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January 1982

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,695 ✭✭✭dathi1


    just noticed on the footage that east facing rooftops have little or wind swept snow, where as the west facing roofs have thick layers. Was it an easterly wind?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,033 ✭✭✭Snowbie


    Yeah it was an Easterly alright.The only thing i could think of is the blizzard hitting the roof and snow riding over the top of the house and settling on the far side of the roof where it is less windy or else you have your directions wrong:o


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 3,184 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dr Bob


    dathi1 wrote:
    Better late than never. Its a bit home Movie-ish but 8mm film was expensive and you only had 7 mins per cartridge hence the fast panning. :rolleyes: well..... I was only a chisler. Note people walking down the main road to avoid deep snow on paths.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Afss7QL4wAc
    nice one - very interesting.
    just wondering though , what part of crumlin was it? I was trying to work it out (although my memory's hazy - We lived on cashel rd (near leo labs) but moved away 25 years ago..)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,695 ✭✭✭dathi1


    The car driving scene is on the Crumlin Road with the Children's Hospital to the left. That scene was taken as we we're bringing in a work colleague of my Father's wife in labour to the Combe Hospital!!! from Lucan. My early teenage ambition in life was to be a war cameraman. :D I'll never forget that..shoveling snow from under tyres on the lucan road. The first and last scenes are Walkinstown Cross.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,907 ✭✭✭LostinBlanch


    I remember the 82 snow well, the first night it hit we were trying to get from Dublin to Drogheda! :eek:

    Of course we didn't make it, and ended up spending the night staying with some people I didn't know in Bayside. Thank God, I remember stories of some having to stay in Garda cells as they couldn't get home!

    Older people were saying that it was as bad as 1947 or 48.

    Good film dathi


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,585 ✭✭✭redman


    Ah 1982 what a fantastic time in the snow........:D :D:D
    I lived near Dun Laoghaire at the time.
    An inch of ice on the road outside the house, covered in snow.
    Watching a 46A slide down Kill Lane sideways.
    Jumping off 6 foot walls into 5 foot drifts.
    Building an massive igloo in a friends cousins house in Holly Park.
    No School of course!
    Walking to Premier Dairies to get milk
    Building the greatest snowmen, snowballs fights endless fun for days and days,,,
    Friends hanging onto car tail pipes and being dragged down the road (lunacy)
    Got me addicted to the stuff.....

    PUre pure heaven , I just hope my kids get to see something in the coming years!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,243 ✭✭✭kelle


    I'll never forget it, I was in sixth class at primary and we had two weeks off school. We live down a lane and we couldn't get to the main road because of the 6 foot drifts! My uncle is a digger driver and was very busy - he mantained it would take a month for all that snow to melt! A month off school, we thought, but we only got 2 weeks off. We walked through the fields and the wavy patterns made by the drifts were fascinating. We found it hard to believ the theory that no 2 snowflakes are the same - there must have been a few duplicates in all that snow. Don't think we'll ever see the like of it again. Is it true we're supposed to have snow in February?
    Great footage on Youtube, Daithi - I left you a comment too!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10 Blizzerthj8


    Hello.. Was just reading all your posts as research to set up a Big Snow 1982 Fan Page, and thought you might be interested in posting your stories or photos there. Check it out anyway: You could win a stove for your house...[URL="ttp://www.facebook.com/tos.php?api_key=9aaadc859a1c4c4ea7ef625c9b0c82ab&next=%3Ftoolbarid%3D867b3bb9-a66f-7423-08a1-4383b844a926&v=1.0&canvas#/pages/The-Big-Snow-January-1982/229933821825?ref=ts"]http://www.facebook.com/tos.php?api_key=9aaadc859a1c4c4ea7ef625c9b0c82ab&next=%3Ftoolbarid%3D867b3bb9-a66f-7423-08a1-4383b844a926&v=1.0&canvas#/pages/The-Big-Snow-January-1982/229933821825?ref=ts[/URL]

    Thanks!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,973 ✭✭✭IrishHomer


    Your link is not working


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,833 ✭✭✭NufcNavan


    I wasn't alive for this, but my Dad lived near Tara and he said the snow was 6 feet high in parts. He got buried once and had to be pulled out with a rope.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10 Blizzerthj8


    hey - sorry! Try this http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/pages/The-Big-Snow-January-1982/229933821825?ref=ts

    hope it works.... been a mad snowy new year!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10 Blizzerthj8


    It that doesn't work - log in to facebook and put "Big Snow 1982" in the search box.. it should come up as a public page. Thanks!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 168 ✭✭francie BradyII


    Is january 2010 going to be the new january1982?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10 Blizzerthj8


    looks like it! Did you here about the pub in yorkshire where there are STILL 60 people partying, still snowed in? !!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,470 ✭✭✭TheBigLebowski


    looks like it! Did you here about the pub in yorkshire where there are STILL 60 people partying, still snowed in? !!

    Since 1982?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 168 ✭✭francie BradyII


    Since 1982?

    hahahahahahahaha


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10 Blizzerthj8


    a 28 year lock in! Scary thought...


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,017 ✭✭✭TheMilkyPirate


    Since 1982?


    Haha :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,260 ✭✭✭Poochie05


    We were visiting relatives in France for Christmas 81/New Year 82 and they had no snow by the time we left. When we got off the boat in Cork, the customs man recommended we took the coast road to get home to Wicklow as it was not as bad as other roads, but warned we could have a bit of trouble around Enniscorthy. He didn't emphasise how bad it was and we hadn't heard any reports when we were in France so my Dad thought it was just some minor weather and set out on our way until the car skidded dramatically just outside Dungarvan. As the whole family was in the car and it was dark, we stayed the night in a shabby damp hotel that had books holding up one end of the bed - we slept with our clothes on it was so cold. We set out the next day and on advice decided to try taking the N9 from Waterford and coming back down to Wicklow from Dublin. We got as far as my aunt's in Killiney and had to spend the night there. The next day we got as far as our housing estate in Wicklow but got stuck at the entrance and could not go any further. So near and yet so far!. Needless to say we were happy to get home - took us longer to get from Cork to Wicklow than it took to get from Roscoff to Cork. Thankfully one of our neighbours had dug all around our house so there was no damage due to snow melting.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 676 ✭✭✭ayumi


    it snowed last 2009 in april/march and it was heavy


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,973 ✭✭✭RayM


    A few press cuttings from January 1982...

    From the Indo on Thursday 7th Jan, the day the snow started to fall...

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    "A few wintry showers"

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,257 ✭✭✭Pete67


    I remember '82 well - was about 14 at the time, and we lived in Harolds Cross. There was overnight heavy snow falls, followed by a week or 10 days of subzero temperatures. The snow compacted on the roads and formed a solid ice layer about 18 inches thick. We had some friends of my parents staying with us, they lived in Tallaght and worked in the city centre and were unable to get home for about a week due to the condition of the roads. Cars were abandoned all over the place.

    I remember going shopping with the folks, the local supermarket opened but the shelves were almost bare - was quite eerie actually. Very few trucks could get around to make deliveries. Milk, bread, eggs etc were rationed and when any came in it was sold out in hours.

    A lot of folks went home after the thaw not having been in their houses for over a week, unfortunately many went home to burst pipes and water damage. I remember when the thaw came there was an almighty crash in the front garden one afternoon, it was a mini avalanche of snow sliding off the roof. It tore all the gutters off the front of the house. They were heavy cast iron gutters too, if anyone had been standing underneath they could have been killed! It was an interesting few days!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1 Soundlib


    That's some picture:)

    I was 10 in January 1982. I was in Dublin, and when I stood on solid ground where snow had been cleared outside buildings, the bank of snow was taller than myself. Remember having to stay in a lot.

    On the eve of the first blizzard, two brothers and three of their sons were lost in a boating accident on Tacumshin Lake, Co. Wexford, and the search for their bodies was the main headline for the next few days - recovery being made difficult by the inclement weather.

    I've much happier memories of snowfalls in Dublin in January 1984, and January (17th-19th) 1985 which got us days off school on both occasions. afaicr. they were at least as good as Jan '87, but '82 was the daddy of'm all.

    It snowed again in Dublin in March 1985 - just a dusting on the ground for a night.

    Possibly in November, 1978, I remember making my first snowman - in Dublin.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 29,473 ✭✭✭✭Our man in Havana


    I remember 82 well. I was 7 at the time. I was living up in the Wicklow mountains, we got snowed in for 2 weeks. The air corps had to drop us food it was that bad. I have not experienced anything as bad since.


  • Subscribers Posts: 8,322 ✭✭✭Scubadevils


    Bond-007 wrote: »
    I remember 82 well. I was 7 at the time. I was living up in the Wicklow mountains, we got snowed in for 2 weeks. The air corps had to drop us food it was that bad. I have not experienced anything as bad since.

    I was 6 at the time and haven't experienced anything that good since :D

    Edit - by that I mean in the weather, I have experienced other good things since...


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,129 ✭✭✭Wild Bill


    I remember the snow of January 1982 like it was yesterday.

    It will be 30 years ago next month! :eek:

    Was living in Bray at the time and remember the (then) new 2FM staying on air all night with Gerry Ryan giving updates.

    (The pirate stations had been on 24/7 since the late 70s - 2FM was RTE's response).

    Putland Road was impassable - by the following morning the Loughlinstown dual-carriageway was blocked cutting Bray off from the City.

    They used JCBs to clear it leaving scrape marks on the surface that remained till the mid 1990s!

    Even in Bray at the seafront nearly a foot of snow fell in about 24 hours and it froze for over a week afterwards.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 515 ✭✭✭martic


    January 1982 probably stands as the best month ever to be a school kid in Ireland because for much of the month, there was no school. Three short but intense snowstorms painted Ireland white for the best part of three weeks. The heaviest fall was a 36-hour blizzard which began on January 7th. The east was the worst affected area, with Dublin City notching up some 2.5-ft in some parts, while the drifts rose to five and six feet in the suburbs. Hundreds of motorists were rescued from their cars on the Naas dual carriageway. There were a further two weighty falls over a ten day period which, combined with snow showers drifting in from the Irish Sea, added to the snow that had already frozen and compacted on the ground. That made for ideal tobogganing conditions, not least because temperatures were mild either side of the snowstorm, and the hills were alive with youngsters jetting off down the slopes on wooden sleighs, old car bonnets and fertilizer bags. Postmen, milkmen and council workers got around with snow chains while snowmobile sales also rocketed. The government duly appointed the late Michael O’Leary, subsequently nicknamed the ‘Minister for Snow’, to coordinate emergency services. Power cuts and bread and milk shortages were widespread for a while but, talking to anyone who remembers it, you get an overriding sense that everybody secretly loved it.


    http://www.turtlebunbury.com/history/history_irish/history_irish_big_snow.htm

    Ahhhh 1982, the one I can tell my grandchildren about :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,183 ✭✭✭Elmer Blooker


    It all started exactly 30 years ago tonight. It started to snow around 11pm on the 7th and it was still snowing the next morning which was a Friday. It wasn't anything special, just a moderate snowfall - a few cms. Then around 3 or 4 o clock in the afternoon the snow became very heavy and with easterly gales there was considerable drifting :)
    nuff said - happy days.


  • Registered Users Posts: 261 ✭✭aboyro


    this is an old thread but for but some reason;) a friend posted this on facebook last night.


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlrEOQ_GCCg&sns=fb




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,800 ✭✭✭The Guvnor


    I was around in 1982 (albeit not yet a teenager) and living in Ballina and you know for the life of me I can't remember a big snow.

    Did the west coast miss the snow or I am losing my mind!?:D

    Pics in this thread are great as is the fact that the thread itself is over 5 years old!


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,017 ✭✭✭TheMilkyPirate


    The Guvnor wrote: »
    I was around in 1982 (albeit not yet a teenager) and living in Ballina and you know for the life of me I can't remember a big snow.

    Did the west coast miss the snow or I am losing my mind!?:D

    Pics in this thread are great as is the fact that the thread itself is over 5 years old!

    It was an east coast event guvnor


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,204 ✭✭✭eskimocat


    I remember the snow of 82... it was absolutely gorgeous. I wasn't very old but old enough to remember.... we went sledging on the main road, the speed was savage :D My hands nearly fell off with the cold but one pair of marigolds over a dry pair of gloves later, I had floppy hands that were capable of holding snowballs, now throwing them was a bit of an issue, no actual fingers cause gloves too big... LOL Ah good times.


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,017 ✭✭✭TheMilkyPirate


    aboyro wrote: »
    this is an old thread but for but some reason;) a friend posted this on facebook last night.


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlrEOQ_GCCg&sns=fb



    She didn't like that push at 1:37 did she? :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 671 ✭✭✭NIALL D


    baraca wrote: »
    She didn't like that push at 1:37 did she? :)

    haha , not impressed !!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,800 ✭✭✭The Guvnor


    baraca wrote: »
    It was an east coast event guvnor

    Thank God! I was getting a touch concerned about the possible memory gap!biggrin.gif


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 469 ✭✭blackius


    It all started exactly 30 years ago tonight. It started to snow around 11pm on the 7th and it was still snowing the next morning which was a Friday. It wasn't anything special, just a moderate snowfall - a few cms. Then around 3 or 4 o clock in the afternoon the snow became very heavy and with easterly gales there was considerable drifting :)
    nuff said - happy days.
    Round Arklow,it started at about 9pm that night.There was a lot of thunder snow,the first time I saw thunder snow but then I was just a kid.
    We already had about a foot by the friday morning which I can tell you was kind of special and it got even more special when the roads filled in level with the ditches and we were marooned for the week..
    We had visitors from Wicklow town 3 weeks later and the drifts were still up onto the ditches a couple of feet deep when it had gone in the fields and elsewhere and they were going wow.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 25,234 ✭✭✭✭Sponge Bob


    These two clippings from much earlier in this thread reminded me of something else about 1982
    RayM wrote: »
    A few press cuttings from January 1982...

    From the Indo on Thursday 7th Jan, the day the snow started to fall...

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    "A few wintry showers"




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    1. There was NO forecast worth a damn of what was about to hit. "Wintry Showers" was all. I do remember the surprise factor myself.
    2. The Indo was a complete rag in the 1980s. Debbie hit in 1961 not in 1956 and knocked out around 1 in 7 premises at the time (100k out of 700k) where the storm in early January 1974 knocked out 1 in 4 premises, near a quarter of a million or 250k out of 1 million. The headline should have read 'Worst Blackouts in 8 years'.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 469 ✭✭blackius


    Technology was older then.
    I remember the forecast after the 9pm news that night like it was yesterday.
    Rain and sleet in munster and south leinster with snow on high ground.
    I went outside and it was already snowing here with a covering.
    We had 3 days with no electricity except for about 1 hour in the day time on each of the first 3 days.
    They apparently were diverting power from sub stations in arklow onto the country line for some reason for an hour or two which allowed us to milk,not everybody was so lucky,we were near the town.
    We were in darkness apart from candles every night.
    The snow stuck and froze onto the lines making them as thick as mugs,it's little wonder they snapped,thats apart from the poles being swayed down by drifts.
    Obviously,repair crews could not get out into the countryside for a few days either,by which time they had a mountain of work to do.


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  • Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 18,150 Mod ✭✭✭✭DOCARCH


    blackius wrote: »
    Rain and sleet.........with snow on high ground.

    Didn't know Gerry Murphy was around in 1982? :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,201 ✭✭✭ongarboy


    Interesting article from the Limerick Leader below about the snow of 1982. For some reason I always thought this was predominantly an Eastern half of Ireland event but obviously counties further west got it severe also! I was only 6 and living in Kerry so can't remember anything specific about that winter (apart from a general memory of having more snow at winter when I was a child)



    COUNTY Limerick was thawing out this Thursday after the coldest weather hit the region in more than 25 years.

    And county secretary, Mr Pat O’Connor, called on householders to report any instances of flooding to the council without delay.
    Two East Limerickmen lost their lives in the Arctic conditions when their car plunged into a dyke near Kilteely.
    Mr Frank Berkery, 45, and Mr Thomas Deere, 53, both natives of Doon, were found in the six-foot deep ditch off the road at Coologue last Friday morning, 15 hours after they had last been seen alive.
    It is understood that Mr Berkery, a garage proprietor, and Mr Deere, a CIE school bus driver, left Doon at 7pm on Thursday on their way to Kanturk to collect spare parts for a car.
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    A garda spokesman at Doon told the Limerick Leader that it was quite possible that the car, which was covered in snow when discovered the following morning, was in the dyke for anything up to 12 hours. Asked why the car not not been spotted earlier, he replied: “Because of the bad weather conditions which prevailed at the time, there were very few using the roads.”
    Both men were highly popular in East Limerick, as reflected in the huge attendance at their funerals on Monday.
    One of the areas worst hit by the weather was the village of Anglesboro, which was snowed in for two days by extensive drifts, reportedly as high as six feet in places.
    A garda spokesman at Galbally said that the Anglesboro/Galbally road was completely blocked for two days and the village was marooned by snow drifts.
    Gardai at Ballyneety reported one instance of a person being snowed in at Boherlode, but added that the problem had not been “too severe”.
    Gardai at Cappamore and Bruff said that motorists had responded well to the warnings about the icy roads, although there had been a number of reports of minor skidding.
    Road conditions in outlying parts of West Limerick were treacherous, with snow drifts of up to six feet around Knocknaboula, Foynes. Gardai at Foynes reported cases of farmers being isolated in holdings at Mount David, Knocknaboula and Shanagolden.
    The worst evidence of snow drifts was at Shanagolden, where, although the village itself could be passed, motorists found it almost impossible to proceed to Knocknaboula.
    “It’s pretty rough for the cattle with the snow so deep on the ground,” said Mr Tony O’Connor, a livestock farmer at Knockpatrick, Shanagolden. “This is the worst I can remember since 1947, when we were stranded up here for five weeks.”
    Mr Maurice Danaher, 82, from Shanagolden, was busy clearing the ice from his doorstep. “The last time I saw this drinking pond frozen over was in 1963 – and it was fearful cold then,” he said. “I remember the big freeze-up of 1917 when it was so cold the poor birds were frozen – you could pick them up, they were so cold.”
    The villagers of Askeaton had a startling surprise when they awoke to find the River Deel frozen solid for a mile below the town. Butcher Mr Tony Sheehan said: “I’ve never seen anything like it and I’m living here for 40 years.”


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