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so, erm...yeah, let's go with Orange Alert

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  • 07-11-2010 1:19am
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    Charlie-Bravo
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    http://ciaranhayden.com/media/?p=513

    You can get your sand bags at Mill Road.

    High tide at 1.04am Monday morning.

    Emergency Contact Number: 0404 44710

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    ArtSmart
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    cool. finally Ireland gets a 'code orange' alert thingy.

    always the last we are


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    cuddlycavies
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    Oh! you mean the weather. I thought the wife and her friends were going to start marching through the town to some masonic hall.


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    Huntthe
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    “Due to media speculation of a hurricane for Sunday night/Monday morning it is felt that it might be reasonable to put the Greystones area on flood alert (Code Orange
    )

    Priceless !!

    It's the media's fault that the tail end of a hurricane from the gulf of Mexico is heading this way.

    On a less cynical note, Congratulations to Councillor Hayden on being pro active,very un-Fianna Fail Like ( there I go being cynical again)


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    d'Oracle
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    I swore I wouldn't post my opinion of Ciaran Hayden.

    This prevents me from contributing to this thread.
    :(


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    Cookie_Monster
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    so what happened then,nothing?


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    d'Oracle
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    The hurricane that is going on a few thousand miles away is not affecting us.
    Basically something of no concern caused nothing to be concerned about.

    But seeing as we are all morons, there was a panic over a lazy friday news story.

    The horrible thing is that "media speculation" (at weather events of all things) is now an acceptable basis for civil defence activity.

    All aboard the hand basket.


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    LEIN
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    d'Oracle wrote: »
    The hurricane that is going on a few thousand miles away is not affecting us.
    Basically something of no concern caused nothing to be concerned about.

    But seeing as we are all morons, there was a panic over a lazy friday news story.

    The horrible thing is that "media speculation" (at weather events of all things) is now an acceptable basis for civil defence activity.

    All aboard the hand basket.


    Better safe than sorry imo.


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    Annasopra
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    Damo9090 wrote: »
    Better safe than sorry imo.
    Well yes but if media speculation is like this again then it basically won't be trusted in future and we will have a 'boy who cried wolf' scenario

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



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    LEIN
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    Johnnymcg wrote: »
    Well yes but if media speculation is like this again then it basically won't be trusted in future and we will have a 'boy who cried wolf' scenario


    I seriously doubt that Dublin city council and WW County Council acted on media speculation.

    All of their info would have come from Met É which infant had us on code orange.


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    d'Oracle
    Registered Users Posts: 7,025 ✭✭✭d'Oracle


    Which would all be grand if Met Eireann had been warning of a storm.
    But they weren't.

    I remind you the wording of the blog post by Cllr. Hayden was "due to media speculation".


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    Huntthe
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    Met E where warning of a storm all weekend.


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    Blandpebbles
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    D'oracle plus 1 on that. I have to bite my tongue.


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    matt-dublin
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    methinks its arrived, not due to blow through till about 6am


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