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Big Freeze Discussion (Friday 8/1/10)

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    #1502
    Villain
    Registered Users Posts: 15,947 ✭✭✭✭Villain


    thetonynator wrote: »
    How does that sort of temperatire feel? Got very cold here in KK last night, but I wasn't outside in anything colder than -8. That felt horrible!!!:D


    Also, any way we can introduce a smiley face that indicates being cold? I have found a need for one many times!!! Any artists out there???:D

    Its very very cold, you get cold with heavy layers even on straight away, water pipes freezing all over, ice everywhere.

    Despite the Sun being up for hours today the snow is still stuck to the trees and even wires, no thaw at all


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    #1503
    dfbemt
    Registered Users Posts: 1,398 ✭✭✭dfbemt


    Monaghan now -12.7, Baltinglass -13.4 :eek:


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    #1504
    metrovelvet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,376 ✭✭✭metrovelvet


    DOCARCH wrote: »
    You don't mention where you are? Utopia by the sounds of it. You suggest walking....hmmm....we'd all love to walk in a winter wonderland, but it's not quite like that, half the problem is that the A+Es are filling up with people falling over from walking. Snow is not the problem, ice is.

    Seagullinthesky....pretty apt.
    The problem is lazy people not clearing their paths,both homes and businesses.


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    #1505
    Bandit12
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,442 ✭✭✭Bandit12


    Goatstown now -6.3


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    #1506
    cgf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 545 ✭✭✭cgf


    cgf wrote: »
    check out the NRA road weather stations http://www.nra.ie/RoadWeatherInfo/Map/data/htm/WeatherTable.htm

    Baltinglass -12.5 @ 19.00

    Just updated for 20.00

    Baltinglass -13.4c
    Monaghan -12.7c


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    #1507
    Snowaddict
    Registered Users Posts: 490 ✭✭Snowaddict


    leahyl wrote: »
    +1! A comprehensive overview of what is heading for us!:D Thanks:)

    No problem, although bear in mind confidence is 65% - 70% at present. There is still a margin of error in there & marginality has been mentioned as a risk, especially from later on Monday onwards.

    Although, as it stands at the moment, the evolution does look favourable.

    SA :)


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    #1508
    Chicken Run
    Registered Users Posts: 594 ✭✭✭Chicken Run


    metrovelvet wrote: »
    The problem is lazy people not clearing their paths,both homes and businesses.
    ...because if you clear your path or whatever and someone slips on it and gets injured, they can sue you.
    If you make no effort at all, they can't.
    Was on the news earlier...sadly...


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    #1509
    ninebeanrows
    Registered Users Posts: 12,778 ✭✭✭✭ninebeanrows


    You gotta stand back and appreciate tonight, won't witness temperature as low as tonight for many many years i would imagine.


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    #1510
    thetonynator
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,234 ✭✭✭thetonynator


    Villain wrote: »
    Its very very cold, you get cold with heavy layers even on straight away, water pipes freezing all over, ice everywhere.

    Despite the Sun being up for hours today the snow is still stuck to the trees and even wires, no thaw at all

    Any problems with fuel freezing in tanks?? Know somone on the outskirts of carlow in an exposed area, diesel froze in tractor tank.

    brrr.gif


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    #1511
    Heisenberg.
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    #1512
    leahyl
    Registered Users Posts: 14,288 ✭✭✭✭leahyl


    Snowaddict wrote: »
    No problem, although bear in mind confidence is 65% - 70% at present. There is still a margin of error in there & marginality has been mentioned as a risk, especially from later on Monday onwards.

    Although, as it stands at the moment, the evolution does look favourable.

    SA :)

    I don't really mind from later Monday once we get our snow on Sunday and Monday during the day:)


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    #1513
    Chicken Run
    Registered Users Posts: 594 ✭✭✭Chicken Run


    Weathercheck wrote: »
    You gotta stand back and appreciate tonight, won't witness temperature as low as tonight for many many years i would imagine.

    can I appreciate it with a hat and gloves on then ??
    Don't appreciate having to go out and break ice on animals' water supplies every couple of hours though....


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    #1514
    seagullinthesky
    Registered Users Posts: 13 ✭seagullinthesky


    It's not too easy to walk when the pavements are slippy, cracked skulls are seldom good for us


    You see, folks, this is how we respond.............


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    #1515
    DOCARCH
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 17,998 Mod ✭✭✭✭DOCARCH


    metrovelvet wrote: »
    The problem is lazy people not clearing their paths,both homes and businesses.

    The last time I walked not all pavemnets were outside homes and businesses?

    And, believe it or not, if you clear the pavemnet in fornt of your home or business or grit it, you may become liable if somebody has an accident! Only in Ireland could this happen. In other countries it's the reverse, you have an obligation to clear the pavements.


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    #1516
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Casement -8:) will we reach -13?


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    #1517
    owenc
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,524 ✭✭✭owenc


    Weathercheck wrote: »
    You gotta stand back and appreciate tonight, won't witness temperature as low as tonight for many many years i would imagine.

    What do you think is going to happen temp wise tonight as apparently according to nw and xc weather the temp is gonig to rise 5c so if its near -12c we may not get -15c lol:(


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    #1518
    leahyl
    Registered Users Posts: 14,288 ✭✭✭✭leahyl


    Scien wrote: »
    100s of people were skating on Cork Lough Today. Reports say it was 4 inches thick.
    The Council did the sensible thing this evening & brought a JCB in to break the circumference to avoid incidents.

    Oh my god some people are very stupid....there are even full grown adults in that picture - ridiculous! Sure a teenager fell in there


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    #1519
    JanuarySnowstor
    Registered Users Posts: 2,953 ✭✭✭JanuarySnowstor


    Weathercheck wrote: »
    You gotta stand back and appreciate tonight, won't witness temperature as low as tonight for many many years i would imagine.

    Yes truly remarkable and an ideal preparation for the wkd snow


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    #1520
    DOCARCH
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 17,998 Mod ✭✭✭✭DOCARCH


    seagullinthesky wrote: »

    You see, folks, this is how we respond.............

    What's that supposed to mean?


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    #1521
    Magnum
    Registered Users Posts: 687 ✭✭✭Magnum


    Absolutley freezing in Tipp Town.....


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    #1522
    holly1
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    Is Sunday /Monday going to happen or is it just met eireann being cautious?????


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    #1523
    hotwhiskey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 592 ✭✭✭hotwhiskey


    seagullinthesky wrote: »
    As a nation, we are pathetic. Over the last 14 days, I have seen the majority of people who were working make it their business to get to work and rightly so. Since Wednesday, we have lost the run of ourselves. If you were never to look out of the window, the media would terrify you to the point of even opening the door.:rolleyes:

    I have just heard that all schools have now been closed til Thursday, NATIONWIDE????. What is all that about?. :o:confused:

    Can everyone CALM downand get a grip (no pun intended) , we do not have five foot or even 5 inches of snow. It is cold, very cold and it is necessary to take simple precautions but do not lose the head. Dress appropriately for the weather but if you are young, fit and healthy, get out and go to work for God's sake. The country is in enough trouble. If you are in a city and the buses are off, walk, its good for us and the countryside and city are beautiful even when white and frozen. Our ancestors survived famine and wars and we have 2-3" snow in most places and we have gone to ground as a nation. PATHETIC :mad::(

    The only people who have gone to ground is Our Goverment.


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    #1524
    Tom Cruises Left Nut
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    holly1 wrote: »
    Is Sunday /Monday going to happen or is it just met eireann being cautious?????

    I for one hope that the cold doesn't break the calendar !!!! :p:p;);):D:D


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    #1525
    Villain
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    thetonynator wrote: »
    Any problems with fuel freezing in tanks?? Know somone on the outskirts of carlow in an exposed area, diesel froze in tractor tank.

    brrr.gif

    Yea a friend of the bro's heating oil froze and heard of fuel freezing in tractors too


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    #1526
    utick
    Closed Accounts Posts: 562 ✭✭✭utick


    leahyl wrote: »
    Oh my god some people are very stupid....there are even full grown adults in that picture - ridiculous! Sure a teenager fell in there

    im sure it was safe, at 4 inches ice is considered safe for people up to 200 pounds


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    #1527
    Bandit12
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,442 ✭✭✭Bandit12


    holly1 wrote: »
    Is Sunday /Monday going to happen or is it just met eireann being cautious?????
    I'm no expert but i doubt they would be shutting down schools until Thursday next unless they where fairly certain we are in for serious snow fall.


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    #1528
    Dickerty
    Registered Users Posts: 7,872 ✭✭✭Dickerty


    utick wrote: »
    im sure it was safe, at 4 inches ice is considered safe for people up to 200 pounds

    How many people though? What if you get a gathering of 3 or 4 people in a weak spot?

    It's DUMB...


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    #1529
    thetonynator
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,234 ✭✭✭thetonynator


    utick wrote: »
    im sure it was safe, at 4 inches ice is considered safe for people up to 200 pounds

    It's not the four inches thats the problem, its the fact that there were almost definately patches of ice with much less ice on them.

    Cork co.co. did the wrong thing, because once it freezes tonight, people will use it again, despite the fact that there may be less than 1 inch at the edge. The council prob. won't have the resources to break the ice every day.


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    #1530
    F-Stop
    Registered Users Posts: 763 ✭✭✭F-Stop


    hotwhiskey wrote: »
    The only people who have gone to ground is Our Goverment.

    That's not true, some of them have gone to Malta.


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    #1531
    Bandit12
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,442 ✭✭✭Bandit12


    Dickerty wrote: »
    How many people though? What if you get a gathering of 3 or 4 people in a weak spot?

    It's DUMB...
    Agreed. Idiots the lot of them but nothing surprises me tbh.


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