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Big Freeze Continues - Discussion here ( All Ireland ) - 3/12/2010 onwards

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    #872
    Niall F
    Closed Accounts Posts: 103 ✭✭Niall F


    littlebsci wrote: »
    Still bucketing down in Portarlington. Some of the bigest snowflakes I've seen all week!!

    Two decisions to make.....1 whether to drive to Newbridge and 2 whether to drive to Dublin. Anyone know if it's still snowing in Newbridge?

    Definitely snowing in Newbridge. Has been on and off all morning and some of it has been relatively heavy.


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    #873
    amacachi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,316 ✭✭✭✭amacachi


    Mayo Exile wrote: »
    Nice steady snow again here in Dundalk. Second more intense band moving through looking at the radar.

    Seems to be easing a little here but it's still around freezing so probably more to come.


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    #874
    noanoa
    Registered Users Posts: 83 ✭✭noanoa


    Thoughts please. I'm meant to be flying to Edinburgh tomorrow lunch time then to fly home to Dublin Sunday night. What are your thoughts on getting home Sunday? I have to be in work on Monday.
    Cant decide what to do.
    Any ideas?


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    #875
    doc crock
    Registered Users Posts: 52 ✭✭doc crock


    Glendalough today at noon :cool:


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    #876
    wicklowdub
    Registered Users Posts: 847 ✭✭✭wicklowdub


    Sun is shining in Greystones now, beautiful day. The thaw is on, the tail end of the band approaching Dublin might just swing by to total destroy the roads for the morning.


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    #877
    amacachi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,316 ✭✭✭✭amacachi


    noanoa wrote: »
    Thoughts please. I'm meant to be flying to Edinburgh tomorrow lunch time then to fly home to Dublin Sunday night. What are your thoughts on getting home Sunday? I have to be in work on Monday.
    Cant decide what to do.
    Any ideas?

    Know a guy who's been stuck there since Tuesday and isn't meant to be coming back til Sunday, has had two flights cancelled so far on Tuesday and yesterday.


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    #878
    dublingal80
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,540 ✭✭✭dublingal80


    doc crock wrote: »
    Glendalough today at noon :cool:

    gorgeous!!!


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    #879
    hellboy99
    Registered Users Posts: 6,219 ✭✭✭hellboy99


    Stopped here now, 5cm of snow on the ground.


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    #880
    John Mason
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 10,661 ✭✭✭✭John Mason


    Iancar29 wrote: »
    My dad had been doin that since the first sub 0 nite, putting water from the hot tap out for them so it doesnt freeze so quick!, and a heap load of seads and nuts!

    tell your dad to put a small bit of sugar in the water instead this will stop it freezing

    also go to the butchers and ask for some suet, they give it away for free leave it out for the birds, they need the fat to keep warm


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    #881
    The Floyd p
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    Weather's pretty dull here


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    #882
    Wertz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,909 ✭✭✭✭Wertz


    As heavy here now as I've seen for years. Front street is a mess. I lifted the handbrake coming in for thre criac and nearly took out my neighbours pier lol.
    Temp has rise again...now -0.7C...don't know if we'll see above freezing before sundown. Hope not...I don't want this wet stuff turning to slush and hard freezing...

    [edit] Stopped hellboy? Not in SE of town....still flurrying away.


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    #883
    keithzer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 71 ✭✭keithzer


    Snowing again in Drogheda Louth


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    #884
    mick.c
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11 ✭mick.c


    Wertz wrote: »
    As heavy here now as I've seen for years. Front street is a mess. I lifted the handbrake coming in for thre criac and nearly took out my neighbours pier lol.
    Temp has rise again...now -0.7C...don't know if we'll see above freezing before sundown. Hope not...I don't want this wet stuff turning to slush and hard freezing...

    since this snow started i cant keep my wife away from the window...... if it gets any worse i will have to consider letting her in


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    #885
    LID
    Registered Users Posts: 112 ✭✭LID


    mick.c wrote: »
    since this snow started i cant keep my wife away from the window...... if it gets any worse i will have to consider letting her in

    About 3 days late with that joke...been on here a few times already! :)


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    #886
    smokin ace
    Registered Users Posts: 855 ✭✭✭smokin ace


    irishbird wrote: »
    tell your dad to put a small bit of sugar in the water instead this will stop it freezing

    also go to the butchers and ask for some suet, they give it away for free leave it out for the birds, they need the fat to keep warm

    thats interesting to know about the sugar in the water because i put out a few bottles of WKD in the snow the other night to cool and forgot about and went to bed and they were not frozen the next day when i thought about them


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    #887
    [Deleted User]
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    mick.c wrote: »
    since this snow started i cant keep my wife away from the window...... if it gets any worse i will have to consider letting her in

    Jesus we haven't heard that one before...


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    #888
    paulocon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,171 ✭✭✭paulocon


    Getting ridiculous here in Louth - flakes the size of out National Debt and snowing harder than I've ever seen it!


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    #889
    wicklowdub
    Registered Users Posts: 847 ✭✭✭wicklowdub


    smokin ace wrote: »
    thats interesting to know about the sugar in the water because i put out a few bottles of WKD in the snow the other night to cool and forgot about and went to bed and they were not frozen the next day when i thought about them

    Thats to do with the Vodka, it has a much lower freezing point than water. If you want you driveway to be ice free, poor a few bottles of vodka over it, might get a bit expensive though.


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    #890
    smokin ace
    Registered Users Posts: 855 ✭✭✭smokin ace


    mick.c wrote: »
    since this snow started i cant keep my wife away from the window...... if it gets any worse i will have to consider letting her in

    get your coat the door is there out you go and good bye
    that joke is done to death


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    #891
    hellboy99
    Registered Users Posts: 6,219 ✭✭✭hellboy99


    Wertz wrote: »
    Stopped hellboy? Not in SE of town....still flurrying away.
    I'm out Toberona (NW) and it's stopped.


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    #892
    plein de force
    Registered Users Posts: 1,148 ✭✭✭plein de force


    mick.c wrote: »
    since this snow started i cant keep my wife away from the window...... if it gets any worse i will have to consider letting her in

    Someone made that joke yesterday

    Here it hasnt snowed all day, just grey skies with a tiny bit of thaw


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    #893
    Citywest111
    Registered Users Posts: 6 ✭Citywest111


    wicklowdub wrote: »
    Sun is shining in Greystones now, beautiful day. The thaw is on, the tail end of the band approaching Dublin might just swing by to total destroy the roads for the morning.

    Sun -- please please move to Roundwood! We are still snowed in, like there is no end:mad:


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    #894
    smokin ace
    Registered Users Posts: 855 ✭✭✭smokin ace


    wicklowdub wrote: »
    Thats to do with the Vodka, it has a much lower freezing point than water. If you want you driveway to be ice free, poor a few bottles of vodka over it, might get a bit expensive though.

    i could think of a few better things to do with a bottle of vodka than pour it on the drive


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    #895
    Iancar29
    Registered Users Posts: 5,068 ✭✭✭Iancar29


    smokin ace wrote: »
    thats interesting to know about the sugar in the water because i put out a few bottles of WKD in the snow the other night to cool and forgot about and went to bed and they were not frozen the next day when i thought about them


    Alcohol freezes at like -100o C or something doesnt it not?


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    #896
    Oasis_Dublin
    Registered Users Posts: 2,467 ✭✭✭Oasis_Dublin


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Jesus we haven't heard that one before...

    I have to be honest with you here... I've long since heard that joke.


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    #897
    Tenaciousdee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5 ✭Tenaciousdee


    Just stopped snowing here in Navan, was very heavy, huge flakes, I reckon another inch fell!


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    #898
    buttonsflyie
    Registered Users Posts: 74 ✭✭buttonsflyie


    Looking to travel to Bunmahon in Co. Waterford over the weekend, anybody who can fill me in on the conditions of the roads down that way, would be appriciated.

    Travelling from the N2 via the M50 and N7/N9

    Thanks

    Buttons


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    #899
    H2UMrsRobinson
    Registered Users Posts: 777 ✭✭✭H2UMrsRobinson


    mick.c wrote: »
    since this snow started i cant keep my wife away from the window...... if it gets any worse i will have to consider letting her in

    Bet you're glad you posted that eh :)

    Still funny though ! Old 'un but good 'un!


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    #900
    positron
    Registered Users Posts: 6,375 ✭✭✭positron


    Snowing proper here in Drogheda, it's just soooo nice...!! (as long as one doesn't have to venture out..)


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    #901
    noanoa
    Registered Users Posts: 83 ✭✭noanoa


    Thanks amacachi. Think I should give up then. Think its for the best, just in case they get more heavy snow.


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