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  • #2642
    Ken.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,898 ✭✭✭✭Ken.


    Mod- Ok lads and lass's the lidl thread is reopened. Any further posts will be moved there from now on. Please go there and leave this one to the snow.
    Thank you and stay safe.

    Seems everyone missed this. I'm after moving 8 posts in the last few minutes. Locking this for 5 minutes so everyone can see it. here's a link to the other thread. https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057847276#


  • #2643
    Ken.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,898 ✭✭✭✭Ken.


    Mod-Reopened.


  • #2644
    iamwhoiam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,249 ✭✭✭✭iamwhoiam


    Its strangely still now here tonight . No wind or swirling snow . Now all we need is a thaw and a quick entrance of Spring
    God I will appreciate a fine mild Spring day after this episode


  • #2645
    Ken.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,898 ✭✭✭✭Ken.


    I just went out for a smoke and its strangely mild.


  • #2646
    CrowdedHouse
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,993 ✭✭✭CrowdedHouse


    Thought it was stopped but that real fine snow drizzle is back

    Seven Worlds will Collide



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  • #2647
    OldMrBrennan83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,658 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


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  • #2648
    Ulysses Gaze
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,570 ✭✭✭Ulysses Gaze


    Barely snowed where I live from Wednesday morning until 4pm today. Since then the ground has been carpeted with a fresh covering of fine snow. It has snowed for 6 hours straight.

    High winds for three days straight now with no break.


  • #2649
    Guy:Incognito
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,244 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    Samuel T. Cogley wrote: »
    To be fair though - how many people shot this evening?

    Nowhere near enough ..................


  • #2650
    UrbanSprawl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,899 ✭✭✭UrbanSprawl


    UrbanSprawl wrote: »
    Ah man I hope they don't destroy the shopping centre

    Conor Feehan
    ‏
    Verified account

    @conor_feehan
    19m19 minutes ago
    More
    CityWest gang now breaking into a pharmacy with sledgehammers.

    This is disgusting the army need to get a hold on this.Schools the whole arae trashed and destroyed..sad very sad.

    Actually some doubt on the accuracy of that tweet.


  • #2651
    buried
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,972 ✭✭✭buried


    Clearing the driveway all week has really paid off, I can go out and walk down the driveway, have a smoke, have at the glawp at the lying snow everywhere else about the place and then go back inside without having to change me shoes at all at all. Plus I won't need a JCB to clear the compact ice slush muck tomorrow

    Bullet The Blue Shirts



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  • #2652
    nostro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 128 ✭✭nostro


    Conspectus wrote: »
    I just went out for a smoke and its strangely mild.

    The cigarette?


  • #2653
    Fighting Tao
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,498 ✭✭✭Fighting Tao


    It hasn’t stopped snowing in D1 all day. Cars on my street that parked up during the day and we’re clear of snow now have 8-10cm on them.


  • #2654
    nice_guy80
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,722 ✭✭✭nice_guy80


    I hope they got some of the weekly special buys

    Lidl do nice diy gear.


  • #2655
    _Dara_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,971 ✭✭✭_Dara_


    wil wrote: »
    Adverts? Who's selling? Snow to car ratio must surely be a bit better today
    Spent a great day digging and building and it was way warmer than 2010. Slightly less snow this time. Wind wasn't anything as bad as predicted. Anyone saying records were broken must have been born 7 years ago.
    1982 was fairly dramatic with genuine 20 foot drifts and proper blizzard. Unfortunately accompanied with some deaths.
    By all accounts records were set in 47 and 62. Nothing like them been seen since.
    Anyone used to a bit of mountaineering would have experienced today's conditions often enough.
    Great fun for kids and no major concern for healthy adults with no particular worries.
    A different story for old, sick, carers, emergency services and livestock farmers.

    So, not that many people?

    A few people have said the drifts they've experienced are worse than '82, having living through both.


  • #2656
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Grrrrr! I wish RTÉ management, for the first time ever, could send a big, final, definitive memo to all its journalists:

    'It's 2018. We use the metric system now. Every single road sign in this European state is in metric only since 2005, just as every measurement in Met Éireann has been in metric since the same year. That's 13 years ago. We are the state media organisation. We are now only going to use metric measurements so please stop this backward regressive nonsense about feet, inches, yards and miles in your reports. Thank you.'


  • #2657
    wil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,188 ✭✭✭wil


    _Dara_ wrote: »
    So, not that many people?

    A few people have said the drifts they've experienced are worse than '82, having living through both.
    Dear god would you ever let it go. Now that you got snow you can justifiably use the word plenty.
    Reporters describing blizzard conditions and deep snow when it clearly has not arrived anywhere near them and people describing 4cm of snow as plenty are making a joke of those who are really dealing with serious conditions and situations. It helps no one and in fact causes more trouble by either redirecting services to the wrong areas or lead people to believe everyone is exaggerating. People in badly hit areas yesterday were justifiably frustrated they were getting no attention while others were crying wolf.
    Your average walker would have encountered weather conditions in that photo very regularly. Wouldn't need to approach a mountain.
    A few people did not experience the 20 foot drifts in 82,. Unfortunately however there were fatalities, discovered after the thaw.
    The weather is not a competition but people memories are very short. Leave the records to the met office and other reliable professionals not social media. My last response on this.


  • #2658
    _Dara_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,971 ✭✭✭_Dara_


    wil wrote: »
    Dear god would you ever let it go. Now that you got snow you can justifiably use the word plenty.
    Reporters describing blizzard conditions and deep snow when it clearly has not arrived anywhere near them and people describing 4cm of snow as plenty are making a joke of those who are really dealing with serious conditions and situations. It helps no one and in fact causes more trouble by either redirecting services to the wrong areas or lead people to believe everyone is exaggerating. People in badly hit areas yesterday were justifiably frustrated they were getting no attention while others were crying wolf.
    Your average walker would have encountered weather conditions in that photo very regularly. Wouldn't need to approach a mountain.
    A few people did not experience the 20 foot drifts in 82,. Unfortunately however there were fatalities, discovered after the thaw.
    The weather is not a competition but people memories are very short. Leave the records to the met office and other reliable professionals not social media. My last response on this.

    No need to get narky when someone pulls you up on something inaccurate that you’ve posted. Welcome to discussion boards.

    Oh and I would suggest taking your own advice and heeding what the Met Office is saying. They deemed this a dangerous spell of weather. You know, the experts you mentioned? Those dudes? The fact that you tried to downplay it by saying anyone with mountaineering experience would be fine - I can’t believe that. :D That just proves that it was an extreme event.


  • #2659
    pilly
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,005 ✭✭✭pilly


    VinLieger wrote:
    100s apparently breaking into a school in fortunestown, call the army and shoot them


    That's not true.


  • #2660
    pilly
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,005 ✭✭✭pilly


    donegaLroad wrote:
    That poor guy in Cork, such a dreadful accident, I cant stop thinking about it all day.


    What happened?


  • #2661
    Charlie19
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,972 ✭✭✭✭Charlie19


    pilly wrote: »
    What happened?

    https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2018/0302/944543-cork-mayfield/

    A 19-year-old man is in a critical condition in hospital after he fell while taking pictures of the snowfalls in Cork yesterday afternoon.
    The incident happened at around 3.30pm when the man was out walking with his father in Mayfield.
    He was on a low wall that surrounds playing fields close to the Lotabeg Estate, when he slipped and fell.
    He suffered what is being described as a serious, life-changing neck injury.
    The man was attended to at the scene by ambulance paramedics and by personnel from Cork City Fire Service, before he was taken to Cork University Hospital.
    It is understood his condition there this morning is critical.
    The man’s father was also taken to hospital after he collapsed at the scene. He is expected to make a full recovery.
    Both men are from the area.


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  • #2662
    pilly
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,005 ✭✭✭pilly


    Charlie19 wrote:
    A 19-year-old man is in a critical condition in hospital after he fell while taking pictures of the snowfalls in Cork yesterday afternoon. The incident happened at around 3.30pm when the man was out walking with his father in Mayfield. He was on a low wall that surrounds playing fields close to the Lotabeg Estate, when he slipped and fell. He suffered what is being described as a serious, life-changing neck injury. The man was attended to at the scene by ambulance paramedics and by personnel from Cork City Fire Service, before he was taken to Cork University Hospital. It is understood his condition there this morning is critical. The man’s father was also taken to hospital after he collapsed at the scene. He is expected to make a full recovery. Both men are from the area.


    Jesus thats tragic.


  • #2663
    Charlie19
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,972 ✭✭✭✭Charlie19


    pilly wrote: »
    Jesus thats tragic.

    Yup... Very unfortunate.


  • #2664
    beauf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,648 ✭✭✭✭beauf


    _Dara_ wrote: »
    ...A few people have said the drifts they've experienced are worse than '82, having living through both.

    http://www.rte.ie/archives/2017/0109/843625-freezing-weather-continues/
    http://www.rte.ie/archives/2017/0109/843556-snow-causes-major-disruptions/
    http://www.rte.ie/archives/2017/0109/843699-communities-snowed-in/
    http://www.thejournal.ie/big-snow-1982-3873162-Feb2018/

    Weather is entirely random. One place might have hardly any snow another 10ft drifts. For me its 82 was worse. For someone else Emma was worse.


  • #2665
    aidan24326
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,925 ✭✭✭aidan24326


    pilly wrote: »
    Jesus thats tragic.

    Yes it certainly is, 'life changing neck injury' would suggest paralysis from the neck down, which is an awful thing for anyone to have to face. Nightmare stuff really. Just a stupid freak accident that looks like it's going to have awful consequences.


  • #2666
    _Dara_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,971 ✭✭✭_Dara_


    beauf wrote: »
    http://www.rte.ie/archives/2017/0109/843625-freezing-weather-continues/
    http://www.rte.ie/archives/2017/0109/843556-snow-causes-major-disruptions/
    http://www.rte.ie/archives/2017/0109/843699-communities-snowed-in/
    http://www.thejournal.ie/big-snow-1982-3873162-Feb2018/

    Weather is entirely random. One place might have hardly any snow another 10ft drifts. For me its 82 was worse. For someone else Emma was worse.

    I totally agree and never said otherwise. I said this event was worse than '82 for some people.

    I was disputing wil on a couple of points.

    1) He said that "For many people this is really turning in to yet another non event." At the point he made that post, it had very much turned into an event for many people. Just because it hadn't affected him doesn't mean it was a non-event. It just didn't hit every corner of Ireland and you can't predict exactly where will be hit

    2) He said "Yeah you're right, they've been selling this so hard for the last week as the biggest nationwide snow event (mid whatever season) in living memory*, people are convincing themselves 2 cm is deep." Meteorologists hadn't said this would be the worst snow event in living memory and neither had the media. The press had been ramping it up because, duh, they're the media but nobody had said it would be on a par with 2010. Only people here on boards.ie were and are making that comparison.

    Also, wil, why did you pull me up on using the term 'advertised' ("Adverts? Who's selling?") when YOU YOURSELF said in a post: "Yeah you're right, they've been selling this so hard for the last week as the biggest nationwide snow event (mid whatever season) in living memory*, people are convincing themselves 2 cm is deep." Do you think they were selling this event or don't you? Which is it?


  • #2667
    _Dara_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,971 ✭✭✭_Dara_


    Charlie19 wrote: »
    https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2018/0302/944543-cork-mayfield/

    A 19-year-old man is in a critical condition in hospital after he fell while taking pictures of the snowfalls in Cork yesterday afternoon.
    The incident happened at around 3.30pm when the man was out walking with his father in Mayfield.
    He was on a low wall that surrounds playing fields close to the Lotabeg Estate, when he slipped and fell.
    He suffered what is being described as a serious, life-changing neck injury.
    The man was attended to at the scene by ambulance paramedics and by personnel from Cork City Fire Service, before he was taken to Cork University Hospital.
    It is understood his condition there this morning is critical.
    The man’s father was also taken to hospital after he collapsed at the scene. He is expected to make a full recovery.
    Both men are from the area.

    Oh god, I hope he's not paralysed. :(


  • #2668
    The Moldy Gowl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,889 ✭✭✭✭The Moldy Gowl


    How much bread do you have to have a problem. I'm I'm 20 slices of toast a days holiday


  • #2669
    The Moldy Gowl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,889 ✭✭✭✭The Moldy Gowl


    Seriously


  • #2670
    ziggy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,681 ✭✭✭ziggy


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  • #2671
    begbysback
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,910 ✭✭✭begbysback


    Is costa opened?


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