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

ESB networks as a semi state are obliged to provide the infrastructure and run on a commercial basis. This is his play for government funding to pay for required network remediation

Funnily enough I expected that ESB video to say put an Earth wire on your generator. Yeah I never do either. It's unlikely to be a major problem but everything ran from the generator (as in cables and extension leads, if not using an isolator and the existing wiring) isn't earthed.

No I was on wiki on purpose to see if the storm was on it and lone behold it was , unfortunately yes it can be edited by anyone

In all fairness Rio, alot of plantations in Leitrim are plantations from foreign investors and are usually non native quick growing conifers for a quick return, after 15 to 20 year grants. Usually your forest is thinned out by year 10 for making fence posts etc. Older farmers with no help or interest to farm were coaxed into this ,particularly around the early 90s ,by government schemes. This in turn led to foreign investors snapping up land in counties like your own, and planting them. You can blame the farmers all you want, but they cleared trees off roads, ferried people through floods and cleared snowdrifts in storms gone by.

Its incredibly frustrating. Have been keeping an eye on Powercheck everyday as even though have power myself throughout, have close older family members who only got it back yesterday and Saturday and was trying to keep them informed. What I noticed is that the dates on the site are probably only loosely related to what is happening on the ground, with it more being an exercise in expectation management than providing accurate information. The person who got it back Saturday had their return date changed to the 5th on Thursday, unknown on Friday and coming back Saturday afternoon, and the people who got it back yesterday were pushed form the 27th to 29th to 30th to 1st and finally 3rd which was when they got it. What i have been noting is they are clearing 100's of faults everyday though which will tell you it wont be long now. Its 550 faults remaining now, was about 700 yesterday evening, 1050 on Sunday, 1400 on Saturday, 1750 on Friday and over 2,100 last Thursday

As I said on this thread earlier the esb connected new houses from the transformer suppling me and ran the line through ash trees so it’s not the fault of any farmer or landowner when you have that level of workmanship installing power to people from the grid.

We moved into a new build last year and the same thing happened with both ESB and Eir. Eir contractors at least mentioned trimming the trees but when it came to it they threaded the cable throw the trees.
The ESB actually upgraded the transformer on a pole beside the house and didnt trim the bushes around it bar ones we had already taken down that we thought were dangerous to the house. They are not getting half enough grief for the state they have left things like this in for years.

On a seperate topic my parents and there neighbours finally got power and subsequently water restored today. Been a long 12 days for them between the house and trying to keep cattle and other livestock with water.

I rang Vodafone on 7 different occasions and was put through to a call centre. Yesterday, I finally lost it with them. They could not give me a restore date. In fact, yesterday on the 7th call they said they had no record of a fault in my area even though hundreds were without service. Utterly incredibly bad customer service. Sould have ignored NBI and stuck with my wireless internet service with Imagine.

Got my bill today (the day my internet was restored). Full charge!

NBI spending 2.7 billion on the roll-out. They are deploying the fibre on up to 1.5m polls, many of which are already in place and in dire need of replacement. Talk about spurning an opportunity to future-proof the fibre network.

Contractors get paid per job done. The terms and conditions of the jobs refer to 'connections' only. Such a missed opportunity

Just for a bit of giddiness, storm Eowyn has notched up 727k views and is soon coming to a close. The January snow notched up 651k views between part 1 and 2. Does anyone have a Top of the Pops charts of the the weather events hits?

December 2010 surely takes #1. It was absolute mayhem and carnage here, multiple threads per day, different types of threads (regional threads/technical discussion/chat threads etc...) boards.ie crashing frequently, just pure chaos for a full month. "Social media" as we know it hadn't really taken hold by then so boards.ie was basically the online hub for the event.

BTFE/Storm Emma 2018 would probably be #2, similar situation but a much shorter time period and by then there were a lot more online options to post and discuss matters. Still was absolute madness here for a couple of weeks.

What has Bromotrifluoroethylene got to do with it?

I love to see them on the road, in fact any EV. Much better than a filthy diesel poisoning us all.

Just a small flavour of the destruction done to the grid by this storm.