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    #62
    Max001
    Registered Users Posts: 874 ✭✭✭Max001


    Cork looks infinitely more attractive hidden under a foot of snow. :P


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    #63
    Paul91
    Closed Accounts Posts: 782 ✭✭✭Paul91


    aaronh007 wrote: »
    Take them down before they get the chance to take over:pac:

    we did a "drive by kick in" of a snowman ay univeristy, guy took his car on to the field where the snowman was, smashed into it, we hopped out (two in back one in front) and kicked what remained to the ground - how gangster are we :D

    FYI don't worry no one else on field, was about 3 in the morning as we'd been up watching superbowl, and the snowman was a students as well


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    #64
    spacebarbiek8
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10 ✭spacebarbiek8


    Paul91 wrote: »
    the estate next to mine had a snowman outside almost every house - was like an invasion of the snowmen

    nice! its the way it should be!:D


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    #65
    Glico Man
    Registered Users Posts: 8,280 ✭✭✭Glico Man


    Paul91 wrote: »
    we did a "drive by kick in" of a snowman ay univeristy, guy took his car on to the field where the snowman was, smashed into it, we hopped out (two in back one in front) and kicked what remained to the ground - how gangster are we :D

    FYI don't worry no one else on field, was about 3 in the morning as we'd been up watching superbowl, and the snowman was a students as well


    Brilliant! Very gangster. Although baseball bats would have been more appropriate.

    I just went and football tackled my neighbours snowman...mwuhahahahaha


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    #66
    kingtut
    Registered Users Posts: 6,487 ✭✭✭kingtut


    I went for a drive around Mahon and Douglas around 8.30, roads were fine :) Tesco car park in Mahon was a bit dodgy though...


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    #67
    DJ Hafez
    Registered Users Posts: 948 ✭✭✭DJ Hafez


    Vinta81 wrote: »
    Same here in BLough, looking forward to heading down the Japs later if it keeps up!

    Owwwww, you hit me in the face :(


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    #68
    kingtut
    Registered Users Posts: 6,487 ✭✭✭kingtut


    Vinta81 wrote: »
    Same here in BLough, looking forward to heading down the Japs later if it keeps up!

    What / where is the Japs :confused:


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    #69
    DJ Hafez
    Registered Users Posts: 948 ✭✭✭DJ Hafez


    kingtut wrote: »
    What / where is the Japs :confused:

    The Jappanese Gardens - The park next to the swimming pool :)


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    #70
    Buceph
    Registered Users Posts: 2,059 ✭✭✭Buceph


    DJ Hafez wrote: »
    The Jappanese Gardens - The park next to the swimming pool :)

    It's where young people go to have a lemonade, squeeze things and be ***** in general.


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    #71
    RebelRockChick
    Registered Users Posts: 1,917 ✭✭✭RebelRockChick


    A fair bit of snow in Midleton as well today :D. Was leaving Mahon point earlier around 11pm and its pretty much just slush now around and on the the road back home.

    Seen one or two cars pulled in by the tunnel and on the N25 by Little Island, but no crashes thankfully.


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    #72
    ziedth
    Registered Users Posts: 9,081 ✭✭✭ziedth


    hi all, whats it like in the city centre? I was suppose to travel back last night but couldn't. Couldn't get up the medium sized hill outside my front gate.


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    #73
    kingtut
    Registered Users Posts: 6,487 ✭✭✭kingtut


    Just heard on the radio:

    Cork Airport closed until 12pm today!


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    #74
    Blitzkrieger
    Registered Users Posts: 6,660 ✭✭✭Blitzkrieger


    Light enough snow at home but there's a good four inches in the car park at work. Hearing it crunching under the car was weird. I should be out making snowmen - not surfing. Or doing what I'm paid to do... One of those three anyway....

    janeybabe wrote: »
    As I was walking out of my estate a car sped past. He got to the entrance, turned right and ploughed into a wall. His car is a write off I'd imagine and it's all his own fault.

    The amount of ****wits you hear doing that is amazing - especially since the cold weather isn't exactly sudden - the ice has been here for weeks ffs. Some twat in a Swift nearly knocked me down this morning speeding through the town. There was ice everywhere but this guy must have been doing 50. The amount of 4x4 owners who think ice doesn't apply to them is also mind boggling.


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    #75
    kingtut
    Registered Users Posts: 6,487 ✭✭✭kingtut


    So far only 6 people (including me) out of the 50 in my department are in, lazy feckers the rest of them :D:p

    I wonder how many of them looked out the window and thought 'I'm staying in bed' and didn't even bother trying to get in, it's 8.51 ffs!


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    #76
    Ludo
    Registered Users Posts: 5,015 ✭✭✭Ludo


    Tried to get in to work this morning as apparently my bus route is working. Three buses usually pass but none turned up so back home now. May try again later.

    No way to get car up hill out of estate...2 tried as I was walking out and they all slid back down hill :-)


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    #77
    aidan_walsh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,208 ✭✭✭✭aidan_walsh


    "Bus Éireann say that in Cork, city services are unable to serve the northside of the city."

    http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/0111/live_weather_transport_updates.html[\URL]


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    #78
    Angry Troll
    Closed Accounts Posts: 224 ✭✭Angry Troll


    here are a few nice shots from the cold spell from germany (pix 1-18) and some other european countries (19-26)...the text is all in german but the pictures should speak for themselves…things didn’t go entirely without disruptions elsewhere either…
    www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/fotostrecke-50577.html


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    #79
    BarryM
    Registered Users Posts: 837 ✭✭✭BarryM


    kingtut wrote: »
    Just heard on the radio:

    Cork Airport closed until 12pm today!

    Closed since 18.00 yesterday in fact. Due to open again just now. I'm spending my THIRD night in the Airport Hotel....

    Clearing started at 08.00 this morning. Clearing equipment - tractors with blades underneath; jcbs; tractors and trailers carrying snow away....
    One or two flexible power units capable of mounting brush, plough, gritter as required would have done it.
    No excuse to say 'exceptional' flexible equipent could cover it....widely available for airports. NOT more expensive than what they have.

    Bye, Barry


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    #80
    Typewriter
    Registered Users Posts: 577 ✭✭✭Typewriter


    Snow in Blackrock yesterday... :D

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    #81
    Sephiroth_dude
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 80,385 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sephiroth_dude


    Its turned to slush now and snowmen can no long be made :(


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    #82
    hunnymonster
    Registered Users Posts: 5,365 ✭✭✭hunnymonster


    Snow is gone in Cobh. I didn't get any sleep last night with the wind. It's bin day in our estate today and it genuinely looks like a bomb site with all the upturned bins and rubbish everywhere. Went out to start a clean up earlier but everything was so wet and soggy you couldn't pick rubbish up without it disintegrating.


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    #83
    smileysurfer
    Registered Users Posts: 1,064 ✭✭✭smileysurfer


    My snow woman died! :(


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    #84
    deRanged
    Registered Users Posts: 3,744 ✭✭✭deRanged


    hunnymonster wrote: »
    It's bin day in our estate today and it genuinely looks like a bomb site with all the upturned bins and rubbish everywhere. .

    all of Western Road looks like that. some of the rubbish bags are gone right across the street.


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    #85
    dave1982
    Registered Users Posts: 4,604 ✭✭✭dave1982


    hunnymonster wrote: »
    Snow is gone in Cobh. I didn't get any sleep last night with the wind. It's bin day in our estate today and it genuinely looks like a bomb site with all the upturned bins and rubbish everywhere. Went out to start a clean up earlier but everything was so wet and soggy you couldn't pick rubbish up without it disintegrating.

    You in Riverside by any chance.Rubbish everywhere.Thankfully i'm with greenstar collected at 6am.Wiser bin's still sliding up and down road as i type.


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    #86
    Toto Wolfcastle
    Registered Users Posts: 25,005 ✭✭✭✭Toto Wolfcastle


    hunnymonster wrote: »
    Snow is gone in Cobh. I didn't get any sleep last night with the wind. It's bin day in our estate today and it genuinely looks like a bomb site with all the upturned bins and rubbish everywhere. Went out to start a clean up earlier but everything was so wet and soggy you couldn't pick rubbish up without it disintegrating.

    Same in Glanmire. I couldn't sleep last night because there was rubbish flying all over the place and making an almighty racket.


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    #87
    sunbabe08
    Registered Users Posts: 6,323 ✭✭✭sunbabe08


    rumours being spread the city center is flooded again:rolleyes: any truth to this?


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    #88
    kingtut
    Registered Users Posts: 6,487 ✭✭✭kingtut


    smileysurfer wrote: »
    My snow woman died! :(

    R.I.P.


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    #89
    poconnor16
    Registered Users Posts: 807 ✭✭✭poconnor16


    well the roads down by the Marina are starting to flood....nothing too drastic yet


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    #90
    smileysurfer
    Registered Users Posts: 1,064 ✭✭✭smileysurfer


    kingtut wrote: »
    R.I.P.

    :P


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    #91
    hunnymonster
    Registered Users Posts: 5,365 ✭✭✭hunnymonster


    dave1982 wrote: »
    You in Riverside by any chance.Rubbish everywhere.Thankfully i'm with greenstar collected at 6am.Wiser bin's still sliding up and down road as i type.
    lol, yes we're in Riverside. We're Greenstar too (after some bad customer service from Wiser) It's a bit ugly out there.
    hunnymonster wrote: »
    .....I'm slightly freaked that there are footprints around the house (noone has called to the door) and I'm home alone.
    ... wonders if dave198 can account for his movements the night of the big snow :-)


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