⚠️ Storm Éowyn - Fri 24.01.25 (**Please read Mod Instruction in OP.**)

The night of the big wind

Will need to do up a new bingo card with this one given the number of times it has seemingly cropped up in event threads of recent times.

that’s an amazing story to be able to tell - a power couple obviously!!

They weren't running during the orange snow warning so I definitely can't see them running during the red storm warning

Fantastic information and expertise here. Well done keeping novices like myself well informed.

Question, I’ve seen comments like this”historic storm” and “The west coast of Ireland should prepare for a catastrophic scenario”

Is this accurate? I’m assuming it’s a bit like predicting snowfall. A strong gust can happen anywhere and you could be unlucky?

I’m on a high enough site inland in south Mayo. Dormer house and when it’s windy it makes a crashing noise, I’m hoping for no damage.

No point. If people aren't reading the numerous replies in the thread saying the 'not covered by insurance' is a pure myth then they're certainly not going to read the OP.

Almost certainly there will be severe disruption to all Irish airports as well as NI, Scotland and Liverpool, Manchester, possibly Cardiff.

Wind direction will be from essentially the worst possible direction with a substantial crosswind component for both R28L and R16, simultaneously the nearest unaffected diversion field will likely be Birmingham or perhaps London.

A lot of diversions, cancellations and delays as flights will postpone departures so they're not even attempting to land when it's pointless to do so.

Well I'm curious now given that there's no public transport. That's a lot of hospital staff having to drive to inner city locations from all manner of origins.

Strom Darragh took out a huge amount of dodgy trees so hopefully that will lessen the amount of damage this bitcch will do.

I'm in the east midlands area and while we probably won't get battered as hard as the west coast, this is still extremely concerning and I'd expect power cuts on an unprecedented scale. We don't get "pressure tested" here like the west does and as a result are less prepared and have loads of huge trees within a few metres of power lines, houses and roads. I have medium sized trees on my property and got them crown reduced last year for this reason so that they're not in striking distance of anything. if I had huge trees like many have, I'd now be sh*tting myself.

I'm going to spend some time tomorrow preparing - petrol for the generator ( Honda Eu22i) bath filled with water, check torches, charge devices etc. I think people don't think ahead enough (e.g. the tree issue as above) or about very obvious things - for instance, if they have oil fired central heating and no other heat source, do they realise that they need electricity for the boiler and circulation pump, I bet some don't.

The last time I got work done on the roof, I had to book over a month in an advance due to the shortage of roofers as with every other construction trade. What's going to happen if thousands of people all have roof damage at the same time this weekend. i have a tarpaulin that I could put in the attic to catch some water that comes in but I don't have the equipment , skills or balls to go up on a roof to repair it.

It was actually a genuine question because it impacts my wife actually.

Maybe that's the 'gotcha' you refer to.

Apologies, I read snark where there was none.

But no, no public transport during any red warning. And it may take a few hours after the official end of the warnings for routes to get back up and running depending on trees down, ability of the drivers themselves to get to depots, etc.

Which zones exactly? the white ones?