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Weather warning / Road Condition thread 2010 / 2011

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    #452
    Slidey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,811 ✭✭✭✭Slidey


    Anyone here traveled the road from Letterkenny to Carndonagh in the last day or so?

    I am thinking of making the journey from Sligo to there tomorrow afternoon


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    #453
    inode
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    i hear the salt has landed so hopefully they will be putting it out on the roads by tomorrow ;)


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    #454
    Essexboy
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    Slidey wrote: »
    Anyone here traveled the road from Letterkenny to Carndonagh in the last day or so?

    I am thinking of making the journey from Sligo to there tomorrow afternoon

    Letterkenny to Ballybofey was deadly this afternoon: it looked as if the road had not been gritted, at best there were two strips of tarmac on which to drive.
    South of the Twin Towns, even the gap, was reasonable, a big contrast to the N13.


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    #455
    danniemcq
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    inode wrote: »
    i hear the salt has landed so hopefully they will be putting it out on the roads by tomorrow ;)

    in dublin yeah!


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    #456
    evolve
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    -14 air temp in Kilygordon @ 8.10pm according to NRA website - coldest place on the list.
    Road temp minus 10.5 - drive safely, folks!!


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    #457
    AidySevenfold
    Registered Users Posts: 1,101 ✭✭✭AidySevenfold


    Walked home from my mates there...it was so cold i got a headache and felt like my lip was going numb...wrap up very well it's atrociously cold out there.

    Went to Letterkenny today and the roads were passable with care but still slippy...turned down an opportunity to go to the casino tonight that's how much I didn't really fancy it :p


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    #458
    Harps
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    Noticed that about my lips as well actually

    -15.9C at the moment in Kilygordan, coldest place in the country again tonight


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    #459
    AidySevenfold
    Registered Users Posts: 1,101 ✭✭✭AidySevenfold


    Currently -17 in Ballybofey according to accuweather..:eek:


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    #460
    irish1967
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    Accuweather saying -18 here. Feels like the coldest morning so far too.


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    #461
    RMDrive
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    Leaving Castlebar for Letterkenny with the wife and wanes at 1pm. :eek: Wish me luck! Save travels to all.


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    #462
    theblueirish
    Registered Users Posts: 488 ✭✭theblueirish


    gritters on the letterkenny-lifford road at 7am this morning.
    and yes they had grit in them. dual carriageway the best i have seen it in weeks.


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    #463
    ednwireland
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    irish1967 wrote: »
    Accuweather saying -18 here. Feels like the coldest morning so far too.

    -6 at the house (car guage)

    brittons chemist sign reckons -11

    up past copany -15

    My weather

    https://www.ecowitt.net/home/share?authorize=96CT1F



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    #464
    Biglad
    Registered Users Posts: 495 ✭✭Biglad


    -10.5c, brrrr, Milford School never closed for one day during the cold spell, the wee man nearly froze on the spot waiting for the bus for only 2 min lol, he reckoned is wasn't cold at all :D


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    #465
    muffler
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    RMDrive wrote: »
    Leaving Castlebar for Letterkenny with the wife and wanes at 1pm. :eek: Wish me luck! Save travels to all.
    You'll be fine if you take it easy but I would suggest leaving an hour earlier if its possible. Get most of the journey done in daylight hours.


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    #466
    RMDrive
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    muffler wrote: »
    You'll be fine if you take it easy but I would suggest leaving an hour earlier if its possible. Get most of the journey done in daylight hours.

    Cheers Muffler. We're pushing to get away as soon as possible. Hopefully by the time I get to Donegal things will be a bit better. Listening to highland now and Ballybofey to Lk and to Lifford is supposed to be quite bad as the temp is -13 and too low for the salt to work.


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    #467
    muffler
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    Vincent Lynn, engineer with DCC, now on radio saying that the Stranorlar - Letterkenny/Lifford roads are treacherous as the road temperature has dropped to -13 the salt is completely ineffective.

    Good news is that he hopes the temperature will rise by a couple of degrees later in the morning but he has advised people not to travel on those roads unless its absolutely essential.


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    #468
    muffler
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    RMDrive wrote: »
    Cheers Muffler. We're pushing to get away as soon as possible. Hopefully by the time I get to Donegal things will be a bit better. Listening to highland now and Ballybofey to Lk and to Lifford is supposed to be quite bad as the temp is -13 and too low for the salt to work.
    I'll have to take up speed typing :D


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    #469
    Essexboy
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    muffler wrote: »
    Vincent Lynn, engineer with DCC, now on radio saying that the Stranorlar - Letterkenny/Lifford roads are treacherous as the road temperature has dropped to -13 the salt is completely ineffective.

    Good news is that he hopes the temperature will rise by a couple of degrees later in the morning but he has advised people not to travel on those roads unless its absolutely essential.

    They were just as bad yesterday but south of Ballybofey the road was in good condition, even the Gap was OK.
    It was like another county on the N15 but the temperature was not any different!
    I was told that "The Gap" was the big divide in Donegal but it looks like the Twin Towns are the new border. ;)


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    #470
    irlpic
    Registered Users Posts: 360 ✭✭irlpic


    muffler wrote: »
    Vincent Lynn, engineer with DCC, now on radio saying that the Stranorlar - Letterkenny/Lifford roads are treacherous as the road temperature has dropped to -13 the salt is completely ineffective.


    :) Hes some craic. Tell us something we dont know.
    Does he not realise that people have been been driving on these non salted roads for well over a week or more now and are well aware of just how dangerous they are.


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    #471
    ednwireland
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    from highland radio

    http://www.highlandradio.com/
    Distribution of a new load of salt for treating roads is set to begin tomorrow.

    A 4 thousand tonne shipment is arriving into Cork this evening, with a fleet of vehicles on standby to distribute it nationwide. Some supplies have already arrived in Dublin and Belfast, with extra salting taking place from tomorrow, with the N56 being redesignated from a green to a red route. This means the route will now be salted.

    Vincent Lynn of Donegal County Council says it’s a welcome positive development………..

    My weather

    https://www.ecowitt.net/home/share?authorize=96CT1F



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    #472
    Zxc01
    Registered Users Posts: 135 ✭✭Zxc01


    I am heading home tomorrow for Christmas and concerned about the roads. I wonder how is Barnes Mor Gap today?


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    #473
    muffler
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    Zxc01 wrote: »
    I am heading home tomorrow for Christmas and concerned about the roads. I wonder how is Barnes Mor Gap today?
    The gap is ok with a bit of care. It one (probably the only place) of the places that the council have consistently looked after.

    In saying that you will be driving at 30 - 40 mph max.


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    #474
    RMDrive
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    irlpic wrote: »
    :) Hes some craic. Tell us something we dont know.
    Does he not realise that people have been been driving on these non salted roads for well over a week or more now and are well aware of just how dangerous they are.

    To people like me coming home for Christmas, this information is valuable.


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    #475
    bohsboy
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    Zxc01 wrote: »
    I am heading home tomorrow for Christmas and concerned about the roads. I wonder how is Barnes Mor Gap today?

    I went through the Gap at midday and its pretty good, just keep it steady. From Ballybofey/Stranorlar on to LK is very very bad. Very dangerous.


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    #476
    icescreamqueen
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    Not looking forward to this journey tomorrow :eek:. My boyfriend isn't finished work until 9 o'clock and I have to make my own way over to Blanchardstown to meet him and then we'll travel home together. We'll be going by the M1 and then via Monaghan to the Milford area. Does anyone have an update on the roads on that route? I'll probably make it home just in time for dessert on Christmad Day =(


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    #477
    Killgore Trout
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    Has anyone any news of the conditions on the Muff-Moville road?


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    #478
    Firblog
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    What is the story with LK main street? Was talking to Courier who's delivering a parcel to me, he says that it has taken him 2.5hrs to get from top of mainstreet down to northwest computers... (they were closed when he got there of course) Is the traffic/road conditions that bad?

    Friend is supposed to be going to inlaws in LK tomorrow, driving a Safira? Opel? bad on the snow an ice.. should he chance it?


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    #479
    Biglad
    Registered Users Posts: 495 ✭✭Biglad


    Firblog wrote: »
    What is the story with LK main street? Was talking to Courier who's delivering a parcel to me, he says that it has taken him 2.5hrs to get from top of mainstreet down to northwest computers... (they were closed when he got there of course) Is the traffic/road conditions that bad?

    Friend is supposed to be going to inlaws in LK tomorrow, driving a Safira? Opel? bad on the snow an ice.. should he chance it?

    Roads around town are passable, traffic was absolutely horrendous today...last minute xmas shopping...


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    #480
    Biglad
    Registered Users Posts: 495 ✭✭Biglad


    Killgore Trout wrote: »
    Has anyone any news of the conditions on the Muff-Moville road?

    Not sure what that specific stretch is like but Highland reported some roads as terrible in Inishowen.


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    #481
    Carrickman
    Registered Users Posts: 1,282 ✭✭✭Carrickman


    The road in past Killybegs to Carrick is in bad shape it has not been treated for a while as it was OK'ish on Monday, they seem to have gone as far as Killybegs and forgot about us:mad:


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