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

I still get a sense that the coverage drastically played down the storm's severity, which I think may come from the over hyping of previous minor storms. There was a lot of shrugging and moving on.

The fact that it didn't impact the high population centres i.e. Dublin, Cork etc also meant it didn't get covered as intensely and in the immediate aftermath we just weren't hearing from people in those areas as they'd no power and thus data coverage wasn't available, so they disappeared off social media.

If it shows me one thing it's that we've very little regional media.

It felt like when Ophelia hit the South Coast there was WAY more media coverage of it and also a lot more preparation and follow up.

The Government was just forming, the speaking rights thing was transfixing most of the media bubble and it just felt like nobody with a big platform was paying attention.

It does not feel like there was any significant formal emergency response.

Your not, your a man of misery and moaning almost every day lol

If coverage is going to show the governments actions, response time etc in a poor light, it will be watered down.

Ouch haha.

I could be in trouble then, I had two old large beech trees on my fairy fort, Éowyn took one - it was rotten through the roots, and I am now going to have to take the other one down as it was weakened at the same time. If I have an accident I will know I did wrong! You can see his beautiful bereaved twin behind the fallen one. One beech, one copper beech.

what stations were present in Galway before 2003

All the older folk here inAthenry say that this storm was worse than Debbie never mind the 98 storm.

It was much worse than Debbie in Roscommon too. And Debbie was particularly bad here.

The gauge by some on this forum of how bad a storm was, seems to be solely based on recorded wind speeds at official stations.

Thats actually a poor metric to use though, given the really poor coverage we have of official weather stations. They might be representative enough for temperature or pressure stats, but not so for an extreme wind event.

Has anyone noticed that Faults previous logged on Powercheck for two weeks now have been removed.

We still have no.power here near Boyle, the fault indication was removed, and when the fault is reported with the MPRN number, it gives a time for 9pm tonight.

No your statement is incorrect, if the employee is available to work and the employer closes doors then the employer is obliged to pay. If the employee does not turn up for work due to weather (red notice or not) then the employer does not pay. They cannot make you take holidays without prior notice so that is also null and void. Where you are misinterpreting is the statement on workplace relations "There is no statutory entitlement to be paid if you cannot attend work due to severe weather." This is if the "employee" cannot attend. The only way an employer can choose to not pay is if the employee is put on short term layoff which has a whole other set of regulations prior to it becoming live.

So settled down to watch the Rugby. 15 minutes in Power goes. Old Rio was bouncing and swearing. Wife just gave me one of those looks.

Anyway back after 1 hour.

First world problems I know in these times.

The news media sites are saying it's the final 700 homes who will hopefully get power back soon.

My brother and me were driving through North Kerry, and noticed there are towns where the street lights are not on at night. Either power is not fully restored, or there is a strain on the grid. But that is definitely dangerous for the average person out walking the dog at night.

Saw one or two who have those LED armbands. Seem a safer bet than the high visibility jackets.

finally got power back today in East Mayo/Roscommon border . They sent me a message Tuesday saying power was restored and it wasn’t. Half the road one side of fault was restored and the other half wasn’t. Had to go in and re-report fault. Had us down as only two premises (we were 8) because only 2 houses re-reported it! I was incensed. Anyway I asked on the phone for them to edit the fault info to say 8 homes and he said he couldn’t! Which was bs because Tuesday night after re-reporting it said 11 and then miraculously on Wednesday it said 2 homes! Anyway I am back now and very grateful. Lots of firewood for the stove anyway! Always a silver lining. Also have ordered 60 native trees to plant so maybe my great grandkids will have some shade when I am long gone.

Great buring in hawthorn. The pisoegs are around a single bush in a field ( fairy tree) or any off a ring fort.

Have some beech that feel in a ringfort during the bad august storm a few years ago. Won't touch it and will leave it to nature and the weather

it’s so funny. I am completely not superstitious but wouldn’t touch either of these. We have one fairy tree but planted a small forest around it. Native trees. Hopefully it’s still there. The fairy forts are probably remnants of prehistoric buildings so wouldn’t touch them anyway.

Mount Dillon really stands out in that chart for its low windspeeds during Éowyn. I wonder is it sheltered like Athenry is (or was!)

Gurteen was red criteria yet it was well south and east of the strongest winds path. Could there have been tornadoes or some similar features?
I’ve also noticed how roof damage seems to have been worse in Athenry town than in Galway city for some reason.
I know one house in Athenry town that lost a 2-3 slates in both Debi & darragh.
but they lost 20-30 in Éowyn.
prior to Debi there hadn’t been an impactful storm here since Ali.