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The Great Storm of Wednesday 12/02/2014

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    #2102
    dacogawa
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    Ireland's biggest ever wave recorded off Kinsale just over 82ft!

    http://www.southernstar.ie/News/Irelands-biggest-ever-wave-recorded-off-Kinsale-12022014.htm


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    #2103
    road_high
    Registered Users Posts: 19,417 ✭✭✭✭road_high


    Plastic sheeting on the news now in w cork...pity our South east correspondent isn't so proactive...


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    #2104
    ThisRegard
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    Got pretty wild in Dublin 15, one neighbour is coming home to find a big chunk from the corner of his roof on the ground. It landed on the footpath of the main route into the estate from the schools and shops.


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    #2105
    ninebeanrows
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    Not bad at all here now so the segment of strong winds lasted about 30 minutes after all that!

    Max Gust Dublin Airport 66 knots (122 km/hr)


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    #2106
    JONJO THE MISER
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    Hopeless coverage on rte news now, pascal inside a fish factory:rolleyes:


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    #2107
    zenno
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    It's back again but not as strong, it just seems like your normal gale force wind. I think it is going to abate further in the next hour.


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    #2108
    Fred Swanson
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    #2109
    road_high
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    JONJO THE MISER wrote: »
    Hopeless coverage on rte news now, pascal inside a fish factory:rolleyes:

    Damien Tiernan couldn't bother his arse to leave the Waterford coastline...ah well.


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    #2110
    bockeys jollocks
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    Came across 5 trees down on the way back from work this evening. I wouldn't be surprised if we had a power outage in north Wicklow tonight. Some serious gusts blowing the car all over the place.

    When are the winds too abate?


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    #2111
    mike65
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    JONJO THE MISER wrote: »
    Hopeless coverage on rte news now, pascal inside a fish factory:rolleyes:

    Hilarious mid judgement - that's been the case all winter for them, so hardly a news item today.


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    #2112
    munsterlegend
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    JONJO THE MISER wrote: »
    Hopeless coverage on rte news now, pascal inside a fish factory:rolleyes:

    A very quiet factory. I suppose it's hard to know where to be.


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    #2113
    Rock Lesnar
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    Wind dying down and the Moon is out, looks like we escaped the worst.


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    #2114
    Xenji
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    Love how they say winds could get up to 170 km/h tonight and then not tell people where they are gonna hit....


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    #2115
    leahyl
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    Don't tell me they're not gonna show the damage in cork?!!

    And a national school in Kerry had roof blown off!!


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    #2116
    Birdster
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    JONJO THE MISER wrote: »
    Hopeless coverage on rte news now, pascal inside a fish factory:rolleyes:

    And no mention of Limerick on it again.....but they'll use the video footage alright :rolleyes:


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    #2117
    maquiladora
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    "Mini tornado" Arghhhhh...there is no such thing. Why do the media keep using this term?


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    #2118
    average_runner
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    Xenji wrote: »
    Love how they say winds could get to 170 km/h and then not tell people where they are gonna hit....

    they did. Gave a level three for south west. What more do u want


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    #2119
    JONJO THE MISER
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    It had to be some sort of a tornado says the auld fella on the news.


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    #2120
    microsim
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    An interesting tweet from AA roadwatch:

    KERRY: Motorists are advised to avoid the Dingle Peninsula as there is a lot of debris flying around, including reports of shed roofs


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    #2121
    Western Pomise
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    dacogawa wrote: »
    Ireland's biggest ever wave recorded off Kinsale just over 82ft!

    http://www.southernstar.ie/News/Irelands-biggest-ever-wave-recorded-off-Kinsale-12022014.htm
    How do they measure waves like that?


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    #2122
    road_high
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    Ciaran Mullolly shows them all up again. Wish we had him in the south east, might actually get proper coverage on RTE news for a change.


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    #2123
    Daemos
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    Protests in Belgium, yeah that's that we want to hear about :rolleyes:


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    #2124
    Rock Lesnar
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    JONJO THE MISER wrote: »
    It had to be some sort of a tornado says the auld fella on the news.

    We had a Gushhht a wind to :)


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    #2125
    leahyl
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    There was absolutely no mention of cork except for Plastic sheeting sitting on his arse in the cork studio grrrr


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    #2126
    Xenji
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    average_runner wrote: »
    they did. Gave a level three for south west. What more do u want

    The mentioned it on the news as a throwaway comment and and made no mention of the areas most at risk, the red alert covers a pretty big area :rolleyes:


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    #2127
    Zoney
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    Birdster wrote: »
    And no mention of Limerick on it again.....but they'll use the video footage alright :rolleyes:

    Third city in the country and they can't be bothered. It was absolutely incredible wind here across a big urban and economically important area, not to mention Shannon airport.


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    #2128
    Janedoe10
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    South link backed up . Road to douglas west from link closed off by squad car .


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    #2129
    Rock Lesnar
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    leahyl wrote: »
    There was absolutely no mention of cork except for Plastic sheeting sitting on his arse in the cork studio grrrr

    In a nice warm looking black jumper on him to.


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    #2130
    Skid X
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    Dreadful reporting from RTE. A few token film packages from whichever regional reporters were not busy.

    No practical information about the forecast for the next few hours. They should have a ticker running with Weather/Travel advice from around the country.


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    #2131
    JONJO THE MISER
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    It not often i give praise to tv3 news, but there are miles ahead of rte today.
    They even have a live special on from 8 to 10 tonight.


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