Flooding alert!

irlirishkev

Phoenix Park is well flooded too.
The main road through it is completely submerged.

arybvtcw0eolkf

irlirishkev wrote: »

Phoenix Park is well flooded too.
The main road through it is completely submerged.

Just listening to my scanner, the Ashtown gates are closed due to flooding.

Sundew

Got caught out in Dun Laoighre today. It was beautiful up until 4.30.I was soaked like I,ve never been soaked in a quick dash back to my car.
Travelling back to D10 there was flooding everwhere. The Stillorgan dual carriage way had some major flooding. floods near Goatstown and Dundrum. Ballerfermot under water too. Cars stuck on the Kylemore Rd and Sarsfield Rd closed off by the Gardai. saw the emergency response vehicle thundering down the Kylemore rd obviously heading to Chapelizod.

tk123

esel wrote: »

Tolka burst its banks about 2 hours ago at bridge beside Botanic Gardens.

Interesting fact: name Tolka comes from Irish 'toilceadh', meaning 'flooding'!

Ah can only laugh - the pumping station is flooded too!

Degsy

lostexpectation wrote: »

i thought there were supposed to fix the tolka there

They obviously did a bang-up job!:D

CrazyRabbit

Some pics of the N3 in Blanch curtesy of boards user EF.

https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/uploads/attachments/84334/61067.JPG

https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/uploads/attachments/84334/61068.JPG

https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/uploads/attachments/84334/61069.JPG

(Taken from http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=56846220&postcount=13 )

tribulus

Santry at the turn off for Santry Avenue had two cars badly flooded on the road and nearby housing estates were pretty bad too.

One small estate had houses whose doors were right on the ground, about six guys were going crazy trying to brush away as much water as possible.

At one point I was literally up to my knees in water coming home from work.
Although I have to say walking through oily water in my bare feet isn't all that bad, just smelly!

gurramok

Anywhere not flooded?

Thats mad about the Tolka, same happened in Nov 2000 and Nov 2002 and yet the incompetent councils are lazy enough to clear the drains again.

CrazyRabbit

On a related note, I'd like to thank Met Eireann for the incredibly accurate weather forecast for today...

Saturday 09 August 2008

Today's Weather
Bright intervals and scattered showers for the rest of the evening, some heavy and locally thundery. Breezy but staying very mild or warm.

tribulus

CrazyRabbit wrote: »

On a related note, I'd like to thank Met Eireann for the incredibly accurate weather forecast for today...

Saturday 09 August 2008

Today's Weather
Bright intervals and scattered showers for the rest of the evening, some heavy and locally thundery. Breezy but staying very mild or warm.

Lol, someone should make that into some sort of fail pic.

tk123

Has anybody got a link to pics of the 2002 floods? I remember looking at them a while back but can't seem to find the site now? There was even one of Bertie taking a look up at Fagans.

robo

Took my friend over 2 hours to get from O'Connell St to Blanch area...mad!!!

flanzer

Was out earlier getting a bottle of wine (cuz there was no chance of me going anywhere tonight!) and laughed when I saw the amount of recovery trucks on the road. Of the 5 I saw, 3 of them were carrying cars that obviuosly weren't involved in any prang of sort

gurramok

tk123 wrote: »

Has anybody got a link to pics of the 2002 floods? I remember looking at them a while back but can't seem to find the site now? There was even one of Bertie taking a look up at Fagans.

Yeh, but not of Bertie.

Here's one from 2002, notice how its the exact same spot where it happened today.

Better flood defences, yeh right.

DanOB

2 hours on the bus from constitution hill to botanic avenue.. craaaaaaazy traffic!

DanOB

Mairt wrote: »

Just listening to my scanner, the Ashtown gates are closed due to flooding.

i call that eavesdropping

Degsy

Heres some pics from the photography forum

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055352223

Ruthie-Roux

I live in Finglas and we thought we were going to have to evacuate our apartment block. The Tolka burst its banks with the terrential rain and flooded a car park above the apartment complex which in turn created a waterfall down the hill and into the grounds until the whole area was flooded like a feckin lake. The water covered the entire car park leaving some of the cars half-submerged and came through into the hallway of our apartment block and covered half the corrider. All of the apartments dowwn that end were destroyed. One of the neighbours showed us inside their place and it was under a few feet of water throughout the apartment. It was the same with a lot of the others too. To make matters worse, aparantly the majority of manholes in the area had burst open as well leaving a river of sewage flowing amongst the river and rain water so the stench in the place is absolutly sickening. The corridor is like a marsh and smells like faeces.
You can hear water gushing down through the lift shaft and the electricity keeps on flickering. My flatmate and a neighbour both called the property managment company and they said "what do you expect us to do about it?" Drainage specialists were in the grounds for a while but then gave up and went off. Noone has bothered to check and see if the building is actually safe. Electicity and water...hmmmmmmm??
I had no food in the apartment and couldnt even get a takeaway because the roads were blocked and they couldn`t deliver to the area.

I got a text message from a friend saying he was out digging earth into bags because the fire debt had run out of sandbags.

Nightmare

Ruth

Dirk Gently

I take it you're in the apartments right on the tolka at the junction of the old finglas road and the finglas road?

It's not the first time cars floated out of that car park. Have been problems with that building since it was built. Did they ever reinforce the foundations of the block closest to the river? Was talk of that side sinking a few years ago.

Bartronilic

Complete traffic standstills, rivers bursting, cars breaking down and some burning out (4 fire engines passed and 1 tow trucks with a burnt car). Saw a car going up in smokes myself from the revving after driving through a flood.

My car broke down twice, couldn't find a way home.

Was meant to do 45 minute drive to Drogheda, ended up 5 hours stuck in Smithfield/Cabra/Castleknock area. My 2 attempts to get to Chapelizod ended with my car breaking down (road was a river in itself). Never made it to Drogheda, really ****ed off. Also my own back garden has flooded.

Saw few car crashes too and Hard shoulders opened as lanes.

Is this normal? Im not experienced with dublin driving.

Avoid following roads:
Blackhorse Avenue.
M50.
Blanch Bypass.
River Road, Finglas.
Roads around Fort Lucan.

THANKS to all the people who helped me. I am young so I don't know if this has ever happened before? It was seriously quite scary.

EDIT: Why do they not tell you in Driving Lessons/Tests NOT to drive through massive puddles. I saw ALOT of the flooding stuff today. Was total disaster.

Sundew

A few photographs take yesterday of some floods (not the worst ones,I hasten to add) starting with a beautiful balmy afternoon in Dún Laoghaire
4.30p.m Dun Laoghaire


5.00 Clouds Rolling In


6.00 Naas Rd


Kylemore Rd where a car and a van had to be towed out.though it doesn't look like it they were both stuck


Road closed

Collie D

How is everywhere this morning? I'm in Coolock and the place is bone dry despite some fields looking like lakes and roads like rivers yesterday. Heard on the news Whitehall is till pretty bad

markpb

The N1 under the Shantalla flyover is closed and will remain closed for another few hours. The Port Tunnell northbound is closed still. Dunno what the rest of the city is like.

bloodedrose

The lake thing outside the Crowne Plaza is gathering all the runoff from Swords , is up to the wall between the park and the Swords roads, and is threatening to burst through it and flood the general everything. :eek:

Gillo

Was trying to get home last night from town to Balbriggan and have to say kuddo's to Bus Eireann for making the best of a bad situation. All the buses into town were delayed so they got extra one's in, they also weren't charging to go on the bus!!!

Victor

Degsy wrote: »

I live on top of a hill so i've never been flooded!:D

Careful you don't get struck by lightning though!

John Mason

right lads, i am heading home from wicklow to finglas, in a few mins, are all the roads open now or is there anywhere to avoid.


i cant wait to get home, as i have a leak in my roof, it should be fun:(

markpb

irishbird wrote: »

right lads, i am heading home from wicklow to finglas, in a few mins, are all the roads open now or is there anywhere to avoid.

RTE say

Considerable delays can still be expected on the M50 as there is still severe flooding on both northbound and southbound lanes.

The M1 at Whitehall has now been re-opened on both sides following earlier closures due to flooding.

A contra-flow is in operation along the M50 between Finglas and Blanchardstown.

Best of luck with your house, hope the damage isn't too bad

Edit: A friend just came from the Palmerstown to Santry around the M50 and didn't notice any diversions, contra-flow or closures.

jos28

I decided I'd better get a few sandbags just in case. I had a look at the Dublin City Council website to see if they were being dispatched by the Council. This is what I saw on their homepage :

Water is precious - let's conserve it this summer!
Having a laugh or what !

Victor

Clean water is expensive.