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Storm Ellen - 19th/20th August 2020

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  • #1742
    seabelle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11 ✭seabelle


    I thought it was all over. It was a lovely bright morning but we've had thunder lightning and very heavy rain in Youghal for the last 20 minutes.


  • #1743
    pnpweirdo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 331 ✭✭pnpweirdo


    sumtings wrote: »
    Shannon reported a 113km gust in the last hour, would at least tally with what was seen in Limerick

    And that squall missed shannon. It was worse in limerick city east clare at about 12.20am. It was horrendous. Power was gone no street lights the rain was hitting houses and ground so hard it created a misty fog in over 100km winds


  • #1744
    Beechwoodspark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,160 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    Beechwoodspark wrote: »
    Absolute carnage here in mid Kildare. Rubbish strewn all over the roads, hedges and greenery also. Am concerned about the back roads being impassable.

    Update - roads passable but untidy with strewn leaves and branches


  • #1745
    sammyjo90
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,294 ✭✭✭✭sammyjo90


    leahyl wrote: »
    Think I just heard thunder in cork city

    We must be neighbours cause i did too!


  • #1746
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 32,108 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    seabelle wrote: »
    I thought it was all over. It was a lovely bright morning but we've had thunder lightning and very heavy rain in Youghal for the last 20 minutes.

    This would explain the last few Cork-related posts!

    (Sorry, can't embed it)


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  • #1747
    nthclare
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,312 ✭✭✭nthclare


    Thankfully in North Clare it's business as usual, hardly any debris on the roads and the river's are swollen slightly alright.

    So sorry to hear about people's property businesses and roadways blocked and flooded.

    The engineer's in this county need to ask the older generation how it was done back in the day.
    I'm know some aul fellas in their 70's and 80's who'd run ring's around the modern day engineer's in country councils.

    Because diverting river's and drainage schemes in the last 30 year's have been a national catastrophe.

    There's some idiot's out there who have no clue about how river's streams and lake's work...


  • #1748
    leeside11
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 155 ✭✭leeside11


    sammyjo90 wrote: »
    We must be neighbours cause i did too!

    Same, north of Blackpool 5 mins ago


  • #1749
    aidanodr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,102 ✭✭✭aidanodr


    Carrigaline, Co. Cork reporting ..

    Last half hour or so lots of thunder/lightning and torrential downpours.

    Passed on a bit now, but im sure wont be the last of it today.


  • #1750
    1percent
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 130 ✭✭1percent


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    I thought skibbereen was part of the flood relief scheme?,

    It's not the river bursting its banks that was the issue this time, there is a culvert up the old Baltimore cut that takes all the run off from the hills, that culvert got clogged so the run off goes down the road and through the ally next to the hotel to the river instead. It happened in 2016 I want to say as well.


  • #1751
    leahyl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,477 ✭✭✭✭leahyl


    Someone on local radio here in cork talking about their shed taking off last night and flying in different directions :-P


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  • #1752
    teednab-el
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,971 ✭✭✭teednab-el


    leahyl wrote: »
    Someone on local radio here in cork talking about their shed taking off last night and flying in different directions :-P

    You might shed some light into that for us? :D


  • #1753
    stevenup7002
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 165 ✭✭stevenup7002


    Electricity finally came back after being gone for twelve hours. Not ten minutes later, thunderstorm starts.

    tenor.gif


  • #1754
    titan18
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,070 ✭✭✭✭titan18


    In cork city, and heavens just opened. Had a good 5 minutes of torrential rain and now the sun is coming out.

    Hearing Thunder now


  • #1755
    sweet_trip
    Closed Accounts Posts: 275 ✭✭sweet_trip


    Thunder and lightning in clonmel.
    Absolutely lashing down.


  • #1756
    Samsgirl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,215 ✭✭✭Samsgirl


    Thunder and lightning in Cahir now


  • #1757
    adocholiday
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,214 ✭✭✭adocholiday


    Massive tree came down in my neighbour's garden in South Wicklow even though the winds weren't particularly strong here. No damage done thankfully other than the tree itself. None of mine came down, was very worried about them though. Have a few that are well over 100 years old and would be awful to lose them.


  • #1758
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 1,654 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    1percent wrote: »
    It's not the river bursting its banks that was the issue this time, there is a culvert up the old Baltimore cut that takes all the run off from the hills, that culvert got clogged so the run off goes down the road and through the ally next to the hotel to the river instead. It happened in 2016 I want to say as well.




    Council responsibility?


  • #1759
    Oscar Bravo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,573 ✭✭✭✭Oscar Bravo


    Status Yellow - Wind warning for Dublin, Louth, Wexford, Wicklow, Meath, Cork, Kerry and Waterford


    Very strong south to southeast winds later today, veering southwesterly overnight with the potential for further impacts and a continued risk of coastal


  • #1760
    spookwoman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,092 ✭✭✭✭spookwoman


    Tramore, no major waves this morning, not worth getting out of bed for.


  • #1761
    watlantic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 155 ✭✭watlantic


    Latest OPC surface analysis:
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  • #1762
    StackSteevens
    Closed Accounts Posts: 873 ✭✭✭StackSteevens


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Council responsibility?

    skibbereen-railway-cutting-now-a-road-DRC5GR.jpg

    Probably. Although, given the volume of water coming off the hills, the culvert probably couldn't have coped even if the storm debris hadn't clogged it up.


  • #1763
    Cody montana
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,670 ✭✭✭Cody montana


    Cody montana wrote: »
    Pray for pansies.

    In fairness, my pear tree produced its first and only pear this year.
    I’m afraid to check if it’s still on the tree.

    The pear did not survive.


  • #1764
    Dodge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,948 ✭✭✭✭Dodge


    Cody montana wrote: »
    The pear did not survive.

    Thoughts and prayers


  • #1765
    SpitfireIV
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,553 ✭✭✭SpitfireIV


    Flash of lightening and clap of thunder in Kilkenny City. Very dark here, expecting very heavy rain.


  • #1766
    Cody montana
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,670 ✭✭✭Cody montana


    Dodge wrote: »
    Thoughts and prayers

    Thoughts and pears?


  • #1767
    chris2007
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 318 ✭✭chris2007


    Is there thunderstorms heading for Dublin today


  • #1768
    TheRiverman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,414 ✭✭✭TheRiverman


    Roadside trees,a huge issue ignored and neglected by Government, County Councils and landowners for decades.They should be all cut down,everytime there is a storm,you can write the same script about roads blocked.Thankfully I haven't heard about any fatalities.


  • #1769
    Gods Gift
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,713 ✭✭✭Gods Gift


    chris2007 wrote: »
    Is there thunderstorms heading for Dublin today

    There not specifically heading to Dublin, just passing up over the country.


  • #1770
    Sephiroth_dude
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 81,191 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sephiroth_dude


    Cody montana wrote: »
    Thoughts and pears?

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  • #1771
    DrGreenThumb82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 95 ✭✭DrGreenThumb82


    TheRiverman wrote: »
    Roadside trees,a huge issue ignored and neglected by Government, County Councils and landowners for decades.They should be all cut down,everytime there is a storm,you can write the same script about roads blocked.Thankfully I haven't heard about any fatalities.

    :rolleyes:


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