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

Still a lot of people without power.

I thought everything was back to normal where I live on Friday evening. But last night I noticed there's a whole row of houses, a small industrial estate and part of a housing estate still without power. Yikes!

I was a child for a lot of those storms in the 90s but my memory of growing up in Mayo was losing power all of the time - probably as a result of these storms! We had no power for over a week after the St Stephen’s Day storm in 98 and the storm had a huge impact - I remember the damage clearly. Also had no power for Christmas in ‘97. Which made for an interesting Christmas. ‘98 was the last time they’ve had such major problems in that area. Not a bad run.

Power has just come back. Delighted.

Talking to ESB guys - they have indeed run out of poles. Massive shortage. They are only trying to patch the lines together now and will need to come back to replace the downed and broken poles. One pole was put flat on a wall so the line was off the ground. Huge repair effort will be required after all the faults are fixed. I think we will see many power cuts while the lines are being fixed later on.

People are advised to boil the water (for drinking) that they get from tankers, how are they to do that if they don't have heat. A miserable enough situation but again shows how dependent we are on services and unprepared for various situations.

Considerable numbers of people in this country who are on public and group schemes never think about their water supply. Where does the water come from ? The tap. Where does my sh*te go? The toilet. It is estimated that people use 100+ litres of water per day, they're not going to be hauling 100 kg worth of water per person per day home from a tanker so will have to adapt.

PS in a worst case scenario water for drinking can be treated pretty well with a very small quantity of bleach (can't remember how much) Collect water from roof or a clean river or roadside well, filter through a t shirt then add bleach and stir and leave for a while. The bleach in safe drinkable concentrations will deal with bacteria but not Cryptosporidium or Giardia.

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I feel so sorry for people still without power. There is still loads of people in my locality without power.

I last checked this thread around 1am last Friday night before things went south. I need to catch up from that point to read people's experiences.

In west Galway, and still without power. It's not our first rodeo, but it's the longest and potentially a few days left yet.

I've learnt a lot if nothing else! Self sufficiency is key going forward, there are places that will always be left behind and we have experienced that over the last few month's. It's every man for themselves now...and I will put my family over community, the environment or the good of anyone/anything else. And that is shite that it comes to that.

You always hope your kids will be around as you get older, but when they see how places like ours get left behind I do not blame them from running far far away.

I waiting for the northern reg white van to call by with a load of knock off gennies to arrive.

The 1998 St Stevens day storm and the February 1988 storms were the same type of systems to Eowyn in their development. Their strength were similar and the 1988 storm was probably even a bit stronger and more widespread. The Christmas eve storm of 1997 was very similar in it's structure to Darwin 2012, approaching from a more southerly track.

This storm will definitely go on met eirrean extreme weather events I already looked it up and it's not there probably too early , I'm so thankful my power didn't go at all here in carrick on shannon but lights flickered about 20 times and I thought after a strong gust " right this is it pur power is gonna go " all around the town in surrounding areas where knocked out but the way the storms went and all it obviously didn't effect our power station. Over 900 km of wire is needed to fix lines and alot of poles need fixing from scratch, maybe we should put underground cables down instead of on the streets but not sure that would work, one of my work colleagues is 78 her power went at 22:30 last Thursday night and is still without and estimated time is better Friday and Tuesday for her , she's checked into a b&b tonight for a few days , it's the elderly especially my heart goes out to for those without power , I'd say cost of damage will probably be over 1 Billion euro. Still over 100,000 people without power now , stay safe and warm guys

Lol what, ive been in the house since well before the storm. 150k households most likely understand that not everyone can be got to straight away

In some areas with decent mobile coverage, no DSL, and no NBI rollout using the same poles yet; landline usage has cratered so there may be few if any actual customers to connect back up.

The ESB power site has been really inaccurate, at times. When my brother checked over the weekend, the site said power would be back in his place on Saturday, at 9pm. Then it said Sunday, again at 9pm. Then it said Wednesday, same time as before. It, thankfully, came back that Monday. (My brother is self employed, he needs his electricity).

I see sewerage is now leaking onto streets in areas like Cork due to the water treatment plants either being down, or inadequately powered. If the grid gets overloaded I expect we may see similar incidents throughout the country. Hope not.

Glad to hear it.

A lot of folks I know are in a similar situation. No electricity means no water.

-2 frost and sunrise Meath.

Meanwhile some family in NE Galway had power restored on evening of Day 5 this week. My sister entering record breaking Day 7 now. She hit in the past maybe 3 days in 2023; Storm Debi maybe not sure. Hopefully not long more ❄️

Good to hear more starting to get power back

Curious on "No electricity means no water"

Are you pumping water into the house? No mains pressure?