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Extreme cold weather from Feb 25th on, and now St. Patrick's Day on...

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  • #692
    squinn2912
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,379 ✭✭✭squinn2912


    Little additional snow here but very windy overnight.

    I see the dunhannon charolais show is postponed for 2 weeks. Only thing to do. Still gonna miss it


  • #693
    George Sunsnow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,043 ✭✭✭George Sunsnow


    We're into hour 16 of blinding snow here
    Drifts are a good 5 feet deep


  • #694
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,660 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    George Sunsnow wrote: »
    We're into hour 16 of blinding snow here
    Drifts are a good 5 feet deep

    When do you think the snow will stop. Need to clear roads here


  • #695
    wrangler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,657 ✭✭✭✭wrangler


    Reggie. wrote: »
    When do you think the snow will stop. Need to clear roads here

    Did you make sure you have insurance for doing that, you know the sort of f....rs that are out there,
    I scraped the yard here and turned it into a skating rink, deadly


  • #696
    George Sunsnow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,043 ✭✭✭George Sunsnow


    Reggie. wrote: »
    When do you think the snow will stop. Need to clear roads here

    Radar says a good 8 hrs more here in South Wicklow maybe more
    It’s blinding here at the moment
    Hayshed roof has collapsed but that’s insured for replacement value


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  • #697
    alps
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,317 ✭✭✭alps


    George Sunsnow wrote: »
    Radar says a good 8 hrs more here in South Wicklow maybe more
    It’s blinding here at the moment
    Hayshed roof has collapsed but that’s insured for replacement value

    Big kudos due to you George. A huge amount of our planning was due to the compassionate concern and accurate updates you have been posting here all week. Take a bow..


  • #698
    Say my name
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,725 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    Go on the Massey.


  • #699
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,277 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Are there many without power? Neighbour has none and no generator. Feels alot warmer this morning. Oh had to go in digger to get local shopkeeper and his wife from their house to the shop in the digger. So shop is open now. Alot of the locals would be lost without the local shop in this weather


  • #700
    larthehar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 608 ✭✭✭larthehar


    whelan2 wrote: »
    Are there many without power? Neighbour has none and no generator. Feels alot warmer this morning. Oh had to go in digger to get local shopkeeper and his wife from their house to the shop in the digger. So shop is open now. Alot of the locals would be lost without the local shop in this weather

    Surely ppl were organised and can do without going to the shop for a few days?!


  • #701
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,277 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    larthehar wrote: »
    Surely ppl were organised and can do without going to the shop for a few days?!

    Nope. Milk, bread etc. They also have a hot deli and sell drums of kerosene. Oh and they sell wine.....


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  • #702
    jaymla627
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,412 ✭✭✭jaymla627


    Who2 wrote: »
    Drifts to around 3-4 ft in places but in general it’s not bad. I was at the farm earlier and snow had blown right in to the back walls. All I met on the roads were a couple of farmers with old cruisers and hilux’s. Would it be crazy to start clearing drifts out on the main roads or am I leaving myself open for a court case. If

    Clearing here live up a steep hill, if it freezes with what snow is falling would be inaccessible for a week, have a heap of grit and salt to thaw it out for whenever milk tankers get back on road, managed to get it cleared Wednesday and milk collected


  • #703
    BENDYBINN
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,957 ✭✭✭BENDYBINN


    whelan2 wrote: »
    Are there many without power? Neighbour has none and no generator. Feels alot warmer this morning. Oh had to go in digger to get local shopkeeper and his wife from their house to the shop in the digger. So shop is open now. Alot of the locals would be lost without the local shop in this weather

    Jesus, a village of idiots if ever there was one!


  • #704
    Water John
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,610 ✭✭✭✭Water John


    Bread, milk and wine were the most popular goods sold yesterday, indeed.


  • #705
    BigSteaks
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 96 ✭✭BigSteaks


    BENDYBINN wrote: »
    Jesus, a village of idiots if ever there was one!

    You couldn't make it up. Clowns couldn't stay in for another day.


  • #706
    muirsin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 48 ✭muirsin


    Jeez Bendy and big steak are ye always so grumpy or is the snow getting to ye


  • #707
    BigSteaks
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 96 ✭✭BigSteaks


    Reggie. wrote: »
    When do you think the snow will stop. Need to clear roads here

    Dont be a hero and leave it to the professionals. Unless they are paying you and you are insured!

    You could end up doing more damage than good. Sit in, drink tea and enjoy some time with the missus and kids ;)


  • #708
    Doctors room ghost
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,849 ✭✭✭Doctors room ghost


    If you have a big fire down and the power goes would back boiler become a bomb?


  • #709
    BENDYBINN
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,957 ✭✭✭BENDYBINN


    BigSteaks wrote: »
    You couldn't make it up. Clowns couldn't stay in for another day.

    No, trudging five miles in the snow for a hot deli!....ld rather sit by the fire with me boiled egg!


  • #710
    CloughCasey1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,743 ✭✭✭CloughCasey1


    BigSteaks wrote: »
    Dont be a hero and leave it to the professionals. Unless they are paying you and you are insured!

    You could end up doing more damage than good. Sit in, drink tea and enjoy some time with the missus and kids ;)

    Christ BigSteaks you have one serious horn for Reggie!! Your like the kid in the playground constantly picking on the kid ya fancy.


  • #711
    CloughCasey1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,743 ✭✭✭CloughCasey1


    BENDYBINN wrote: »
    No, trudging five miles in the snow for a hot deli!....ld rather sit by the fire with me boiled egg!

    ...


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  • #712
    larthehar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 608 ✭✭✭larthehar


    Doctors room ghost wrote: »
    If you have a big fire down and the power goes would back boiler become a bomb?

    Water will start to boil in the cylinder if the circulation pump isnt running with a big fire.. if plumbed correctly one rad should be plumbed directly as a heat sink.. no option but to slow down the fire..


  • #713
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,277 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    BENDYBINN wrote: »
    No, trudging five miles in the snow for a hot deli!....ld rather sit by the fire with me boiled egg!

    It's a village no one is walking 5 miles. You enjoy your boiled egg now. Bit of a thaw on here now


  • #714
    BENDYBINN
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,957 ✭✭✭BENDYBINN


    whelan2 wrote: »
    It's a village no one is walking 5 miles. You enjoy your boiled egg now. Bit of a thaw on here now

    If the shopkeeper has to travel by digger,how are the customers supposed to get there?......stay indoors and don’t be endangering yourself and other people.they called it code red for a reason.
    Now where did I leave me egg..


  • #715
    BigSteaks
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 96 ✭✭BigSteaks


    BENDYBINN wrote: »
    If the shopkeeper has to travel by digger,how are the customers supposed to get there?......stay indoors and don’t be endangering yourself and other people.they called it code red for a reason.
    Now where did I leave me egg..

    This is it, people just aren't listening. Hot wedges and the roads outside will wait unless a medical emergency.

    Wrap up, stay warm indoors for another day if possible at all. This is the danger period with slippy conditions.


  • #716
    farmersfriend
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 520 ✭✭✭farmersfriend


    still snowing here, had to dig the cows into n out of parlour, machine frozen, major amounts of snow, drifts 4-5ft high. BUT we have power, every one is home, and freezer is full of food, we just have to keep going,


  • #717
    Ard_MC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 515 ✭✭✭Ard_MC


    Doctors room ghost wrote: »
    If you have a big fire down and the power goes would back boiler become a bomb?

    Yes. Run the hot taps when it starts to boil.


  • #718
    bogman_bass
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,435 ✭✭✭bogman_bass


    Had to clear 5 foot drifts with the loader to see outwintered stock. Tried to power through at first and ended up having to borrow a shovel to get out, :o

    worse still i lost my phone in a drift :mad:


  • #719
    bogman_bass
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,435 ✭✭✭bogman_bass


    Ten Pin wrote: »
    If you can, get someone to ring it, hope it's not on silent
    tried but cant hear it over the wind


  • #720
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,277 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    bogman_bass wrote: »
    tried but cant hear it over the wind

    What type of phone is it. If apple you can use find my phone


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  • #721
    Ten Pin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,918 ✭✭✭Ten Pin


    tried but cant hear it over the wind
    Try holding a long metal tube (brush handle) against your ear with the other end in the snow and ring phone.


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