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Storm Ophelia - General Discussion/Local reports - See MOD NOTE Post #1

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    #4592
    Flibble
    Registered Users Posts: 232 ✭✭Flibble


    Storm picking up in North Kildare... Has been just strong winds for the past while but there's been a couple of alarmingly forceful but short lived blasts there a few minutes ago.

    Nervously eyeing up a large tree near my sitting room window. Lots of cables around too.


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    #4593
    Gamer Bhoy 89
    Registered Users Posts: 3,620 ✭✭✭Gamer Bhoy 89


    Boards is a bit wonky for me at the moment.
    nzyZ3MY


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    #4594
    pistolpetes11
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 7,146 Mod ✭✭✭✭pistolpetes11


    Power gone in Newbridge


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    #4595
    bodice ripper
    Registered Users Posts: 4,681 ✭✭✭bodice ripper


    Confucius say wrote:
    how long before the TV3 Orphelia documentary with over dramatic music?


    Soon after we have a storm called Orphelia...


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    #4596
    spoonerhead
    Registered Users Posts: 313 ✭✭spoonerhead


    Just cause there is sunshine, doesn’t mean it’s safe. Taken in Dublin 12


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    #4597
    Yawns
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,255 ✭✭✭Yawns


    Confucius say wrote: »
    how long before the TV3 Orphelia documentary with over dramatic music?

    I'd ask the question of how many lives need to be lost before people stop saying this storm is overhyped?

    1 person reported dead already on Rte, tree fell on car she was driving. Reports of school roofs and other buildings destroyed. People were told not to go out, but idiots insisted they knew best.

    Other idiots out kite surfing, truck drivers out driving.


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    #4598
    John_Rambo
    Registered Users Posts: 9,676 ✭✭✭John_Rambo


    JaMarcusHustle wrote: »
    Kite surfers had to be rescued.

    Selfish ****ers should be left to drown, putting other people's lives at risk :mad:

    Update, they weren't kitesurfers, they were windsurfers. They weren't in trouble and didn't have to be rescued. Dundalk Gardai saw them, panicked and made the wrong call.


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    #4599
    SweetCaliber
    Registered Users Posts: 2,467 ✭✭✭SweetCaliber


    Never seen anything like this before in Tramore.

    111km/h gusts.

    AoQNMl5.png


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    #4600
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users Posts: 82,573 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    M


    Douglas Community School...

    https://twitter.com/calvin_kissane/status/919901028891361281


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    #4601
    IQO
    Registered Users Posts: 341 ✭✭IQO


    road_high wrote: »
    Roof blown off a Lidl store in Clonmel apparently...

    https://twitter.com/thejournal_ie/status/919909383605174273

    https://twitter.com/pbcdave_dave/status/919907561779924992


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    #4602
    posy2010
    Registered Users Posts: 250 ✭✭posy2010


    D6. Hopefully not the first of many!


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    #4603
    Sierra Oscar
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 8,500 CMod ✭✭✭✭Sierra Oscar


    Gerry Murphy is taking questions on RTE Radio 1 Liveline now. It's also on RTE News Now.


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    #4604
    zetalambda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 822 ✭✭✭zetalambda


    Anyone getting double posts?


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    #4605
    Feckoffcup
    Closed Accounts Posts: 191 ✭✭Feckoffcup


    111km/h isn't that bad


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    #4606
    retro:electro
    Registered Users Posts: 21,039 ✭✭✭✭retro:electro


    Is Boards being glitchy for anyone else? I'm not having trouble with other sites


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    #4607
    TitianGerm
    Registered Users Posts: 28,083 ✭✭✭✭TitianGerm


    C__MC wrote: »
    Still Nothing to severe in north Wexford any how

    Very heavy wind in Enniscorthy. Got very heavy about 20 minutes ago.


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    #4608
    Blanco100
    Registered Users Posts: 1,933 ✭✭✭Blanco100


    d'Oracle wrote: »
    Yes.

    I mean I was talking about the valley and the poddle.
    I mispoke really because its not actually built over the poddle, but Its basically in the poddles flood plain. Unlike Citi Bank which is built on an actual Quay that was planned to be a quay and not in a narrow valley without any consideration to flooding.

    I'm saying that they aren't similar to the extent that you could make comparisons, but I'm not looking for a fight either.

    Is there a chance of damage to the Citi building? Lots of people working in there I'd say


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    #4609
    LEIN
    Registered Users Posts: 9,936 ✭✭✭LEIN


    Massive gust here and then the power went.


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    #4610
    HighLine
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,378 ✭✭✭HighLine


    Wicklow Weather just recorded a 72mph gust. The highest on record at that station.


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    #4611
    cursai
    Registered Users Posts: 2,915 ✭✭✭cursai


    John_Rambo wrote: »
    Update, they weren't kitesurfers, they were windsurfers. They weren't in trouble and didn't have to be rescued. Dundalk Gardai saw them, panicked and made the wrong call.

    Wow. Safety first. It's a saying I just made up.


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    #4612
    mdwexford
    Registered Users Posts: 11,276 ✭✭✭✭mdwexford


    John_Rambo wrote: »
    Update, they weren't kitesurfers, they were windsurfers. They weren't in trouble and didn't have to be rescued. Dundalk Gardai saw them, panicked and made the wrong call.

    They're pricks is what they are.


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    #4613
    Reati
    Registered Users Posts: 1,923 ✭✭✭Reati


    anna080 wrote: »
    Is Boards being glitchy for anyone else? I'm not having trouble with other sites

    Yes, Boards is gltichy for everyone. It's under a huge strain with requests. Even the anti-DDOS system is now kicking in.


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    #4614
    Lia_lia
    Registered Users Posts: 6,691 ✭✭✭Lia_lia


    Reports that the Shakey Bridge in Cork has collapsed!


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    #4615
    froog
    Registered Users Posts: 3,784 ✭✭✭froog


    sunny in cork city but still very windy and gusts.


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    #4616
    randylonghorn
    Registered Users Posts: 29,509 ✭✭✭✭randylonghorn


    Yawns wrote: »
    I'd ask the question of how many lives need to be lost before people stop saying this storm is overhyped?
    There seems to be two dominant tendencies ... to treat it as Apocalypse Now (which it's not) or to treat it as a typical Irish Autumn storm (which it's not).


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    #4617
    IP freely
    Registered Users Posts: 393 ✭✭IP freely


    In case anyone is remotely interested, I've set up a camera to stream live to youtube from a window upstairs looking south. I live on the top of an exposed hill outside Letterkenny Co.Donegal so should be good for seeing it come in.

    Can only steam a max of 30 minutes then need to restart again...

    https://youtu.be/kKotCqZpEL4

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKotCqZpEL4


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    #4618
    spookwoman
    Registered Users Posts: 9,938 ✭✭✭spookwoman


    Portlaw waterford fecked 7 roofs have blown off at Brown street


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    #4619
    from_atozinc
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,943 ✭✭✭from_atozinc


    Has it hit Galway city yet in its full force?


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    #4620
    Seanmk1
    Registered Users Posts: 119 ✭✭Seanmk1


    Getting wild here in Clontarf, bits of my neighbour's roof are coming off.


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    #4621
    circadian
    Registered Users Posts: 6,956 ✭✭✭circadian


    Planes really struggling to get off the ground. Thought they were to stop at 1.30 in Dublin.


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