Storm Ophelia Limerick

masterboy123

I am staying in at home. Expected to hit Limerick by 10 or so.

Keep safe!

A_Sober_Paddy

Arthur's Quay and parkway both shut, with Arthur's quay only closing at 9...I imagine tesco in cresent will close now too, and that will lead to the whole cresent shutting i think.

City centre all closed up, banks all shut, penny's and brown Thomas shut.

jacksie66

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ricimaki

A friend mentioned that a tree is down on the Dublin road near the junction with the M7, presumably near Finnegan's. Not sure how much of the road is blocked

jacksie66

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dominatinMC

Not to tempt faith here, but it doesn't seem too bad out there at the moment. Few posts on Twitter also seem to indicate that the path of the storm has shifted slightly and that Connacht will bare the brunt of it now..

bazz26

Far from over, supposed to peak this afternoon and evening.

Cookiemunster

dominatinMC wrote: »

Not to tempt faith here, but it doesn't seem too bad out there at the moment. Few posts on Twitter also seem to indicate that the path of the storm has shifted slightly and that Connacht will bare the brunt of it now..

The main brunt of the storm is only hitting the South coast now. It'll be another few hours before it hits Limerick.

Insect Overlord

dominatinMC wrote: »

Not to tempt faith here, but it doesn't seem too bad out there at the moment. Few posts on Twitter also seem to indicate that the path of the storm has shifted slightly and that Connacht will bare the brunt of it now..

The strongest winds are the ones following south of the eye of the storm. It could get bad, go calm again for 20-30 minutes, then get much worse.

Firefox11

clappyhappy wrote: »

It's picking up momentum now, stay safe folks. Shame the cresent is open, who would risk going in there today??

I was in there around 9:30 (we were sent home from work this morning). Everything is closed except tesco's and I think they were closing soon.

masterboy123

There are bouts of heavy wind gusts every now and then. Currently it's sunny here at the moment. It may change quickly by lunch time.

On other side, emergency services have been deployed in Co. Kerry.

Stay indoors & don't be fooled by the calmness.

iguana

dominatinMC wrote: »

Not to tempt faith here, but it doesn't seem too bad out there at the moment. Few posts on Twitter also seem to indicate that the path of the storm has shifted slightly and that Connacht will bare the brunt of it now..

It's only just about making landfall in Cork/Kerry now. You can see it on live satellite images. It will be a few more hours before we feel the worst of it.

This was it 10 minutes ago.

kilburn

Ophelia is 120km wide so this will last well into the afternoon.

Storm surge bringing 3m extra to waves minimum.

Winds will be switching to w & sw in the afternoon with a high risk of flooding.

High tide is after 5pm in the city today.

Hopefully all will be ok and no one gets injured

sioda

Quigleys on cruises Street were putting out their chairs this morning

kilburn

Coffee shop on mallow street had its tables, chairs and sandwich board out 😮

SoapMcTavish

World of Tiles roof just took off - Mulgrave Street

Jimbob1977

Patrickswell and Adare have seen a significant rise in activity since 11.20am

BoardAtWork

People in Uber have been allowed leave, but they are being made use their holiday days to do it. Doesn't sound above board to me.

kilburn

Taoiseach confirmed force majoure leave covers this no one should have to use holidays

jonski

Tree down across the Rosbrien road just beyond Greenfields .

A_Sober_Paddy

We were told our holidays may need to be used.

Skuxx

kilburn wrote: »

Taoiseach confirmed force majoure leave covers this no one should have to use holidays

Can you link to this?

BoardAtWork

A_Sober_Paddy wrote: »

We were told our holidays may need to be used.

I think its at the discretion of the individual company unfortunately.

jonski

BoardAtWork wrote: »

People in Uber have been allowed leave, but they are being made use their holiday days to do it. Doesn't sound above board to me.

A_Sober_Paddy wrote: »

We were told our holidays may need to be used.

Girl from a HR company on the radio this morning saying that for a company to ask you to use holidays they would have had to give reasonable prior notice but she did qualify that with the company might have set procedures .

keane2097

Skuxx wrote: »

Can you link to this?

He said it on RTE news, you can probably get it on the player.

Force majeur leave is in Labour law and applies to private sector workers who haven’t turned up today - not word for word but that's what he said.

masterboy123

Post any mishap pictures if possible. So others will surely avoid effected areas.

SoapMcTavish wrote: »

World of Tiles roof just took off - Mulgrave Street

angeldaisy

getting quite scary here nowðŸ™

jacksie66

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flyingsnail

Some emergency numbers that might prove useful

Gas Networks Ireland Emergency 1850 20 50 50
ESB emergency 1850 372 999
Limerick city and County Council 061 556 000
Limerick city and County Council out of hours 061 417 833
Eircom Emergency 1850 245 424

Cookiemunster

Trees down on Condell Road and Childers Road.

https://twitter.com/aaroadwatch/status/919890245381914624

https://twitter.com/LimerickCouncil/status/919890664686530562