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Big Freeze Discussion / Heavy snow & Blizzards continue - 02/12/2010

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    #1442
    queensinead
    Registered Users Posts: 142 ✭✭queensinead


    teresminor wrote: »
    Rathgar is mad. It's still coming down and has shot up from 17cm yesterday to well over 30cm today, and it's still coming down heavily. I've no ruler big enough anymore. Just went out and it's almost up to my knees. Gorgeous snow too, just the right consistency.

    Yeah, staying with friends in Rathgar. I've never seen snow like this. It was like a snow globe all day, pelting it down. Friend's car cannot be moved, it is dug into the snow. Snow just easing off this minute

    Heard a guy on the radio at 4p.m saying "At least it's not as bad as yesterday in the city centre" Well, Rathgar is not that far from the city centre and it was way worse than yesterday.
    If this freezes we'll be in big trouble. with high drifts of snow everywhere, although it does not seem to be freezing yet


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    #1443
    MilanPan!c
    Site Banned Posts: 4,415 ✭✭✭MilanPan!c


    Army taking nurses and ICU staff into work tonight.

    Told staff to meet at local pub and then grabbed the lot and took them into work!

    Some folks still haven't made it home from Dubs... spare a thought...


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    #1444
    Defcol
    Registered Users Posts: 174 ✭✭Defcol


    pokerface_me wrote: »
    Anybody would do the same thing, your not going to walk away and leave him fend for himself. He was suprisingly ok, but not much food left and zero fuel. Another day or 2 and he could have been in big trouble. Its one thing us Irish have that will never be taken from us, decency, we look after our own.

    Well done you!:)


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    #1445
    Nicki123
    Registered Users Posts: 294 ✭✭Nicki123


    pokerface_me wrote: »
    Just topped 3foot here on kiltipper hill. Hasn't stopped all day 7 foot at sally gap and plenty of drifting snow around, this is epic.

    Please check on any elderly people near by, i travelled a mile up the road earlier to a house i thought was abandoned for a while only to discover 87 year old Tom Murphy living there, i was his first visitor since the postman last Friday. Tonight Tom is in my living room wrapped up in front of the fire with a nice warm bed for the night, the logistics of getting supplies and fuel to him for heat was a nightmare, easier for him to come to mine. His daughter is picking him up tomorrow, she is coming up from Waterford and has been unable to contact him as no landline or mobile.

    Please check guys it takes 5 minutes.

    You Sir, are a gentleman.


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    #1446
    dacogawa
    Registered Users Posts: 1,836 ✭✭✭dacogawa


    pokerface_me wrote: »
    Anybody would do the same thing, your not going to walk away and leave him fend for himself. He was suprisingly ok, but not much food left and zero fuel. Another day or 2 and he could have been in big trouble. Its one thing us Irish have that will never be taken from us, decency, we look after our own.

    Your a hero, you've probably saved that mans life.


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    #1447
    W.B. Yeats
    Registered Users Posts: 954 ✭✭✭W.B. Yeats


    pokerface_me wrote: »
    Just topped 3foot here on kiltipper hill. Hasn't stopped all day 7 foot at sally gap and plenty of drifting snow around, this is epic.

    Please check on any elderly people near by, i travelled a mile up the road earlier to a house i thought was abandoned for a while only to discover 87 year old Tom Murphy living there, i was his first visitor since the postman last Friday. Tonight Tom is in my living room wrapped up in front of the fire with a nice warm bed for the night, the logistics of getting supplies and fuel to him for heat was a nightmare, easier for him to come to mine. His daughter is picking him up tomorrow, she is coming up from Waterford and has been unable to contact him as no landline or mobile.

    Please check guys it takes 5 minutes.

    Fair play
    That's the sort of decency that we used to have and hopefully will have again. I hope Tom is enjoying the fire!


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    #1448
    Raskolnikov
    Registered Users Posts: 10,148 ✭✭✭✭Raskolnikov


    Temperature near Lucan is plunging, down to -3.5 as of this moment. Hasn't been much snow in awhile, although I really fear for some of the roads tomorrow.


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    #1449
    Ali Babba
    Closed Accounts Posts: 874 ✭✭✭Ali Babba


    Are we ever going to get snow in Cork?


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    #1450
    Mr. Larson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,429 ✭✭✭Mr. Larson


    Cabra wrote: »
    _50265949_uk_snow_dundeeuni.jpg

    You can actually see the 1 green patch where I live in Wicklow that's been relatively unaffected and now completely green. It's also the warmest part of the country and one of the few places where the temp is in the positive numbers. Boo Hoo! :mad:


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    #1451
    Wertz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,909 ✭✭✭✭Wertz


    first signs of that front starting to show on the NE antrim coast...some interesting pop up showers on raintoday radar in the last hour...the one blowing up over Belfast looks like it might migrate southwards over the coming few hours


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    #1452
    patrickc
    Registered Users Posts: 7,877 ✭✭✭patrickc


    pokerface_me wrote: »
    Just topped 3foot here on kiltipper hill. Hasn't stopped all day 7 foot at sally gap and plenty of drifting snow around, this is epic.

    Please check on any elderly people near by, i travelled a mile up the road earlier to a house i thought was abandoned for a while only to discover 87 year old Tom Murphy living there, i was his first visitor since the postman last Friday. Tonight Tom is in my living room wrapped up in front of the fire with a nice warm bed for the night, the logistics of getting supplies and fuel to him for heat was a nightmare, easier for him to come to mine. His daughter is picking him up tomorrow, she is coming up from Waterford and has been unable to contact him as no landline or mobile.

    Please check guys it takes 5 minutes.

    well done that man..


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    #1453
    MilanPan!c
    Site Banned Posts: 4,415 ✭✭✭MilanPan!c


    In case you missed it earlier, go look at this now!:

    http://www.sat24.com/Region.aspx?country=gb&sat=ir&type=loop


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    #1454
    Andreafar
    Registered Users Posts: 11 ✭Andreafar


    spockety wrote: »
    Amazing. I tried reading your post out to my Mrs but I choked at "wrapped up in front of the fire" and could not continue to read it out.


    So sad because makes you realise how many more elderly aren't sitting wrapped up by the fire :(


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    #1455
    Cantona's Collars
    Registered Users Posts: 33,709 ✭✭✭✭Cantona's Collars


    I made this earlier:D:D

    optimus_prime_02.jpg

    just kidding-I wish.


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    #1456
    Shamanic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 385 ✭✭Shamanic


    On amiens street halfway home on the walk from dundrum to santry.


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    #1457
    Denisejcc
    Registered Users Posts: 1,060 ✭✭✭Denisejcc


    Still chucking it down in Stillorgan :D:D:D

    Soooooooo pretty!<3


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    #1458
    oompaloompa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 333 ✭✭oompaloompa


    I'm not sitting by fire either.. I've no heating, no running water and it's soooooo cold :(


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    #1459
    Brenireland
    Registered Users Posts: 1,363 ✭✭✭Brenireland


    zerks wrote: »
    I made this earlier:D:D

    optimus_prime_02.jpg

    just kidding-I wish.

    something like I made earlier


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    #1460
    Diddler1977
    Registered Users Posts: 3,765 ✭✭✭Diddler1977


    Shamanic wrote: »
    On amiens street halfway home on the walk from dundrum to santry.

    Sorry to hear this.....


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    #1461
    sunbabe08
    Registered Users Posts: 6,316 ✭✭✭sunbabe08


    Ali Babba wrote: »
    Are we ever going to get snow in Cork?

    best not to ask any more:(


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    #1462
    some_dose
    Registered Users Posts: 587 ✭✭✭some_dose


    Can anyone in the know be able to tell me if NW Wales will get a helping of snow based on this?
    http://www.sat24.com/Region.aspx?country=gb&sat=ir&type=loop

    Since the wind was NE all week, streamers were developing over the Irish Sea and heading to Dublin. But now that the wind is NW will the streamers be developing over the sea and making landfall in Wales? :confused:

    Cheers in advance


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    #1463
    Fianna Fowl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 190 ✭✭Fianna Fowl


    My parents have not left their house since Saturday. They are beginning to run out of supplies. Anyone know what it is like in the Rockbrook, Mount Venus Road area? I am going to walk up with supplies from Ballinteer? No panic yet but I would like to get an idea as to what conditions I will face.


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    #1464
    Cabra
    Registered Users Posts: 76 ✭✭Cabra


    Diddler1977 wrote: »
    Sorry to hear this.....

    Be safe


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    #1465
    Betty-ireland
    Registered Users Posts: 97 ✭✭Betty-ireland


    pokerface_me wrote: »
    Just topped 3foot here on kiltipper hill. Hasn't stopped all day 7 foot at sally gap and plenty of drifting snow around, this is epic.

    Please check on any elderly people near by, i travelled a mile up the road earlier to a house i thought was abandoned for a while only to discover 87 year old Tom Murphy living there, i was his first visitor since the postman last Friday. Tonight Tom is in my living room wrapped up in front of the fire with a nice warm bed for the night, the logistics of getting supplies and fuel to him for heat was a nightmare, easier for him to come to mine. His daughter is picking him up tomorrow, she is coming up from Waterford and has been unable to contact him as no landline or mobile.

    Please check guys it takes 5 minutes.

    Fair play to ya, if only there were more people like you out there!


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    #1466
    paddymc1
    Registered Users Posts: 235 ✭✭paddymc1


    MilanPan!c wrote: »
    Army taking nurses and ICU staff into work tonight.

    Told staff to meet at local pub and then grabbed the lot and took them into work!

    Some folks still haven't made it home from Dubs... spare a thought...

    Hi MilanPan,

    Is this just for tonights staff? Wife is nurse due back in early tomorrow and was just talking to her as shes staying in her Mam & Dads in Tempelouge as to far to be travelling from Celbridge but it is so bad over there all day she wont prob be able to drive. Working in Tallaght Hosp.


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    #1467
    Andreafar
    Registered Users Posts: 11 ✭Andreafar


    Shamanic wrote: »
    On amiens street halfway home on the walk from dundrum to santry.

    So sorry to hear this....that is absolutely dreadful....maybe stop a garda....ask for help.....no way could they leave you in these conditions :(


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    #1468
    Defcol
    Registered Users Posts: 174 ✭✭Defcol


    oompaloompa wrote: »
    I'm not sitting by fire either.. I've no heating, no running water and it's soooooo cold :(

    Where are you?


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    #1469
    cson
    Registered Users Posts: 14,406 ✭✭✭✭cson


    oompaloompa wrote: »
    I'm not sitting by fire either.. I've no heating, no running water and it's soooooo cold :(

    In other words; "Rescue Me pokerface_me!"


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    #1470
    Birdnuts
    Registered Users Posts: 9,636 ✭✭✭Birdnuts


    Snow depths here are at bonnet level now:eek::D:D


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    #1471
    cabot
    Registered Users Posts: 76 ✭✭cabot


    oompaloompa wrote: »
    I'm not sitting by fire either.. I've no heating, no running water and it's soooooo cold :(

    Can you go and stay with someone?


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