Off Topic Hurricane Ophelia

Highest gust in Tramore so far 97km/h......

 

Lay off the beans/sprouts combo for breakfast mate.

Why do you have a Birmingham City scarf as your avatar? Though the crest does look Hammersmith and Fulham.

 

You do fecking despair at times.....

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CG, RNLI & R116 were tasked today to kite surfers in difficulty off Louth. We advise the public to stay away from the coast during#Ophelia

11:31 AM - Oct 16, 2017


R116 is the coastguard helicopter....

 

****ing hell its gone dark and the light is orange now. End times!

Or Saharan dust in the atmosphere according to my daughter.

 

Not good...

13:03
First death caused by Ophelia in Ireland
RTE News is reporting the first death in Ireland caused by the storm. The Irish national broadcaster says that a woman died in County Waterford after a tree fell on a car.

 

Stan It's the programme cover from the League Cup Semi Final 2nd Leg in 67. It's a reminder of how old I am......

 

Yep very sad. Happened in the village of Aglish in West Waterford......

 

The beans/sprouts combination is working overtime, we've now had a gust clocked at 105km/h....

 

Don't know how long the electricity will keep going, more than 200k households without power now and ESB (Electricity Supply Board not the beer) will not be starting any repairs until tomorrow......

The West is being hit hardest at the moment around Shawswood country.......

 

Damage to Cork City ground.....

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Although it is not in your league of storm....
...our next door neighbours are having their tree cut down. One of the lads is now up the top of the tree in one of those cradle/winch things with a power saw. The sun has now gone red, and the wind is picking up...just saying its not something I would do.

In another story...30 years ago last night/this morning southern UK was hit by the Great Storm. I was 8 and 1/2 months pregnant. Due to the lack of power/ fallen trees I had to walk about 2 miles into Northwick Park hospital for my check up. It probably did me no good...because I went into labour and my eldest daughter Sian was born the next day. Incidentally when I went into hospital QPR were top of the table. When Sian was born 5.25pm on October 17th we had been trounced 4-0 (Aldridge, Barnes 2, Johnston) and we weren't!

It seems veery apposite...that another great storm is playing out today...on the eve of Sians 30th birthday

 

Met Eirann did say that the worst would be from around 2pm onwards and we've just had a gust recorded at 111km/h, close to 70mph in sterling....

 

Take care all those affected.

 

I think God is angry with the EU.

 

Hope everyone stays safe mate.

 

Be careful and stay as safe as possible everyone

 

Keep your head down mate, and I'm told under the stairs (if you have any) is the safest place.

 

The world has gone very yellow.

 

think we got off lightly here in East Devon. I'm 500ft above sea level with just a line of trees and half a mile between me and Lyme Bay. Horrible to hear a storm causing damage to your property. Thoughts are with our Irish friends, looks bad

 

Looks like the worst has passed us now, Electricity out for a couple of hours but back on now, no mobile signals but that's the least of anyones problems. Sadly 3 people killed so far. Huge seas around here and expect a fair bit of damage as wind has moved around from a South Easterly when we were getting battered to a South Westerly which is the worst sort for storm surges in our area as Tramore Bay faces South West and high tide was about an hour ago.....