothing special, we were just lucky so far but I can't see it getting any worse thankfully

marno21

Is it expected to get any worse in Limerick city? Have we seen the worst of it now?

whisky_galore

Mervyn Skidmore wrote: »

Government should have imposed a curfew.

Govt couldn't organise a game of bingo, let alone a curfew.

Rikand

ibarelycare wrote: »

Does the storm cause the sun to be really bright and glarey?

After a storm like this you could expect the air to be super clear - Like giving the house a good spring clean. The hurricane is doing the same for the sky/atmosphere