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Why did the ESB flood Cork?

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  • #32
    Zigmund
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 145 ✭✭Zigmund


    Stan Marsh broke the dam.


  • #33
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    Caoimhín wrote: »
    Because it is a poxy place. They should have added a few ton of soap to the water or maybe Parazone...:D
    No harm. There'll be no showers for a week in several parts - gonna be whiffy Leeside...


  • #34
    cornbb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,790 ✭✭✭cornbb


    paconnors wrote: »
    well if the lads in cork removed the cork from the lee all the water would go down the drain, Theres ur solution

    http://sadtrombone.com/


  • #35
    Quint
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,407 ✭✭✭Quint


    PaintDoctor wrote: »
    They had been searching the rivers for the missing student, and the usual routine is to let the damn build up in order to lower the water line to aid the search for missing individuals.

    However in this case, they should have thought it through more carefully. They had all the indications that there would be catastrophic weather this weekend, and rather than letting the water ebb out from the dam over the days befoore the rain began to fall, they opened the sluices and let 800 tonnes of water a second out compounding the bad weather, and adding to the mayhem.

    There's a lot of divided opinion on this subject, but I think it's fair to say that Cork would have had flooding anyway, but the ESB emptying out the dam made the flooding far more pronounced. We could have done without that extra few million litres sloshing around the city.
    Of course they would have known what the weather was going to be like. Those guys are constantly monitoring the rainfall and in communication with the met office all the time. This was obviously done in conjunction with a lot of people, the police, met, engineers and underwater unit.
    I reckon it was well thought out, and the water above the dam has to go somewhere


  • #36
    pablomakaveli
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,752 ✭✭✭pablomakaveli


    Zigmund wrote: »
    Stan Marsh broke the dam.

    I broke the dam.


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  • #37
    Jumpy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,606 ✭✭✭Jumpy


    pablomakaveli wrote: »
    I broke the dam.

    *sings* but I did not flood the River Lee.


  • #38
    robbie_998
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,222 ✭✭✭robbie_998


    Jumpy wrote: »
    *sings* but I did not flood the River Lee.

    The exit is over there
    >


  • #39
    The_Minister
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,255 ✭✭✭✭The_Minister


    Jumpy wrote: »
    *sings* but I did not flood the River Lee.

    I Loll'd


  • #40
    dingdong1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 72 ✭✭dingdong1


    they were instructed to wash away the smugness. brown envelope job..


  • #41
    pablomakaveli
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,752 ✭✭✭pablomakaveli


    dingdong1 wrote: »
    they were instructed to wash away the smugness. brown envelope job..

    You know i would'nt mind the Cork bashing if it was actually funny but some efforts on this thread are fairly poor.

    Typical post in this thread: "They wanted to wash away the langers". Followed by that person going to their window, looking out across the houses/fields of Dublin/Kerry/Carlow(the forgotten county) etc and secretly wishing they were lucky enough to have been born in Cork.

    Come on people try harder.:)


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  • #42
    orourkeda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,916 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    The dam burst.

    GET OVER IT.


  • #43
    RandolphEsq
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,296 ✭✭✭RandolphEsq


    Global warming flooded Cork!


    lol global warming


  • #44
    pablomakaveli
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,752 ✭✭✭pablomakaveli


    orourkeda wrote: »
    The dam burst.

    GET OVER IT.

    Actually it did'nt. They let the water through it.


  • #45
    orourkeda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,916 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    pablomakaveli wrote: »
    Actually it did'nt. They let the water through it.

    GET OVER IT


  • #46
    pablomakaveli
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,752 ✭✭✭pablomakaveli


    orourkeda wrote: »
    GET OVER IT

    No. I'm not over it yet.


  • #47
    segaBOY
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,563 ✭✭✭segaBOY


    I'd rather live in a flooded Cork than a dry Dublin. And I'm not even from the county.


  • #48
    994
    Closed Accounts Posts: 911 ✭✭✭994


    Why is this in the Dublin forum?


  • #49
    Dartz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,458 ✭✭✭Dartz


    994 wrote: »
    Why is this in the Dublin forum?

    Because the cork forum is being flooded right now...


  • #50
    Saibh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,431 ✭✭✭✭Saibh


    994 wrote: »
    Why is this in the Dublin forum?
    Because this isn't the Dublin Forum...


  • #51
    EnragedSteve
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2 ✭EnragedSteve


    mikom wrote: »
    Roy Keane and Stephen Ireland were back home at the same time.


    You mean Stephen England :D


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  • #52
    K-9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,305 ✭✭✭✭K-9


    PaintDoctor wrote: »
    They had been searching the rivers for the missing student, and the usual routine is to let the damn build up in order to lower the water line to aid the search for missing individuals.

    However in this case, they should have thought it through more carefully. They had all the indications that there would be catastrophic weather this weekend, and rather than letting the water ebb out from the dam over the days befoore the rain began to fall, they opened the sluices and let 800 tonnes of water a second out compounding the bad weather, and adding to the mayhem.

    There's a lot of divided opinion on this subject, but I think it's fair to say that Cork would have had flooding anyway, but the ESB emptying out the dam made the flooding far more pronounced. We could have done without that extra few million litres sloshing around the city.

    And how much do these guys get paid?

    Mad Men's Don Draper : What you call love was invented by guys like me, to sell nylons.



  • #53
    orourkeda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,916 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    segaBOY wrote: »
    I'd rather live in a flooded Cork than a dry Dublin. And I'm not even from the county.

    Enjoy the floods. We'll be nice and dry while we continure to laugh at the fact that Cork has been flooded.


  • #54
    pablomakaveli
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,752 ✭✭✭pablomakaveli


    orourkeda wrote: »
    Enjoy the floods. We'll be nice and dry while we continure to laugh at the fact that Cork has been flooded.

    I would be jealous but you are living in Dublin after all. :p


  • #55
    Gran Hermano
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,329 ✭✭✭Gran Hermano


    It's just the culchies having their enforced annual bath so they're prepared to
    visit Dublin on December 8th for their Christmas shopping.


  • #56
    Jumpy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,606 ✭✭✭Jumpy


    pablomakaveli wrote: »
    No. I'm not over it yet.

    I dont think I will ever be over Macho Grande.


  • #57
    R0ot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,473 ✭✭✭R0ot


    BOFH_139 wrote: »
    But cork is not a city so it does not matter.

    Better city than Dublin any day of the week!


  • #58
    monkeypants
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,385 ✭✭✭monkeypants


    kpbdublin wrote: »
    ESB released a surge of water from the dam to flood the city of Cork
    Fantastic idea. Don't feel so bad about the standing charge now. :p


  • #59
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    I can't flush the toilet. :( :mad:


  • #60
    Jip
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,418 ✭✭✭Jip


    I don't understand this, if this was a thread about Dublin it would have been shipped off to the Dublin forum immediately with some smart comment as per usual. Why are you letting a Cork thread contaminate After Hours ?


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  • #61
    TheZohanS
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,581 ✭✭✭✭TheZohanS


    Dudess wrote: »
    I can't flush the toilet. :( :mad:

    Did you have your Weetabix?


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