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

I'm originally from Perth, where they buried the entire grid for a whole city.

I didn't mean bury all the twigs and leaves, I meant bury the branches that are failure prone, that way power restoration isn't so necessary for major faults so resources would be freed up to deal with the twigs. There is way too much being spent on the grid to shore it up against the woeful instability inflicted on it by unreliable renewables, that could be better spent on hardening it against storm damage.

No they didn't, most of the CBD is underground. The majority of urban and suburban Perth still has wires on poles.

That's so true. The silence and the inability to actually DO things that are done without thinking. I find myself going to put the kettle on, or stick something in the m/wave, or use the desktop, or put the wash on, whatever, and have to catch myself. I laugh when I think about power cuts and automatically think, ah we'll be ok we have electric blankets. lol. It sure makes you appreciate the power of electric power!

In another way it can make you get up off yer ass and DO things like clearing out the damn shed or fixing up the bits in the garden, or sorting stuff out, or actually sitting in the quiet and reading a book.

Don't get me wrong, no one wants to be without electricity. No one because it's terrible, and I hope those affected, particularly those who are older, alone or immobile will be ok. But I think people look out for each other far more than is realised. Well I sure hope so.

No supply interruption at all here in Ballisodare. Seems to be a very reliable line...here 15 years and can count unannounced interruptions on one hand...and we definitely got a good battering here on Friday morning, lost 10 roof tiles!

It's a completely different story though for my parents and other family members living in different parts of rural Sligo, in storms power loss almost guaranteed...though tbf usually repaired quick enough.

North Donegal.

Power back on. Off since 8am yesterday. Had no 4G either and now thats working again. Typical 😆. But was enjoyable playing cards, board games and listening to the radio. Been a while since we did that. Few fences down and some plaster off 1 side of our chimney but nothing serious. Lough Foyle was swelling like Ive never seen it before. Up nearly the height of the pier. Got off lightly in general it seems. Red warning everywhere was 100% correct. Hard to understand why some would come on here acting the bollox just because their house / area wasn't damaged. Bizarre behaviour. Hopefully not too long until power restored to everyone. Think we'll leave it a few weeks before looking for someone to sort the chimney. No doubt more severe damage in the area.

Thanks for keeping me company the other night. I found it hard to sleep. I got some sleep in the early hours of Friday morning. Got up and saw the damage. There's a tree down in the lawn. Power is gone. Water is going. Lines down. Phone reception gone. No internet. I travelled into the city to get some reception and coffee.

It was so bad the other night. There's soany trees, walls and lines down. I never saw anything like it.

Problem likely to be slow internet on your device connection leading to timeouts or issues with the application on the device you are using to render the page. Bear in mind, due to the scale of damage, the updates are not entirely accurate. ESB are concentrating on repairing lines down that present a material safety risk, updating as they find the damage, it will probably be late Sunday before Powercheck accuracy improves. ESB are stretched for resources and will prioritize restoring service to the larger population centers and work their way out to the end of the lines. You may not see your area currently, they tend to flag the start of the line as having the outage.

Walking around Galway city and a crazy amount of properties with roof damage. Some areas have streets where every single house is missing a few slates. Crazy.

Luckily I got away with it.

Good to see the storm table updated, this was a bad one but I think Storm K (Feb 1988) and maybe a few of the 1990s storms were worse in terms of windspeeds. Won't stop George Lee and others trying to make this the worst storm since 1839.

I'm in an area that escaped lightly enough from Eowyn, the big trees that I thought might come down are ok. Still, no (public) water, electricity, broadband or mobile phone yesterday. Electric and mobile back today.

I was very glad of having a camping stove and generator but might get a small (say 1 kWh) battery to go with it as it's a disadvantage having to have the generator outside the house. But at the same time, there is so much energy in fossil fuels that you'd need to spend thousands to replicate that with a battery. e.g 10 Litres of petrol would give me roughly 19 kWh from my Honda EU22i generator. it can also run on propane with an optional kit. Maybe we need a thread on prepping.

We were very thankful for our gas hob and solid fuel stove with back boiler yesterday. My mother would always say when we were younger to have a gas hob for power cuts. Right she was as usual.

Only thing we had to keep an eye on was running off the hot water as it wasnt getting pumped round the house. So we took baths every couple of hours 😆.

Back working now. Wouldn't have been slow Internet. Have Gigabit Internet and using a phone that tops 400mbps on Speed test over WiFi. Was checking for someone else not myself.

I imagine concurrent requests to the site was the issue.

Looking at all the faults some remote locations might be 10 to 14 days without power. I'm not far from Clara but it's got major faults I believe, they have to get those sorted before moving out onto the more rural places. Could be next week. I'm mentally prepared for that re warmth and cooking and charging devices as have stuff for all that but the water is now out from local schemes so no flushing toilets or cold washes even. That will be a headache.

power still out since 9am Friday.2 miles from donegal town.

stanley 8 going great. found my tablet has an fm radio tuner !

1 tree down I need to sort in the field

Power out for 26 hours and counting in my area of Donegal. Solar battery got down as low as 2% this morning. Had to go out and hose the snow off the panels to get them generating again. Thankfully all clear now and recharging in a thankfully very sunny clear day. We don't have mains water either so no power means no well pump and no filtration, so no water. Might be down til Monday so I might just power everything off completely tonight and on again in the morning. Contents of the kithcen freezer can go into the chest freezer in the garage which shouldn't defrost much as it's only about 2 degrees out there.