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  • #1022
    Vela
    Closed Accounts Posts: 437 ✭✭Vela


    I've been pretty ill the past while and indoors, so totally thought people were overreacting, but then I went out for food today and everywhere was closed! Walking more than 10mins or so isn't happening for me right now, have a nasty chest infection going on.

    Does anyone know if any takeaway joints are open today in Dublin south city centre that cater to vegans? (I know, I know, I'm the worst). I'm finally getting my appetite back and my fridge is basically empty :/ As in, I have juice and an apple!


  • #1023
    scopper
    Closed Accounts Posts: 870 ✭✭✭scopper


    Mrcaramelchoc wrote: »
    https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/storm-emma/people-will-struggle-post-offices-running-out-of-cash-as-panic-grips-the-country-36658349.html

    Are people ****ing insane?

    It's not like everyone getting cash per se, but people getting their dole and allowances from the post office, so if that was your only income then yep, you'd freak. It's not like people think cash in general is running out.


  • #1024
    J. Marston
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,352 ✭✭✭✭J. Marston


    kneemos wrote: »
    Ireland apparently is officially closed.
    Never in my life heard such nonsense.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oOlAGKBXnA


    That's you, isn't it? Don't lie.


  • #1025
    Trigger Happy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,181 ✭✭✭Trigger Happy


    riffmongous wrote: »
    Presumably with leggings?

    Tights!


  • #1026
    zl1whqvjs75cdy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,042 ✭✭✭zl1whqvjs75cdy


    Word of power outages around kildare and parts of Dublin now. That's no joke if people lose their central heating


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  • #1027
    wakka12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    Theres a storm arriving that will bring at least 6 inches of snow to most areas of the south and east in the space of one evening/night, hardly nonsense


  • #1028
    wheresmahbombs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,036 ✭✭✭wheresmahbombs


    I'm still able to use my PC right now, fortunately.


  • #1029
    Hande hoche!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,950 ✭✭✭Hande hoche!


    J. Marston wrote: »
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oOlAGKBXnA


    That's you, isn't it? Don't lie.
    Poor chap's ancestors froze to death on the Eastern front.


  • #1030
    punisher5112
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,633 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    People are a lot thicker then back in the day and if Google goes down they are in grave danger.

    Seriously isn't it a better idea when weather is so bad that people are at home chilling literally but in all fairness fairly safe and less risk of weather related injuries or deaths.


  • #1031
    Berserker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,046 ✭✭✭Berserker


    It's only one day ffs. Just back from driving on the M50 and M4. Both roads were absolutely fine. My OH is Canadian and she is laughing her ass off at the reaction to a few inches of snow. Dublin Bus and Bus Eireann have cancelled their services. Not sure what it is like down the country but no need for DB to cancel their services.


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  • #1032
    RobbingBandit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,392 ✭✭✭✭RobbingBandit


    The post office wouldn't have the payments for both days being Thursday and Friday unless it had been prearranged adding to that the doubling of the fuel allowance that would leave the post office broke and out of cash very fast now due to this weather being primarily on the east coast An Post won't be sending a any further amounts of cash and may not even open this office again until Monday now leading to an influx of people 2 or more times capacity of the expected people for today with many of them getting the extra fuel allowance.


  • #1033
    OldMrBrennan83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,658 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


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  • #1034
    Hande hoche!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,950 ✭✭✭Hande hoche!


    Vela wrote: »
    I've been pretty ill the past while and indoors, so totally thought people were overreacting, but then I went out for food today and everywhere was closed! Walking more than 10mins or so isn't happening for me right now, have a nasty chest infection going on.

    Does anyone know if any takeaway joints are open today in Dublin south city centre that cater to vegans? (I know, I know, I'm the worst). I'm finally getting my appetite back and my fridge is basically empty :/ As in, I have juice and an apple!

    Saw on the telly that Spar on Dame street were supposedly staying open. You might be able to get something there?


  • #1035
    SidekickSimon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 28 ✭SidekickSimon


    donkeyoaty0099 wrote: »
    Word of power outages around kildare and parts of Dublin now. That's no joke if people lose their central heating

    It might work out well. A well needed cull of the weak !


  • #1036
    Dev84
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 739 ✭✭✭Dev84


    Berserker wrote: »
    It's only one day ffs. Just back from driving on the M50 and M4. Both roads were absolutely fine. My OH is Canadian and she is laughing her ass off at the reaction to a few inches of snow. Dublin Bus and Bus Eireann have cancelled their services. Not sure what it is like down the country but no need for DB to cancel their services.

    Canadians get it every year
    We get it once every 30 years. Why does she find it so funny?


  • #1037
    DoozerT6
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,593 ✭✭✭DoozerT6


    Berserker wrote: »
    It's only one day ffs. Just back from driving on the M50 and M4. Both roads were absolutely fine. My OH is Canadian and she is laughing her ass off at the reaction to a few inches of snow. Dublin Bus and Bus Eireann have cancelled their services. Not sure what it is like down the country but no need for DB to cancel their services.

    Canadians are used to snow and low temperatures. We're not. That's the difference. This is probably a mild spring day to them, but to us it IS a big deal. This is probably a once in a decade event.


  • #1038
    RobbingBandit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,392 ✭✭✭✭RobbingBandit


    https://www.esb.ie/esb-networks/powercheck/


  • #1039
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,325 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Maybe because she's used to it.


  • #1040
    riffmongous
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,933 ✭✭✭✭riffmongous


    RobbingBandit wrote: »
    Anyone one want a half eaten loaf of bread, I'm sick of bread now.

    Ireland come Saturday

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  • #1041
    RobbingBandit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,392 ✭✭✭✭RobbingBandit


    Big cluster up in lusk so far only thing in Dublin area


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  • #1042
    Wanderer2010
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,743 ✭✭✭Wanderer2010


    Berserker wrote: »
    It's only one day ffs. Just back from driving on the M50 and M4. Both roads were absolutely fine. My OH is Canadian and she is laughing her ass off at the reaction to a few inches of snow. Dublin Bus and Bus Eireann have cancelled their services. Not sure what it is like down the country but no need for DB to cancel their services.

    Remind me never to work for someone like you. Its a Status Red Alert warning lasting from 4pm to 12pm tomorrow with extreme cold and blizzard conditions and yet you think DB staff should still be out there working.


  • #1043
    OldMrBrennan83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,658 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


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  • #1044
    SidekickSimon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 28 ✭SidekickSimon


    Me to son: "you call this snow!, i remember the snow of 1982"

    My Dad: "1982 ?, that was snow for girls!!, I was there in 1963, that was real snow!"

    My Grandad (staring intensely into the fire): "None of ye know what snow is. I was there for the snow of 1947. BLACK '47 as we called it"


  • #1045
    retro:electro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,039 ✭✭✭✭retro:electro


    Berserker wrote: »
    It's only one day ffs. Just back from driving on the M50 and M4. Both roads were absolutely fine. My OH is Canadian and she is laughing her ass off at the reaction to a few inches of snow. Dublin Bus and Bus Eireann have cancelled their services. Not sure what it is like down the country but no need for DB to cancel their services.

    Well my friend's sister's uncle's husband's nephew's niece says your wife has a fat arse


  • #1046
    Dev84
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 739 ✭✭✭Dev84


    Wanderer2010 wrote: »
    Remind me never to work for someone like you. Its a Status Red Alert warning lasting from 4pm to 12pm tomorrow with extreme cold and blizzard conditions and yet you think DB staff should still be out there working.

    3pm tomorrow now.


  • #1047
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,190 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    RobbingBandit wrote: »
    The post office wouldn't have the payments for both days being Thursday and Friday unless it had been prearranged adding to that the doubling of the fuel allowance that would leave the post office broke and out of cash very fast now due to this weather being primarily on the east coast An Post won't be sending a any further amounts of cash and may not even open this office again until Monday now leading to an influx of people 2 or more times capacity of the expected people for today with many of them getting the extra fuel allowance.
    This is it. If you imagine that the banks all said they were gonna shut down the ATMs until 10am on Monday morning, you'd have a sizeable rush of people clearing out the ATMs to make sure they had a few hundred euro in their wallets to keep them going over the weekend. That said, with debit cards being virtually ubiquitous, even that is less of an issue now.

    For some people on social welfare, they're effectively penniless without their cash over the counter at the post office. So this isn't actually a crazy overreaction from them, but bad planning on the part of the post office.

    What is ridiculous is some hack journalist asking if ATMs will run out of cash with the bank branches closed. It's not 1985 FFS.


  • #1048
    4068ac1elhodqr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,586 ✭✭✭4068ac1elhodqr


    Here comes Emma, she looks rather p'd off and is gathering gusto.
    Surfers in Devon are about to fee the ladies rath.

    ETA Waterford/Wexford maybe 16:15ish
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  • #1049
    Berserker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,046 ✭✭✭Berserker


    Dev84 wrote: »
    Why does she find it so funny?

    Because the reaction is completely OTT. Professional drivers, Dublin Bus for example, not working because a few inches of snow. There is no snow on the M50 & M4, as I said above. The post office running out of cash. Shops closing down. Tram services not running in Dublin. Dublin airport cancelling all flights until Saturday. To name but a few.


  • #1050
    Dev84
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 739 ✭✭✭Dev84


    RobbingBandit wrote: »
    Big cluster up in lusk so far only thing in Dublin area

    Bucketing in maynooth for at least 3 hours now. Looking at garden there has easily been 6-7 cm in that time.


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  • #1051
    Ken.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,898 ✭✭✭✭Ken.


    Mod-Threads merged


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