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Are U ready for teh storm?

mike65 · 2008-03-09 17:34:21

As you may know there is a serious storm threatening and due to dominate the weather for the next 2-3 days (a second front is following) so are you ready - is the satellite dish looking secure, is your roof going to survive 100 mph gusts? Got the corpo sandbangs yet? Yep there will be flooding as well. Here she comes I've…

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09-03-2008 6:34pm

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As you may know there is a serious storm threatening and due to dominate the weather for the next 2-3 days (a second front is following) so are you ready - is the satellite dish looking secure, is your roof going to survive 100 mph gusts? Got the corpo sandbangs yet? Yep there will be flooding as well.

Here she comes

I've decided not to leave the house until late Wednesday, so I can buy a bin-ticket and the lotto

Mike.

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#2 09-03-2008 6:38pm
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Cool!! can't wait!!

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#3 09-03-2008 6:38pm
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I have to go into the city tomorrow, ****.

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#4 09-03-2008 6:38pm
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Yep, called in the cat and put everything into "waiting " mode.

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#5 09-03-2008 6:42pm
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I love stormy weather actually.

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#6 09-03-2008 6:42pm
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I live in Clontarf, so it should be great fun altogether

Anyone know when the beast is due to hit?

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#7 09-03-2008 6:44pm
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I work outdoors, should be a fun week

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#8 09-03-2008 6:44pm
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so there is no chance of good weather for rag week then?

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#9 09-03-2008 6:46pm
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Day off work maybe so not all bad

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#10 09-03-2008 6:46pm
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Great, I work on the seafront near Clontarf too. Fan-flippin' tastic. Its windy here at the best of times.

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#11 09-03-2008 6:49pm
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Hopefully it'll blow that hobo off my roof, his faeces are starting to block the gutters..:(

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#12 09-03-2008 6:53pm
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Jaysus looks nasty...better go out and ake the stuff of the shed roof

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#13 09-03-2008 6:53pm
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Those Irish pirates are ****ed now, they'll be getting the worst of it!

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#14 09-03-2008 6:56pm
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Batten down the hatches.

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#15 09-03-2008 6:57pm
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Meh. Its no hurricane.

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#16 09-03-2008 6:59pm
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Storms a brewin'

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#17 09-03-2008 6:59pm
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Ya call that a storm ?? , that ain't a storm , this is :

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#18 09-03-2008 7:05pm
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Deadly, glad I invested in those fence panel stocks.

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#19 09-03-2008 7:05pm
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I'm totally bricking it. No joke living on the coast when mother nature decides to freak out on us. Can look forward to:

No electricity for hours / days.

Flooding. Waves that the mental surfers will say "hell yeah" to.

No heating, sure it won't even be fit for to go out for a bucket of turf :eek:.

*Random animals such as sheep and donkey flying past window

*May or may not happen depending on severity of storm

Will be one for the books by the sound of it. How bad is it looking for the West any one know?

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#20 09-03-2008 7:10pm
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Some say it's heading south of Ireland.
Other's say that the eye of the storm will be over Dublin tomorrow.
Most agree strong winds of 80- 90 on S coast and 100 -110 on Sw coast.

According to the world encylopedia

Hurricanes

Level 1, 74-95 mph
Level 2, 96-110 mph
Level 3, 111-130 mph
Level 4, 131-155 mph
Level 5, 156 mph"

Ireland is looking at a level 1 or level 2 hurricane.It's time to wake up folks it's real.

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#21 09-03-2008 7:17pm
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Met Eireann:

Forecast for coasts from Roches Point to Loop Head to Erris Head -
Wind: Southwest backing south force 5 or 6, backing south to southeast gale force 8 to storm force 10 imminent; veering southwest to west force 5 to 7 overnight and becoming cyclonic variable by morning; then becoming northwest strong gale force 9 to storm force 10 Monday forenoon.
Weather: Rain soon spreading east but clearing overnight to showers of rain or hail, some thundery.
Visibility: Becoming moderate to poor in rain; then good, occasionally moderate in showers.

Forecast for coasts from Erris Head to Carlingford Lough to Roches Point and the Irish Sea -
Wind: Southwest force 5 to 7, backing south to southeast gale force 8 to storm force 10 early tonight; veering southwest force 5 to 7 overnight and becoming cyclonic variable force 2 to 5 Monday forenoon; later becoming west to northwest gale force 8 to strong gale force 9, locally storm force 10.
Weather: Showers dying out and rain extending east early tonight; rain clearing to showers of rain or hail later tonight.
Visibility: Moderate to poor in rain and locally moderate in showers; otherwise good. Warning of heavy swell on western coasts for much of the period.

Outlook for a further 24 hours until 1800 Tuesday 11 March 2008: Gale or strong gale force northwest winds will soon moderate before later backing southwest and increasing fresh to strong; showers of rain or hail, some thundery at first, dying out but rain extending east later. Warning of heavy swell on western coasts for much of the period.

Force 10 = 100kph ish

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#22 09-03-2008 7:22pm
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pirelli wrote: »

Some say it's heading south of Ireland.
Other's say that the eye of the storm will be over Dublin tomorrow.
Most agree strong winds of 80- 90 on S coast and 100 -110 on Sw coast.

According to the world encylopedia

Hurricanes

Level 1, 74-95 mph
Level 2, 96-110 mph
Level 3, 111-130 mph
Level 4, 131-155 mph
Level 5, 156 mph"

Ireland is looking at a level 1 or level 2 hurricane.It's time to wake up folks it's real.

Thats old money. I'm pretty sure the higest winds are 100kph, not mph. Tbh.

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#23 09-03-2008 7:22pm
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pirelli wrote: »

Hurricanes

Level 1, 74-95 mph
Level 2, 96-110 mph
Level 3, 111-130 mph
Level 4, 131-155 mph
Level 5, 156 mph"

Ireland is looking at a level 1 or level 2 hurricane.It's time to wake up folks it's real.

These are mean wind speeds. Those quoted in the forecasts are gusts.

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#24 09-03-2008 7:22pm
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i heard the 100-110 thing to but it was km no mph

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#25 09-03-2008 8:06pm
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Very very very worried about this, if electricity lines are knocked down, its Cheltenham on Tuesday so maybe no tv

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#26 09-03-2008 8:17pm
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Bet ya it's overhyped and is just an average storm.

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#27 09-03-2008 8:23pm
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#28 09-03-2008 8:23pm
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Where will be worst hit anyway?

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#29 09-03-2008 8:40pm
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For more info on the 'storm' from the professionals then head over to the Weather Forum

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#30 09-03-2008 8:42pm
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FunkZ wrote: »

I have to go into the city tomorrow, ****.

And I have to go to Yabbie Creek.:p

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#31 09-03-2008 9:17pm
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There's a storm? I take it there's a chance of windburn then?

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