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

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  • #5492
    munsterlegend
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,628 ✭✭✭munsterlegend


    zzfh wrote: »
    Whats yer electricity situation like lads? Did anyone get power back yet? Gone in w wicklow since 1pm.

    Lost power near Mallow around 11 am and came back around 4. I wasn't expecting it back so quickly.


  • #5493
    keepalive213
    Closed Accounts Posts: 685 ✭✭✭keepalive213


    Belmullet weather report here, we usually get the brunt of it.
    Completely calm.
    Rip to those who lost their lives.


  • #5494
    How Soon Is Now
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,275 ✭✭✭✭How Soon Is Now


    Wind actually seems to of picked up again now in last half hour here.


  • #5495
    mdwexford
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,302 ✭✭✭✭mdwexford


    munsterlegend wrote: »
    Yeah I have no idea why Galway is so prominent. Must be to keep Teresa in the coverage.

    She is the storm pin up girl in fairness.

    What the men want to see.


  • #5496
    fred funk }{
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,842 ✭✭✭fred funk }{


    listermint wrote: »
    I don't have an instrument but going on visuals and sound it has to be over 100kmph

    Me neither. My unscientific equipment is the letter box. It only flaps when it's gusting over 100kmph.


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  • #5497
    Widdershins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,633 ✭✭✭✭Widdershins


    zzfh wrote: »
    Whats yer electricity situation like lads? Did anyone get power back yet? Gone in w wicklow since 1pm.

    Ours stayed on but most of the nearest villages were without power. I'm amazed ours stayed on!


  • #5498
    Spanish Eyes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,141 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    Now that things are calming down, Boards might be back on track.


  • #5499
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,450 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    The storm is not over yet for most but I do think the red warning was proven to be justified by 3 deaths alone, 380,000 without power.

    Is it the worst the country has ever had, no. But it has been a high impact event regardless.


  • #5500
    fullstop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 11,948 ✭✭✭✭fullstop


    d'Oracle wrote: »
    its all gone without a fuss, really.
    There are trees down all over the city, dafuq you on about?


  • #5501
    ThisRegard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,833 ✭✭✭✭ThisRegard


    server down wrote: »
    Well it wasn’t here in Dublin. But we aren’t the country.

    Pretty sure you are, somewhere around Leinster.


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  • #5502
    irishfeen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,072 ✭✭✭irishfeen


    Picking up now in North Cork after a few hours respite and is now wild again. Electricity back to most parts of Mallow town now with outlying areas now probably out for the night.

    Reports of water out too around some parts of the town and surrounds.


  • #5503
    ednwireland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,796 ✭✭✭✭ednwireland


    keepalive213 wrote: »
    Belmullet weather report here, we usually get the brunt of it.
    Completely calm.
    Rip to those who lost their lives.

    stay safe pretty much the eye of the storm passed there now you could get another hit yet

    My weather

    https://www.ecowitt.net/home/share?authorize=96CT1F



  • #5504
    Ted_YNWA
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,799 ✭✭✭✭Ted_YNWA


    Poochie05 wrote:
    No let up here in Wexford Town since around lunchtime. Just as it looked as if it may be beginning to calm down and gusts seems stronger than ever!

    Been a few strong blasts in last few minutes.


  • #5505
    Cantona's Collars
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,709 ✭✭✭✭Cantona's Collars


    Paully D wrote: »
    Are people on a different planet to me or something?

    It has been absolutely battering down with wind since 1pm in the south-east, and doesn't seem to have slowed down much at all the last five hours.

    Extensive and very visible damage to property in my locality, a death in the region, yet it hasn't materialised at all according to some on here. :eek:

    A few lucked out and were sheltered from the worst and thought "what's all the fuss?" Had they been stuck trying to get somewhere with lumps of trees,bits of roofs etc flying about then they might have a different opinion.Its still just as bad now as it was 5 hours ago in Wexford.
    The less people out and about means less injury and death.The warnings were justified.


  • #5506
    Storm 10
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,121 ✭✭✭Storm 10


    I recorded 77mph at 4pm from the West on my weather station in Galway, it was some day


  • #5507
    smeal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 623 ✭✭✭smeal


    Rain belting it down in Monaghan now. 18.31.


  • #5508
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,450 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    I do think some things were not required like the Emergency Broadcast System.

    One thing you want is for people to follow warnings. Things like EBS should be last resort. Cry wolf once too often and people won't take it seriously.


  • #5509
    keepalive213
    Closed Accounts Posts: 685 ✭✭✭keepalive213


    Tv3 that weather woman though


  • #5510
    Romantic Rose
    Closed Accounts Posts: 491 ✭✭Romantic Rose


    Whoa thought Donegal had escaped the worse of it but been getting very strong gusts for the last 30 minutes. Still boiling the kettle every 2 minutes!


  • #5511
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 30,194 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Thank you ESB, power went off around lunchtime but it was back a couple of hours later. Some very strong winds in Waterford but we didn't have any damage that I am aware of immediately around where I live.


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  • #5512
    Mickeroo
    Administrators, Computer Games Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 32,609 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Mickeroo


    Feels like Mayo has dodged the worst of it, got pretty windy an hour or so ago but nothing compared to what the rest of the country has been through.


  • #5513
    Robxxx7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,245 ✭✭✭Robxxx7


    Still getting gusts of around 65kmh here in Mid Kerry .... seems to be the tail end of the storm and should start to abate soon


  • #5514
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,450 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    Big gusts here now suddenly on northside of Dublin. The type that could well bring down trees. Not over yet.


  • #5515
    Peanut Butter Jelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,831 ✭✭✭Peanut Butter Jelly


    woody1 wrote: »
    ditto.. between crossmolina and ballina.. expecting decent southerly winds here til late tonight but looking at a load of different forecasts and there all giving the same thing.. nothing off the scale .. i think we are / were just in the right track with the centre going straight over us.. like i say hopefully whats behind isnt too bad

    I'm the other side of Crossmolina and I'd swear the centre of it was only a couple of miles away looking at maps of it earlier. Hopefully it keeps going the way it has because we've been very lucky today


  • #5516
    _Dara_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,971 ✭✭✭_Dara_


    MayoSalmon wrote: »
    In Dublin completely overhyped. Was let's say very windy for about 2 hours.

    I'm in Dublin, we've been buffeted since around 11:30 this morning with a lull of about an hour. Then back to being buffeted. (still ongoing)


  • #5517
    SeaFields
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,551 ✭✭✭SeaFields


    Those people claiming overhype have seen the pictures from Cork yeah?!


  • #5518
    irishgeo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,752 ✭✭✭irishgeo


    going by the powercheck map , mayo and west galway seemed to have missed the worst of it.


  • #5519
    Nettle Soup
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,312 ✭✭✭Nettle Soup


    Red Alert = Absolutely Yes.

    Nationwide = No.

    I've seen many worse storms in Galway in the last 10 years. Even the rain wasn't bad.

    Clsoing the schools again shows how soft society has become. Just ask one teacher to go in now and check the lights/water and call it.


  • #5520
    kingshankly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,042 ✭✭✭kingshankly


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Where ya seeing two dead in Louth?

    Unfortunately there are two dead in louth


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  • #5521
    Reiketsu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,096 ✭✭✭Reiketsu


    Any word on how this may affect the northwest? I'm in County Derry. Windy enough on and off today but no more than a normal winter storm so far. I can appreciate how bad it has been in other parts though - been following this thread the past few days.


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