So this Hurricane

One_Of_Shanks · 16-10-2017 07:08PM

Just curious, anyone with greenhouses or polytunnels how did you fare?

I said my prayers this morning for our greenhouse and I checked onit around 2pm and I could see all the movement in the glass panels and I was convinced she was fecked.
Ended up with several holes in my roof of the house but somehow the greenhouse held firm. Bonkers.

Hope the rest of yee with GH's and PT's didnt get them wiped out.

josip · 16-10-2017 07:13PM

RobbingBandit wrote: »

11,000 eir customers without service

Eir still have 11,000 customers?

RobbingBandit · 16-10-2017 07:17PM

11,001 as I'm one too and mine is still working.

Augme · 16-10-2017 07:24PM

murpho999 wrote: »

Don't blame transport services for trying to run as long as possible.
Also don't forget that their services this morning got people who work shifts home from work safely.

Employers should not have dragged workers in with a National Red Alert in action.

Today was a dynamic situation that was very hard to predict and they did the best they could.

Passengers using their service this morning must have known it was highly likely they would not be running later that day.

I don't see how they can be blamed if their depot is now seriously damaged.

I think people just moan for the sake of it, never happy no matter what is done.

Why announce last night that their plan was to run until 10am to get people home?

Busines probably told workers to come in because they felt that transport links throughout Dublin would still be running and would take them home.

Today was hard to predict?

I can only assume you have been avoiding the news all week. It was a pretty easy situation to predict given the fact that there was predictions made about it all week. There's a reason there was a red weather alert.

So the passengers should have realised the Luas wouldn't be operating for the whole day, even though Luas themselves didn't seem to realise that? :pac: Yea blame the passengers.

I don't blame them for their depot being seriously damaged. I do blame them for their inept handling of the situation up until that point.

ardinn · 16-10-2017 07:26PM

GFish wrote: »

Even an old wrinkly like me can see that this is humour.
There follows a storm of outraged opprobrium.

@Gamebred: Try using a smiley when/if you get unbanned.

More shocking modding from NC - Even you got infracted :pac:

Mod-Banned

LollipopJimmy · 16-10-2017 07:28PM

Seems a normal night in Dublin now. I've just left the gym and can't believe there are people stranded in thus area, no busses, luas or taxis about. DB said they'd be back at 7 then didn't bother. That is an absolute ****show

darced · 16-10-2017 07:30PM

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Berserker · 16-10-2017 07:31PM

_Dara_ wrote: »

Really hope you didn't go for this run. :eek: Not great in Dublin currently.

I wouldn't consider running in that wind. I don't mind rain, love running in snow but wind is the worst. It'd be a mare trying to run 5K in that tonight. I want to sit a one hour online exam tonight but I'm afraid to start it for fear that the internet will die on me.

ardinn · 16-10-2017 07:33PM

GFish wrote: »

Even an old wrinkly like me can see that this is humour.
There follows a storm of outraged opprobrium.

@Gamebred: Try using a smiley when/if you get unbanned.

More shocking modding from NC

Another poster banned for pointing it out??

Farcical!!!

BillyBobBS · 16-10-2017 07:34PM

LollipopJimmy wrote: »

Seems a normal night in Dublin now. I've just left the gym and can't believe there are people stranded in thus area, no busses, luas or taxis about. DB said they'd be back at 7 then didn't bother. That is an absolute ****show

Yeah how dare they assess the situation and make a judgement. They should have stuck to the 7pm plan filled the double deckers with people and to hell with the outcome.

noaddedsugar · 16-10-2017 07:34PM

One_Of_Shanks wrote: »

Just curious, anyone with greenhouses or polytunnels how did you fare?

I said my prayers this morning for our greenhouse and I checked onit around 2pm and I could see all the movement in the glass panels and I was convinced she was fecked.
Ended up with several holes in my roof of the house but somehow the greenhouse held firm. Bonkers.

Hope the rest of yee with GH's and PT's didnt get them wiped out.

My polytunnel is perfect, no damage at all. I have a few thousand euro worth of plants in it so I was really concerned that it would get destroyed but I went out to check on it earlier and just one plant was toppled over inside. It's still fairly windy outside at the minute though and now I am scared I have jinxed it.

WinnyThePoo · 16-10-2017 07:34PM

LollipopJimmy wrote: »

Seems a normal night in Dublin now. I've just left the gym and can't believe there are people stranded in thus area, no busses, luas or taxis about. DB said they'd be back at 7 then didn't bother. That is an absolute ****show

Probably to do with the weather there.

16-10-2017 07:35PM

I'm in Drogheda and havent had it too bad to be honest. No worse than a typical windy day, really.

Between 8-12 this morning, I was on the road, going from offaly to longford to monaghan (then back to drogheda). The weather was getting increasingly worse in Offaly, and the roads were very slippery with loads and loads of leaves from trees on the road. Wind was a bit iffy but again, nothing too out of the ordinary.

I'm in Drogheda, and a man in Dundalk (just north of Drogheda) and a woman in Waterford (a good bit south) died from trees falling, but I didn't feel like we got any wind that'd knock a tree, where I am, so perhaps Ophelia didn't bother with Drogheda (place always looks like a hurricane went through it, anyway).

Wouldn't like to have been on the west coast at all, in saying that.

I also think, although Bus Eireann would be right to pull their national services (cos going from east to west and such, you can't really tell what you're driving into), I think their 'local' (town) routes, and Dublin Bus, should have stayed on the road. I had no need to use either of the services, but they shouldn't have set a time to stop and start services, it was moronic. They really should have based it on actual real-time weather.

I'd have been furious if i got the bus to work, was told to go home, and then found out there was no public transport.

I did notice (and kinda figured it'd be the case) that when they said 'no high sided vehicles should be about' that the speed vans wouldn't really be on the roads. I'd normally see a few of them and didn't see any today. Could be just a coincidence, of course, but im guessing they pulled their vans from the roads for the day.

Edit: Also, can't not post this..

murpho999 · 16-10-2017 07:35PM

Augme wrote: »

Why announce last night that their plan was to run until 10am to get people home?

Busines probably told workers to come in because they felt that transport links throughout Dublin would still be running and would take them home.

Today was hard to predict? I can only assume you have been avoiding the news all week. It was a pretty easy situation to predict given the fact that there was predictions made about it all week. There's a reason there was a red weather alert.

So the passengers should have realised the Luas wouldn't be operating for the whole day, even though Luas themselves didn't seem to realise that? :pac: Yea blame the passengers.

I don't blame them for their depot being seriously damaged. I do blame them for their inept handling of the situation up until that point.

Imagine your outrage if they announced it yesterday they were cancelling services all day and then it was perfectly fine this morning, which it was in Dublin.

It was hard to predict as in precisely when exactly the storm would impact Dublin and how severe.

I think you should cut them some slack.

Ken. · 16-10-2017 07:39PM

Mod-So we've had 2 cards and a ban for discussing moderation on thread. Knock it off now.

maryishere · 16-10-2017 07:39PM

Am in Dublin and I am after ringing some friends and relatives down the country to see if they are ok, and nobody thought it was that windy. No worse than some other storms.

OldMrBrennan83 · 16-10-2017 07:41PM

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andekwarhola · 16-10-2017 07:42PM

Hopefully the authorities have learned a valuable lesson from all this.

No warnings or precautionary measures should be required for major storms in the future unless it's guaranteed to directly endanger every person in the country.

One_Of_Shanks · 16-10-2017 07:43PM

Augme wrote: »

Why announce last night that their plan was to run until 10am to get people home?

Busines probably told workers to come in because they felt that transport links throughout Dublin would still be running and would take them home. .

It was 100% clear last night to all employers that it would be best and safest to tell their employees not to travel.

That was beyond obvious.

At the same time, it was known that the trouble wouldn't hit the capital until later in the day so if they ran some services for the early hours then fair play to them.
Its not as though every single person is necessarily en route to work.
For example, Some elderly people might have been delighted that the service was running so that they could do their business and get home again before it kicked off.

So fair balls to them for doing that.

It's way beyond their control that some employers would insist their employees travel to work and might not get home.
That's on the employer. Nobody else.

noaddedsugar · 16-10-2017 07:44PM

maryishere wrote: »

Am in Dublin and I am after ringing some friends and relatives down the country to see if they are ok, and nobody thought it was that windy. No worse than some other storms.

'Down the country' is a bit vague, were they on the Cork coast or in Waterford City, maybe Tipp or Offaly, they all had different storm strengths.

Augme · 16-10-2017 07:44PM

murpho999 wrote: »

Imagine your outrage if they announced it yesterday they were cancelling services all day and then it was perfectly fine this morning, which it was in Dublin.

It was hard to predict as in precisely when exactly the storm would impact Dublin and how severe.

I think you should cut them some slack.

lol, yea just imagine the severe weather system just happened to completely disappear overnight. A likely turn of events that was going to be. :pac:

Again, it wasn't hard to predict when the storm would impact. Everyone knew the morning would be clear and the storm would start from around 1pm. I mean, it was all over the news and anyone could have easily found out if they wanted.

Billy86 · 16-10-2017 07:44PM

maryishere wrote: »

Am in Dublin and I am after ringing some friends and relatives down the country to see if they are ok, and nobody thought it was that windy. No worse than some other storms.

Good to hear they're alive and roofs are still there, because it's not the case for everyone.

freshpopcorn · 16-10-2017 07:45PM

maryishere wrote: »

Am in Dublin and I am after ringing some friends and relatives down the country to see if they are ok, and nobody thought it was that windy. No worse than some other storms.

Your friends clearly haven't left the house, or kept up to date with local/national news.
It's so lucky that the government closed schools/hospital appointments and then business/shops followed Today. Three people died due to this and this was with lots being in doors. If we all had the attitude it's a but windy the death toll would be a lot worse!

Zardaz · 16-10-2017 07:46PM

One_Of_Shanks wrote: »

Just curious, anyone with greenhouses or polytunnels how did you fare?

I said my prayers this morning for our greenhouse and I checked onit around 2pm and I could see all the movement in the glass panels and I was convinced she was fecked.
Ended up with several holes in my roof of the house but somehow the greenhouse held firm. Bonkers.

Hope the rest of yee with GH's and PT's didnt get them wiped out.

My new landmark 8x8 glasshouse in the (fairly sheltered) back garden survived - didn't move a millimetre.
In the suburbs of limerick city.

Augme · 16-10-2017 07:47PM

One_Of_Shanks wrote: »

It was 100% clear last night to all employers that it would be best and safest to tell their employees not to travel.

That was beyond obvious.

At the same time, it was known that the trouble wouldn't hit the capital until later in the day so if they ran some services for the early hours then fair play to them.
Its not as though every single person is necessarily en route to work.
For example, Some elderly people might have been delighted that the service was running so that they could do their business and get home again before it kicked off.

So fair balls to them for doing that.

It's way beyond their control that some employers would insist their employees travel to work and might not get home.
That's on the employer. Nobody else.

When you say you are running a service and plan to run it all day only to decide at 10am that all services are being cut straight away then you need to take a big portion of the blame. As I said, this weather event wasn't a surprise.

Zhane · 16-10-2017 07:49PM

Its still blowing an absolute gale here in Wexford. Had to leave the house earlier on and go to a neighbours as the trees in the park behind us fell down into another neighbours and destroying the extension. The tree behind our place looked like it was gonna go too but seems to stood firm.

Richard tea · 16-10-2017 07:50PM

Well my ornamental pear tree came down. The flashing on my shed got warped/bent. But what a fantastic weather phenomenon to experience. I think we should expect more of these. Im in the midlands and we were without power for about 6 hrs. Im off to google generators as no google makes me something something

Junkyard Tom · 16-10-2017 07:52PM

It's really weird that people are trying to downplay the severity of the storm because they personally didn't experience it.

It's like when a small child hides behind a cushion and believes if he can't see you you can't see him, this is stage of child development known as ego-centrism and children usually start growing out of it by the age of five or six.

One_Of_Shanks · 16-10-2017 07:54PM

Zardaz wrote: »

My new landmark 8x8 glasshouse in the (fairly sheltered) back garden survived - didn't move a millimetre.
In the suburbs of limerick city.

Ha, nice one! I dunno bout you but I was having kittens about it.

We'll probably get tested a few more times but any greenhouse that survived today was built fairly well I'd say

BillyBobBS · 16-10-2017 07:56PM

Junkyard Tom wrote: »

It's really weird that people are trying to downplay the severity of the storm because they personally didn't experience it.

It's like when a small child hides behind a cushion and believes if he can't see you you can't see him, this is stage of child development known as ego-centrism and children usually start growing out of it by the age of five or six.

It's the "Me" culture society we live in.

So this Hurricane

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