Weather warning / Road Condition thread 2010 / 2011

Beanstalk

you were way off deemark there muffler...;)

muffler

bobby14 wrote: »

apparently abba band stuck in england.... ring the mt errigal and check for sure

If the band is stuck then thats good enough reason/excuse to look for a refund regardless of whether anyone could make it or not.

Beanstalk

driving through the town there towards glencar, high road is terrible, as is glencar scotch after the roundabout. the tyres on my car are wide and useless...:(

muffler

Been snowing for an hour or so in the twin towns. Fairly light but persistent for the best part but it has gotten heavier in the last 10 minutes or so.

Strange thing is there appears to be little or no wind blowing as the snow is just coming straight down.

A night for the fire (in the Rosses bar )

muffler

Beanstalk wrote: »

you were way off deemark there muffler...;)

Harps

Still bucketing down in Letterkenny, barely stopped all day and been extremely heavy for 2 hours now. Never seen so much snow in the town

implausible

puffdragon wrote: »

Son't orry to hear about the night out, will they not credit you a night in January some time? They might be glad of the trade.

Thanks and the info about the band is useful too. I'm getting on the blower to the boss now!

muffler wrote: »

:eek: I thought you were a man :eek:

Don't know how to take that Muffler! Am on boards so much because I'm on maternity leave:D

(Someone thought this on another forum too - any hints on how to girlify my posts?:o)

muffler

deemark wrote: »

any hints on how to girlify my posts?:o)

A naked pic as your avatar usually works

UpDonegal

The day after tomorrow is happening !

:eek:

implausible

UpDonegal wrote: »

The day after tomorrow is happening !

, but the morning after the night before won't be:(. It's true about the band and they're giving us a voucher:)

It's unbelievable out there, there must be 6 inches on the decking:eek:

lulubenny

It has finally stopped snowing here in the Glenties Ardara area but like everywhere its just a blanket of snow. Main roads are ok as long as care is taken.

UpDonegal

Ive never seen so much snow in my life! Its definatly worse snow in long long time

doc_17

muffler wrote: »

A night for the fire (in the Rosses bar )

It's Bibas!!!!!!!

muffler

doc_17 wrote: »

It's Bibas!!!!!!!

It is indeed but if I called it Bibbas and some of the boardsies who aren't familiar with the town wanted to buy me a couple of drinks they wouldnt know where to go

Harps

Unbelievable snow in Letterkenny, heaviest I've seen in my life, hasnt stopped for 3 hours now.

Well over half a foot on the ground

lulubenny

Oh oh I spoke too soon - its snowing really heavy here again!

irish1967

lulubenny wrote: »

Oh oh I spoke too soon - its snowing really heavy here again!

Where?? :rolleyes:

Edit: Oh ok.. i went back a page and got it

inode

just stopped snowing in LK... not like it makes a difference at this stage lol

EDIT: The council have the snow plows out now

Noreen1

@ inode.

Are the main roads through LK passable?
My son and his friend left Dublin an hour ago.:eek:

Noreen

shellib

On the bus from Galway to Lk since 1:30 only comin into ballybofey now!!!! Gap didn't seem too bad, from where I'm sittin neway. We are crawling along :-(

EAFC_rdfl

shellib wrote: »

On the bus from Galway to Lk since 1:30 only comin into ballybofey now!!!! Gap didn't seem too bad, from where I'm sittin neway. We are crawling along :-(

6 hours galway to ballybofey, thats tight going. hope its worth it!

irish1967

And has to tackle Drumkeen yet !!

shiibata

Left Letterkenny at 5.45 going to Cloghan, top of Lurgybrack was terrible, cars stuck all over the place, how we weaved through them, I will never know, we could not stop or we would have been part of the pile up.

Definetly more snow in Letterkenny than with us

irish1967

inode wrote: »

Since it looks like the snow is on the way this weekend i thought it would be good to have this thread back this year for all road/weather warnings

Bet on the 26th November you didnt think this thread would be at its busiest today !

UpDonegal

Must be nearly a foot of snow now in Letterkenny :eek: Never seen snow as bad in my lifetime! And more snow showers forcast until 6am!

Harps

24cm round the back of my house, another few showers and we'll have a foot. Crazy

hootietootie

I cleared all the snow on our path earlier, easily 4 inches of it-there's more than that now where I cleared:D

byte

Old Laghey Road is quite dodgy. Considering the amount of homes out this way now, I'm surprised I don't see gritter lorries coming out. Even if they came out and gritted Britton's hill (dunno the right name for that wee brae, but it can be quite dodgy during this weather).

ednwireland

byte wrote: »

Old Laghey Road is quite dodgy. Considering the amount of homes out this way now, I'm surprised I don't see gritter lorries coming out. Even if they came out and gritted Britton's hill (dunno the right name for that wee brae, but it can be quite dodgy during this weather).

you could say that about a lot of places, where do you stop, where do you start ?

couple of guys have taken it on themselves to grit the worst hills up to our house on the drimarone road (neighbours were out earlier as they were last year). you cant rely on the council .

muffler

hootietootie wrote: »

I cleared all the snow on our path earlier, easily 4 inches of it-there's more than that now where I cleared:D

Did the same this morning. Cleared away about 5" from most of the driveway but had to go back out half an hour ago and clear a wee path through it. Theres about 7 or 8 ins. fell this evening.

I hadnt realised there was as much till a woman came to the door an hour ago looking for help as her car was stuck. I thought she was stuck on a slight hill but the car was on a level part of the road. She had pulled in close to the kerb and couldnt get out of the snow again. The problem was that no one was driving close to the kerb today so the snow was really really deep. Had to get a shovel and clear the snow around the car and with a bit of a push she got away. Walking along the footpath the snow was half way up my shins.

Thats as bad as I have ever seen so dont go out tonight folks and Im certainly not going to get to Bibbas tonight either