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

I know there's a main road with villages and then I am up a side road with many houses. Maybe approx 300 people living on the road. A rough guess. There are lines down all over and up and down the road and they would be smaller faults.

I left home at about 2.30pm and there was no ESB truck out. I doubt it's been fixed.

Report it now if you're not sure the fault was registered or reported previously, definitely

Anti government agenda?? What government? I'd have to think for a while to remember the election it was that long ago.

Care to comment on the confirmation that assistance has only been sought by the 'government' yesterday evening despite offers being made last Wednesday… Stick on your ffg jumper there and kick back in your nice cosy house

Maddening. Esb gave a back on time of 9pm tonight then changed it to 9pm tomorrow, at 8.55pm. So 5 minutes notice.

If its any solace to you, our estimate was Feb 5th too but our power just came back.

I learned over a decade ago to get on the phone the minute the power goes and report it, because everyone assumes that someone else will have reported it, I was once the same.

So were into the third hour of a blackout and I'm wondering when is it going to be fixed, so I ring ESB faults, only to get 'you are not involved in any known fault'.

I still usually get the same message, because I'm still the first reporting it, only now i'ts 3 minutes in, not 3 hours.

Thankfully most farmers aren't milking this time of the year, calves would mainly start being born next month.

Farmers are very nifty and many can run their milking machines from running their tractor engines when the power goes off.

We were all without power and reception so maybe noone reported it. I only saw it tonight. I reported it anyways. There is a broken swinging wire hanging of a tree. I don't know if it's a phone line or an electricity line.

That milk shortage in your Aldi would be more down to a delivery not arriving because of roads closed or the distribution point not functioning properly due to no power/internet.

The domestic liquid milk market is about 12% of what milk is used for.

Cows HAVE to be milked. You could miss one milking or at a stretch maybe two (one whole day) but you'd have mass sickness beyond that.

So yes, I'd imagine every dairy man has his own genny or shares one with a neighbour. (I'm a farmer but not in dairying)

Water is often an issue as well, if it's a pump driven system. Cows - particularly dairy cows, drink a LOT of water every day and wouldn't be in very good shape if they missed more than one. Some people let them out of the sheds to drink from a stream or a trough under a tap that works. Some draw water in those 1m3 "IBC" containers.

Caring for animals in adverse weather is hard work.

you are looking at about 4-500 euro something like that, i think that is a anker 535, its 512 wh, about 1/2 kwh, i think that anker one will output 1/2 kwh via ac

i have a ecoflow one for camping its 512wh as well, outputs up to 1kw, would only get 30 minutes at that but it can keep my water well running for a couple of days, or the oil boiler for about 6 hours, i have an old oil boiler though so its probably not very efficient,

mine will fully charge from ac in 1 hour, plug into solar panel, can charge from car at 2/4/8 amp, so fully charged in 5 hours in car, have to be driving or it will drain your battery, but the lifep04 batteries in them now can charge thousands of times and you can discharge them way better than old battery tech,

as i say, i have it for camping mainly but it will run stuff for a short time

Where is the seriously bizarre pov here?

I don't think anyone is having a go at the ESB crews who are doing their best but it's a nightmare having no power and being told it could be a week or more before it's back is not what those affected want to hear.

I wonder what the final insurance bill will be like.

I was looking at a bigger one, an Anker 757 I think with about 1.2 kWh. My oil boiler and circulating pump use 230w. microwave 800w, not sure about fridge.

Combine that with a generator that I already have and 10 litres of petrol, I could keep some essentials going for a few days, using the Anker especially at night and charging it during the day.

Then get more petrol as needed, assuming petrol stations operating.

Thank **** for stove fires. I was considering getting rid a few years ago and getting a heat pump! I won't be considering that option again!

It was a life saver.

amazed what I’m reading here. I think a lot of us in the south and east are a bit oblivious to how much damage there was. There weren’t that many reports of damage on Friday but realise now it was because communications were down.