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There's a storm a' comin'
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I was down that way this morning. Two friends' cars may be write-offs due to storm damage. There wasn't a lot we could do.
I was in the vicinity yesterday evening for social reasons and when I realised the severity of the storm I ran inside the Aquarium and Arabica to warn people who might have their cars parked in or near Toft Park that there was an immediate danger of flooding.
When I first arrived I saw waves dashing over the Prom and flooding was beginning to occur, but a very short time later I realised that there was a huge swell coming over, perhaps a metre or more higher than the rocks. It was obvious then that the whole area was going to be flooded in a matter of minutes. People whose cars were parked outside didn't seem to realise what they were facing.
The vehicles below were washed up onto the footpath. You can see the way they have been lined up by the force of the waves. Their front ends are heavier and their back ends more buoyant, which is why they've been thrown together side-by-side. The same thing happened to the van in the background. I reckon at least twenty vehicles were flood-damaged, and are probably write offs. The photos posted earlier show more vehicles parked behind the Aquarium. I didn't think to look there, so the total number of damaged vehicles may be much higher.
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fishy fishy wrote: »i just heard there is another 'red alert' for tomorrow - is this a rumor or true does anyone know. If so I think they should block the entrance to this carpark just in case there are still people that do not know that it floods at the mere thought of a heavy rain.
You have a point there. Not only was the car park flooded, but the sea swept away cars on the Prom and damaged others around the Aquarium. As I drove there yesterday evening I heard the road had been closed between Seapoint and Grattan Road, but maybe the whole area should have been closed off much earlier? I don't know -- hindsight is 20/20 vision etc. A number of the car owners were foreign nationals and relatively recent 'blow-ins', so they may not have realised what was in store. I heard one person quote a Garda as saying that a storm so severe hadn't been seen in 25 years. The car park has been flooded previously, but afaicr vehicles have not been washed away like that before.
More pics below. Several vehicles had windows broken by the force of the water. All of them were flooded though. The water drained out of the car-park on its own. There was no pumping afaik, though the Council did a fine job of cleaning up the debris. My impression is that the footpath along the Prom has been damaged; I saw large cracks opposite the Aquarium that I thought were new.
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snubbleste wrote: »Meh that land was all taken from the sea. She's just reclaiming it back
One rock at a time...
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