Storm Isha - Sunday 21/Monday 22 January 2024

Never known so many trees down in Galway and the County this was some wind event

Agree, western coastal areas up to 20km from coast might be a good idea?

Getting loud again outside in North East Galway

Meanwhile watching Dublin to Edinburgh diverting to Cologne on F24!

You never know many lives are positively influenced by even our threads, as well as public warnings. People might post somewhat different ideas about warnings if it could be quantified. The only way to get even a vague estimate would be to look at outcomes in distant past but in distant past people were not as mobile as today and might have been more weather conscious than are many modern citizens.

One rough guide might be that in 1925, when there were basically no weather warnings and only simple newspaper forecasts, the super-tornado outbreak in midwest U.S. killed 700, a similar outbreak in 1974 impacting twice as many people killed 250, and per capita rates have continued to fall in severe outbreaks since. Also, the 1900 Galveston hurricane killed 10,000 and the 1928 Florida 'cane killed 2,000; much larger death tolls than worst case hurricanes recently.

I am guessing, but if let's say somehow Isha appeared without any warning, ten or twenty lives could easily be lost to it, mostly driving mishaps, or additional people out and about. There would also be dozens of injuries avoided by staying in.

I'm nearby and have cctv from 6.08 where a severe gust that lasted a few mins tore several roof tiles off the house, by 6. 15 it was near calm again.

Seen that with all the local outages in donegal.

I assume its a standard timescale put on outages, and they hope to have people back online earlier?

Could be another day off for the kids! I know schools don't open if they have no power.

Power went around 9pm here in north Kildare and still out. Longest we’ve been out I believe. There’s an alarm going off in the estate since it went and I’m going slightly demented. Internet essentially non existent since the power went as the phone network immediately overloaded

From reading all other comments we really escaped it in Carlow Town. We've had worse conditions in yellow warnings in the past. It just goes to show how localised these events can be.

Wow, love to see that!!! Hope your damage isn't too bad, always the worst thing with these storms, the damage they can do.

Just let the dog in from out the back. Thing sprinted into the kitchen and went under the table. Must have been wild out there..normally struggle to get him to come in.

https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/young-woman-killed-after-van-crashes-into-tree-in-co-louth/a585475264.html