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Storm Barra - December 7th/8th 2021

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    #1202
    Neamhshuntasach
    Registered Users Posts: 2,168 ✭✭✭Neamhshuntasach


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118284009#Comment_118284009

    Not really sure what you're on about or how your reply fits in with what i said. Who said anything about not being able to discuss the weather or what is going on nationally? And no idea what snowflakes you're on about either. Never mentioned snow.

    I'm talking about anyone posting up comments questioning decisions to close schools or saying it's not a big deal where they are, being met with replies of being idiots pretty much. Issue warnings and close things in a very cautious manner and you'll get people who won't follow warnings the next time or at some point in the future if they feel the warning wasn't warranted. For a lot of areas in orange closing schools is not going to seem warranted for a lot of people. For me personally, school closures didn't affect me whether they closed today or for the rest of the year.

    So no self centered view of anything other than first hand experience in seeing people not react to future warnings because of overly cautious previous ones. It's the nature of people. They might feel like ME cried wolf.



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    #1203
    Shilock
    Registered Users Posts: 343 ✭✭Shilock


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118284511#Comment_118284511

    I'd love a month away from it all, imagine being in there, a heater, few books, tea,milk,water, cooker and fridge enough food and a warm bed.

    I love living on the edge of insanity, it'll be my downfall. Better to die with my boots on...old school romantic here :)



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    #1204
    Larbre34
    Registered Users Posts: 24,178 ✭✭✭✭Larbre34


    What a lucky time to get stranded on Fastnet.

    My grandfather worked on the automation programme back in the day and I got a spin out there in the 1980s, its a truly spectacular location and I'd love to experience a big storm out there



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    #1205
    [Deleted User]
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    That's a 12 hour plot. The first drop was when the wind direction shifted at about 7am in Cork City / Harbour. There's just been a been a very significant drop in last few mins.



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    #1206
    enricoh
    Registered Users Posts: 4,927 ✭✭✭enricoh


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118284295#Comment_118284295

    Is there any trawlers out does anyone know?



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    #1207
    nibtrix
    Registered Users Posts: 1,305 ✭✭✭nibtrix


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118284231#Comment_118284231

    We lost a roof tile in a gust this morning (North Wicklow), came shattering down into the front garden. Absolutely would have done serious damage if it had hit someone. If there are building sites in Dublin operating "as normal" then that's pretty appalling tbh.



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    #1208
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118284632#Comment_118284632

    No fishing boats afaik but a few container ships left very early probably expecting to be out of the main wind field as the storm approached



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    #1209
    PTH2009
    Registered Users Posts: 38,460 ✭✭✭✭PTH2009


    https://youtu.be/GVFgEBq0EKM

    Hope everyone is safe



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    #1210
    squarecircles
    Registered Users Posts: 2,062 ✭✭✭squarecircles


    Mayo is one of the windiest counties in Ireland, and yet on such a day as today its dead still, the irony of it is amusing.



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    #1211
    Pangea
    Registered Users Posts: 5,565 ✭✭✭Pangea


    Any chance of a red warning for Donegal tomorrow?



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    #1212
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users Posts: 29,372 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118284632#Comment_118284632
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    Nope!

    The tweet at post 1573 shows a trawler heading for Castletownbere, they just got in at lunchtime by the looks of it, that will have been a rough morning!



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    #1213
    Patrick2010
    Registered Users Posts: 3,280 ✭✭✭Patrick2010


    Pretty windy in Drumcondra now.



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    #1214
    Danzy
    Registered Users Posts: 13,830 ✭✭✭✭Danzy


    Very wild here for the last hour in North Cork, saw 3 large trees down on my fields.


    As long as the sheds hold. Was sweating there for a bit while it was coming due south. Coming from the West now.



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    #1215
    pnpweirdo
    Registered Users Posts: 329 ✭✭pnpweirdo


    Crazy windy and wet in limerick city / east clare for over an hour now



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    #1216
    Be right back
    Registered Users Posts: 6,189 ✭✭✭Be right back


    Hope the driver is OK.

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    #1217
    igCorcaigh
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 11,516 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    Went all quiet there for a while, but winds picking up again.



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    #1218
    eviltimeban
    Registered Users Posts: 5,100 ✭✭✭eviltimeban


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118284578#Comment_118284578

    Like these lads? :-)

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    #1219
    Galeforce
    Registered Users Posts: 8 ✭Galeforce


    Gone crazy in Dublin again…. Wouldn’t fancy going out in that to pick kids up… glad they are home & safe!!



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    #1220
    Graces7
    Registered Users Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118284162#Comment_118284162

    They don;t get it as they are talking with hindsight. met ie are working with foresight and they have to report and forecast the worst possible scenario for safety. Every possibility,

    Imagine if you will that they did not do that? Played the possibilities down? And the worst happened? And there were deaths? That would be far far worse than what really are sensible precautions. Forecasting is not an exact science. There will almost always be more serious possibilities that thankfully do not happen but that there is a viable risk of. So rather than attack met.ie be very glad that worse did not happen . And that had it done so, damage would have been limited by precautions and forward awareness.. also given the militancy here? Imagine the lawsuits against met ie if something they did not advise/warn about led to serious injury or death.



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    #1221
    Shilock
    Registered Users Posts: 343 ✭✭Shilock


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118284744#Comment_118284744

    lol as long as there's a happy ending, and that happy ending isn't a seagull having a meal at my expense. Great movie though



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    #1222
    SouthWesterly
    Registered Users Posts: 6,807 ✭✭✭SouthWesterly


    Guy on Joe duffy getting his moment of fame having been on an aborted landing 😂


    Flew in a few years ago and we landed on the 4th attempt in dublin



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    #1223
    Furze99
    Registered Users Posts: 11,238 ✭✭✭✭Furze99


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118284258#Comment_118284258

    LOL, I haven't moved any goalpost. I simply opined in my original note that this country has gone too far down the nanny state road and that emergency services should essentially be at the service of the public, not the other way around. That they should by all means advise the public of potential adverse conditions but not start telling the public at large that they shouldn't do this or that in order not to endanger the same services.

    We see a similar sort of argument going down regarding Covid, public restrictions and the health services, and the relationship between same. i.e. do the health services exist for the benefit of the public or is it the other way around.



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    #1224
    sunbeam
    Registered Users Posts: 1,813 ✭✭✭sunbeam


    Wind picking up in Achill again. Feels a lot colder.



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    #1225
    mossie
    Registered Users Posts: 2,197 ✭✭✭mossie


    It's a lot more than "a bit breezy" here. Really windy for the last couple of hours, would certainly not want to be driving in it.



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    #1226
    squarecircles
    Registered Users Posts: 2,062 ✭✭✭squarecircles


    from dead calm,all of a sudden wind just started to pick up here,west mayo.



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    #1227
    Graces7
    Registered Users Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118284366#Comment_118284366

    Maintenance crews - and folk can visit under certain conditions. Essential that they be meticulously cared for. And TV crews for various programmes. I would dearly love to live a year out there...



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    #1228
    Little snowy old me
    Registered Users Posts: 420 ✭✭Little snowy old me


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118284377#Comment_118284377

    I have you rattled don't I? You don't like my opinions or views feel free to ignore me.



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    #1229
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users Posts: 29,372 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118284865#Comment_118284865

    Dunno if I'd last a year, but I'd absolutely love a chance to visit!

    Yeah, I know the maintenance, visitors, TV, etc all visit (as I spit with envy), but I very much doubt they're out there today. I am of course open to correction on that, but am just a bit sceptical..... I've already seen two videos/photos on FB which are demonstrably not from today, people will lash up anything for an auld like!

    Whenever it's from, though, that is a very impressive video.



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    #1230
    Graces7
    Registered Users Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118284377#Comment_118284377

    Thought this was a man? What does WUM mean please?



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    #1231
    mcburns07
    Registered Users Posts: 2,056 ✭✭✭mcburns07


    Don't want to be "that person".... but this is nowhere near as bad as Ophelia was for us. East Cork near the coast.

    I was out for a 5km walk a while ago and there were no trees or even branches down. One or two exposed spots were very windy but apart from that it was like any other windy day.



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