Snow - Ireland closed for business

Balanadan · 30-01-2019 09:12AM #1

When will the government and councils learn? Get the finger out, invest in proper equipment, and clear the facking roads so that we're not faced with annual chaos. The amount of money being lost is ridiculous.

Dtp1979 · 30-01-2019 09:14AM

Is it snowing?

D3V!L · 30-01-2019 09:14AM

It's grand here in "town"

Wanderer78 · 30-01-2019 09:15AM

Balanadan wrote:

When will the government and councils learn? Get the finger out, invest in proper equipment, and clear the facking roads so that we're not faced with annual chaos. The amount of money being lost is ridiculous.

Increase in taxation, that ll go down well at election time

Purgative · 30-01-2019 09:15AM

I want snow.

Renegade Mechanic · 30-01-2019 09:17AM

Drivers need to learn to drive too. If I get stuck behind one more 2nd gear crawler, I'll blow the ditch away to get around them :mad:

Wanderer78 · 30-01-2019 09:18AM

Renegade Mechanic wrote:

Drivers need to learn to drive too. If I get stuck behind one more 2nd gear crawler, I'll blow the ditch away to get around them

Go for it, drives as fast as possible over the ditch

Olivia Munns Bum · 30-01-2019 09:18AM

When is Ireland closing for business?
Very much open for business in the Capital this morning.

Atoms for Peace · 30-01-2019 09:22AM

Snow tax anyone?

emaherx · 30-01-2019 09:22AM

Balanadan wrote: »

When will the government and councils learn? Get the finger out, invest in proper equipment, and clear the facking roads so that we're not faced with annual chaos. The amount of money being lost is ridiculous.

Annual chaos? Really?
Oh you live in a different country?

Personally I'd rather not waste taxpayers money on equipment that will only really be used every 40 years and maybe played with a little every 10.

No we are not as well equipped as countries that live under a blanket of snow and nor should we.

Fighting Tao · 30-01-2019 09:23AM

I think you misunderstand the word ‘annual’.

Anyway, the roads seem clear in the big schmoke. All is good. The nation is still running.

mulbot · 30-01-2019 09:25AM

Put Winter tyres on your car.

purpleisafruit · 30-01-2019 09:25AM

Atoms for Peace wrote: »

Snow tax anyone?

Let the snow pay the snow tax, I pay the Homer tax

Poor Uncle Tom · 30-01-2019 09:27AM

Balanadan wrote: »

When will the government and councils learn? Get the finger out, invest in proper equipment, and clear the facking roads so that we're not faced with annual chaos. The amount of money being lost is ridiculous.

Outrageous reaction to a shake of dandruff......

salmocab · 30-01-2019 09:27AM

purpleisafruit wrote: »

Let the snow pay the snow tax, I pay the Homer tax

That’s the home owner tax

VinLieger · 30-01-2019 09:28AM

Balanadan wrote: »

When will the government and councils learn? Get the finger out, invest in proper equipment, and clear the facking roads so that we're not faced with annual chaos. The amount of money being lost is ridiculous.

1 week of snow in 1 year is not reason enough to spend 10's of millions to purchase the equipment and then all the resulting overheads of storing and maintaining the equipment.

Anyway the the first year we don't use them people like you will be complaining about it being a waste of money.

selwyn froggitt · 30-01-2019 09:29AM

Bunch of snowflakes!

salmocab · 30-01-2019 09:29AM

VinLieger wrote: »

1 week of snow in 1 year is not reason enough to spend 10's of millions to purchase the equipment and then all the resulting overheads of storing and maintaining the equipment.

Anyway the the first year we don't use them people like you will be complaining about it being a waste of money.

Imagine the amount of social houses that could have bought

RobbingBandit · 30-01-2019 09:30AM

Time to start cold calling people with bread nice bit a bread how many ye want

Gimme A Pound · 30-01-2019 09:30AM

salmocab wrote: »

That’s the home owner tax

Well anyway I'm still outraged.

Balanadan · 30-01-2019 09:35AM

emaherx wrote: »

Annual chaos? Really?
Oh you live in a different country?

Personally I'd rather not waste taxpayers money on equipment that will only really be used every 40 years and maybe played with a little every 10.

No we are not as well equipped as countries that live under a blanket of snow and nor should we.

Fighting Tao wrote: »

I think you misunderstand the word ‘annual’.

Anyway, the roads seem clear in the big schmoke. All is good. The nation is still running.

Every year since I moved to Ireland there's been shut downs because of snow.

VinLieger wrote: »

1 week of snow in 1 year is not reason enough to spend 10's of millions to purchase the equipment and then all the resulting overheads of storing and maintaining the equipment.

Anyway the the first year we don't use them people like you will be complaining about it being a waste of money.

So you'd rather that our economy suffers, businesses across the country lose 10's (actually 100's) of millions instead of solving a simple problem?

Fighting Tao · 30-01-2019 09:37AM

Balanadan wrote: »

Every year since I moved to Ireland there's been shut downs because of snow

You haven’t lived here long then. Maybe 2 years max!

CFlat · 30-01-2019 09:38AM

Balanadan wrote: »

Every year since I moved to Ireland there's been shut downs because of snow.

So it's your fault:pac:

All good here in Kildare so far. No shut down that I can see.

ben.schlomo · 30-01-2019 09:39AM

Balanadan wrote: »

emaherx wrote: »

Annual chaos? Really?
Oh you live in a different country?

Personally I'd rather not waste taxpayers money on equipment that will only really be used every 40 years and maybe played with a little every 10.

No we are not as well equipped as countries that live under a blanket of snow and nor should we.

Fighting Tao wrote: »

I think you misunderstand the word ‘annual’.

Anyway, the roads seem clear in the big schmoke. All is good. The nation is still running.

Every year since I moved to Ireland there's been shut downs because of snow.

VinLieger wrote: »

1 week of snow in 1 year is not reason enough to spend 10's of millions to purchase the equipment and then all the resulting overheads of storing and maintaining the equipment.

Anyway the the first year we don't use them people like you will be complaining about it being a waste of money.

So you'd rather that our economy suffers, businesses across the country lose 10's (actually 100's) of millions instead of solving a simple problem?

But no businesses are closed, this is Irish boards, not Canadian boards you know?

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts · 30-01-2019 09:40AM

emaherx wrote: »

Annual chaos? Really?
Oh you live in a different country?

Personally I'd rather not waste taxpayers money on equipment that will only really be used every 40 years and maybe played with a little every 10.

No we are not as well equipped as countries that live under a blanket of snow and nor should we.

And I bet those reliably cold countries would quite happily not spend that money if they didn’t have to either.

looksee · 30-01-2019 09:43AM

Even in parts of America where they get serious snow on a regular basis they still have 'snow days' occasionally when its just too bad for the equipment - we lose maybe one or two days in 3 or 4 years (not always grouped evenly), its not worth buying more than gritters for. Our nice neighbour has just been down our boreen in a tractor and opened it, good man!

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts · 30-01-2019 09:46AM

Balanadan wrote: »

Every year since I moved to Ireland there's been shut downs because of snow.

What have these apparently annual “shut downs” due to snow entailed?

In the Ireland I live in, in the last decade, snow has caused major issues in 2009, 2010 and 2018. The decade before that, the problems were even less frequent.

VinLieger · 30-01-2019 09:49AM

Balanadan wrote: »

Every year since I moved to Ireland there's been shut downs because of snow.

Ive lived in Ireland for 33 years before last year the last time snow caused any issues was in 2009 and 2010 and even that was just a day or two of inconvenience, before that ive no memory of snow causing anything like what you describe

Balanadan wrote: »

So you'd rather that our economy suffers, businesses across the country lose 10's (actually 100's) of millions instead of solving a simple problem?

100's of millions lol get over yourself

Balanadan · 30-01-2019 09:54AM

VinLieger wrote: »

Ive lived in Ireland for 33 years before last year the last time snow caused any issues was in 2009 and 2010 and even that was just a day or two of inconvenience, before that ive no memory of snow causing anything like what you describe

100's of millions lol get over yourself

Get over yourself https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/storm-emma/economic-cost-of-blizzard-to-rise-above-160m-36661130.html

seamus · 30-01-2019 09:55AM

Balanadan wrote: »

Every year since I moved to Ireland there's been shut downs because of snow.

The last two times Ireland "shut down" because of the snow was last year and 2010.

Even in 2010 after a week we all just got on with things because the snow wasn't going away.

It's becoming less and less of an issue anyway as more and more workers can work from their own home.

People who work outside or in otherwise manual jobs are often screwed by snow anyway; no amount of snow ploughs is going to make it safe to build a house in the snow.

It's also worth noting that other countries also shut down while it is actually snowing, and the clearing equipment only comes out afterwards.

gozunda · 30-01-2019 10:01AM

"Balanadan wrote:

Every year since I moved to Ireland there's been shut downs because of snow...

VinLiegerIve wrote:

Ive lived in Ireland for 33 years before last year the last time snow caused ...

Nothing like our newly arrived going native and arguing about the weather

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