Tornadoes? Tornadoes? Fucking hell.
Can’t get over how mild it is. It feels like September.
Waterways Ireland, OPW and the various councils need to sort out the lower Shannon around Parteen Weir for once and for all. We can expect flooding like this twice a decade from now on, so they need to get the lead out.
Seemed to be just one main cell, which came and went in 10/20 minutes. Southern beaches gor the brunt of it, with all of Eastern suburbs getting a touch. Barely a drop in North Sydney.
200+ km/h wind recorded and part of the roof in Bondi’s Westfield fell in. Someone’s gonna pay for that*
*Obviously, but more to be read in a sinister, threatening voice.
It’s gas, climate change is mugging us off right in front of our eyes.
I could be talking shit here but I’m pretty sure they aren’t allowed to clean the rivers only build the banks higher.
The fucking eejits in convict land complaining about a strong breeze. FFS Sake.
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There was drainage and restoration work on the River Suck decades ago, and if you believe the locals - and I do - they made a right cunt of it. Flootering around with things they didn’t fully understand. Hydrogeology is a relatively new science, dating back to the late 18th century, but when you cause rivers to flood in lands with underlying karst, the effects can be seen miles away and with really devastating results.
Any coincidence between what’s noted here and the severity of the flooding in the suck catchment?:
http://www.activism.com/en_IE/petition/river-suck-drainage/65225
It’s a climate cycle, not climate change.
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And it’s unlikely that it’s anthropogenic either
Build beside water, expect to get wet.
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And you’ve decided to decamp to where the worst of it will hit, leaving your children and children’s children in the shit for their futures while we at home in Ireland sit back and become a tropical paradise.
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People in a housing estate called “Shannon Banks” complaining about getting flooded 
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They are so thick up there, they actually build on sites sitting below a flowing river.
Some lad was on the telly the other evening saying the rest of Ireland should subsidise the premiums of those who decided to build houses in flood plains. I presume the same chap will be happy to subsidise the property taxes of those living in the greater Dublin area.
We will have to get the lawnmowers back out if the weather stays this mild. A landscaper I was chatting to recently said a December cut of the grass is great for the lawn the following year.
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14 degrees in Dublin today, December 16th, 2015.
Like the boys in Kildare building on a flood plain. Thundering gobshites.
Where are that crowd now that were objecting to excess water from the Shannon being diverted to Dublin for drinking water.
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2 feet under water I imagine.
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