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

The forest I posted pictures from was not there when infrastructure has been put through the land. The duty should lie on both infrastructure owners and landowners to keep things safe and reliable. AFAIK many countries were able to implement that somehow. But that needs cooperation, either triggered by mutual agreement or enforced by law.

I still have to saw through the main truck of this old lady but I am pleasantly surprised there's no ash dieback on it's main limbs. She was as healthy as a trout but was ripped up from her roots.

Just on which came first 'the hen or the egg' or in this instance the ' trees or the poles', I've planted trees under farm schemes and your not aloud plant within an asses roar of over head wires. Not sure about the multi national plantations

I have been in north, south, east and west Donegal over the last week and I have never seen the likes of it in all my life and we had the 1998 storm bad.

I saw literally half forests down like matchsticks...but not uniformly falling in the same direction, trees falling all over the shop. I suppose that's why there is a lot of power outages still.

It's truly incredible that there was only one fatality (RIP) in all of this. Even my local hospital had a massive tree fall parallel to the building. If it had fallen in on top of roof, I loathe to think what would have happened.

I have seen the same in local mixed forests. An area with a load of trees that seem to have fallen on top of each other going different directions. I can only imagine what it could have been like at the time. I wonder did we lose many birds that night.

To be honest that's fine. If they want to take the money without the responsibility well feck em

Plenty of cash? There is no payment for single poles. nothing, not a penny.

Allot of forestry damage alright, can see huge gaps on forests from roads. 80,000 hectares of trees gone. Mostly where thinning was done. Guess we can stop importing Brazilian chippings for the power plants for a while.

Agree completely...i persuaded my father from getting a Tesla for the same reason...hate seeing them on the road these days...

I am in a part of the country that gets several power outages a year. Most of this is just maintenance for several hours, I can tolerate that. However, I am 200 meters above sea level, this means I have a higher probability to experience severe conditions such as snow and severe wind storms being not far from the Atlantic on a south facing slope. Every 8 to 10 years that does happen, this year I experienced long outages due to snow bringing down lines, but was not as badly impacted by the wind storm, though lines had to be de-energised for 12 hours and other short intervals to allow for repairs across the area. We have been without power for 2 weeks in past decades (wind storm) and when it snows heavily, I am housebound.

In addition to the ESBs operating advice in the twitter link. You will need somewhere to securely store the generator out of sight and out of mind (desirable and liftable item), you will need fuel and somewhere to store it - calculate the consumption rate for the model and load, this will get mighty expensive when the outage is prolonged, but so is freezing and any sickness that goes with that. You will have to calculate the minimum power requirements when sizing it - water pump, lights, heating, kettle and whatever essentials. (my wood burner control panel would not operate -was able to fall back to oil boiler.). Don't forget maintenance to check it starts, once a year when the weather is good, watch out for "stale" fuel, see E10 petrol and water.

Tree roots don't account for ivy adding extra 'sail' in a storm.

I'm gonna be the first to say Ash dieback isn't going to have as much impact as first feared, those calling for preemptive action may be proven wrong.

Interesting video on how monoculture plantation trees grow fast, tall, crowded, weak. The ones at the edges are stronger as they grow with the wind and have more space. Remove these any the rest just blow down in very strong winds. Also in NI, electric pylons going though these plantations get destroyed by the same fallen trees..

Agree with you as regards the ivy acting as a sail and adding extra weight to the tree .

I have some ash trees on my land that have fallen in recent storms and the core of the tree is black with dieback. It surprised me to see that this very large old ash has no sign of disease. I have two more ash trees,that fell victim to Eowyn, to tackle yet so it'll be interesting to see what they're like.

Was gonna watch that but didn't

I would not be using wikipedia as my source for statistical information anyway because anyone can edit it. The UK Met Office separates mountaineous values from stations below 500m in their reports and we don't have mountain stations recording wind or temperature in Ireland.

I'm in the local town using a cafe Internet. Our power has gone off again. Won't be back until Saturday. Not because of trees on fecking hedgerows but plantation of trees by farmers. That's the problem. Take the grant. Feck everyone else. I live in Leitrim it's a plague on our land. Caused by plantations.

'Let them do their job'??? How's that going then?