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

doylefe wrote: »

Strange at the press conference just now they say the worst is over south of Galway / Dublin line. From what I see in that image is a whole load of purple moving up into the southern half of the country.

NECC press conference stated worst winds below the Galway / Dublin line would peak between 17:00 and 19:00. Not inconsistent with the image.

The storm is basically rapidly dying as it passes over us.... a process started as it passed over cold water a few thousand km south of Ireland.

It's also moving north north east as it disintegrates, that back wall will move out into the irish sea

The ICON model for midnight looks like this:

IT reporting that Dublin Bus and Irish Rail have suspended all services for the rest of the day until Tuesday morning.



... and how are people supposed to get home?

Power was gone for 5 hours but back now, here in north east Kilkenny.

Loafing Oaf wrote: »

I'm near Ballina, not getting any worse here...

It has been getting worse in Castlebar for the last half hour.

Guy Sajer wrote: »

Reports on twitter of 10 fatalities in Belfast after bus overturns. Hope its not true.

If it's that JH account it seems morbid fake news.

eigrod wrote: »

3 people died as a direct result of the storm. Have a bit of respect ffs.

About 1,000 people die from accidents each year in Ireland. And heading for the same amount again from suicide, murder, manslaughter etc.

Most likely, less people died today in Ireland than an average day, due to everybody being hunkered down watching for the storm instead of finding ways to get themselves killed.

If anything, whoever managed to get caught out in the storm despite the hysteria surrounding it, is deserving of fractionally less respect than the approximately 100 people who died of various ailments today.

But drama queens are obsessed with enforcing a state hushed reverence around whichever cherry picked sob story happens to be providing their morbidity fix on a given day. Its a self importance issue I guess - it provides a brand of power.

We can't talk flippantly about the state of, say, the hospitals, because "some one died"?

We can't quip about the state of the roads, because "someone died"?

By all means some respect should be shown if the subject at hand is the specific fate of specific people.

However, if that isn't the subject at hand, then it doesn't. Otherwise we would all have to spend our entire lives, on practically every subject, speaking in a permanent sombre murmur of faux grief. Because people die every day in droves.

I keep hearing it's on track to Dublin now.. How accurate is this?

Will this pick up again ? Totally calm now in kildare and I am due to work later at my discretion but would rather go in if I can , its only a very short distance to travel...

Guy Sajer wrote: »

Reports on twitter of 10 fatalities in Belfast after bus overturns. Hope its not true.

It's a troll

Malone Road, Belfast (for those doubting that there are dangers beyond the south-west coast):

batchuba wrote: »

About 1,000 people die from accidents each year in Ireland. And heading for the same amount again from suicide, murder, manslaughter etc.

Most likely, less people died today in Ireland than an average day, due to everybody being hunkered down watching for the storm instead of finding ways to get themselves killed.

If anything, whoever managed to get caught out in the storm despite the hysteria surrounding it, is deserving of fractionally less respect than the approximately 100 people who died of various ailments today.

But drama queens are obsessed with enforcing a state hushed reverence around whichever cherry picked sob story happens to be providing their morbidity fix on a given day. Its a self importance issue I guess - it provides a brand of power.

We can't talk flippantly about the state of, say, the hospitals, because "some one died"?

We can't quip about the state of the roads, because "someone died"?

By all means some respect should be shown if the subject at hand is the specific fate of specific people.

However, if that isn't the subject at hand, then it doesn't. Otherwise we would all have to spend our entire lives, on practically every subject, speaking in a permanent sombre murmur of faux grief. Because people die every day in droves.

The subject at hand is the hurricane/storm today - not anything else. Perhaps you happened on the wrong forum on boards.ie ?

The poster flippantly dismissed the storm as 'a bit of wind' or some such. It was anything but, as 3 deaths demonstrated.

If you want to discuss suicides or other means of death, then why not go to the appropriate forum on boards.ie?

It was an extremely serious hurricane/storm in many parts of the country - not 'a bit of wind'. Hopefully 3 deaths will be all it is.

My mother's place has power back in West Cork. Lucky really, hopefully it will stay

[Deleted User] wrote: »

You seem to be aware of what hindsight is and then just ignore it in the next sentence and make the stupidest comment I've read all day.

My post was completely sarcastic.

Honestly, it was so stupid I didn't actually think is need to point out it was sarcasm