power outages around mulhuddart

triple-M

Hi all does anybody know about the power outages in and around mulhuddart/castlecurragh tonight?? the electricity was gone for about the last 2 hours and it just came back on,is there any issues with the esb?

ArmaniJeanss

What a fcuking nightmare that was.

I could just about cope with the 2 hours without electricity - what made it worse was the 10 times that it came back on for a few seconds which gave you a sudden burst of optimism that they'd sorted it, then BOOM its gone again. But each time it went off every single house alarm seemed to get set off so as well as the no leccy situation you had a wailing cacophany of house alarms.

**** more of a rant than an answer to your question, sorry ****

ciaran76

Kept coming back on about 4 times I reckon.

The alarms were the worst bit.

Sorry haven't a clue why it happened.

trad

How is being with out power for a couple of hours a ***** nightmare???.

A minor inconvenience unless you are on a life support machine

Nevyn

If you have small kids and they are woken buy it and are scared of the dark it can be a nightmare.

triple-M

the electricity came on about ten times for a few seconds so i jumped on my pc and blew out the candles and before the pc could even get started up and it went off again,I passed by an esb crew up at mulhuddart woods working on the electricity box and asked them what was going on and they said there was no electricity (yeah no sh%t) and they didnt know when it would be back on,the barrage of alarms going off simultaneously was a nightmare the little ones in my house couldnt get a moments shuteye

trad

Thaedydal wrote: »

If you have small kids and they are woken buy it and are scared of the dark it can be a nightmare.

If someone breaks into your house and drags your loved ones out of the house at gunpoint thats a nightmare, a power cut is a power cut, an inconvenience not a nightmare.

ArmaniJeanss

trad wrote: »

If someone breaks into your house and drags your loved ones out of the house at gunpoint thats a nightmare, a power cut is a power cut, an inconvenience not a nightmare.

Seriously do you realise no-one has said the powercut inself was a nightmare - we can cope without electricity for a few hours.

It was the fact it came back for about 5 seconds about 10 times before immediately disconnecting again that was 'the nightmare' -as it meant on my block of Castlecurragh alone 20 alarms went off straight away and a gang load of dogs would start wailing in unison as well etc.

And what the bejassus has gunpoint burglaries got to do with this. Bloody hell.

Gaspode

OK folks tone down the language here a little please.

Turbulent Bill

It was a bit odd that the power came and went repeatedly, my own (wild!) guess is that lots of people had appliances switched on, so when the power was restored the huge load immediately tripped whatever was causing the problem originally. When it eventually came back for good, some people had probably gone to bed and switched things off for the night.

Other than the alarms going off and the kids going a bit mad outside, no harm done!

trad

Sorry if my analagy has upset anyone, I just think the use of the phrase nightmare is used to describe the most minor of inconveniences. Again apologies.