Dramatic moment the power goes out over Dublin City -caught in this video @KennedySinger @katherinelyncho @thetenoruk #SNOWMAGGEDDON pic.twitter.com/xNsxnO1Epf
— Niall Morris (@NiallwMorris) March 2, 2018
Mummy.
Power cuts on east coast as Storm Emma arrives (RTÉ)
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Was expecting more dramatics myself
SOOO dramatic!
After a week of media hysteria and dire warnings of armageddon the ‘storm’ arrived last night and this morning here in north Dublin it’s turned out to be ‘much ado about nothing’. a nice fall of snow but that’s it.
There is nothing outside Dublin of course?
Dangerous weather is not uniform and these warnings are issued for a reason. So far, no fatalities have been reported. If it saves one life then it has been worth it.
“We have so much anger towards Ireland right now,” says Gregor Hohmann. “We always thought people here were strong and brave but what happens when you get a little bit of snow? Everything is closed.”
Hohmann and two of his fellow countrymen had travelled to Ireland from Borkum, a small island off Germany’s northern coast, on Monday for a week-long holiday.
The archaeology museum is closed. Why? It is inside for God’s sake
The itinerary had been carefully drawn up but as the week progressed, and the Beast from the East took hold, their plans started to unravel.
By Thursday Hohmann had had enough. He and his friends were due to go to the Natural History Museum, but it was closed. They then decided to walk from the centre of the city to Smithfield for a tour of the Jameson distillery, but it was closed.
“We get snow like this once a month for the whole winter,” he says of life in Germany. “I mean seriously? We wanted to go to the distillery, it is closed. We wanted to look at churches, they are closed. We wanted to look at museums they’re closed. The archaeology museum is closed. Why? It is inside for God’s sake.”
He isn’t done letting off steam. “Do you know what? We don’t see a ‘Beast from the East’, we see a bit of snow and we laugh at it. We are not afraid of 100km/h winds, we laugh at them. We have lost two days of our holiday because of the weather. The weather. That’s just insane. It just makes no sense to me.”
Aw. They sound nice.
they sound like the perfect holiday companion
spontaneous
rolling with the punches
glass half full kinda German
They sound German
I liked that
we laugh in the face of 100km winds bit
They’d be the first ones complaining if the weather interfered with their sun loungers in tenerife.
#thetowelwar
“We get snow like this once a month for the whole winter”….
And we don’t Gregor Sn-Hohmann
Spot on
But us Irish are so dumbed down we pay the price
Time our nation grew balls and demanded better
God help us during brexit
haha you’re a funny man david and make no mistake
first rule of bunfight club in here is “don’t eat your own”
they’re like a pack of PMS in here most of the time and if you hate one you hate them all as far as they are concerned
Precisely.
Come here til I nibble your elbow.
That might be one of the nicest thing anyone’s said about the Broadsheet commentariat, actually.
Has it now shutting down a whole country costing businesses millions spreading mass panic, well I suppose next time no one will heed anything then watch the fatalities
Surely the problem here isn’t the storm, per se, or the official response, but malicious contrarian trolls like yourself working to downplay the severity of the storm and mocking the efforts of responders at various levels? The danger is someone might take you seriously.
well said
God Nigel we had a power outage from Ophelia lasted 7 days
Guess what we did not die
There was no campaign by some quango putting the fear of god into people in west cork no suicide warnings of if you drive and we did have winds double the speed
In west cork we survived and made the best of it
You seem a little bit miffed when someone makes valid observations and states their opinion
What did we do before snow socks varadka?
How did the country survive without these quangos?
The problem is the capability of these who evidently created havoc by overkill
Time will tell to see exactly how they respond in a fit and capable manner
Point is if they cannot deliver health broadband or housing god help us
Talk is cheap action is what’s needed
Health broadband? Sounds pretty good. What is it?
Don’t mind Nigel David he’s the resident troll with responsibility for neighborhood watch and the official crank, obtuse contrarian and habitual curtain-peeper
jaysus ami you are being very kind to Nigel there
gobspoo would just about cover it
David’s complaining because we coped well during Ophelia and we’re coping well during Snowmageddon? There was havoc but there was no havoc, which means we over-prepared, which is a bad thing because… Brexit? What does he want, everyone eaten by ice dragons? Wearing socks?
As for you other two, get over yourselves you nasty pontificating hypocrites.
Anything outside Dublin is irrelevant.
Well said people living in rural communities feel exactly that
As for health and rapid broadband well one day we might just see it
In the UK they now have the solution for rapid broadband in all villages no matter how remote
Spires used on village churches where they put satellite dishes and all needed to boost the signal so now they will have 100% coverage in all homes no matter where
No fibre no hundreds of millions and no quangos debating the issue
Action and problem solved and us?
But can our country do this? No
Meanwhile other countries can deliver Ireland cannot
Well here in South City Dublin
We’re snowed in
All North South and East facing windows and doors are thickly pasted in snow.
Opened the back door there
And your standard ruler 30cms/ 12″ ish of snow toppled in
There are drifts here easily more than 2 meters high
The snow has stopped
For now
But the sky is still a heavy gray
And that wind is still bellowing as strong as ever
Someone could fall into one of those drifts
And very easily not be noticed
Until the thaw
I live on a very busy road here
For traffic and buses etc
There is no way any vehicle would make it
I promise you
They did not over exaggerate this weather event
stay safe and warm Frilly
any lock down tips
I am going mental
Porn
Adult Toys
And some daycent durty thoughts
And the safety of knowing that it doesn’t matter what time if the day it is
So craic open the good bottle
I likea your stylea
What kind of porn?
I’m a big fan of women with male genitalia myself
What about men with female genitalia? Google Buck Angel.
Ah no
my tastes are more vanilla than that
simple boy girl stuff
Threads on BS can slip quicker than a gay staggering home from Pantibar last night.
I think its charming.
We are none of us too far from the gutter.
The point is the manner they shut the whole country down not certain areas by prudent reporting west cork we were fine but not during orphellia
Maybe you could clear your paths or maybe a few neighbours might lend a hand
You are in the city man
Imagine if you were down the country where no roads are being gritted and all services stopped and no shops open because of the emergency directive
Ahead ah’ya there. Wheelbarrows are all located and ready for action
As soon as the wind dies down we’ll be out
But definitely by the time Dunnes opens
Probably a troupe of us
Clearing walkways
Getting messages
The wheelbarrows are job
One of the locals has a defender that’s as ould’ as me
It’ll be like MASH
Only better jokes
And better laughs
Btw
No gritting on any roads or paths here
Only what we did ourselves at the post office etc
So less of this urban rural shyte
We’re all neighbours with someone
And community spirit comes in all shapes n’ sizes
Now that’s exactly what I a talking about
Great with the national emergency response panel of Muppets but when it comes to action well its slow and non existent
From day break the roads should of been gritted
They even had a soldier on the panel and a sign reader but as usual getting their act together is near impossible
you’re talking through your west cork hole you mouthy little trollop
What did you want? Muppet.
Good man anyone
Maybe you need a little help with your anger management
Maybe you have a fiscal space between your ears and feel a little bit out of sorts
You really need to say things in your mind before typing, dude. You’re a jabbering wreck.
Or alternatively just go away and leave us in peace.